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Senate Bill 228 |
Senate Author: Harris |
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Effective: 9-1-07 |
House Sponsor: Eiland |
Senate Bill 228 amends provisions of the Family Code, Labor Code, and Transportation Code relating to the establishment and enforcement of child support obligations, jurisdiction over child support cases, and conservatorship and possession of and access to a child. Among other provisions, the bill provides for retroactive orders for child support, modifications of a support order, the contents of a child support lien, withholding pay and other income to meet child support obligations, establishing paternity in cases of assisted reproduction, the child support work group, and fees for providing child support enforcement services. Senate Bill 228 clarifies the authority of the office of the attorney general with respect to child support cases, including the authority to suspend or deny the renewal of certain licenses and registrations to enforce child support obligations. The bill authorizes a court to permit a conservator to communicate electronically with a child to supplement the conservator's periods of possession of the child and clarifies the meaning of military deployment for purposes of determining possession of a child and modifying a court order for possession.