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House approves sanctions bill for substantial noncompliance with visitation orders after floor amendments
Summary
After floor amendments to narrow mandatory fee awards and to restrict who may act as 'court' under the law, the Utah House passed substitute Senate Bill 29, a pilot program establishing sanctions for substantial noncompliance with child visitation orders; the measure now returns to the Senate for consideration of House changes.
The Utah House on March 3 approved substitute Senate Bill 29, a measure that sets up a pilot program in the First Judicial District to impose sanctions for “substantial noncompliance” with child visitation orders. The bill passed on final passage after the chamber adopted two notable floor changes.
Representative Wadlets, sponsor of the bill, told colleagues the measure was the work of a child custody task force that included parents, judges and attorneys and that it was intended to target only “substantial noncompliance, not just…
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