By:  Goolsby                                                      H.B. No. 1885


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain filing fees in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 110.002(a), Family Code, is amended to read as follows: (a) The clerk of the court may collect a filing fee of $15 in a suit for filing: (1) a suit or motion for modification; (2) a motion for enforcement; (3) a notice of application for judicial writ of withholding; (4) a motion to transfer;[.] (5) a petition for license suspension; [or] (6) a motion to revoke a stay of license suspension; or (7) a motion for contempt. SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 2003. (b) The change in law made by this Act applies only to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship or motion in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A suit affecting the parent-child relationship or motion in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the suit or motion was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.