Bill Text: CA SB1055 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Chaptered


Bill Title: Child support enforcement: license suspensions.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2022-09-29 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 830, Statutes of 2022. [SB1055 Detail]

Download: California-2021-SB1055-Chaptered.html

Senate Bill No. 1055
CHAPTER 830

An act to add Section 17520.5 to the Family Code, relating to child support.

[ Approved by Governor  September 29, 2022. Filed with Secretary of State  September 29, 2022. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 1055, Kamlager. 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 driver’s 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 driver’s 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.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 17520.5 is added to the Family Code, to read:

17520.5.
 (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall not include in the list sent to the Department of Motor Vehicles pursuant to Section 17520, for the purpose of denying, withholding, or suspending a driver’s license, the information of a support obligor found to be out of compliance with a judgment or order for support in a case being enforced under Title IV-D of the federal Social Security Act, if the annual household income of the support obligor is at or below 70 percent of the median income for the county in which the department or the local child support agency believes the support obligor resides, based on the most recent available data published by the Department of Housing and Community Development pursuant to Section 6932 of Title 25 of the California Code of Regulations or successor regulation thereto.
(2) Commencing January 1, 2027, this subdivision shall apply only with respect to noncommercial driver’s licenses.
(b) This section shall be implemented to the extent allowed under federal law.
(c) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2025.

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