BILL ANALYSIS |
C.S.H.B. 2048 |
By: Dutton |
Juvenile Justice & Family Issues |
Committee Report (Substituted) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties note that there is too much ambiguity regarding the authority of an associate judge to render certain orders in suits affecting the parent-child relationship. C.S.H.B. 2048 seeks to clarify the law on that matter.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE IMPACT
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly create a criminal offense, increase the punishment for an existing criminal offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole, or mandatory supervision.
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RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
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ANALYSIS
C.S.H.B. 2048 amends the Family Code to expand the matters an associate judge may hear and on which the judge may render an order to include any matter necessary to be decided in connection with a child support service, including a suit affecting the parent-child relationship and a suit for modification of an order that provides for the conservatorship, support, or possession of and access to a child. The bill prohibits a return of the process served on behalf of the attorney general in a suit regarding a child support service from including the address served if a pleading filed in the suit requests a finding as to whether providing the prescribed information in a final order in the applicable suit is likely to cause the child or a conservator certain harm or if the court has previously made such a finding and ordered nondisclosure relating to the parties and the order has not been superseded. The bill establishes that on expiration of the third day after the filing of an agreed child support review order signed by all parties, together with waiver of service, the order is considered confirmed by the court by operation of law, regardless of whether the court has signed the order.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2017.
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COMPARISON OF ORIGINAL AND SUBSTITUTE
While C.S.H.B. 2048 may differ from the original in minor or nonsubstantive ways, the following comparison is organized and formatted in a manner that indicates the substantial differences between the introduced and committee substitute versions of the bill.
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