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. 1-36 * * * * *