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.