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FL S0536
Bill
Status
Introduced
2/6/2023
Primary Sponsor
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
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AI Summary
- Removes exceptions to the rule that incarceration may not be treated as voluntary unemployment when establishing or modifying child support orders, effective upon becoming law
- Restructures depository fee collection for non-IV-D child support cases at a rate of 4 percent per payment, with a minimum fee of $1 and a maximum of $5.25, and specifies how fees are distributed among the clerk of court, the CLERC System Trust Fund, and the department
- Eliminates references to depositories created by special act of the Legislature or other entities established before June 1, 1985, consolidating depository operations under the clerk of the circuit court
- Requires the clerk of court to credit depository payment accounts when the Department of Revenue files payment records showing an obligor made child support payments in another state, with parties allowed to dispute credits in subsequent proceedings
- Expands eligibility for the Department of Revenue to commence paternity proceedings by allowing a child's caregiver (in addition to the mother or putative father) to submit an affidavit of paternity, and adds job training as a permissible basis for payment deferral in driver license suspension cases
Legislative Description
Child Support
Last Action
Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see HB 1087 (Ch. 2023-152)
4/27/2023
Committee Referrals
Fiscal Policy4/13/2023
Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government3/8/2023
Full Bill Text
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