Amend SB 865 (house committee printing) by adding the
following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering the
SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Subsection (a-1), Section 154.125, Family
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a-1) The dollar amount prescribed by Subsection (a) is
adjusted every six years as necessary to reflect inflation. The
Title IV-D agency shall compute the adjusted amount, to take effect
beginning September 1 of the year of the adjustment, based on the
percentage change in the consumer price index during the 72-month
[preceding six-year] period preceding March 1 of the year of the
adjustment [in the consumer price index], as rounded to the nearest
$50 increment. The Title IV-D agency shall publish the adjusted
amount in the Texas Register before September 1 of the year in which
the adjustment takes effect. For purposes of this subsection,
"consumer price index" has the meaning assigned by Section 341.201,
Finance Code.