73R4159 JMM-F By Goodman H.B. No. 1274 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the enforcement of certain agreements between the 1-3 parties to a marriage. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5.46, Family Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-7 (c) The remedies and defenses in this section are exclusive 1-8 of any other remedies or defenses, including common law remedies or 1-9 defenses. 1-10 SECTION 2. Section 5.55, Family Code, is amended by adding 1-11 Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-12 (c) The remedies and defenses in this section are exclusive 1-13 of any other remedies or defenses, including common law remedies or 1-14 defenses. 1-15 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and 1-16 applies only to an agreement executed on or after that date. An 1-17 agreement executed before that date is governed by the law in 1-18 effect at the time the agreement was executed, and the former law 1-19 is continued in effect for that purpose. 1-20 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 2-1 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 2-2 Amend House Bill 1274 as follows: 2-3 (1) on page 1, line 7, following the word "are", insert the 2-4 word "the". 2-5 (2) on page 1, line 8, strike the words "of any other". 2-6 (3) on page 1, line 12, following the word "are", insert the 2-7 word "the". 2-8 (4) on page 1, line 13, delete the words "of any other". 2-9 Schechter