Bill Text - HB618 (2024)

Relative to wage garnishment with child support payments.


Revision: Oct. 6, 2022, 11:12 a.m.

 

2023 SESSION

23-0089.0

06/04

 

HOUSE BILL [bill number]

 

AN ACT relative to wage garnishment with child support payments.

 

SPONSORS: [sponsors]

 

COMMITTEE: [committee]

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill adds restrictions to the circumstances for an income assignment.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

23-0089.0

06/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT relative to wage garnishment with child support payments.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Alternative Method of Support Enforcement for Dependent Children; Support Debt; Limitation of Debt.  Amend RSA 161-C:4, III to read as follows:

III. Any child support payments pursuant to a legal order of support which remain unpaid create a debt due and owing by the responsible parent in an amount equal to the amount of unpaid support. This debt shall not be the basis for an income assignment unless payments made by the responsible parent are:

(a) Late on 2 or more occasions; or

(b) The responsible parent resides out of state; or

(c) A court has imposed protective order that is in effect and related to the debt.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2024.