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Senate narrowly approves revised child-support guidelines after extended floor debate
Summary
After hours of floor debate, the Utah Senate passed Second Substitute Senate Bill 23 to revise state child-support tables, including a sizable increase in the single-child table; the measure passed 18–11 following contested floor statements.
The Utah Senate passed Second Substitute Senate Bill 23, a package of changes to the state's child-support guidelines, after extended floor debate over the law’s economic assumptions and distributional effects.
Sponsor Senator Bell urged passage, saying the guidelines had not been updated since 1994 and that consultant-recommended changes (including large increases in the one-child table) needed to be moderated in statute. "We have not adjusted these tables since 1994," Bell said,…
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