SENATE, No. 160

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 1996 SESSION

By Senator BRYANT

An Act concerning child support enforcement and supplementing chapter 17 of Title 2A of the New Jersey Statutes.

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

    1. The county probation department and the State IV-D agency shall be entitled to receive information concerning child support obligors from the following sources:

    a. Public utility records;

    b. Employment and taxation records kept by the Department of the Treasury, including W-2 and W-4 forms;

    c. Direct, on-line access to Department of Motor Vehicles records, including, where possible, interface between automated systems, which access shall be limited to one person from each county probation office; and

    d. Any other record, paper, document or entity deemed by the probation department or the IV-D agency to be a potential source of information concerning an obligor's income or assets. In order to obtain information pursuant to this paragraph, the probation department and the IV-D agency shall have the power to compel the production of books, papers, accounts, records and documents by subpoena.

    2. The Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey may adopt Rules of Court appropriate or necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act.

    3. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATEMENT

    This bill would strengthen the collection of child support payments in this State by allowing county probation departments and the State IV-D agency to have access to new sources of information concerning child support obligors. The bill would allow the probation departments and IV-D agency to access public utility records; Treasury Department employment and taxation records, including W-2 and W-4 forms; DMV records, and, upon issuance of a subpoena, any other record, paper, document or entity deemed by the probation department or IV-D agency to be a potential source of information concerning an obligor's income or assets.

Allows county probation departments and the State IV-D agency access to new sources of information concerning child support obligors.