By: Harris S.B. No. 1739
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to withholding for child support arrearages.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 158.003, (b), Family Code is amended to
1-4 read as follows:
1-5 (b) The additional amount to be withheld for arrearages
1-6 shall be an amount sufficient to discharge those arrearages [in not
1-7 more than two years or an additional 20 percent added to the amount
1-8 of the current monthly support order, whichever amount] which will
1-9 result in the arrearages being discharged in the least amount of
1-10 time.
1-11 SECTION 2. Sec. 158.004, Family Code is amended to read as
1-12 follows:
1-13 Sec. 158.004. Withholding for Arrearages When no Current
1-14 Support is Due. If current support is no longer owed, the court
1-15 shall order that income be withheld for arrearages, including
1-16 accrued interest as provided in Chapter 157, in an amount
1-17 sufficient to discharge those arrearages in [not more than two
1-18 years.] the least amount of time.
1-19 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies only
1-20 to an order issued on or after the effective date of this Act.
1-21 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create and
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.