By:  Rosson                                            S.B. No. 515
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to child support judgment actions.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 14.40, Family Code, is
    1-4  amended to read as follows:
    1-5        (b)  Time Limitations.  The court retains jurisdiction to
    1-6  enter a contempt order if a motion for contempt for failure to
    1-7  comply with a court's child support order is filed within two years
    1-8  <six months> after:
    1-9              (1)  the child becomes an adult; or
   1-10              (2)  the date on which the child support obligation
   1-11  terminates pursuant to the decree or order or by operation of law.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  Section 14.41, Family Code, is amended by
   1-13  amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (e) to read as
   1-14  follows:
   1-15        (b)  Time Limitations.  <The court may not confirm the amount
   1-16  of child support in arrears and may not enter a judgment for unpaid
   1-17  child support payments that were due and owing more than 10 years
   1-18  before the filing of the motion to render judgment under this
   1-19  section.>  The court of continuing jurisdiction retains
   1-20  jurisdiction to confirm the total amount of child support arrears
   1-21  and enter judgment for past-due child support obligations if a
   1-22  motion to render judgment for the arrearages is filed within four
   1-23  years after:
   1-24              (1)  the child becomes an adult; or
    2-1              (2)  the date on which the child support obligation
    2-2  terminates pursuant to the decree or order or by operation of law.
    2-3        (e)  Cumulative Judgment.  A cumulative judgment shall
    2-4  include the unpaid balance owed on previously determined arrears or
    2-5  judgments for child support, including interest on all such arrears
    2-6  and each prior judgment as of a specified date, and shall recite
    2-7  that it is a cumulative judgment.
    2-8        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
    2-9        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.