SRC-VRA H.B. 889 78(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 889
78R993 MCK-DBy: Dutton (Lucio)
Jurisprudence
4/28/2003
Engrossed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

The 74th Texas Legislature amended the Family Code to prohibit the
enforcement of an agreement in a suit affecting the parent-child
relationship as a contract.  However, in the nonsubstantive recodification
of the Family Code, the provision prohibiting such an agreement as a
contract was only carried forward to the code section on conservatorship
and not the code section on child support.  H.B. 889 conforms the code
section on child support agreements to the pre-codification provisions and
prohibits the enforcement of such agreements as contracts.  

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to
a state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 154.124(c), Family Code, to provide that child
support agreements are not enforceable as contracts. 

SECTION 2.Effective date:  September 1, 2003.
  Makes application of this Act prospective.