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.