CT HB06764

Requires the Comptroller's electronic payroll system to facilitate processing of income withholding orders for child support entered by state or federal courts, including orders transmitted through the federal electronic income withholding order process, effective January 1, 2016.

Allows legal process for child support withholding from unemployment compensation to be deemed properly served if transmitted through the federal electronic income withholding order process.

Requires employers to provide a copy of any child support withholding order to the workers' compensation insurance carrier when an obligor makes a workers' compensation claim, and makes the carrier subject to the same withholding and payment requirements as employers.

Expands remedies in family court to allow judges to order employers or payers of income who fail to withhold or pay withheld child support funds to provide cash deposits held in escrow, in addition to existing remedies against obligors.

All provisions take effect January 1, 2016.