Austin (KXAN) – Approved legislation that would update administrative operations in cases of supporting the Senate in Texas this week.
Senate Bill 1403 It will allow Texas Public Prosecutor Office To accelerate procedures and provide “clarity that reduces unnecessary delay in providing child support services to Texas families,” according to the analysis of the bill.
This legislation comes after an investigation in KXan highlighted that the parents of Texas owe billions of dollars in supporting the child and the challenges of tracking late payments.
If approved, the legislation declares the use of email in administrative processes and requires that the prohibitions published by the agency are accessible to Oag so that the relevant information is easily available to families.
Senator Royce WestD-Dallas, authored the draft law, which would explain the appropriate way to request the determination of the parents ’location from Oag and allow the agency to stop measures to enforce a person in prison due to a work of family violence committed against the child.
The West office said that the legislation aims to clean many technical issues that families and families have faced during the past two years related to stadiums and notifications.
“We have been hurried about the rules of the operation that we have to follow in terms of time frameworks and obtaining cases. Thus, this helps us to meet these and be a more efficient agency,” said Joel Rogers, of the Office of the Child Support Department in the Public Prosecutor, during a Senate hearing in March.
The draft law will go to the House of Representatives Committee after a general hearing before sending it to the full parliament for voting. The Speaker of the House of Representatives appointed similar legislation, Home Law Bill 4034Set from before Representative Harold F. Daton JuniorD-Houston, a sub-committee of judicial and judicial jurisprudence in late March. The legislation was left hanging in the sub -committee on Monday.
Another draft law makes its way during the operation, Senate Bill 1404Is the court allowed to send legal documents and notifications to an email address using the state’s electronic deposit system? The Legislation approved the Senate on Thursday.