By Harris S.B. No. 886 76R8243 MCK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to fees assessed in a child support case. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 202, Family Code, is amended by adding 1-5 Section 202.006 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 202.006. FEES. (a) The court may authorize a friend 1-7 of the court to assess and collect a monthly monitoring fee not to 1-8 exceed $5 to be paid by the managing conservator and possessory 1-9 conservator. 1-10 (b) The friend of the court shall collect the fee. If the 1-11 friend of the court is a domestic relations office, the friend of 1-12 the court shall deposit the fee, as determined by the administering 1-13 agency, in: 1-14 (1) the general fund for the county in which the 1-15 domestic relations office is located; or 1-16 (2) the office fund established for the domestic 1-17 relations office. 1-18 (c) If the friend of the court is not a domestic relations 1-19 office, the friend of the court shall deliver the fee to the county 1-20 treasurer, or the person who performs the duties of the county 1-21 treasurer, of the county in which the court sits. The county 1-22 treasurer, or the person who performs the duties of the county 1-23 treasurer, shall deposit the fees received into the friend of the 1-24 court fund. 2-1 (d) If the friend of the court is a domestic relations 2-2 office, the administering entity shall use the funds received under 2-3 this section to provide services under this chapter. If the friend 2-4 of the court is not a domestic relations office, the local 2-5 administrative district judge in the county shall administer the 2-6 friend of the court fund to assist in providing friend of the court 2-7 services. 2-8 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 2-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.