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MN SF4245

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/9/2026

Primary Sponsor

Warren Limmer

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Origin

Senate

94th Legislature 2025-2026

AI Summary

  • Shifts the 2% cost recovery fee for IV-D child support services from the obligee (recipient) to the obligor (payer), charging it in addition to the monthly court-ordered support and maintenance obligation

  • Eliminates the previous exemption from the cost recovery fee for obligees currently receiving or who recently received title IV-A, IV-E foster care, or medical assistance

  • Allows collection of the cost recovery fee through income withholding or any other enforcement remedy available to the public authority

  • Updates agency references throughout the statute from "commissioner of human services" to "commissioner of children, youth, and families"

  • Maintains the existing $35 annual federal collections fee for cases collecting at least $550 where the individual never received IV-A assistance, and the $25 fee for successful federal tax interceptions

Legislative Description

Child support cost recovery fee modification

Last Action

Referred to Judiciary and Public Safety

3/9/2026

Committee Referrals

Judiciary and Public Safety3/9/2026

Full Bill Text

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