Bill Text: TX HB943 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of a wage and salary presumption to an incarcerated person for purposes of determining child support obligations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB943 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB943-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 943 |
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relating to the applicability of a wage and salary presumption to an | ||
incarcerated person for purposes of determining child support | ||
obligations. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 154.068, Family Code, is amended to read | ||
as follows: | ||
Sec. 154.068. WAGE AND SALARY PRESUMPTION. (a) In the | ||
absence of evidence of a party's resources, as defined by Section | ||
154.062(b), the court shall presume that the party has income equal | ||
to the federal minimum wage for a 40-hour week to which the support | ||
guidelines may be applied. | ||
(b) The presumption required by Subsection (a) does not | ||
apply if the court finds that the party is subject to an order of | ||
confinement that exceeds 90 days and is incarcerated in a local, | ||
state, or federal jail or prison at the time the court makes the | ||
determination regarding the party's income. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
154.068, Family Code, applies only to a proceeding to establish or | ||
modify a child support obligation that is pending in a trial court | ||
on or filed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 943 was passed by the House on April | ||
23, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 112, Nays 28, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 943 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
23, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 3. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |