By:  Hill, Fred                                        H.B. No. 152
       73R1374 JMM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the collection of child support arrearages.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 14.41(b), Family Code, is amended to read
    1-5  as follows:
    1-6        (b)  Time Limitations.  The court may <not> confirm the
    1-7  amount of child support in arrears and may <not> enter a judgment
    1-8  for unpaid child support payments without regard to the amount of
    1-9  time the support was <that were> due and owing <more than 10 years>
   1-10  before the filing of the motion to render judgment under this
   1-11  section.  The court retains jurisdiction to enter judgment for
   1-12  past-due child support obligations if a motion to render judgment
   1-13  for the arrearages is filed within four years after:
   1-14              (1)  the child becomes an adult; or
   1-15              (2)  the date on which the child support obligation
   1-16  terminates pursuant to the decree or order or by operation of law.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-18        (b)  This Act does not apply to a child support payment that
   1-19  became due before September 1, 1983.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.