Bill Text: PA SB425 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for attachment of income.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-20 - Referred to JUDICIARY [SB425 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SB425-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 426
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 425 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY BROWNE, STACK, COSTA, RAFFERTY, WOZNIAK, GREENLEAF, STOUT, WAUGH, WASHINGTON, O'PAKE, EARLL, TARTAGLIONE AND FERLO, FEBRUARY 20, 2009
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 20, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, further providing for attachment of
income.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 4348(j) of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 4348. Attachment of income.
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(j) Effect of compliance by employer.--Compliance by an
employer with an order of attachment of income that is regular
on its face operates as a discharge of the civil liability of
the employer to the obligor as to that portion of the employment
income of the obligor affected. An employer shall not be subject
to criminal or civil liability to any individual or agency for
conduct in compliance with the order. The employer may deduct
from the income of the obligor [2% of the amount paid under the
order] a one-time fee of $50 for reimbursement of the expense in
complying with the order. In no case shall the employer's
reimbursement be deducted from the amount of the support order.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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