By West H.B. No. 1751
75R6066 JMM-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to certain individuals who may bring a suit to contest the
1-3 paternity of a child.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 160.101(a), Family Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) The presumption that a man is the biological father of a
1-8 child under Chapter 151 may be contested by:
1-9 (1) the biological mother of the child;
1-10 (2) a person related within the second degree of
1-11 consanguinity to the biological mother of the child, if the
1-12 biological mother of the child is deceased;
1-13 (3) a man presumed to be the father of the child, who
1-14 may contest his own or another man's presumed paternity;
1-15 (4) [(3)] a man alleging himself to be the biological
1-16 father of the child; or
1-17 (5) [(4)] a governmental entity, authorized agency, or
1-18 a licensed child-placing agency.
1-19 SECTION 2. Section 160.110(g), Family Code, is amended to
1-20 read as follows:
1-21 (g) A suit contesting a presumption that a man is the
1-22 biological father of a child may be filed at any time during the
1-23 minority of the child by:
1-24 (1) the biological mother of the child;
2-1 (2) a person related within the second degree of
2-2 consanguinity to the biological mother of the child, if the
2-3 biological mother of the child is deceased;
2-4 (3) a presumed father; or
2-5 (4) [(3)] a governmental entity, authorized agency, or
2-6 licensed child-placing agency.
2-7 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-8 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.