By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 686
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to a child support lien.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 157.315, Family Code, is amended by
 1-4     amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
 1-5     follows:
 1-6           (b)  The county clerk may not charge the Title IV-D agency, a
 1-7     domestic relations office, [or] a friend of the court, or any other
 1-8     party a fee for recording the notice [or for release] of a [the]
 1-9     lien.  To qualify for this exemption, the lien notice must be
1-10     styled "Notice of Child Support Lien."
1-11           (c)  The county clerk may not charge the Title IV-D agency, a
1-12     domestic relations office, or a friend of the court a fee for
1-13     recording the release of a lien [shall collect the fees for
1-14     recording the notice and for the release of the lien from the
1-15     obligor before filing the release].  The lien release must be
1-16     styled "Release of Child Support Lien."
1-17           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-18     applies only to a child support lien notice or release of a child
1-19     support lien filed on or after that date.  A notice of a child
1-20     support lien or a release of a child support lien filed before the
1-21     effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed
1-22     immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
1-23     continued in effect for that purpose.
1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.