1-1 By: Brown S.B. No. 1670
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 March 25, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 25, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Brown
1-7 Amend Section 1 of S.B. No. 1670 by replacing lines 22-26
1-8 with the following:
1-9 (a) If the child is fully enrolled in an accredited
1-10 secondary school in a program leading toward a high school diploma
1-11 or enrolled in courses for joint high school and junior college
1-12 credit pursuant to Section 130.008, Education Code, the court may
1-13 render an original support order or modify an existing order
1-14 providing child support past the 18th birthday of the child.
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to the support of a child enrolled in courses for joint
1-18 high school and junior college credit.
1-19 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-20 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 154.002, Family Code, is
1-21 amended to read as follows:
1-22 (a) If the child is [fully] enrolled in an accredited
1-23 secondary school in a program leading toward a high school diploma,
1-24 the court may render an original support order or modify an
1-25 existing order providing child support past the 18th birthday of
1-26 the child.
1-27 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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