1-1     By:  Giddings (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth)            H.B. No. 2275
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 2001;
 1-3     April 9, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Jurisprudence; April 24, 2001, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 24, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the attorney general providing certain child support
 1-9     enforcement information to the parties to a suit and to the public.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 231, Family Code, is amended
1-12     by adding Section 231.1165 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 231.1165.  INFORMATION ON SERVICE OF CITATION. The Title
1-14     IV-D agency shall update the agency's child support automated
1-15     system to inform the parties in a suit of the service of citation
1-16     in the suit not later than the first business day after the date
1-17     the agency receives notice that citation has been served.  The
1-18     information required by this section must be available by telephone
1-19     and on the Internet.
1-20           SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 231, Family Code, is amended
1-21     by adding Section 231.121 to read as follows:
1-22           Sec. 231.121.  AVAILABILITY OF BROCHURES. The Title IV-D
1-23     agency shall ensure that all Title IV-D brochures published by the
1-24     agency are available to the public at courthouses where family law
1-25     cases are heard in the state.
1-26           SECTION 3. The Title IV-D agency shall perform a study of the
1-27     agency's current telephone interactive voice response system to
1-28     determine the feasibility of establishing a system to allow
1-29     placement of an automated outbound telephone call to provide notice
1-30     to the parties in a suit of significant actions in the suit,
1-31     including the completion of service of process.
1-32           SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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