By Giddings                                           H.B. No. 2275
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the attorney general providing certain child support
 1-3     enforcement information to the parties to a suit and to the public.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 231, Family Code, is amended
 1-6     by adding Section 231.1165 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 231.1165.  INFORMATION ON SERVICE OF CITATION. The Title
 1-8     IV-D agency shall update the agency's child support automated
 1-9     system to inform the parties in a suit of the service of citation
1-10     in the suit not later than the first business day after the date
1-11     the agency receives notice that citation has been served.  The
1-12     information required by this section must be available by telephone
1-13     and on the Internet.
1-14           SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 231, Family Code, is amended
1-15     by adding Section 231.121 to read as follows:
1-16           Sec. 231.121.  AVAILABILITY OF BROCHURES. The Title IV-D
1-17     agency shall ensure that all Title IV-D brochures published by the
1-18     agency are available to the public at courthouses where family law
1-19     cases are heard in the state.
1-20           SECTION 3. The Title IV-D agency shall perform a study of the
1-21     agency's current telephone interactive voice response system to
1-22     determine the feasibility of establishing a system to allow
1-23     placement of an automated outbound telephone call to provide notice
1-24     to the parties in a suit of significant actions in the suit,
 2-1     including the completion of service of process.
 2-2           SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.