Amend CSHB 1674 (Senate Committee Printing) by adding the following SECTIONS and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS appropriately:

"SECTION ____. Section 157.263, Family Code, is amended by adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:

(b-1) In rendering a money judgment under this section, the court may not reduce or modify the amount of child support arrearages but, in confirming the amount of arrearages, may allow a counterclaim or offset as provided by this title.

SECTION ____. Subchapter B, Chapter 231, Family Code, is amended by adding Section 231.124 to read as follows:

Sec. 231.124. CHILD SUPPORT ARREARAGES PAYMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAM. (a) The Title IV-D agency may establish and administer a payment incentive program to promote payment by obligors who are delinquent in satisfying child support arrearages assigned to the Title IV-D agency under Section 231.104(a).

(b) A program established under this section must provide to a participating obligor a credit for every dollar amount paid by the obligor on interest and arrearages balances during each month of the obligor's voluntary enrollment in the program. In establishing a program under this section, the Title IV-D agency by rule must prescribe:

(1) criteria for a child support obligor's initial eligibility to participate in the program;

(2) the conditions for a child support obligor's continued participation in the program;

(3) procedures for enrollment in the program; and

(4) the terms of the financial incentives to be offered under the program.

SECTION ____. Section 157.262, Family Code, is repealed.

SECTION ____. Subsection (b-1), Section 157.263, Family Code, as added by this Act, applies to a motion for enforcement of child support that is pending before a trial court on or filed on or after the effective date of this Act.