79R9715 KSD-D
By: Dutton H.B. No. 2668
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a prohibition against a private entity performing the
functions and duties of a local child support registry.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 101.018, Family Code, is amended to read
as follows:
Sec. 101.018. LOCAL REGISTRY. "Local registry" means a
county [an] agency or public entity operated under the authority of
a district clerk, county government, juvenile board, juvenile
probation office, domestic relations office, or other county agency
or public entity that serves a county or a court that has
jurisdiction under this title and that:
(1) receives child support payments;
(2) maintains records of child support payments;
(3) distributes child support payments as required by
law; and
(4) maintains custody of official child support
payment records.
SECTION 2. Section 154.241, Family Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
(g) Notwithstanding any other law, a private entity may
perform the duties and functions of a local registry under this
section only under a contract with a county commissioners court or
domestic relations office executed under Section 204.002.
SECTION 3. Section 204.001, Family Code, is amended to read
as follows:
Sec. 204.001. APPLICABILITY. This chapter applies only to a
commissioners court or domestic relations office of a county that
did not have the authority to contract with a private entity to
receive, disburse, and record payments or restitution of child
support on January 1, 1997.
SECTION 4. 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, 2005.