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 157.265(a), Family Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (a) Interest accrues on the portion of delinquent child
1-7 support that is greater than the amount of the monthly periodic
1-8 support obligation at the rate of 12 percent simple interest per
1-9 year from the date the support is delinquent until the date the
1-10 support is paid or the arrearages are confirmed and reduced to
1-11 money judgment.
1-12 SECTION 2. Section 157.266(a), Family Code, is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 (a) A child support payment is delinquent for the purpose of
1-15 accrual of interest if the payment is not received before the 31st
1-16 day after the payment date stated in the order by:
1-17 (1) the local registry, [or] Title IV-D registry, or
1-18 state disbursement unit; or
1-19 (2) the obligee or entity specified in the order, if
1-20 payments are not made through a registry.
1-21 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2000, and
1-22 applies only to a child support payment that becomes due on or
1-23 after that date. A child support payment that becomes due before
1-24 the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on
2-1 the date the child support payment became due, and the former law
2-2 is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-3 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2421 was passed by the House on May
8, 1999, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 2421 on May 26, 1999, by a non-record
vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2421 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 24, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor