1-1     By:  Uher (Senate Sponsor - Brown)                    H.B. No. 2059
 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 13, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the determination of the amount of child support for a
 1-9     child of certain disabled obligors.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 154, Family Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Section 154.132 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 154.132.  APPLICATION OF GUIDELINES TO CHILDREN OF
1-14     CERTAIN DISABLED OBLIGORS.  In applying the child support
1-15     guidelines for an obligor who has a disability and who is required
1-16     to pay support for a child who receives benefits as a result of the
1-17     obligor's disability, the court shall apply the guidelines by
1-18     determining the amount of child support that would be ordered under
1-19     the child support guidelines and subtracting from that total the
1-20     amount of benefits or the value of the benefits paid to or for the
1-21     child as a result of the obligor's disability.
1-22           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-23     applies only to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship
1-24     filed on or after that date.  A suit affecting the parent-child
1-25     relationship filed before the effective date of this Act is
1-26     governed by the law in effect on the date the suit was filed, and
1-27     the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-28           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-29     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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