By:  Brown                                            S.B. No. 1670
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       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.  Section 154.002, Family Code, is amended to read
 1-5     as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 154.002.  CHILD SUPPORT THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION.
 1-7     (a)  If the child is [fully] enrolled in an accredited secondary
 1-8     school in a program leading toward a high school diploma, the court
 1-9     may render an original support order or modify an existing order
1-10     providing child support past the 18th birthday of the child.
1-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.