S783-2013 Actions

• Apr 30, 2013: referred to social services
• Apr 30, 2013: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Apr 30, 2013: PASSED SENATE
• Apr 29, 2013: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• Apr 24, 2013: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• Apr 23, 2013: 1ST REPORT CAL.409
• Feb 12, 2013: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
• Jan 9, 2013: REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES

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BILL NUMBER:S783

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the social services law, in relation to evenly distributing a
certain annual service fee between the custodial and noncustodial parent

PURPOSE:
Directs that a certain annual service fee between the
custodial and noncustodial parent be evenly distributed.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3
of section 111-g
of the social services law, as added by section 1 of part Z of
chapter 57 of the laws of 2008, is amended.

JUSTIFICATION:
In 2005, the federal government enacted the Federal
Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 where by a $25 fee was imposed on child
support payments. The fee is collected after the custodial parent has
received $500 in support payments for the year, the federal
government keeps two-thirds of the fee and the state and local
governments keep the rest. States were given a choice as to how to
collect the fee; pay the amount of what each fee would generate in
said state or choose which parent, custodial or noncustodial, to
recoup the fee from. New York has chosen to collect the fee from the
parent who receives the support payments.

Many single parents across the state rely on child support payments as
a means to live. Especially in these difficult economic times,
families are being forced to make hard financial decisions. It is the
goal of this legislation not to place the entire financial obligation
of this fee on the custodial parent, but rather divide the collection
of the fee between the custodial and noncustodial parent.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2011-12: A.515/S.816
         Passed Senate; Remained in Assembly Social Services
         Committee
2009-10: A.3959/S.1389; Remained in Social Services Committee

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the
ninetieth day after
it shall have become a law; provided however, that effective
immediately, the addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rule or
regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its
effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed
on or before such effective date.

S783-2013 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 S. 783                                                    A. 139
 2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 SENATE - ASSEMBLY
 (PREFILED)
 January 9, 2013
 
 IN  SENATE  --  Introduced  by  Sens. LAVALLE, MARTINS -- read twice and
 ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
 Social Services
 IN  ASSEMBLY  -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred
 to the Committee on Social Services
 

AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to evenly  distrib
 uting a certain annual service fee between the custodial and noncusto
 dial parent
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3  of  section  111-g  of  the
 social  services  law,  as added by section 1 of part Z of chapter 57 of
 the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:

 (a) A person who is receiving child support services pursuant to  this
 section  who has never received assistance pursuant to title IV-A of the
 federal social security act shall be subject to an annual service fee of
 twenty-five dollars for each child support case if at least five hundred
 dollars of support has been collected in the federal fiscal year.  Where
 a custodial parent has children with different noncustodial parents, the
 order  payable  by  each  noncustodial  parent shall be a separate child
 support case for the purpose of imposing an annual service fee. The  fee
 shall  be  [deducted  from child support payments received on behalf of]
 EVENLY DISTRIBUTED BETWEEN the individual  receiving  services  AND  THE
 NONCUSTODIAL PARENT.
 

S  2.   This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law; provided, however, that  effective  immediately,  the
 addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
 and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01634-01-3

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