All Roll Calls
Yes: 137 • No: 22
TexasSB 140389th Legislature Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Relating to the administration of the Title IV-D agency, the powers and duties of the Title IV-D agency regarding the collection, modification, and enforcement of child support, and to certain procedures for cases and orders relating to the Title IV-D agency.
Sponsored By: Harold V. Dutton Jr., Royce West (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
Civil Remedies & LiabilitiesCourts--GeneralFamily--Child SupportFamily--Family ViolenceEMAIL & ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONSTELECONFERENCINGVIDEOCONFERENCING
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
6 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 4 mixed.
Longer reach for unpaid child support
Beginning September 1, 2025, Texas can issue and enforce agency child support review orders that determine unpaid support and enter judgments. That authority is not subject to the time limit in Family Code Section 157.005(b). This applies to covered orders issued before, on, or after September 1, 2025. Families owed support may gain more collection options, while paying parents face longer exposure to collection.
Support reviews for parents facing incarceration
Texas must review support after confirming the paying parent was ordered jailed or imprisoned for at least 180 consecutive days. The agency may adjust child, medical, and dental support using net resources during incarceration and state child support guidelines. There is no fixed reduced amount. Lower payments can help the paying parent but reduce money received by the child's household. This applies when the agency files notice of the adjustment on or after September 1, 2025.
More access to child support information
For requests made on or after September 1, 2025, Texas's case registry must provide specified information about registered child support cases. Eligible requesters include case parties, amicus attorneys, attorneys ad litem, friends or guardians ad litem, and domestic relations offices. Prosecutors and juvenile courts in juvenile proceedings, plus government entities and courts in Chapter 262 child-protection cases, also qualify. Requests must follow the law's process; federal law must permit release, and a court must not have barred it. The agency must also post all its child support program brochures on its website by December 1, 2025.
Safer child support orders for families
Some agency support adjustment orders must leave out a party's Social Security and driver's license numbers. They must also omit home and mailing addresses, home phone numbers, and employer names, addresses, and work phone numbers. This applies when a qualifying court nondisclosure order remains in effect. It also applies when the agency's investigation report documents exclusion based on a family violence flag in its enforcement system. The rule covers adjustments whose notices are filed on or after September 1, 2025.
Support collection can stop after abuse
Beginning September 1, 2025, Texas may stop enforcing unpaid child support against a paying parent. This applies when the person owed support is jailed or imprisoned for family violence against a child covered by the order. The agency does not have to stop enforcement, and the unpaid debt is not automatically canceled. The paying parent may face less collection pressure, but the child's household may receive less collected support.
New protections for child support agencies
Beginning September 1, 2025, Texas's child support agency is not bound by mediation or arbitration terms in orders it did not join. This applies when establishing, enforcing, or changing support; the agency also owes no related mediation or arbitration costs. For suits filed on or after that date, courts may dismiss claims about agency powers, duties, or services. Covered defendants include the agency, its employees, and attorneys or political subdivisions under contract with it. Dismissal requires a frivolous or malicious claim, failure to state a legal claim, or a request for money barred by immunity.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
Harold V. Dutton Jr.
House
Royce West
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/6/2025
Record vote
Yes: 123 • No: 22
Senate vote • 4/10/2025
Record vote
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/10/2025
Record vote
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • Unknown
Committee vote: Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
Yes: 9 • No: 0
Senate vote • Unknown
Committee vote: Jurisprudence
Yes: 5 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Effective on 9/1/25
5/19/2025HouseSigned by the Governor
5/19/2025HouseSent to the Governor
5/7/2025HouseSigned in the House
5/7/2025HouseSigned in the Senate
5/7/2025SenateReported enrolled
5/6/2025SenateHouse passage reported
5/6/2025SenateStatement(s) of vote recorded in Journal
5/6/2025HouseRecord vote (RV#1486)
5/6/2025HousePassed
5/6/2025HouseRead 3rd time
5/6/2025HousePassed to 3rd reading
5/5/2025HouseRead 2nd time
5/5/2025HouseLaid out in lieu of companion (HB 4034)
5/5/2025HouseCommittee report sent to Calendars
5/2/2025HouseCommittee report distributed
5/1/2025HouseComte report filed with Committee Coordinator
5/1/2025HouseReported favorably w/o amendment(s)
5/1/2025HouseConsidered in formal meeting
5/1/2025HouseRecalled from subcommittee
5/1/2025HouseReferred to s/c on Family & Fiduciary Relationships by Speaker
4/17/2025HouseRead first time
4/17/2025HouseReceived from the Senate
4/14/2025HouseReported engrossed
4/10/2025SenateRecord vote
4/10/2025Senate
Bill Text
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House Committee Report
Introduced
Senate Committee Report
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