BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Research Center H.B. 678
79R3753 JMM-D By: Goodman (Harris)
AUTHOR'S/SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
H.B. 678 clarifies the application of the effective date of this amendment by providing that any unpaid child support that accrued before January 1, 2002, accrued at the interest rate in effect at the time the child support payment became delinquent.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Section 157.265, Family Code, by adding Subsections (d)-(f), as follows:
(d) Provides that Subsection (a) (regarding interest accruing on a portion of a delinquent child support payment) applies to a child support payment that becomes due on or after January 1, 2002.
(e) Sets forth the way in which child support arrearages in existence on January 1, 2002, that were not confirmed and reduced to a money judgment accrue interest.
(f) Provides that Subsections (b) and (c) (regarding interest accruing on child support arrearages confirmed and reduced to a money judgment or on a money judgment for retroactive or lump-sum child support) apply to a money judgment for child support rendered on or after January 1, 2002. Provides that a money judgment for child support rendered before that date is governed by the law in effect on the date the judgment was rendered, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 2. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2005.