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Senate advances revised child support guidelines after extended debate and a series of amendments
Summary
Senate Bill 195 updates Utah’s child support tables and rules to comply with federal review, raises low‑income support amounts in places, extends tables to higher incomes, and adds transitional protections for existing orders; a sequence of amendments passed before final third‑reading action.
Senate Bill 195, a broad revision of the state’s child support guidelines, received an extended floor presentation and multiple amendments before the Senate read it for a third time.
Sponsor Senator Bell told colleagues the guidelines had not been materially updated since 1994 and that federal requirements compel a review every four years. The bill revises low‑income support tables (for example, raising combined‑income brackets in some low categories), extends the guideline tables from a $10,000 combined‑income cap up to…
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