Bill Text: TX SB1966 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to certain procedures for cases and orders relating to the Title IV-D agency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-11 - Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) [SB1966 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1966-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to certain procedures for cases and orders relating to the Title IV-D agency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-11 - Reported favorably w/o amendment(s) [SB1966 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1966-Comm_Sub.html
By: Creighton | S.B. No. 1966 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2017; March 27, 2017, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
April 11, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9, | ||
Nays 0; April 11, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to certain procedures for cases and orders relating to the | ||
Title IV-D agency. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 201.104(e), Family Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(e) Notwithstanding Subsection (d) and subject to Section | ||
201.1042(g), an associate judge may hear and render an order on any | ||
matter necessary to be decided in connection with a Title IV-D | ||
service, including: | ||
(1) a suit to modify or clarify an existing child | ||
support order; | ||
(2) a motion to enforce a child support order or revoke | ||
a respondent's community supervision and suspension of commitment; | ||
(3) a respondent's compliance with the conditions | ||
provided in the associate judge's report for suspension of the | ||
respondent's commitment; [ |
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(4) a motion for postjudgment relief, including a | ||
motion for a new trial or to vacate, correct, or reform a judgment, | ||
if neither party has requested a de novo hearing before the | ||
referring court; | ||
(5) a suit affecting the parent-child relationship; | ||
and | ||
(6) a suit for modification under Chapter 156. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 231.118, Family Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
(d) Notwithstanding Subsection (c), a return of the process | ||
made under this section in a suit is not required to include the | ||
address served if: | ||
(1) a pleading filed in the suit requests a finding | ||
under Section 105.006(c); or | ||
(2) the court has previously made a finding and | ||
ordered nondisclosure under Section 105.006(c) relating to the | ||
parties and the order has not been superseded. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 233.024(a), Family Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) On the filing of an agreed child support review order | ||
signed by all parties, together with waiver of service, the court | ||
shall sign the order not later than the third day after the filing | ||
of the order. On expiration of the third day after the filing of the | ||
order, the order is considered confirmed by the court by operation | ||
of law, regardless of whether the court has signed the order. The | ||
court may sign the order before filing the order, but the signed | ||
order shall immediately be filed. | ||
SECTION 4. (a) The change in law made by this Act to | ||
Section 201.104, Family Code, applies only to a Title IV-D case | ||
referred to an associate judge under Subchapter B, Chapter 201, | ||
Family Code, on or after the effective date of this Act. A Title | ||
IV-D case referred to an associate judge before the effective date | ||
of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the case was | ||
referred, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
(b) The change in law made by this Act to Section 231.118, | ||
Family Code, applies to a suit affecting the parent-child | ||
relationship filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A | ||
suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed before the | ||
effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the | ||
date the suit was filed, and the former law is continued in effect | ||
for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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