Enrolled Bill Summary

Senate Bill 1805 amends provisions of the Family Code relating to the enforcement of child support obligations, including interstate enforcement, to comply with recent amendments to the federal Uniform Interstate Family Support Act. The bill includes provisions related to prohibitions on exercising the bases for personal jurisdiction over a nonresident to modify a child support order of another state, procedures for determining which child support order is the controlling order under certain circumstances, and the authority of the court to issue a temporary child support order. It authorizes the Title IV-D agency to issue administrative writs of withholding to direct payment of child support to the state disbursement unit of another state and requires the support enforcement agency or court of this state to direct that a child support payment be made to the support enforcement agency in the state in which the obligee is receiving services and to send notice to an obligor's employer regarding the redirected payments. The bill also clarifies that the uniform Interstate Family Support Act is not the exclusive method of establishing or enforcing a support order and does not grant a court of this state certain jurisdiction relating to child custody or visitation.