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Senate advances revised child-support guidelines after extended floor debate
Summary
The Senate uncircled and advanced the second substitute of SB23 (child-support guidelines), approving it for third reading by a 23–6 vote after debate over income tables, populations affected and safeguards for unusual cases.
Senators debated and moved forward a second substitute to Senate Bill 23, which updates the state’s child-support guidelines and revises the income tables used to calculate obligations.
Senator Bell, sponsor of the measure, walked colleagues through side-by-side charts to illustrate where the proposed tables change support obligations and stressed the proposal does not uniformly increase every schedule by 25%. "We are not changing these schedules by 25%," Bell said on the floor, noting that adjustments…
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