Bill Text: TX HB1695 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the enforcement of an order to pay child support by contempt.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Placed on intent calendar [HB1695 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1695-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the enforcement of an order to pay child support by contempt.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-24 - Placed on intent calendar [HB1695 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1695-Introduced.html
88R7531 AMF-D | ||
By: Jones of Harris | H.B. No. 1695 |
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relating to the enforcement of an order to pay child support by | ||
contempt. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 157.162, Family Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: | ||
(d) The court may not find a respondent in contempt of court | ||
for failure to pay child support if the respondent appears at the | ||
hearing with: | ||
(1) a copy of the payment record or other evidence | ||
satisfactory to the court showing that the respondent is current in | ||
the payment of child support as ordered by the court; and | ||
(2) evidence satisfactory to the court showing that | ||
the respondent's failure to make timely payments was due to an error | ||
made by a third party or other circumstances outside the | ||
respondent's control. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a hearing to enforce an order in a suit affecting the | ||
parent-child relationship that commences on or after the effective | ||
date of this Act. A hearing that commences before the effective | ||
date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the | ||
hearing commenced, and the former law is continued in effect for | ||
that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |