Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF0023

E Relating to child support ARTICLE 1 - EXPEDITED ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES AND
JUDICIAL PROCESSRequiring the supreme court to create an expedited child support
hearing process to establish, modify and enforce child support and to enforce
maintenance when combined with child support, exempting certain cases from the
expedited process; specifying certain goals of the process; requiring the state
court administrator to provide for the administration of the expedited child
support hearing process in each judicial district; authorizing and providing for
the appointment of child support magistrates by judicial district chief judges,
requiring supreme court confirmation and providing for qualifications and
training; requiring supreme court process implementation rules in consultation
with the chief judges conference; authorizing and providing for the reporting of
hearings and proceedings under the process using electronic recording equipment;
requiring the court upon party request to conduct visitation and child support
compliance review hearings, authorizing certain remedies; providing for the
interest of public authorities responsible for child support in certain cases,
authorizing intervention; prescribing procedures for public authority child and
medical support and parentage orders, providing for the role and duties of
nonattorney employees under direction of the county attorney and granting the
authorities certain administrative authority including the issuance of
subpoenas, authorizing public authorities to share available and relevant
information, limits; transferring the authority for the development of support
judgment debts summary execution forms from the commissioner of human services
to the supreme court; encouraging judicial districts to use the existing
expertise of child support administrative law judges in appointing child support
magistrates to facilitate the transfer of functions to the judicial branch;
changing the requirement for the commissioner to evaluate the administrative
process to evaluation of the expedited process by the supreme court in
consultation with the commissioner and the advisory committee for child support
enforcement, granting the supreme court access to private data on parties to the
expedited process and requesting the supreme court to present recommendations to
the legislature by a certain date ARTCLE 2 - ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS REPEAL
Repealing the administrative process for the enforcement of child and medical
support and parentage orders, transferring administrative law judge duties to
child support magistrates, making conforming changes to certain statutory
provisions relating to data matches, motor vehicle title child support liens,
drivers or occupational license suspension for nonpayment of support and the
levy of funds at financial institutions (rla, ja)