1-1 By: Uresti (Senate Sponsor - Madla) H.B. No. 2421
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
1-3 May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 14, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable
1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0;
1-6 May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2421 By: Harris
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the accrual of interest on delinquent child support.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 157.265(a), Family Code is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 157.265. Accrual of Interest on Child Support.
1-15 (a) Interest accrues on the portion of delinquent child support
1-16 that is greater than the amount of the monthly periodic support
1-17 obligation at the rate of 12 percent simple interest per year from
1-18 the date the support is delinquent until the date the support is
1-19 paid or the arrearages are confirmed and reduced to money judgment.
1-20 SECTION 2. Section 157.266(a), Family Code, is amended to
1-21 read as follows:
1-22 Sec. 157.266. Date of Delinquency. (a) A child support
1-23 payment is delinquent for the purpose of accrual of interest if the
1-24 payment is not received before the 31st day after the payment date
1-25 stated in the order by:
1-26 (1) the local registry, [or] Title IV-D registry, or
1-27 state disbursement unit; or
1-28 (2) the obligee or entity specified in the order, if
1-29 payments are not made through a registry.
1-30 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2000, and
1-31 applies only to a child support payment that becomes due on or
1-32 after that date. A child support payment that becomes due before
1-33 the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on
1-34 the date the child support payment became due, and the former law
1-35 is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-36 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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