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Amend CSSB 228 by adding the following appropriately numbered
sections and renumbering the sections of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 154.131, Family Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subtitle,
the court retains jurisdiction to render an order for retroactive
child support in a suit other than a Title IV-D case if a petition
requesting retroactive child support is filed not later than the
fourth anniversary of the date of the child's 18th birthday.
SECTION ____. The change in law made by this Act by the
enactment of Section 154.131(f), Family Code, applies only to a
petition in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship pending
in a trial court on or filed on or after the effective date of this
Act.