Bill Text: TX SB1923 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the modification of certain orders providing for the support of a child.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7)

Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [SB1923 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB1923-Enrolled.html

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S.B. No. 1923

AN ACT
relating to the modification of certain orders providing for the
support of a child.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 156.409, Family Code, is amended by
amending Subsections (a), (a-1), and (b) and adding Subsection (c)
to read as follows:
(a) The court shall, on the motion of a party or a person
having physical possession of the child, modify an order providing
for the support of the child to provide that the person having
physical possession of the child for at least six months shall have
the right to receive and give receipt for payments of support for
the child and to hold or disburse money for the benefit of the child
if the sole managing conservator of the child or the joint managing
conservator who has the exclusive right to determine the primary
residence of the child has:
(1) voluntarily relinquished to the person having
physical possession of the child the primary care and possession of
the child for at least six months;
(2) been incarcerated or sentenced to be incarcerated
for at least 90 days; [or]
(3) relinquished the primary care and possession of
the child in a proceeding under Title 3 or Chapter 262; or
(4) entered into an authorization agreement under
Chapter 34 with the person having physical possession of the child.
(a-1) If the court modifies a support order under this
section, the court shall order the obligor to pay the person or
entity having physical possession of the child any unpaid child
support that is not subject to offset or reimbursement under
Section 157.008 and that accrues after the date the sole or joint
managing conservator:
(1) relinquishes possession and control of the child,
whether voluntarily or in a proceeding under Title 3 or Chapter 262;
[or]
(2) is incarcerated; or
(3) enters into an authorization agreement under
Chapter 34 with the person having physical possession of the child.
(b) If a respondent has been ordered under Chapter 105 to
provide the court and the state case registry with the respondent's
current mailing address or e-mail address, notice [Notice] of a
motion for modification or hearing on a motion for modification
under this section may be served:
(1) in the manner for serving a notice under Section
157.065; or
(2) by e-mail through the electronic filing system
established under Section 72.031, Government Code.
(c) A notice or document associated with a motion for
modification under this section not otherwise described by
Subsection (b) may be delivered in the manner described by
Subdivision (2) of that subsection.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to a motion for modification of an order providing for the support
of a child filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A
motion for modification of an order providing for the support of a
child filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
law in effect on the date the motion was filed, and the former law is
continued for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1923 passed the Senate on
April 22, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 30, 2025, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1923 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 28, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 111,
Nays 25, three present not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor