AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the modification of certain child support orders.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 156.401, Family Code, is amended by
 1-4     adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
 1-5           (d)  Release of a child support obligor from incarceration is
 1-6     a material and substantial change in circumstances for purposes of
 1-7     Subsection (a)(1) if the obligor's child support obligation was
 1-8     abated, reduced, or suspended during the period of the obligor's
 1-9     incarceration.
1-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-11     applies to a child support order entered before, on, or after that
1-12     date.
1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 160 passed the Senate on
         March 18, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 160 passed the House on
         April 23, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
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                     Date
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                   Governor