SB 1055: Child support enforcement: license suspensions.

Existing law requires a local child support agency to maintain a list of those persons included in a case being enforced under Title IV-D of the federal Social Security Act against whom a support order or judgment has been rendered by, or registered in, a California court, and who are not in compliance with that order or judgment. Existing law requires the Department of Child Support Services to consolidate and certify the local child support agency lists and provide the consolidated list to specified state entities that are responsible for the regulation of licenses, including, but not limited to, the Department of Motor Vehicles. Existing law requires those entities, prior to the issuance or renewal of a license, to determine whether the applicant is on the most recent certified consolidated list provided by the department, and authorizes the entity to withhold issuance or renewal of the license of an applicant on the list, as specified.

This bill would prohibit the department from including in the list sent to the Department of Motor Vehicles, for the purpose of denying, withholding, or suspending a drivers license, the information of a support obligor whose annual household income is at or below 70% of the median income for the county in which the department or the local child enforcement agency believes the support obligor resides. Commencing January 1, 2027, the bill would apply this prohibition only to noncommercial drivers licenses. The bill would state that this prohibition would be implemented to the extent allowed under federal law. The bill would make those provisions operative on January 1, 2025.