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Committee sends HB336 to floor; bill moves child-support rules into statute and specifies enforcement measures
Summary
Representative Lucas Kaler presented House Bill 336 to move child-support rules from IDAPA into statute; the bill clarifies enforcement authorities including interception for foster-care costs, notifying credit agencies for delinquent accounts, and sets several flat fees.
Representative Lucas Kaler, R-Caldwell, presented House Bill 336 to the House Health and Welfare Committee. Kaler said the bill transfers IDAPA 16.03.03 child-support services rules into statute and does not create new laws, but consolidates existing enforcement and procedural authority.
Kaler highlighted several enforcement provisions included in the bill: allowing the Department to intercept and retain child support from an obligor to assist with foster care and foster-care placement; authority to notify consumer reporting agencies for overdue support exceeding $2,000 and three months in arrears; judicial proceedings for income withholding; enforcement of medical-support orders; and review and modification of support orders.
Kaler also stated the bill moves existing fee amounts from rule into statute. On page 2, section 7, the transcript records fees or charges of $25, $35 and $550; Kaler said these were existing flat fees in rule that the bill places into statute "to compensate the department for services rendered or enforcement of support obligation." A committee member asked whether the fees were fixed amounts or maximums; Kaler confirmed they were existing flat fees from rule.
Representative Wheeler moved to send House Bill 336 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation. The committee approved the motion by voice vote; the chair recorded the motion passed. The transcript does not record public testimony or fiscal analysis for the bill.
