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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