1-1 By: Harris S.B. No. 620 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 19, 1999; February 22, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; 1-4 March 17, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4, 1-5 Nays 0; March 17, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the eligibility of a delinquent child support obligor 1-9 to receive state grants or loans or receive payment on state 1-10 contracts. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Section 231.006, Family Code, is amended by 1-13 adding Subsection (j) to read as follows: 1-14 (j) A state agency may accept a bid that does not include 1-15 the information required under Subsection (c) if the state agency 1-16 collects the information before the contract, grant, or loan is 1-17 executed. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-19 applies only to a contract, grant, or loan paid from state funds 1-20 that is executed on or after that date. A contract, grant, or loan 1-21 that is executed prior to the effective date of this Act is 1-22 governed by the law in effect on the date the contract, grant, or 1-23 loan was executed, and the former law is continued in effect for 1-24 that purpose. 1-25 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-30 * * * * *