Bill Text: CT HB07037 | 2017 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Withholding Workers' Compensation Income For Child Support.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-06 - Signed by the Governor [HB07037 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2017-HB07037-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Substitute Bill No. 7037
January Session, 2017		*_____HB07037HS____030317____*

AN ACT CONCERNING WITHHOLDING WORKERS' COMPENSATION INCOME FOR CHILD SUPPORT.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (k) of section 52-362 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2018):

(k) The employer shall notify promptly the dependent or Support Enforcement Services as directed when the obligor terminates employment, makes a claim for workers' compensation benefits or makes a claim for unemployment compensation benefits and shall provide the obligor's last-known address and the name and address of the obligor's new employer, if known. When the obligor makes a claim for workers' compensation benefits, the employer shall include a copy of any order for withholding received by the employer for the obligor with the employer's first report of occupational illness or injury to the employer's workers' compensation benefits carrier, and such benefits carrier shall withhold funds pursuant to the withholding order and pay any sums withheld as required by subsection (f) of this section.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	January 1, 2018	52-362(k)

Statement of Legislative Commissioners:

The title was changed for clarity.

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Joint Favorable Subst. -LCO