1-1     By:  Harris                                            S.B. No. 886
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 4, 1999; March 8, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
 1-4     April 28, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 28, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 886                   By:  Harris
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to fees assessed in a child support case.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Chapter 202, Family Code, is amended by adding
1-13     Section 202.006 to read as follows:
1-14           Sec. 202.006.  FEES.  (a)  On rendering an original child
1-15     support order or any order to enforce the support order because of
1-16     the obligor's failure to comply with the order, the court may
1-17     authorize a friend of the court that is a domestic relations office
1-18     to assess and collect a monthly monitoring fee not to exceed $5 to
1-19     be paid by the obligor for a period not to exceed 12 months after
1-20     the date the support order or enforcement order is filed with the
1-21     friend of the court.
1-22           (b)  The friend of the court shall deposit the fee, as
1-23     determined by the administering entity, in:
1-24                 (1)  the general fund for the county in which the
1-25     domestic relations office is located; or
1-26                 (2)  the office fund established for the domestic
1-27     relations office.
1-28           (c)  The administering entity shall use the funds received
1-29     under this section to provide services under this chapter.
1-30           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-31           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-32     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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