1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 686
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 1999; February 25, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 March 31, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; March 31, 1999,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 686 By: Brown
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to a child support lien.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 157.315, Family Code, is amended by
1-13 amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
1-14 follows:
1-15 (b) The county clerk may not charge the Title IV-D agency, a
1-16 domestic relations office, [or] a friend of the court, or any other
1-17 party a fee for recording the notice [or for release] of a [the]
1-18 lien. To qualify for this exemption, the lien notice must be
1-19 styled "Notice of Child Support Lien."
1-20 (c) The county clerk may not charge the Title IV-D agency, a
1-21 domestic relations office, or a friend of the court a fee for
1-22 recording the release of a lien [shall collect the fees for
1-23 recording the notice and for the release of the lien from the
1-24 obligor before filing the release]. The lien release must be
1-25 styled "Release of Child Support Lien."
1-26 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-27 applies only to a child support lien notice or release of a child
1-28 support lien filed on or after that date. A notice of a child
1-29 support lien or a release of a child support lien filed before the
1-30 effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed
1-31 immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is
1-32 continued in effect for that purpose.
1-33 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-34 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-35 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-36 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-37 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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