SB629 - Relating to the accrual of interest on overdue child support.

      By: Zaffirini  S.B. No. 629          (In the Senate - Filed December 17, 2024; February 3, 2025,   read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;   April 30, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee   Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 1; April 30, 2025,   sent to printer.) Click here to see the committee vote     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 629 By:  Hughes     A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT     relating to the accrual of interest on overdue child support.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 157.265, Family Code, is amended to read   as follows:          Sec. 157.265.  ACCRUAL OF INTEREST ON CHILD SUPPORT.  (a)     Interest accrues on the portion of delinquent child support that is   greater than the amount of the monthly periodic support obligation   at the rate of three [ six ] percent simple interest per year from the   date the support is delinquent until the date the support is paid or   the arrearages are confirmed and reduced to money judgment.          (b)  Interest accrues on child support arrearages that have   been confirmed and reduced to money judgment as provided in this   subchapter at the rate of three [ six ] percent simple interest per   year from the date the order is rendered until the date the judgment   is paid.          (c)  Interest accrues on a money judgment for retroactive or   lump-sum child support at the annual rate of three [ six ] percent   simple interest from the date the order is rendered until the   judgment is paid.          (d)  Subsection (a) applies to a child support payment that   becomes due on or after January 1, 2026  [ 2002 ].          (e)  Child support arrearages in existence on January 1, 2026     [ 2002 ], that were not confirmed and reduced to a money judgment on   or before that date accrue interest as follows:                (1)  before January 1, 2026  [ 2002 ], the arrearages are   subject to the interest rate that applied to the arrearages before   that date; and                (2)  on and after January 1, 2026  [ 2002 ], the   cumulative total of arrearages and interest accumulated on those   arrearages described by Subdivision (1) is subject to Subsection   (a).          (f)  Subsections (b) and (c) apply to a money judgment for   child support rendered on or after January 1, 2026  [ 2002 ]. 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.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.     * * * * *