By Uher                                               H.B. No. 2059
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the determination of the amount of child support for a
 1-3     child of certain disabled obligors.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 154, Family Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 154.132 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 154.132.  APPLICATION OF GUIDELINES TO CHILDREN OF
 1-8     CERTAIN DISABLED OBLIGORS.  In applying the child support
 1-9     guidelines for an obligor who has a disability and who is required
1-10     to pay support for a child who receives benefits as a result of the
1-11     obligor's disability, the court shall apply the guidelines by
1-12     determining the amount of child support that would be ordered under
1-13     the child support guidelines and subtracting from that total the
1-14     amount of benefits or the value of the benefits paid to or for the
1-15     child as a result of the obligor's disability.
1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-17     applies only to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship
1-18     filed on or after that date.  A suit affecting the parent-child
1-19     relationship filed before the effective date of this Act is
1-20     governed by the law in effect on the date the suit was filed, and
1-21     the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.