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.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 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.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
                    _____________________
                          Governor