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SF 1477 Senate Long Description

E Modifying certain child support collection and enforcement provisions; authorizing and providing for the commissioner of human services under signed agreement to pay a quarterly fee to financial institutions for supplying account information to public authorities responsible for child support enforcement and to evaluate the effect of the fee and report to the legislature by a certain date with recommendations for retaining or modifying the fee; requiring the commissioner in consultation with county child support representatives and county attorneys to adopt rules for operation of a statewide child support county performance incentive program; changing the requirement for caregivers of minor children receiving public assistance to forward to the public authority support payments received to a notice requirement, clarifying the requirement for the counting of direct support retained by caregivers as unearned income in determining the amount of assistance payment, requiring repayment to the child support agency under certain conditions, defining direct support; changing the bonus incentive program to increase the number of paternity establishments to a per child in lieu of a per case incentive; authorizing public authorities to fine employers or payors of funds for failing to comply with child or medical support orders, specifying certain notice requirements, sanctions to apply in cases of intentional noncompliance; authorizing the suspension of drivers licenses of obligors failing to comply with approved child support payment agreements after missing only one payment, specifying certain notice requirements; making optional the requirement for the commissioner to publish the names of child support obligors in arrears; prescribing a procedure for public authority treatment of unclaimed support funds, authorizing use to pay public assistance arrearages under certain conditions; expanding the provision providing for collection of child support arrearages, providing for the establishment of payment agreements; authorizing retroactive modification of support orders under certain institutionalization or incarceration conditions; clarifying the requirement for orders establishing, modifying or enforcing maintenance or child support orders to include a cost of living adjustment and modifying certain conditions for inflation adjustments, prescribing a contest procedure; repealing certain cost of living adjustment hearing request form and motion request requirements (mk, ja)