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Committee advances bill to require arrearage amounts be reported in federal child support notices
Summary
The Children and Family Law Committee voted 3-0 to recommend passage of House Bill 204, which would direct the state child support division to report dollar amounts of arrearages and to avoid reporting accounts that do not meet the federal $2,500 threshold.
The Children and Family Law Committee advanced House Bill 204 on a 3-0 vote after hearing sponsor testimony and clarification from the Bureau of Child Support Services.
Representative James Spillane, the bill's prime sponsor, told the committee the bill would prevent people from being mistakenly reported to the federal government as delinquent on child support. "I was denied a passport that I needed to be able to travel for work, because I was told I was delinquent," Spillane said, describing how pay-period timing and the bureau's weekly reporting schedule produced short-term mismatches that made him appear in arrears.
The bill would require the state to maintain an automated child-support reporting system that "complies with the federal guidelines on child support delinquency and shall not report…
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