1-1     By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 160
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 13, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
 1-4     March 11, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 11, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 160                   By:  Harris
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to the modification of certain child support orders.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 156.401, Family Code, is amended by
1-13     adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-14           (d)  Release of a child support obligor from incarceration is
1-15     a material and substantial change in circumstances for purposes of
1-16     Subsection (a)(1) if the obligor's child support obligation was
1-17     abated, reduced, or suspended during the period of the obligor's
1-18     incarceration.
1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-20     applies to a child support order entered before, on, or after that
1-21     date.
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
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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