Bills › 89th General Assembly
Relating to the disbursement and accounting of child support payments, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions
Topics:Health care
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 13, 2022
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 20, 2022
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill requires that at the request of an obligor, the collection services center in disbursing child support payments received in accordance with an order being enforced by the child support recovery unit for an individual not eligible for enforcement services as a public assistance recipient and the clerk of the district court disbursing child support payments collected in accordance with a support order filed in that county are only to disburse payments through direct deposit of the support in a customer asset account established by the recipient of the support for the exclusive purposes of depositing of the support payments and use of such deposits for the support of the child.
Read the full explanation
Moneys deposited in the account shall only be used for the support of the child for whom support is ordered and for payment of any fees related to the establishment and maintenance of the account. For each child for whom support is ordered, no more than the child’s relative percentage of the total number of individuals in the household as equates to a percentage of the overall child support payment amount for that child may be used for general household expenses not directly attributable to the child and no more than percent of that amount shall be used for the household’s housing accommodation expenses. The bill requires the recipient of the support payments to forward a written accounting to the obligor of transactions written against the account and all withdrawals from the account within three months of deposit of the child support payment in the customer asset account. If an individual named as the recipient of the support payments on behalf of the child willfully fails to comply with the provisions of the bill, the individual may be cited and punished by the court for contempt. The bill includes effective dates. The section relating to notification of recipients and payors of child support of the requirements of the bill takes effect upon enactment. The substantive sections of the bill take effect January 1, 2023.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 20, 2022. It hasn’t reported yet.
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