BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Research Center S.B. 1151
By: Harris
AUTHOR'S/SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
Each state, as a condition of receiving funding for its child support enforcement program and its Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, is required to enact verbatim the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA). UIFSA is a uniform act dealing with interstate child support establishment and enforcement that was promulgated by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and endorsed by the American Bar Association. The changes enacted by the 78th Legislature inadvertently omitted Section 316(j) of UIFSA, which is codified as Section 159.316, Family Code.
S.B. 1151 amends existing Section 159.316, Family Code (Uniform Interstate Family Support Act), making the chapter correspond exactly to UIFSA as a required condition of receiving federal funding for said programs.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Section 159.316, Family Code, by adding Subsection (j), to provide that a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity, certified as a true copy, is admissible to establish parentage of a child.
SECTION 2. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2005.