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1		-	~~89R21493~~ KRM-D
	1	+	89R11450 KRM-D
2	2		By: Dutton H.B. No. 2558
3		-	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2558:
4		-	By: Leach C.S.H.B. No. 2558
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9	7		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
10	8		AN ACT
11	9		relating to the child support obligation of an obligor during the
12	10		obligor's confinement in jail or prison.
13	11		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
14	12		SECTION 1. Section 157.162, Family Code, is amended by
15	13		adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
16	14		(d) The court may not find a respondent in contempt of court
17		-	for failure to pay child support if:
18		-	(1) the respondent appears at the hearing and presents
19		-	credible evidence showing that the unpaid child support accrued
20		-	during the respondent's confinement in a local, state, or federal
21		-	jail or prison for a period of at least 90 consecutive days; or
22		-	(2) the respondent's attorney, if the respondent is
23		-	confined in jail or prison at the time of the hearing, appears at
24		-	the hearing and presents credible evidence showing that the unpaid
25		-	child support accrued during the respondent's confinement in a
26		-	local, state, or federal jail or prison for a period of at least 90
27		-	consecutive days.
	15	+	for failure to pay child support if the respondent, or the
	16	+	respondent's attorney if the respondent is confined in jail or
	17	+	prison at the time of the hearing, appears at the hearing and
	18	+	presents credible evidence showing that:
	19	+	(1) the unpaid child support accrued during the
	20	+	obligor's confinement in a local, state, or federal jail or prison
	21	+	for a period of at least 90 consecutive days, other than
	22	+	confinement:
	23	+	(A) for an offense constituting an act of family
	24	+	violence, as defined by Section 71.004, committed against the
	25	+	obligee or a child covered by the child support order; or
	26	+	(B) resulting from the obligor's failure to
	27	+	comply with a child support order; and
	28	+	(2) the obligor did not have sufficient resources
	29	+	available to comply with the child support order during the period
	30	+	of the obligor's confinement.
28	31		SECTION 2. Section 157.162(d), Family Code, as added by
29	32		this Act, applies to a hearing to enforce an order in a suit
30	33		affecting the parent-child relationship that commences on or after
31	34		the effective date of this Act. A hearing that commences before the
32	35		effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the
33	36		date the hearing commenced, and the former law is continued in
34	37		effect for that purpose.
35	38		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.