Assembly
Record of Committee Proceedings
Committee on Children and Families
Assembly Bill 651
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 Representatives Huebsch, La Fave, R. Young, Musser, Porter, M. Lehman, Dobyns, Ladwig, Sykora, Freese, Duff, Springer, Olsen, Ott, Ward, J. Lehman, Owens, Underheim, Gard, Hahn, Harsdorf, F. Lasee, Goetsch, Kreibich and Skindrud; cosponsored by Senators Wirch, Roessler, Darling, Panzer, Drzewiecki and C. Potter.
December 4, 1997 Referred to committee on Children and Families.
December 11, 1997
PUBLIC HEARING HELD
Present: (9) Representatives Huebsch, Dobyns, Goetsch, Ainsworth, Ladwig, R. Young, Notestein, Krug and Hebl.
Excused: (0) None.
· Rep. Mike Huebsch, 94th District
· Connie Hagen, DWD
· Carol Henry, DWD
· Joe Bartosh, WI Child Support Enforcement Assoc.
· Elaine Richmond, WI Child Support Enforcement Assoc.
· Thomas Solheim, Community Bankers of WI
· Bob Andersen, WI Council on Children and Families
· Kevin Lewis, DHFS
· Nancy Lawrence, Women's Child Support Assistance
· Merrily Burch, WI Child Support Enforcement Assoc.
· Chris Snyder, WI Automobile and Truck Dealers Assoc.
· James Dean, Oshkosh
· Bruce Whoing, Bank of Waunakee
· Rose Oswald Poels, WI Bankers Assoc.
· Judge Philip Kirk, Chief Judges Committee on Child Support
· Judge Thomas Gallagher, Chief Judges Committee on Child Support
· Dan Dillon, Family Law Section, State Bar of WI
· Matthew Busam, Beloit
· John Yingling, Firstar Corporation
· John Dickert, WI Credit Union League
· Julie Clark, WI DOT
· Carson Frazier, WI DOT
· Sandy Drew, Dept. of Employee Trust Funds
· Mark Vannucci, Racine Co. Child Support Dept.
· Craig Thompson, WI Counties Assoc.
· John Grace, WI Assoc. of Family and Children's Agencies
· Robin Marohn, Heartland Credit Union
· Mark Stefanski, Iron Ridge
· Linda Barth, State Bar of WI
· Michael Vaughan, WI Bankers Association
· Tom Hauke, WI League of Financial Institutions
· Rep. Marlin Schneider, 72nd District
December 23, 1997
PUBLIC HEARING HELD
Excused: (0) None.
· None.
· None.
· None.
· None.
· None.
March 5, 1998
EXECUTIVE SESSION
