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.