1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a child support lien.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 157.315, Family Code, is amended by
1-5 amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
1-6 follows:
1-7 (b) The county clerk may not charge the Title IV-D agency, a
1-8 domestic relations office, [or] a friend of the court, or any other
1-9 party a fee for recording the notice [or for release] of a [the]
1-10 lien. To qualify for this exemption, the lien notice must be
1-11 styled "Notice of Child Support Lien."
1-12 (c) The county clerk may not charge the Title IV-D agency, a
1-13 domestic relations office, or a friend of the court a fee for
1-14 recording the release of a lien [shall collect the fees for
1-15 recording the notice and for the release of the lien from the
1-16 obligor before filing the release]. The lien release must be
1-17 styled "Release of Child Support Lien."
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-19 applies only to a child support lien notice or release of a child
1-20 support lien filed on or after that date. A notice of a child
1-21 support lien or a release of a child support lien filed before the
1-22 effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed
1-23 immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
1-24 continued in effect for that purpose.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1322 was passed by the House on April
16, 1999, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1322 on May 26, 1999, by a non-record
vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1322 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 24, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor