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Committee backs bill to move child-support license-exemptions from rule into statute and remove TANF exemption
Summary
Senate Bill 1051, presented by Sen. Brandon Shippey, would move a longstanding IDAPA rule provision on good-cause exemptions for driver/occupational license suspension into statute and remove Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients from an allowed exemption; the committee voted to send the bill to the floor with a due-pass."
Senator Brandon Shippey presented Senate Bill 1051 to the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, proposing to codify in statute a provision currently found in administrative rule that lists good-cause exemptions to driver or occupational license suspension for people not meeting child-support obligations.
Shippey told the committee the bill "moves section 3 0 2 from IDAPA, rule 6, 16.03 0.03, child support services ... from administrative rule into statute," arguing the change returns control of the provision to the elected legislature. He said the bill also removes recipients of TANF from the set of exemptions and described the TANF exemption as "rarely used," noting it applied to "less than 0.1% of all good exemptions" in 2024.
Shippey said other exemptions remain in place for people who are disabled, unable to work because of illness or injury, students, people incarcerated, and recipients of Supplemental Security Income. He described the rest of the bill as a straightforward rules-to-statute conversion.
No public testimony was recorded in the transcript. Senator Harris moved to send Senate Bill 1051 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation; Senator Keiser seconded. The committee approved the motion by voice vote and the bill was sent to the floor with a due-pass recommendation.
Senator Shippey said he had discussed the change with the Department of Health and Welfare and noted the rule chapter has been before the legislature in prior sessions.
