HB 126  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2023 SESSION

23-0091

06/04

 

HOUSE BILL 126

 

AN ACT relative to choosing the accrual date for child support payments.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Spillane, Rock. 2; Rep. Roy, Rock. 31; Rep. A. Lekas, Hills. 38; Rep. Edwards, Rock. 31; Rep. DeSimone, Rock. 18

 

COMMITTEE: Children and Family Law

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill permits obligors of child support debt to choose what day of the month the debt is paid.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

23-0091

06/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT relative to choosing the accrual date for 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; Creation of Support Debt.  Amend RSA 161-C:4, I to read as follows:

I.  Any payment of public assistance made to or for the benefit of a dependent child creates a debt due and owing to the department by any obligor or responsible parent.  Except as otherwise provided in RSA 161-C:5, the amount of the debt shall be equal to the calculation of a weekly child support obligation derived in accordance with RSA 458-C:3 as applied to the obligor's or responsible parent's current income, multiplied by the number of weeks that public assistance was paid or the total amount of public assistance that was paid, whichever is less.  The support debt shall be paid, at the obligor's or responsible parent's choosing, on either the first or the fifteenth day of the month.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.