H.B. No. 889




AN ACT

relating to the enforcement of an agreement concerning child 
support.       
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 154.124(c), Family Code, is amended to 
read as follows:  
	(c)  Terms of the agreement pertaining to child support in 
the order may be enforced by all remedies available for enforcement 
of a judgment, including contempt, but are not enforceable as a
contract [terms unless provided by the agreement].
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003, and 
applies only to an agreement concerning child support entered into 
on or after that date.  An agreement concerning child support 
entered into before the effective date of this Act is governed by 
the law applicable to the agreement before that date, and the former 
law is continued in effect for that purpose.




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   President of the Senate                               Speaker of the House      

	I certify that H.B. No. 889 was passed by the House on March 
17, 2003, by a non-record vote.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Chief Clerk of the House   

	I certify that H.B. No. 889 was passed by the Senate on May 
20, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                                  ______________________________
                                                     Secretary of the Senate    



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                 Governor