Bill Text: TX HB2070 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the continuation of spousal maintenance ordered under certain circumstances.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective immediately [HB2070 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2070-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the continuation of spousal maintenance ordered under certain circumstances.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective immediately [HB2070 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2070-Comm_Sub.html
By: Cook, Smith, Morales of Maverick | H.B. No. 2070 | |
(Senate Sponsor - Hughes) | ||
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 2023; | ||
May 2, 2023, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Jurisprudence; May 10, 2023, reported favorably by the following | ||
vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 10, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE VOTE | ||
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HughesX | ||
JohnsonX | ||
CreightonX | ||
HinojosaX | ||
MiddletonX | ||
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relating to the continuation of spousal maintenance ordered under | ||
certain circumstances. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 8.054(d), Family Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(d) The continuation of maintenance ordered under | ||
Subsection (b) is subject to the procedural requirements for a | ||
motion to modify as provided by Section 8.057. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to a | ||
motion to continue spousal maintenance under Subchapter B, Chapter | ||
8, Family Code, that is made on or after the effective date of this | ||
Act, regardless of whether the original spousal maintenance order | ||
was rendered before, on, or after that date. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2023. | ||
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