Relating to the accrual of interest on overdue child support.

89(R) SB 629 - Senate Committee Report version - Bill Text

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.)
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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.

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