By King of Parker                                     H.B. No. 1322
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 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(b), Family Code, is amended to
 1-5     read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  The county clerk may not charge the Title IV-D agency, a
 1-7     domestic relations office, [or] a friend of the court, or any other
 1-8     party a fee for recording the notice or for release of the lien.
 1-9     To qualify for this exemption:
1-10                 (1)  the lien notice must be styled "Notice of Child
1-11     Support Lien"; and
1-12                 (2)  the lien release must be styled "Release of Child
1-13     Support Lien."  [The county clerk shall collect the fees for
1-14     recording the notice and for the release of the lien from the
1-15     obligor before filing the release.]
1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-17     applies only to a child support lien notice or release of a child
1-18     support lien filed on or after that date. A  notice of a child
1-19     support lien or a release of a child support lien filed before the
1-20     effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed
1-21     immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
1-22     continued in effect for that purpose.
1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.