By Brown S.B. No. 686
76R2017 CMR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a child support lien.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 157.315(b), Family Code, is amended to
1-5 read as 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 the lien.
1-9 To qualify for this exemption:
1-10 (1) the lien notice must be styled "Notice of Child
1-11 Support Lien"; and
1-12 (2) the lien release must be styled "Release of Child
1-13 Support Lien." [The county clerk 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.]
1-16 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-17 applies only to a child support lien notice or release of a child
1-18 support lien filed on or after that date. A notice of a child
1-19 support lien or a release of a child support lien filed before the
1-20 effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed
1-21 immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
1-22 continued in effect for that purpose.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.