89R21493 KRM-D
By: Dutton, Garcia of Dallas H.B. No. 2558
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the child support obligation of an obligor during the
obligor's confinement in jail or prison.
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:
(1) the respondent appears at the hearing and presents
credible evidence showing that the unpaid child support accrued
during the respondent's confinement in a local, state, or federal
jail or prison for a period of at least 90 consecutive days; or
(2) the respondent's attorney, if the respondent is
confined in jail or prison at the time of the hearing, appears at
the hearing and presents credible evidence showing that the unpaid
child support accrued during the respondent's confinement in a
local, state, or federal jail or prison for a period of at least 90
consecutive days.
SECTION 2. Section 157.162(d), Family Code, as added by
this Act, applies 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, 2025.