HB 0975

1	House Memorial
2	A memorial to the Congress of the United States, urging
3	Congress to explore the feasibility of accessing pension
4	plans and retirement funds, both public and private, for
5	the purpose of collecting child support payments and
6	related costs and fees from moneys that would ordinarily
7	be payable only upon retirement.
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9	WHEREAS, the collection of child support from deadbeat
10	parents is an expensive, time-consuming, and difficult process,
11	and
12	WHEREAS, past and current income from pension plans and
13	other retirement funds is considered income for purposes of
14	child support, and
15	WHEREAS, the state has the authority to use income
16	deduction orders to access this income, and
17	WHEREAS, many deadbeat parents are eligible to receive
18	income from pension plans and retirement funds, both public and
19	private, upon retirement, and
20	WHEREAS, income from moneys payable only upon retirement is
21	not currently accessible for the purpose of child support
22	payments and related costs and fees, and
23	WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States would be doing a
24	great service to many dependent children in this country by
25	determining the feasibility of accessing pension plans and
26	retirement funds, both public and private, for the purpose of
27	collecting child support payments and related costs and fees
28	from moneys that would ordinarily be payable only upon
29	retirement, NOW, THEREFORE,
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31	Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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33	That the Congress of the United States is requested to
34	determine the feasibility of accessing pension plans and
35	retirement funds, both public and private, for the purpose of
36	collecting child support obligations, to include all fees and
37	costs associated with such collections, from moneys that would
38	ordinarily be payable only upon retirement.
39	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
40	dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
41	President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
42	United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
43	the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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