By:  Harris                                            S.B. No. 886
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to fees assessed in a child support case.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Chapter 202, Family Code, is amended by adding
 1-4     Section 202.006 to read as follows:
 1-5           Sec. 202.006.  FEES.  (a)  On rendering an original child
 1-6     support order or any order to enforce the support order because of
 1-7     the obligor's failure to comply with the order, the court may
 1-8     authorize a friend of the court that is a domestic relations office
 1-9     to assess and collect a monthly monitoring fee not to exceed $5 to
1-10     be paid by the obligor for a period not to exceed 12 months after
1-11     the date the support order or enforcement order is filed with the
1-12     friend of the court.
1-13           (b)  The friend of the court shall deposit the fee, as
1-14     determined by the administering entity, in:
1-15                 (1)  the general fund for the county in which the
1-16     domestic relations office is located; or
1-17                 (2)  the office fund established for the domestic
1-18     relations office.
1-19           (c)  The administering entity shall use the funds received
1-20     under this section to provide services under this chapter.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.