By: Harris S.B. No. 517
(In the Senate - Filed January 23, 2009; February 17, 2009,
read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
March 9, 2009, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; March 9, 2009, sent to printer.)
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. 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.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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