Senate Bill sb2848

    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SM 2848

    By Senator Wasserman Schultz





    34-1713-04                                              See HM

  1                     Senate Memorial No. ____

  2         A memorial to the Congress of the United

  3         States, urging Congress to explore the

  4         feasibility of accessing pension plans and

  5         retirement funds, both public and private, for

  6         the purpose of collecting child support

  7         payments and related costs and fees from moneys

  8         that would ordinarily be payable only upon

  9         retirement.

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11         WHEREAS, the collection of child support from deadbeat

12  parents is an expensive, time-consuming, and difficult

13  process, and

14         WHEREAS, past and current income from pension plans and

15  other retirement funds is considered income for purposes of

16  child support, and

17         WHEREAS, the state has the authority to use income

18  deduction orders to access this income, and

19         WHEREAS, many deadbeat parents are eligible to receive

20  income from pension plans and retirement funds, both public

21  and private, upon retirement, and

22         WHEREAS, income from moneys payable only upon

23  retirement is not currently accessible for the purpose of

24  child support payments and related costs and fees, and

25         WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States would be

26  doing a great service to many dependent children in this

27  country by determining the feasibility of accessing pension

28  plans and retirement funds, both public and private, for the

29  purpose of collecting child support payments and related costs

30  and fees from moneys that would ordinarily be payable only

31  upon retirement, NOW, THEREFORE,

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    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SM 2848
    34-1713-04                                              See HM




 1  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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 3         That the Congress of the United States is requested to

 4  determine the feasibility of accessing pension plans and

 5  retirement funds, both public and private, for the purpose of

 6  collecting child support obligations, to include all fees and

 7  costs associated with such collections, from moneys that would

 8  ordinarily be payable only upon retirement.

 9         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be

10  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the

11  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the

12  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of

13  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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