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Enrolled Bill Summary

Enrolled Bill Summary

Legislative Session: 85(R)

House Bill 2048

House Author:  Dutton

Effective:  9-1-17

Senate Sponsor:  Creighton


            House Bill 2048 amends the Family Code to authorize an associate judge to hear and render an order on any matter necessary to be decided in connection with a child support service, including a suit affecting the parent-child relationship and a suit for modification of an order that provides for the conservatorship, support, or possession of and access to a child. The bill prohibits a return of the process served on behalf of the attorney general in a suit regarding a child support service from including the address served under certain conditions and establishes the date on which an agreed child support review order is considered automatically confirmed.