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House amends and passes bill allowing ORS electronic withdrawal for child support collection
Summary
After technical drafting concerns and a friendly amendment changing 'and' to 'or' in custody withholding language, the House passed HB 18, which allows the Office of Recovery Services to collect child support via electronic withdrawals and reduces employer involvement in routine withholding. Vote: 60‑0, 15 absent.
The Utah House passed HB 18 on Friday after lawmakers debated technical drafting in a provision that would have made certain withholding requirements mandatory unless the court found otherwise.
Representative Julie Fisher, sponsor, said HB 18 allows noncustodial parents the option to pay child support electronically through their banking services and removes the routine requirement for employers to be the intermediary for withholding in many cases. "The biggest…
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