By Uresti H.B. No. 2421
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the accrual of interest on delinquent child support.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 157.266, Family Code, is amended to read
1-5 as follows:
1-6 Sec. 157.266. DATE OF DELINQUENCY. [(a)] A child support
1-7 payment is delinquent for the purpose of accrual of interest if the
1-8 payment is not received before the date an amount equal to the
1-9 support payable for a 15-day period becomes past due [31st day
1-10 after the payment date stated in the order] by:
1-11 (1) the local registry or Title IV-D registry; or
1-12 (2) the obligee or entity specified in the order, if
1-13 payments are not made through a registry.
1-14 [(b) If a payment date is not stated in the order, a child
1-15 support payment is delinquent if payment is not received by the
1-16 registry or the obligee or entity specified in the order on the
1-17 date that an amount equal to the support payable for one month
1-18 becomes past due.]
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 2001, and
1-20 applies only to a child support payment that becomes due on or
1-21 after that date. A child support payment that becomes due before
1-22 the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on
1-23 the date the child support payment became due, and the former law
1-24 is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.