LRB-0220/P1
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2017 - 2018 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Wimmer, BB0022 - Legal garnishment fee paid by debtors
For 2017-2019 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
state government
Other state government
The bill modifies current law to clarify that the $3 garnishment payment fee imposed on a debtor is not absorbed by the creditor, but, instead, received by the garnishee.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 812.39 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
812.39 (1) Between 5 and 10 business days after the payday of each pay period in which the debtor's earnings are subject to the earnings garnishment, the garnishee shall pay the creditor that portion of the debtor's nonexempt disposable earnings to which the creditor is entitled, minus the fee under s. 812.33 (2). The creditor shall apply the actual amount received from the garnishee to the unsatisfied civil judgment.
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