By:  Reyna (Senate Sponsor - Deuell)                              H.B. No. 2231
	(In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2005; 
April 19, 2005, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Jurisprudence; May 5, 2005, reported favorably by the following 
vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 5, 2005, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to the payment of child support to an individual with 
actual primary possession of the child.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 156.409(a), Family Code, is amended to 
read as follows:  
	(a)  If the sole managing conservator of a child or the joint 
managing conservator who has the exclusive right to determine the 
primary residence of the child has voluntarily relinquished the 
primary care and possession of the child to another person for at 
least six months, the court shall, on the motion of a party or the 
other person having physical possession of the child, [may] modify 
an order providing for the support of the child to provide that the 
other person having physical possession of the child shall have the 
right to receive and give receipt for payments of support for the 
child and to hold or disburse money for the benefit of the child.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.



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