Amendment S-3166 to HF 636
Relating to consideration of the educational setting of a minor child in a child custody proceeding
Never voted on
Filed April 19, 2023 in the Senate by Sen. Jesse Green (R)
What it changes
AI summary This amendment adds a new section to the bill that prohibits courts from ordering parents to pay for a child's postsecondary education subsidy. It also specifies how these rules apply to existing court orders and judgments.1
Read the amendment’s wording
- Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: “DIVISION I POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION SUBSIDY Section
- Section 598.1, subsection 8, Code 2023, is amended to read as follows:
- “Postsecondary education subsidy” means an amount which either of the parties may be required to pay under a temporary order or final judgment or decree for educational expenses of a child who is between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two years if the child is regularly attending a course of career and technical training either as a part of a regular school program or under special arrangements adapted to the individual person’s needs; or is, in good faith, a full-time student in a college, university, or community college; or has been accepted for admission to a college, university, or community college and the next regular term has not yet begun. Sec. ___. Section 598.21F, Code 2023, is amended by striking the section and inserting in lieu thereof the following: 598.21F Postsecondary education subsidy. The court shall not order either of the parties to pay a postsecondary education subsidy under a temporary order or final judgment or decree. Sec. ___. Section 600.11, subsection 2, paragraph a, subparagraph (6), Code 2023, is amended to read as follows: (6) A person who is ordered to pay support or a postsecondary education subsidy pursuant to section 598.21F , or chapter 234 , 252A , 252C , 252F , 598 , 600B , or any other chapter of the Code, for a person eighteen years of age or older who is being adopted by a stepparent, and the support order or order requires payment of support or postsecondary education subsidy for any period of time after the child reaches eighteen years of age. Sec. ___. APPLICABILITY. This division of this Act applies to a support order, decree, or judgment entered or pending on or after July 1,
- This division of this Act shall not be the basis for modification of an order, decree, or judgment entered before July 1, 2023, that provides for a postsecondary education subsidy. DIVISION ___ EDUCATIONAL SETTING OF A MINOR CHILD”
- Title page, line 1, after “relating to” by inserting “provisions involving children in family law matters including prohibiting a court from ordering payment of a postsecondary education subsidy for a child under a dissolution of marriage temporary order or final judgment or decree and providing for application to existing orders, judgments, and decrees; and”
- By renumbering as necessary.