H.B. No. 1972




AN ACT

relating to an administrative review process for child support 
payments.    
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 234, Family Code, is 
amended by adding Section 234.0091 to read as follows:
	Sec. 234.0091.  ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW OF CHILD SUPPORT 
PAYMENT RECORD.  (a)  On request, the state disbursement unit shall 
provide to an obligor or obligee a copy of the record of child 
support payments maintained by the unit.  The record must include 
the amounts and dates of all payments received from or on behalf of 
the obligor and disbursed to the obligee.
	(b)  An obligor or obligee may request that the Title IV-D 
agency investigate an alleged discrepancy between the child support 
payment record provided by the state disbursement unit under 
Subsection (a) and the payment records maintained by the obligor or 
obligee.  The obligor or obligee making the request must provide to 
the Title IV-D agency documentation of the alleged discrepancy, 
including a canceled check or other evidence of a payment or 
disbursement at issue.
	(c)  The Title IV-D agency shall respond to a request under 
Subsection (b) not later than the 20th day after the date the agency 
receives the request.  If, after an investigation, the agency 
determines that the child support payment record maintained by the 
state disbursement unit should be amended, the state disbursement 
unit shall immediately make the required amendment to the record 
and notify the obligor or obligee who made the request under 
Subsection (b) of that amendment.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 1972 was passed by the House on April 
25, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 146, Nays 0, 2 present, not 
voting.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 1972 was passed by the Senate on May 
28, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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                 Governor