Bill Text: NH HB236 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to child support and allowable child care expenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-28 - Inexpedient to Legislate, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote === BILL KILLED ===; Senate Journal 16 [HB236 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2015-HB236-Introduced.html

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HB 236 - AS INTRODUCED

2015 SESSION

15-0106

05/06

HOUSE BILL 236

AN ACT relative to child support and allowable child care expenses.

SPONSORS: Rep. Webb, Rock 6; Rep. Oligny, Rock 34; Rep. Flanagan, Hills 26; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19

COMMITTEE: Children and Family Law

ANALYSIS

This bill increases the amount of the self-support reserve if the obligor’s household includes other minor, dependent children. The bill also expands the definition of allowable child care expenses to include expenses for children residing in either home.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

15-0106

05/06

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen

AN ACT relative to child support and allowable child care expenses.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Child Support Guidelines; Self-Support Reserve. Amend RSA458-C:2, X to read as follows:

X. “Self-support reserve” means 115 percent of the federal poverty guideline for a single person living alone or for the obligor’s household, as determined annually by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The obligor’s household shall include the obligor and any minor, dependent children of the obligor who are not the subject of the support order.

2 Child Support Guidelines; Allowable Child Care Expenses. Amend RSA 458-C:2, I-a to read as follows:

I-a. “Allowable child care expenses” means actual work-related child care expenses for [the children to whom the order applies] children residing in either home and includes necessary work-related education and training costs.

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2016.