AN ACT 1-1 relating to the support of a child enrolled in courses for joint 1-2 high school and junior college credit. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 154.002, Family Code, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) If the child is fully enrolled in an accredited 1-7 secondary school in a program leading toward a high school diploma 1-8 or enrolled in courses for joint high school and junior college 1-9 credit pursuant to Section 130.008, Education Code, the court may 1-10 render an original support order or modify an existing order 1-11 providing child support past the 18th birthday of the child. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1670 passed the Senate on April 8, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1670 passed the House on May 26, 1999, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House Approved: _______________________________ Date _______________________________ Governor