By Uresti                                             H.B. No. 2421
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                                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 one month becomes past due [31st day after the
1-10     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 September 1, 1999, 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.
 2-6                          COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
 2-7           Amend H.B. 2421 as follows:
 2-8           (1)  On page 1, line 8, after "for" strike "one month" and
 2-9     substitute "a fifteen day period"
2-10           (2)  On page 1, line 19, after "effect" strike "September 1,
2-11     1999" and substitute "January 1, 2001"
2-12                                                                 Pickett