By: Dutton (Senate Sponsor - Gallegos)	H.B. No. 779
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 2007;
	May 14, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on
	Jurisprudence; May 19, 2007, reported favorably, as amended, by
	the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 19, 2007, sent to printer.)

	COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1	By:  Wentworth
	Amend H. B. No. 779 (House engrossment) by striking page 1,
	lines 21 through 25, and substituting the following:
	"(d)  The court may not find a respondent in contempt of
	court for failure to pay child support if the respondent appears at
	the hearing with a copy of the payment record or other evidence
	satisfactory to the court showing that the respondent is current in
	the payment of child support as ordered by the court."
	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the dismissal of certain enforcement actions alleging
	the failure to pay child support.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 157.162, Family Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
	(d)  The court may not find a respondent in contempt of court
	for failure to pay child support if the respondent appears at the
	hearing with a copy of the payment record or other evidence
	satisfactory to the court showing that the respondent is current in
	the payment of child support.
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to a
	hearing to enforce an order in a suit affecting the parent-child
	relationship that commences on or after the effective date of this
	Act. A hearing before the effective date of this Act is governed by
	the law in effect on the date the hearing commenced, and the former
	law is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  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, 2007.
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