81R4445 JMM-F
 
  By: Jackson H.B. No. 4227
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the application of the child support guidelines in a
  suit affecting the parent-child relationship.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 154.125(a-1), 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.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.