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SB 618: Child support: enforcement.

  • Session Year: 2023-2024
  • House: Senate

Current Status:

Failed

(2024-02-01: Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.)

Introduced

First Committee Review

First Chamber

Second Committee Review

Second Chamber

Enacted

Version:

Existing law requires, as a condition of eligibility for benefits under certain public assistance programs, including the CalWORKs and Medi-Cal programs, that applicants or recipients assign to the county any rights they may have to child support, as specified. Existing law delegates to the Department of Child Support Services and local child support agencies the responsibility for collecting and enforcing child support obligations, including child support delinquencies, as defined.

This bill would prohibit the department or a local child support agency from collecting interest that has accrued on child support owed or assigned to the state or the county. The bill would also prohibit child support owed or assigned to the state or the county from accruing interest.

Existing law requires that, except as specified, not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, determined by the Director of Industrial Relations, be paid to workers employed on public works projects. Existing law defines the term public works for purposes of requirements regarding the payment of prevailing wages to include construction, alteration, demolition, installation, or repair work done under contract and paid for using public funds, except as specified. Existing law also includes as a public work work done for irrigation, utility, reclamation, and improvement districts, and other districts of this type, except as specified. Existing law makes a willful violation of laws relating to the payment of prevailing wages on public works a misdemeanor.This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that definition.

Discussed in Hearing

Senate Standing Committee on Human Services10MIN
Apr 24, 2023

Senate Standing Committee on Human Services

Senate Standing Committee on Judiciary10MIN
Apr 18, 2023

Senate Standing Committee on Judiciary

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