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.
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