By: Uresti (Senate Sponsor - Gallegos) H.B. No. 1972
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 28, 2003;
May 1, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on
Jurisprudence; May 24, 2003, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 24, 2003, sent to printer.)
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. 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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