By Harris                                              S.B. No. 118
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the payment of restitution for the offense of criminal
 1-3     nonsupport of a child.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Article 42.037, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
 1-6     amended by amending Subsection (g)(4) and adding Subsection (n) to
 1-7     read as follows:
 1-8                 (4)  Except as provided by Subsection (n), the [The]
 1-9     order of restitution must require the defendant to make restitution
1-10     directly to the  victim or other person eligible for restitution
1-11     under this article or to deliver the amount or property due as
1-12     restitution to a community supervision and corrections department
1-13     for transfer to the victim or person.
1-14           (n)  If a defendant is convicted of an offense under Section
1-15     25.05, Penal Code, for failing to provide support for the
1-16     defendant's child in violation of a court order requiring the
1-17     defendant to pay child support and if the court order required the
1-18     defendant to pay the support through a local registry or the Title
1-19     IV-D agency, the order of restitution must require the defendant to
1-20     make restitution directly to the local registry or Title IV-D
1-21     agency designated as the place of payment in the child support
1-22     order.
1-23           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-24     to an order of restitution issued on or after the effective date of
 2-1     this Act.
 2-2           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-3           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.