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.