By:  Brown of Brazos                                              H.B. No. 2652



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the responsibilities of a parent to support his or her 
child while enrolled in a secondary school.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 151.001 (b), Family Code, is amended to 
read as follows: 
	(b)  The duty of a parent to support his or her child exists 
while the child is an unemancipated minor and continues as long as 
the child is fully enrolled in an accredited secondary school in a 
program leading toward a high school diploma until the end of the 
second year in which the child graduates.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.