Senate
Record of Committee Proceedings
Committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs
Senate Bill 494
Relating to: suspension of licenses, permits and other credentials for failure to pay child support or to comply with a subpoena or warrant related to paternity or child support proceedings and requiring social security numbers on license, permit and other credential applications and on certain documents concerning marriage and children; creating a record matching program to match information about delinquent child support obligors with financial account information of financial institutions; creating a statutory lien for delinquent child support obligations; creating a mechanism for enforcing child support liens; fees for the child and spousal support, establishment of paternity and medical liability support program and cooperation with child support efforts under Wisconsin works; income withholding for support or maintenance, adjudicating paternity when the mother fails to appear and other technical changes related to child support enforcement; access to certain agency records, nonliability for providing information from records, issuing subpoenas, ordering genetic tests; providing notice to new employers of a parent's obligation to provide health care coverage for a child; hospital-based voluntary establishment of paternity; administratively changing interstate income-withholding orders to sum certain amounts; presumption of paternity; access by county child support employes to tax information; acknowledgment of paternity; procedure, temporary orders and probable cause in paternity actions; payment for genetic tests in paternity actions; changes in departmental responsibility for support enforcement; intercepting delinquent support and certain other payments from pension plan disbursements; intercepting delinquent support from court judgments and settlements; granting rulemaking authority; making appropriations; and providing a penalty.
By Senators Wirch, Darling and Roessler; cosponsored by Representatives Huebsch, R. Young and La Fave.
March 10, 1998 Referred to committee on Judiciary, Campaign Finance Reform and Consumer Affairs.
March 11, 1998
EXECUTIVE SESSION - POLLING
Absent: (0) None.
Moved by Senator Huelsman, seconded by Senator Wirch, that
LRB a2022/1
be recommended for introduction and adoption.
Ayes: (4) Senators Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes: (0) None.
Absent: (0) None.
INTRODUCTION AND ADOPTION RECOMMENDED, Ayes 4, Noes 0, Absent 0
Moved by Senator Wirch that
LRB s0554/2
be recommended for introduction and adoption.
Ayes: (4) Senators Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes: (0) None.
Absent: (0) None.
INTRODUCTION AND ADOPTION RECOMMENDED, Ayes 4, Noes 0, Absent 0
Moved by Senator Wirch that
Senate Bill 494
be recommended for passage as amended.
Ayes: (4) Senators Wirch, Clausing, Huelsman and Drzewiecki.
Noes: (0) None.
Absent: (0) None.
PASSAGE AS AMENDED RECOMMENDED, Ayes 4, Noes 0, Absent 0
BSmith
Committee Clerk
