1-1     By:  King of Parker (Senate Sponsor - Brown)          H.B. No. 1322
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
 1-3     April 20, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 14, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable
 1-5     Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0;
 1-6     May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1322                  By:  Harris
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to a child support lien.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 157.315, Family Code, is amended by
1-13     amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
1-14     follows:
1-15           (b)  The county clerk may not charge the Title IV-D agency, a
1-16     domestic relations office, [or] a friend of the court, or any other
1-17     party a fee for recording the notice [or for release] of a [the]
1-18     lien.  To qualify for this exemption, the lien notice must be
1-19     styled "Notice of Child Support Lien."
1-20           (c)  The county clerk may not charge the Title IV-D agency, a
1-21     domestic relations office, or a friend of the court a fee for
1-22     recording the release of a lien [shall collect the fees for
1-23     recording the notice and for the release of the lien from the
1-24     obligor before filing the release].  The lien release must be
1-25     styled "Release of Child Support Lien."
1-26           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-27     applies only to a child support lien notice or release of a child
1-28     support lien filed on or after that date.  A notice of a child
1-29     support lien or a release of a child support lien filed before the
1-30     effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed
1-31     immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
1-32     continued in effect for that purpose.
1-33           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-34     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-35     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-36     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-37     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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