By Harris                                              S.B. No. 620
         76R5749 CMR-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the eligibility of a delinquent child support obligor
 1-3     to receive state grants or loans or receive payment on state
 1-4     contracts.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 231.006, Family Code, is amended by
 1-7     adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
 1-8           (j)  A state agency may accept a bid that does not include
 1-9     the information required under Subsection (c) if the state agency
1-10     collects the information before the contract, grant, or loan is
1-11     executed.
1-12           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-13     applies only to a contract, grant, or loan paid from state funds
1-14     that is executed on or after that date.  A contract, grant, or loan
1-15     that is executed prior to the effective date of this Act is
1-16     governed by the law in effect on the date the contract, grant, or
1-17     loan was executed, and the former law is continued in effect for
1-18     that purpose.
1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.