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Utah Senate advances bill allowing driver’s-license suspension for court-ordered child-support delinquents
Summary
The Senate advanced House Bill 15 after debate, a measure sponsors say targets parents ordered by courts who refuse to pay child support by authorizing administrative suspension of driving privileges while allowing conditional licenses and payment plans.
Senators advanced House Bill 15, a measure to give the Office of Recovery Services an administrative tool to suspend driving privileges of parents who have been ordered by a court to pay child support and who refuse to do so.
Sponsor Senator Walker said the bill is aimed at parents who “can afford to pay but refuse to pay,” framing it as a narrow enforcement tool for chronic nonpayers. “This is a bill that’s targeted at deadbeat dads,” Walker said on the…
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