1-1     By:  Ogden                                            S.B. No. 1556

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 20, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;

 1-4     April 10, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee

 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 1; April 10, 1997,

 1-6     sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1556                   By:  Ogden

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to the determination of the amount of child support for a

1-11     child of certain retired or disabled obligors.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 154, Family Code, is

1-14     amended by adding Section 154.132 to read as follows:

1-15           Sec. 154.132.  DETERMINATION OF CHILD SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN OF

1-16     CERTAIN RETIRED OR DISABLED OBLIGORS.  In determining the amount of

1-17     child support to be paid by an obligor for a child, the court is

1-18     not required to include or offset against the obligor's child

1-19     support obligation the amount or the value of social security

1-20     retirement child benefits or social security disability child

1-21     benefits paid or payable to the child.

1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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