By:  Dutton (Senate Sponsor - Lucio)                              H.B. No. 889
	(In the Senate - Received from the House March 18, 2003; 
March 26, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Jurisprudence; May 8, 2003, reported favorably by the following 
vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 8, 2003, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

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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