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Utah Senate advances child-support overhaul to meet federal welfare reform
Summary
The Utah Senate voted 27-0 on Feb. 21 to advance Senate Bill 64 — a 20-page package of child-support changes meant to conform state law to federal welfare-reform requirements, create a new hires registry, authorize automatic wage withholding for large arrears, and permit targeted license revocations as enforcement tools.
Senate Bill 64, a 20-page package of amendments to the state child-support system, was advanced to the third-reading calendar by the Utah Senate on Feb. 21 after a 27-0 roll-call vote.
Sponsor Senator Tanner said the measure is designed to align Utah with federal requirements under recent welfare-reform legislation and to improve collection of adjudicated child-support arrears, which the sponsor described as approaching $400 million in unpaid orders. The bill would require employers to report new hires to a hires registry, expand automatic wage withholding in…
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