By:  Harris                                           S.B. No. 1382

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to certain fees under the Family Code.

 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 110.002, Family Code, is amended by

 1-4     amending Subsection (a) to read as follows:

 1-5           (a)  The clerk of the court may collect a filing fee of $15

 1-6     [in a suit] for filing:

 1-7                 (1)  a suit for modification;

 1-8                 (2)  a motion for enforcement;

 1-9                 (3)  a notice of delinquency; [or]

1-10                 (4)  a motion to transfer; or

1-11                 (5)  a waiver under Section 1.82(d).

1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.