78R6241 KLA-D

By:  Uresti                                                       H.B. No. 1972



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

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.  Chapter 234, Family Code, is amended by adding 
Subchapter C to read as follows:

SUBCHAPTER C.  ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW OF CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS
	Sec. 234.151.  ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW.  (a)  The Title IV-D 
agency shall establish and operate an administrative review process 
to review child support payment records maintained by a local 
registry and the state disbursement unit on the request of an 
obligor.
	(b)  In establishing the process, the Title IV-D agency must 
provide procedures by which:
		(1)  an obligor who alleges that the local registry or 
state disbursement unit has incorrectly collected, credited, or 
disbursed a child support payment may request a review of the 
obligor's child support payment records; and
		(2)  the Title IV-D agency will conduct the review, 
including providing deadlines for completing the review process and 
procedures for correcting errors in the obligor's child support 
payment records, if any.
	(c)  An obligor is not entitled to an administrative review 
of the obligor's child support payment records more frequently than 
once each three-year period.
	SECTION 2.  The Title IV-D agency shall establish the child 
support payment administrative review process required by 
Subchapter C, Chapter 234, Family Code, as added by this Act, not 
later than January 1, 2004.
	SECTION 3.  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.