By:  Harris                                            S.B. No. 620
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the eligibility of a delinquent child support obligor
 1-2     to receive state grants or loans or receive payment on state
 1-3     contracts.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 231.006, Family Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
 1-7           (j)  A state agency may accept a bid that does not include
 1-8     the information required under Subsection (c) if the state agency
 1-9     collects the information before the contract, grant, or loan is
1-10     executed.
1-11           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-12     applies only to a contract, grant, or loan paid from state funds
1-13     that is executed on or after that date.  A contract, grant, or loan
1-14     that is executed prior to the effective date of this Act is
1-15     governed by the law in effect on the date the contract, grant, or
1-16     loan was executed, and the former law is continued in effect for
1-17     that purpose.
1-18           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.