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2023 SESSION
23-0090.1
06/04
HOUSE BILL [bill number]
AN ACT relative to the definition of compliance with a legal support order for child support payments.
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ANALYSIS
This bill modifies the definition of compliance with a legal support order to include smaller dollar amounts in arrearage and any obligor that is fewer than 60 days in arrears.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0090.1
06/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT relative to the definition of compliance with a legal support order for child support payments.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Support of Dependent Children; Definitions; Compliance. Amend RSA 161-B:2, III to read as follows:
III. "Compliance with a legal order of support" means:
(a) The obligor is fewer than 60 days in arrears for payment of ongoing child support pursuant to a legal order of support payable to or through the department [and has obtained or maintained health insurance coverage as required by a legal order of support];
(b) The obligor is making ongoing periodic support payments pursuant to the legal order of support and is making periodic or lump sum payment on a support arrearage in accordance with the obligor's ability to pay and pursuant to a legal order of support;
(c) The obligor's wages are assigned pursuant to RSA 458-B and the wage assignment, pursuant to a court order or pursuant to RSA 458-B:4, addresses arrearages; [or]
(d) In cases involving arrearages only, the obligor is making periodic or lump sum payments on the support arrearage pursuant to a court order or pursuant to a wage assignment under RSA 458-B:4; or
(e) The obligor's total amount in arrearage is $25 or less.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.