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. 1-27 * * * * *