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It crossed to the Senate on April 10, 1997 and was referred to the Senate Interstate Cooperation committee. The committee held a public hearing on May 13, 1997. The committee voted unanimously, 3\u20130, to recommend that the Senate pass it. On May 20, 1997 the Senate voted to pass it on a voice vote. On May 22, 1997 the Senate adopted \u201cRecommit\u201d on a voice vote. On May 28, 1997 the Senate voted to pass it with changes on a voice vote. On May 28, 1997 the House voted to agree to the other chamber's changes on a voice vote. The bill was enrolled on June 10, 1997 \u2014 the final check of the text before it goes to the governor. An enrolled bill amendment () was adopted on June 10, 1997. These correct technical errors found after passage. The governor signed it on June 19, 1997, making it Chapter 263 of the session laws. 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Further, some committee members believe that the federal deadline for New Hampshire to pass this legislation (the first day of the next quarter after the end of the legislative session) is at least not until January 1998 - maybe January 1999 - because New Hampshire is on a two-year budget. The committee believes this bill deserves fair, thorough consideration and is fully committed to do just that."}, {"side": "Minority", "author": "Rep. Carol H. Holden", "committee": "Judiciary and Family Law", "text": "The purpose of this bill is to enact the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA ) and to improve procedures and processes related to the establishment of paternity and the establishment and enforcement of child support obligations. It will increase the income available to households with children and enable families to become self-sufficient and leave public assistance. The amendment addresses all of the concerns raised at the public hearing by the public and by committee members. While we did not have a great deal of time, there was sufficient time to make sure this was a good bill."}], "source": "House Calendar 31, 1997", "date": "1997-03-07", "dated": "printed", "cite": "HC 31", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C1997%5CNo%2031%20March%207%201997.pdf"}, {"bill": "HB609", "title": "enacting the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) and relative to child support", "majority_recommendation": "OUGHT TO PASS WITH AMENDMENT", "minority_recommendation": null, "reports": [{"side": "Committee", "author": "Rep. Deborah L. 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The committee had re-committed because it only had 6 days between the public hearing on 2/27/97 and the due date to report it out 3/5/97. Over the past four weeks the committee had the opportunity to go over the bill line by line. Protections for privacy were added. Concerns of the banks and Department of Employment Security were addressed. At the same time, it was important that this bill comply with the federal law to avoid the loss of millions of dollars in revenue for child care; for employers; for temporary assistance to needy families. The majority of the committee believes that it has crafted the best bill it can, and that it is an important and necessary bill. 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State expenditures will increase by $417,062 in FY 1998, and by at least $440,049 in FY 1999, by $434,383 in FY 2000, and by $428,970 in FY 2001. There will be no impact on county and local revenues or expenditures."]}]}, "body": "10april97....0999h\n\n5/28/97 1558s\n\n10june97.....0046-EBA\n\nBe it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:\n\n263:1 Purpose. The purpose of this act is to enact the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) and to improve procedures and processes related to the establishment of paternity and the establishment and enforcement of child support obligations as an integral part of achieving welfare reform by increasing child support collections, thereby increasing the income available to households with children, and enabling families to become self sufficient and leave public assistance. There shall be in effect safeguards, applicable to all confidential information handled by the department, that are designed to protect the privacy rights of the parties against unauthorized use or disclosure of information relating to proceedings or actions to establish paternity, or to establish or enforce support.\n\n263:2 Affidavits of Paternity; Procedure. RSA 126:6-a, II-a is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\nII-a. When an affidavit of paternity is executed in a hospital or birthing center, or before a midwife, the following procedure shall apply:\n\n(a) A hospital, birthing center, or midwife shall provide to an unmarried mother of a live child born in a hospital, birthing center, or other location, an affidavit of paternity that can be completed by the child's mother and father to acknowledge paternity of a child, which affidavit shall be notarized by the hospital or birthing center staff if the birth occurs in a hospital or birthing center. Before a mother and a putative father can sign an affidavit of paternity, they shall be given oral and written notice of the legal consequences of signing the affidavit, including the resulting rights and responsibilities, and the alternatives to acknowledging paternity by affidavit. If one parent is a minor, notice shall include any rights afforded by minority status.\n\n(b) When a mother and father sign an affidavit of paternity, a hospital, birthing center, or midwife shall:\n\n(1) Complete the affidavit of paternity and forward the record to the bureau of vital records and health statistics; and\n\n(2) File a copy of the affidavit of paternity with the department of health and human services, office of child support enforcement services, at the address indicated on the affidavit of paternity.\n\n(c) For each affidavit of paternity signed and filed in accordance with this paragraph, the department of health and human services shall reimburse the hospital, birthing center, or midwife in an amount authorized by federal law.\n\n(d) The department of health and human services shall develop and distribute to a hospital, birthing center, or midwife free of charge the affidavit of paternity forms, information on the purpose and completion of the form, and information on the rights and responsibilities of the parents, and shall provide assistance and training to staff assigned responsibility for providing the information.\n\n263:3 New Paragraphs; Procedures for Affidavits of Paternity. Amend RSA 126:6-a by inserting after paragraph II-a the following new paragraphs:\n\nII-b. When an affidavit of paternity is executed and filed with the clerk of the town where the birth occurs, the following procedures shall apply:\n\n(a) In those instances where an affidavit of paternity is completed by the parents of the child and filed directly with the clerk of the town where the birth occurs, the clerk of the town shall forward a copy of the affidavit of paternity to the department of health and human services, office of child support enforcement services, at the address indicated on the affidavit of paternity and shall forward the electronic record to the bureau of vital records and health statistics. Before a mother and a putative father may sign an affidavit of paternity, they shall be given oral and written notice of the legal consequences of signing the affidavit, including the resulting rights and responsibilities and the alternatives to acknowledging paternity by affidavit. If one parent is a minor, notice shall include any rights afforded by minority status.\n\n(b) The department of health and human services shall develop and distribute to a clerk of the town free of charge the affidavit of paternity forms, information on the purpose and completion of the form, and information on the rights and responsibilities of the parents, and shall provide assistance and training to staff assigned responsibility for providing the information.\n\nII-c. The bureau of vital records and health statistics shall link an electronic record of an affidavit of paternity with the original birth record of the child.\n\nII-d. An affidavit of paternity signed pursuant to this section shall be considered a legal finding of paternity, subject to the right of any signatory to rescind the acknowledgment within the earlier of:\n\n(1) Sixty days; or\n\n(2) The date of an administrative or judicial proceeding relating to the child, including a proceeding to establish a support order, in which the signatory is a party.\n\nII-e. Written notice of rescission shall be sent to the clerk of the town in which the birth occurred, with a copy to the office of child support enforcement services at the address indicated on the affidavit, no later than 60 days after the affidavit is signed. After expiration of the rescission period, the signed affidavit of paternity may be challenged in court only on the basis of fraud, duress, or material mistake of fact, with the burden of proof upon the challenger, and under which the legal responsibilities (including child support obligations) of any signatory arising from the acknowledgment shall not be suspended during the challenge, except for good cause shown.\n\nII-f. When an affidavit of paternity has been properly completed and the certificate of birth has been filed accordingly, and the acknowledgment has not been rescinded pursuant to this section, any further modification of the birth certificate regarding the paternity of the child shall require an order from a court of competent jurisdiction.\n\n263:4 New Paragraph; Rulemaking Authority of Commissioner. Amend RSA 126:6-a by inserting after paragraph V the following new paragraph:\n\nVI. The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to implementing the commissioner's duties under this section.\n\n263:5 New Paragraph; Disclosure of Information From Vital Records. Amend RSA 126:14 by inserting after paragraph VI the following new paragraph:\n\nVII. Disclosure of voluntary acknowledgments and adjudication of paternity by judicial or administrative processes shall be released for the purposes of the state case registry pursuant to RSA 161-B:7.\n\n263:6 Repository for Information; State Case Registry. RSA 161-B:7, I is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\nI. The department is authorized and directed to establish a central unit to serve as a repository of information, to answer inquiries concerning absent parents and other persons legally responsible for support, to coordinate and supervise departmental activities in relation to such persons, and to establish a state case registry which shall contain records with respect to each case in which services are being provided by the department, and in each case in which any support order is established or modified in the state on or after October 1, 1998. The records in the state case registry shall:\n\n(a) Contain standardized data for both parents such as names, social security numbers, and other uniform identification numbers, and with respect to those in which a support order has been established and in which the department is providing services, shall also contain the following:\n\n(1) The amount of weekly (or other periodic) support ordered, and other amounts, including arrearages, interest or late payment penalties, and fees due or overdue under the order.\n\n(2) Any amount described in subparagraph (a)(1) that has been collected.\n\n(3) The distribution of such collected amounts.\n\n(4) The birth date of any child for whom the order requires the provision of support.\n\n(5) The amount of any lien imposed with respect to the order pursuant to RSA 161-C:10 or 458:17, VII-a.\n\n(b) With respect to those cases in which the department is providing services, be promptly established, maintained, and regularly updated on the basis of:\n\n(1) Information on administrative actions and administrative and judicial proceedings and orders relating to paternity and support.\n\n(2) Information obtained from federal, state, or local sources of information.\n\n(3) Information on support collections and distributions.\n\n263:7 Statutory References Revised. Amend RSA 161-B:7, III to read as follows:\n\nIII. Any records established or information collected pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be made available only to the commissioner and the attorney general and their authorized designees, attorneys employed by the office of child support, attorneys responsible for the administration of RSA [ 546] 546-B, the client or the client's authorized representative, and courts or agencies in other states engaged in the enforcement of support of minor children as authorized by federal law or the rules of the department. Such records and information shall be available and used only for purposes directly connected with establishment, enforcement, or modification of child support and the administration of this chapter. The records and information made available to the client or the client's authorized representative shall not include information provided to the department that is prohibited from release by federal law, state statute, state case law, or by contract or agreement between the department and another entity if such contract or agreement prohibits release of such information.\n\n263:8 Revocation and Denial of Licenses. Amend RSA 161-B:11, I to read as follows:\n\nI. The department shall be authorized to certify that an obligor is not in compliance with a legal order of support, or that any party has failed, after receiving notice, to comply with subpoenas or orders relating to paternity or child support proceedings, to any licensing board for the purpose of suspending, revoking, or denying the issuance or renewal of any appropriate license or licenses held by the obligor or party.\n\n263:9 New Paragraph; Recording Social Security Numbers. Amend RSA 161-B:11 by inserting after paragraph VI the following new paragraph:\n\nVI-a. The social security number of any applicant for a professional license, commercial driver's license, occupational license, or marriage license shall be recorded on the application, provided that if the use of a number other than the social security number is allowed, the applicant shall be so advised. Any application required by this section to contain a social security number shall be confidential and not subject to the right to know law. The use of such number shall be limited to proceedings or actions to establish paternity or to establish or enforce support and shall only be provided to or entered in any out-of-state or federal data base for those cases for which the department is providing services.\n\n263:10 New Paragraph; \"Account\" Defined. Amend RSA 161-C:2 by inserting after paragraph I the following new paragraph:\n\nI-a. \"Account\" means a demand deposit account, checking or negotiable withdrawal order account, savings account, time deposit account, money market mutual fund account, or brokerage account.\n\n263:11 New Paragraph; \"Financial Institution\" Defined. Amend RSA 161-C:2 by inserting after paragraph VI-a the following new paragraph:\n\nVI-b. \"Financial institution\" means:\n\n(a) A depository institution, as defined in section 3(c) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act at 12 U.S.C. 1813(c).\n\n(b) An institution-affiliated party, as defined in section 3(u) of such act at 12 U.S.C. 1813(u).\n\n(c) Any federal credit union or state credit union, as defined in section 101 of the Federal Credit Union Act (12 U.S.C. 1752), including an institution-affiliated party of such a credit union, as defined in section 206(r) of such act at 12 U.S.C. 1786(r).\n\n(d) Any benefit association, insurance company, safe deposit company, money market mutual fund, brokerage firm, federal or state-chartered fiduciary bank, or similar entity.\n\n263:12 Access to Information Contained in Certain Records. RSA 161-C:3-a, I-III are repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\nI. Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 359-C or any other law to the contrary, the commissioner is hereby authorized to request, on an individually-named basis, and receive, on the same basis, from any bank, trust company, savings and loan association, credit union, or other financial institution doing business in this state information with respect to the transactions with any institution and the assets of any delinquent obligor or individual against whom the department is seeking to establish or enforce an obligation of support. The institution shall furnish the information within 15 days of the department's request. After such time, an institution which fails to comply with these provisions shall be liable for an administrative fine of $50 per day.\n\nII. The commissioner is hereby authorized to request and receive from any former or current employer, including for-profit, nonprofit, and governmental employers, information necessary to the establishment or enforcement of child support orders, including, but not limited to, the dates of employment, number of hours worked, rate of pay, date of birth, available health insurance, current address, payroll deductions, and social security number of any delinquent obligor or individual against whom the department is seeking to establish or enforce an obligation of support. The institution shall furnish the information within 15 days of the department's request. After such time, an employer who fails to comply with these provisions shall be liable for an administrative fine of $50 per day.\n\nIII. The department and any financial institution or employer who discloses financial or employment records under this section shall not be subject to civil liability or criminal prosecution which is based upon its disclosure under this section, or for any other action taken in good faith to comply with the requirements of this section. A financial institution shall not be liable under federal or state law to any person for encumbering or surrendering any assets held by such financial institution in response to a notice of lien or levy issued by the department.\n\n263:13 Statutory Reference Revised. Amend RSA 161-C:3-a, IV to read as follows:\n\nIV. Any records established or information collected pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be made available only to the commissioner and the attorney general and their authorized designees, attorneys employed by the office of child support, attorneys responsible for the administration of RSA [ 546] 546-B, the client or the client's authorized representative and courts or agencies in other states engaged in the enforcement of support of minor children as authorized by the rules of the department. Such records and information shall be available and used only for purposes directly connected with establishment, enforcement or modification of child support and the administration of this chapter. The records and information made available to the client or the client's authorized representative shall not include information provided to the department that is prohibited from release by federal law, state statute, state case law, or by contract or agreement between the department and another entity if such contract or agreement prohibits release of such information.\n\n263:14 New Paragraphs; Access to Information. Amend RSA 161-C:3-a by inserting after paragraph V the following new paragraphs:\n\nVI. The department is authorized to obtain access to certain records held by public utilities and cable television companies with respect to individuals who owe or are owed support, or against or with respect to whom a support obligation is sought, consisting of the names and addresses of such individuals and the names and addresses of the employers of such individuals, pursuant to an administrative subpoena issued by the commissioner.\n\nVII. The department is authorized to enter into agreements with financial institutions doing business in the state:\n\n(a) To develop and operate, in coordination with such financial institutions, a data match system, using automated data exchanges to the maximum extent feasible, in which each financial institution is required to provide for each calendar quarter the name, record address, social security number or other taxpayer identification number, and other identifying information for each obligor who maintains an account at the financial institution and who owes past-due support, as identified by the state by name and social security number or other taxpayer identification number.\n\n(b) In response to a notice of lien or levy, to encumber or surrender, as the case may be, assets held by such institution on behalf of any obligor who is subject to a child support lien pursuant to RSA 161-C.\n\nVIII. The department shall pay a reasonable fee to a financial institution for conducting the data match provided for in paragraph VII(a), not to exceed actual costs incurred by such financial institution.\n\n263:15 Subpoenas. RSA 161-C:3-c is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\n161-C:3-c Power to Subpoena Financial and Other Records. Pursuant to the department's responsibilities, the commissioner shall have the power to subpoena any financial or other information needed to establish, modify, or enforce a support order.\n\n263:16 New Section; Penalty for Failure to Comply. Amend RSA 161-C by inserting after section 3-c the following new section:\n\n161-C:3-d Penalty for Failure to Comply With Subpoena. Any person who owes or is owed a duty of support who knowingly fails to comply with a subpoena issued pursuant to RSA 161-C:3-c:\n\nI. May be subject to license revocation under RSA 161-B:11; and\n\nII. Shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.\n\n263:17 Assertion of Lien; Accrual of Support. RSA 161-C:10, I is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\nI. Twenty-one days after service of notice of debt under RSA 161-C:7, or service of the decision under RSA 161-C:9, the amount stated in the notice of debt or in the decision shall be a lien against all property of the responsible parent and shall incorporate any unpaid child support which may accrue in the future. This lien shall be separate and apart from and in addition to any other lien created by or provided for in this chapter.\n\n263:18 New Sections; Denial of Passports; Hiring Reports. Amend RSA 161-C by inserting after section 26-a the following new sections:\n\n161-C:26-b Denial of Passports.\n\nI. The department is authorized to certify to the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, pursuant to section 652(k) of the Social Security Act, that an obligor owes child support arrearages in an amount exceeding $5,000 and is out of compliance with a legal order of support.\n\nII. The obligor shall be given prior notice of the determination and of the consequences and an opportunity to contest the determination.\n\n161-C:26-c Hiring Reports. The department shall be authorized to receive from the state directory of new hires maintained by the department of employment security pursuant to RSA 282-A:117-a, I, reports made by an employing unit of the hire, rehire, or contracting of services of any named individual whom the department seeks to locate for purposes of establishing paternity and establishing, modifying, and enforcing child support obligations.\n\n263:19 Standing of Putative Fathers. RSA 168-A:2, I is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\nI. Paternity shall be established upon the filing of:\n\n(a) A petition to the superior court by the mother, putative father, child, or public authority chargeable by law with the support of the child and the granting of such petition by the court; or\n\n(b) An affidavit of paternity with the clerk of the town where the birth of the child occurred pursuant to RSA 126:6-a, I(b) or II. The affidavit of paternity shall have the legal effect of establishing paternity without requiring further action pursuant to this chapter, unless rescinded pursuant to RSA 126:6-a, II-d.\n\n263:20 New Paragraphs; Paternity Records; Admissibility of Certain Expenses. Amend RSA 168-A:2 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraphs:\n\nV. Upon determining paternity, the court shall provide a copy of the order to the bureau of vital records and health statistics, except that the office of child support enforcement services shall provide the copy to the bureau of vital records and health statistics in cases initiated by the department.\n\nVI. Copies of bills for pregnancy, childbirth, and genetic paternity testing shall be admissible as evidence without requiring third-party foundation testimony, and shall constitute prima facie evidence of costs incurred for such services or for genetic paternity testing.\n\n263:21 Remedies. RSA 168-A:4, I is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\nI. The superior court has jurisdiction of a proceeding under this chapter and all remedies for the enforcement of judgments for expenses of pregnancy and confinement for a mother or for education or necessary support of children apply including, but not limited to, the provisions of RSA 161-B, 161-C, and 458.\n\n263:22 Remedies. RSA 168-A:4, III is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\nIII. Upon the prayer of the petitioner the court shall schedule an immediate hearing, as in the cases of prayers for temporary relief in divorce and legal separation proceedings, on the issue of whether, and how much, the alleged father of the child in question shall be required to post in advance as security for the payment of maternity and other expenses for which he may ultimately be held liable under this chapter. The court has continuing jurisdiction to modify or revoke a judgment for future education and necessary support. All remedies under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act and all remedies included but not limited to the provisions contained in RSA 161-B, 161-C and 458 are available for enforcement of duties of support under this chapter.\n\n263:23 No Right to Jury Trial. RSA 168-A:5 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\n168-A:5 Time of Trial; No Right To Jury Trial.\n\nI. If the issue of paternity is raised in a proceeding commenced during the pregnancy of the mother, the trial shall not, without the consent of the alleged father, be held until after the birth or miscarriage but during such delay testimony may be perpetuated according to the laws of this state.\n\nII. No right to a jury trial exists in a proceeding to establish paternity.\n\n263:24 Statutory Reference Revised. Amend RSA 170-A:2 to read as follows:\n\n170-A:2 Financial Responsibility. Financial responsibility for any child placed pursuant to the provisions of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of Article V [ thereof] of the compact in the first instance. However, in the event of partial or complete default of performance [ thereunder] under the compact, the provisions of [ RSA 546, as amended by 1959, 271:1 and] RSA 546-A [ as inserted by 1955, 206:1] and RSA 546-B shall apply.\n\n263:25 Statutory Reference Revised. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 173-B:11-a, II to read as follows:\n\nII. The superior court, in any action determining the obligation of the obligor to support the obligee or the parties' minor children, including but not limited to actions for divorce, pursuant to RSA 458; custody, pursuant to RSA 458; paternity, pursuant to RSA 168-A; child support, pursuant to RSA 161-B, RSA 161-C, and RSA 458; reimbursement of public assistance, pursuant to RSA 161-C; and the uniform [ reciprocal enforcement of] interstate family support act, pursuant to RSA [ 546] 546-B; shall take judicial notice of any support obligation established pursuant to RSA 173-B:4, I(b)(4), upon the filing of a certified copy of the district court order in the superior court by:\n\n263:26 New Section; Reports to Department of Employment Security; Newly Hired, Rehired, or Contracted Service Employees. Amend RSA 282-A by inserting after section 117 the following new section:\n\n282-A:117-a Employment Reports to Department of Employment Security; State Directory of New Hires.\n\nI. The commissioner shall, pursuant to an agreement with the department of health and human services which shall include payment of costs of administration, maintain a state directory of new hires. Any employing unit shall report to the department for entry into the directory:\n\n(a) The hiring of an individual who earns wages or any other form of compensation in this state;\n\n(b) The rehiring of such individual who was permanently laid off or otherwise terminated from employment; and\n\n(c) The contracting for services, other than casual labor, in this state with an individual, in accordance with the rules adopted by the commissioner, when reimbursement for such services is anticipated to exceed $2,500.\n\nII. An employing unit with employees in 2 or more states, which transmits reports magnetically or electronically, may comply with this section by designating one of the states as the state to which the reports will be transmitted. Such an employing unit shall notify the United States Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in writing as to which state is so designated.\n\nIII. An employing unit required to report under paragraph I shall mail or transmit a copy of the individual's W-4 form to the department or send all information required in paragraph V in a format acceptable to the department by electronic or magnetic tape or by any other means mutually agreed upon.\n\nIV. The employing unit shall submit to the department a report of an individual's hire, rehire, or contract for services within 20 days of such action or, in the case of magnetic or electronic reports, by 2 monthly transmissions not less than 12 days nor more than 16 days apart. The report shall contain:\n\n(a) The individual's complete name, address, and social security number.\n\n(b) The employing unit's name, address, and federal and state identification number.\n\nV. Information reported under paragraphs III and IV shall be entered by the department in the state directory of new hires within 5 business days of receipt.\n\nVI. The department and the department of health and human services shall conduct automated comparisons of the social security numbers reported by employing units pursuant to paragraphs III and IV and the social security numbers appearing in the records of the state case registry of child support cases pursuant to RSA 161-B:7, I. When such comparison reveals a match with respect to the social security number of an individual required to provide support under a support order, the department shall provide the department of health and human services with the name, address, and social security number of the individual to whom the social security number is assigned, and the employing unit's name, address, and federal and state identification number.\n\nVII. Within 3 business days after the date the information is entered into the directory, the department shall furnish the information to the National Directory of New Hires.\n\nVIII. The department of health and human services shall be authorized to use the information transmitted to it by the department of employment security, to establish paternity and establish, modify, and enforce child support obligations against a named individual and may disclose such information about such named individual to any agency under contract with the department of health and human services to carry out such purposes.\n\nIX. The department of employment security shall furnish to the National Directory of New Hires quarterly extracts of the reports required under 42 U.S.C. 503 (a) (6) to be made to the United States Secretary of Labor concerning the wages and unemployment compensation paid to individuals, by such dates, in such format, and containing such information as the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services shall specify in regulations.\n\nX. State agencies responsible for administering any program specified in 42 U.S.C. 1320b-7(b) shall have access to information reported by employers pursuant to this section pertaining to named individuals for purposes of verifying eligibility for the program.\n\nXI. The department of employment security and state agencies operating workers' compensation programs shall have access to information reported by employers pursuant to this section for the purposes of administering such programs.\n\nXII. Any individual earning wages in this state, hired or rehired by an employing unit, or entering into a contract for services with an employing unit, shall be deemed to consent to the release to, and the disclosure by, the department of the information consistent with the provisions of this section.\n\nXIII. This section does not apply to an employee of a federal or state agency performing intelligence or counterintelligence functions, if the head of such agency has determined that reporting pursuant to this section with respect to the employee could endanger the employee's safety or compromise an ongoing investigation or intelligence mission.\n\nXIV. The commissioner and the commissioner of health and human services may adopt such rules as may be necessary for the efficient administration of this section pursuant to RSA 541-A.\n\n263:27 New Paragraph; Support and Custody of Children. Amend RSA 458:17 by inserting after paragraph VII the following new paragraph:\n\nVII-a. Liens shall arise by operation of law against real and personal property for child support arrearages owed by an obligor who resides or owns property in the state and shall incorporate any unpaid child support which may accrue in the future. Full faith and credit shall be given to such liens arising in another state when the state agency, a party, or other entity authorized to enforce an order of support and seeking to perfect the lien complies with the procedural rules relating to recording or serving liens. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, such rules may not require judicial notice prior to perfecting the lien.\n\n263:28 Department of Health and Human Services as Responsible Agency. RSA 458-B:3, III is repealed and reenacted to as follows:\n\nIII. Collection and disbursement of all support orders initially issued in the state on or after January 1, 1994, which are not being enforced by the department, shall be enforced through the state disbursement unit where the obligor is subject to income withholding pursuant to 458-B, whether or not the obligee has applied for IV-D services. In such cases, the department's role is limited to monitoring, collecting, and disbursing moneys under this section.\n\n263:29 Reference to Wages Changed to Income. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 458-B:5, I to read as follows:\n\nI. When support is payable through the department if[ wages are] income is not subject to immediate assignment under this chapter, including cases subject to a finding of good cause or to a written agreement, before notice of the [ wage] income assignment may be given to an employer by the department, the obligor shall be given at least 15 days' prior notice of the commencement of [ wage] income withholding procedures under this chapter. The notice to the obligor shall include:\n\n263:30 Reference to Wages Changed to Income. Amend RSA 458-B:5, II to read as follows:\n\nII. For orders issued or modified on or after October 1, 1985, when support is not payable through the department and [ wages are] income is not subject to immediate assignment under this chapter, including cases subject to a finding of good cause or to a written agreement, before an individual or a legal representative seeks to establish [ a wage] an income assignment payable directly to an obligee, notice must be given to the obligor at least 15 days prior to commencement of [ wage] income assignment procedures under this chapter. The notice to the obligor shall include the notice provisions under subparagraphs (a), (b), and (c) of paragraph I and a notice of the period within which the obligor must give written notice to the obligee in order to contest the assignment.\n\n263:31 Genetic Tests to Determine Paternity. RSA 522:1 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\n522:1 Authority for Test.\n\nI. In a civil action in which paternity is a contested and relevant issue, the mother, child, and putative father shall submit to blood, tissue typing, and/or genetic marker tests which may include, but are not limited to, tests of red cell antigens, serum proteins, and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) analysis. The genetic samples collected shall be subject to safeguarding and confidentiality procedures and used exclusively for purposes of paternity testing. Testing shall be ordered as follows:\n\n(a) The court may order genetic paternity testing upon the motion of any party or upon its own initiative. If the court determines that a motion for testing is made for the purpose of delay, the court may deny the motion. The court may order payment of costs related to testing. If any party refuses to submit to such tests, the court may resolve the question of paternity against such party.\n\n(b) The department of health and human services (the department) may order genetic paternity testing upon agreement of the parties or upon the request of any party, if the request is supported by a sworn statement alleging paternity and setting forth facts which reasonably establish the requisite sexual contact; or denying paternity and setting forth facts which reasonably establish a lack of the requisite sexual contact. The state shall pay the costs related to such testing, subject to recoupment from the father if paternity is established.\n\nII. For genetic paternity testing pursuant to RSA 522:1, I(b) the following administrative procedures apply:\n\n(a) The department shall serve the parties with notice and order for genetic paternity testing. Unless the order is contested by any party, the order is effective as to the party served, upon the expiration of 11 days after service. Service of the notice and order shall be by certified mail or other method as provided by law and shall include:\n\n(1) The names and dates of birth of the individuals to be tested pursuant to the order;\n\n(2) A statement explaining the rights and responsibilities associated with paternity establishment;\n\n(3) A copy of the order including an appointment with the date, time, and place for collecting the genetic samples;\n\n(4) A statement of the administrative and judicial procedures available to contest the order.\n\n(b) Any party may request a supervisory review of the order. The request must be in writing and received by the department within 10 days of the date that the party received service of the notice and order. Issues that may be considered on review are limited to mistake of fact. Within 10 days of the review, the person conducting the review shall issue a written decision and forward it to the parties.\n\n(c) Within 10 days of the written decision pursuant to the supervisory review, any party may request an administrative hearing. The hearing shall be conducted by a hearings officer according to the rules for fair hearings adopted by the commissioner pursuant to RSA 541-A. Issues that may be considered at the administrative hearing are limited to mistake of fact. Within 10 days of the administrative hearing, the person conducting the hearing shall issue a written decision and forward it to the parties.\n\n(d) Within 10 days of the written decision of the hearings officer, any party may appeal to the superior court. Such appeal shall be restricted to a review of the record. Upon review the court may request the submission of additional evidence and order a hearing.\n\n(e) Nothing in this section shall preclude any party from filing a petition to determine paternity directly with the court and seeking a judicial determination.\n\n263:32 New Chapter; Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA). Amend RSA by inserting after chapter 546-A the following new chapter:\n\nCHAPTER 546-B\n\nUNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT\n\nArticle 1\n\nGeneral Provisions\n\n546-B:1 Definitions. In this chapter:\n\nI. \"Child\" means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent or another obligee.\n\nII. \"Child support order\" means a support order for a child, including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state.\n\nIII. \"Duty of support\" means an obligation imposed or imposable by law to provide support for a child, spouse, or former spouse, including an unsatisfied obligation to provide support.\n\nIV. \"Home state\" means the state in which a child lived with a parent or a person acting as parent for at least 6 consecutive months immediately preceding the time of the filing of a petition or comparable pleading for support and, if a child is less than 6 months old, the state in which the child lived from birth with any of them. A period of temporary absence of any of them is counted as part of the 6-month or other period.\n\nV. \"Income\" includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any source and/or any other property subject to withholding for support under the law of this state.\n\nVI. \"Income-withholding order\" means an order or other legal process, or a notice pursuant to RSA 458-B:6 directed to an obligor's employer, as defined by RSA 458-B:1, V, to withhold support from the income of the obligor.\n\nVII. \"Initiating state\" means a state from which a proceeding is forwarded or in which a proceeding is filed for forwarding to a responding state under this chapter or a law or procedure substantially similar to this chapter, the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, or the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act.\n\nVIII. \"Initiating tribunal\" means the authorized tribunal in an initiating state.\n\nIX. \"Issuing state\" means the state in which a tribunal issues a support order or renders a judgment determining parentage.\n\nX. \"Issuing tribunal\" means the tribunal that issues a support order or renders a judgment determining parentage.\n\nXI. \"Law\" includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law.\n\nXII. \"Obligee\" means:\n\n(a) An individual to whom a duty of support is, or is alleged to be owed, or in whose favor a support order has been issued or a judgment determining parentage has been rendered;\n\n(b) A state or political subdivision to which the rights under a duty of support or support order have been assigned or which has independent claims based on financial assistance provided to an individual obligee; or\n\n(c) An individual seeking a judgment determining parentage of the individual's child.\n\nXIII. \"Obligor\" means an individual, or the estate of a decedent:\n\n(a) Who owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support;\n\n(b) Who is alleged, but has not been adjudicated, to be a parent of a child; or\n\n(c) Who is liable under a support order.\n\nXIV. \"Register\" means to file a support order or judgment determining parentage in the office of the clerk of the appropriate superior court or other authorized tribunal.\n\nXV. \"Registering tribunal\" means a tribunal in which a support order is registered.\n\nXVI. \"Responding state\" means a state in which a proceeding is filed or to which a proceeding is forwarded under this chapter or a law or procedure substantially similar to this chapter, the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, or the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act.\n\nXVII. \"Responding tribunal\" means the authorized tribunal in a responding state.\n\nXVIII. \"Spousal support order\" means a support order for a spouse or former spouse of the obligor.\n\nXIX. \"State\" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The term includes:\n\n(a) An Indian tribe; and\n\n(b) A foreign jurisdiction that has enacted a law or established procedures for issuance and enforcement of support orders which are substantially similar to the procedures under this chapter, the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, or the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act.\n\nXX. \"Support enforcement agency\" means a public official or agency authorized to seek:\n\n(a) Enforcement of support orders or laws relating to the duty of support;\n\n(b) Establishment or modification of child support;\n\n(c) Determination of parentage; and\n\n(d) To locate obligors or their assets.\n\nXXI. \"Support order\" means a judgment, decree, or order, whether temporary, final, or subject to modification, for the benefit of a child, a spouse, or a former spouse, which provides for monetary support, health care, arrearages, or reimbursement, and may include related costs and fees, interest, income withholding, attorney's fees, and other relief.\n\nXXII. \"Tribunal\" means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage.\n\nXXIII. \"Tribunal of this state\" means the superior court, the department of health and human services, or a combination.\n\n546-B:2 Remedies Cumulative. Remedies provided by this chapter are cumulative and do not affect the availability of remedies under other law.\n\nArticle 2\n\nJurisdiction\n\nPart A. Extended Personal Jurisdiction\n\n546-B:3 Bases for Jurisdiction Over Nonresident. In a proceeding to establish, enforce, or modify a support order or to determine parentage, a tribunal of this state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual or the individual's guardian or conservator if:\n\nI. The individual is personally served with notice within this state.\n\nII. The individual submits to the jurisdiction of this state by consent, by entering a general appearance, or by filing a responsive document having the effect of waiving any contest to personal jurisdiction.\n\nIII. The individual resided with the child in this state.\n\nIV. The individual resided in this state and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child.\n\nV. The child resides in this state as a result of the acts or directives of the individual.\n\nVI. The individual engaged in sexual intercourse in this state and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse.\n\nVII. The individual asserted parentage in the putative father registry maintained in this state by the department of health and human services.\n\nVIII. There is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.\n\n546-B:4 Procedure When Exercising Jurisdiction Over Nonresident. A tribunal of this state exercising personal jurisdiction over a nonresident under RSA 546-B:3 may apply RSA 546-B:27 relative to special rules of evidence and procedure, to receive evidence from another state, and RSA 546-B:29, relative to assistance with discovery, to obtain discovery through a tribunal of another state. In all other respects, Articles 3 through 7, RSA 546-B:12 - 53, do not apply, and the tribunal shall apply the procedural and substantive law of this state, including the rules on choice of law other than those established by this chapter.\n\nPart B. Proceedings Involving 2 or More States\n\n546-B:5 Initiating and Responding Tribunal of This State. Under this chapter, a tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to forward proceedings to another state and as a responding tribunal for proceedings initiated in another state.\n\n546-B:6 Simultaneous Proceedings in Another State.\n\nI. A tribunal of this state may exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition or comparable pleading is filed after a petition or comparable pleading is filed in another state only if:\n\n(a) The petition or comparable pleading in this state is filed before the expiration of the time allowed in the other state for filing a responsive pleading challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by the other state;\n\n(b) The contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in the other state; and\n\n(c) If relevant, this state is the home state of the child.\n\nII. A tribunal of this state may not exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition or comparable pleading is filed before a petition or comparable pleading is filed in another state if:\n\n(a) The petition or comparable pleading in the other state is filed before the expiration of the time allowed in this state for filing a responsive pleading challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by this state;\n\n(b) The contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in this state; and\n\n(c) If relevant, the other state is the home state of the child.\n\n546-B:7 Continuing, Exclusive Jurisdiction.\n\nI. A tribunal of this state issuing a support order consistent with the law of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a child support order:\n\n(a) As long as this state remains the residence of the obligor, the individual obligee, or the child for whose benefit the support order is issued; or\n\n(b) Until each individual party has filed written consent with the tribunal of this state for a tribunal of another state to modify the order and assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.\n\nII. A tribunal of this state issuing a child support order consistent with the law of this state may not exercise its continuing jurisdiction to modify the order if the order has been modified by a tribunal of another state pursuant to this chapter or a law substantially similar to this chapter.\n\nIII. If a child support order of this state is modified by a tribunal of another state pursuant to a law substantially similar to this chapter, a tribunal of this state loses its continuing, exclusive jurisdiction with regard to prospective enforcement of the order issued in this state, and may only:\n\n(a) Enforce the order that was modified as to amounts accruing before the modification;\n\n(b) Enforce nonmodifiable aspects of that order; and\n\n(c) Provide other appropriate relief for violations of that order which occurred before the effective date of the modification.\n\nIV. A tribunal of this state shall recognize the continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of a tribunal of another state which has issued a child support order pursuant to this chapter or a law substantially similar to this chapter.\n\nV. A temporary support order issued ex parte or pending resolution of a jurisdictional conflict does not create continuing, exclusive jurisdiction in the issuing tribunal.\n\nVI. A tribunal of this state issuing a support order consistent with the law of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal support order throughout the existence of the support obligation. A tribunal of this state may not modify a spousal support order issued by a tribunal of another state having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over that order under the law of that state.\n\n546-B:8 Enforcement and Modification of Support Order by Tribunal Having Continuing Jurisdiction.\n\nI. A tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce or modify a support order issued in that state.\n\nII. A tribunal of this state having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce or modify the order. If a party subject to the continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of the tribunal no longer resides in the issuing state, in subsequent proceedings the tribunal may apply RSA 546-B:27, relative to special rules of evidence and procedure, to receive evidence from another state and RSA 546-B:29, assistance with discovery, to obtain discovery through a tribunal of another state.\n\nIII. A tribunal of this state which lacks continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal support order may not serve as a responding tribunal to modify a spousal support order of another state.\n\nPart C. Reconciliation of Multiple Orders\n\n546-B:9 Recognition of Controlling Child Support Order.\n\nI. If a proceeding is brought under this chapter, and only one tribunal has issued a child support order, the order of that tribunal controls and must be so recognized.\n\nII. If a proceeding is brought under this chapter, and 2 or more child support orders have been issued by tribunals of this state or another state with regard to the same obligor and child, a tribunal of this state shall apply the following rules in determining which order to recognize for purposes of continuing, exclusive jurisdiction:\n\n(a) If only one of the tribunals would have continuing, exclusive jurisdiction under this chapter, the order of that tribunal controls and must be so recognized;\n\n(b) If more than one of the tribunals would have continuing, exclusive jurisdiction under this chapter, an order issued by a tribunal in the current home state of the child controls and must be so recognized, but if an order has not been issued in the current home state of the child, the order most recently issued controls and must be so recognized; or\n\n(c) If none of the tribunals would have continuing, exclusive jurisdiction under this chapter, the tribunal of this state having jurisdiction over the parties shall issue a child support order, which controls and must be so recognized.\n\nIII. If 2 or more child support orders have been issued for the same obligor and child and if the obligor or the individual obligee resides in this state, a party may request a tribunal of this state to determine which order controls and must be so recognized under paragraph II. The request must be accompanied by a certified copy of every support order in effect. The requesting party shall give notice of the request to each party whose rights may be affected by the determination.\n\nIV. The tribunal that issued the controlling order recognized under paragraph I, II, or III is the tribunal that has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction under RSA 546-B:7.\n\nV. A tribunal of this state which determines by order the identity of the controlling order under subparagraph II(a) or (b), or which issue a new controlling order under subparagraph II(c) shall include in that order the basis upon which the tribunal made its determination.\n\nVI. Within 30 days after issuance of the order determining the identity of the controlling order, the party obtaining the order shall file a certified copy of it with each tribunal that issued or registered an earlier order of child support. A party who obtains the order and fails to file a certified copy is subject to appropriate sanctions by a tribunal in which the issue of failure to file arises. The failure to file does not affect the validity or enforceability of the controlling order.\n\n546-B:10 Multiple Child Support Orders for 2 or More Obligees. In responding to multiple registrations or petitions for enforcement of 2 or more child support orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor and different individual obligees, at least one of which was issued by a tribunal of another state, a tribunal of this state shall enforce those orders in the same manner as if the multiple orders had been issued by a tribunal of this state.\n\n546-B:11 Credit for Payments. Amounts collected and credited for a particular period pursuant to a support order issued by a tribunal of another state must be credited against the amounts accruing or accrued for the same period under a support order issued by the tribunal of this state.\n\nArticle 3\n\nCivil Provisions of General Application\n\n546-B:12 Proceedings Under This Chapter.\n\nI. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, this article applies to all proceedings under this chapter.\n\nII. This chapter provides for the following proceedings:\n\n(a) Establishment of an order for spousal support or child support pursuant to Article 4, RSA 546-B:31;\n\n(b) Enforcement of a support order and income-withholding order of another state without registration pursuant to Article 5, RSA 546-B:32-33;\n\n(c) Registration of an order for spousal support or child support of another state for enforcement pursuant to Article 6, RSA 546-B:39-45;\n\n(d) Modification of an order for child support or spousal support issued by a tribunal of this state pursuant to Article 2, Part B, RSA 546-B:5-8;\n\n(e) Registration of an order for child support of another state for modification pursuant to Article 6, RSA 546-B:39-45;\n\n(f) Determination of parentage pursuant to Article 7, RSA 546-B:53; and\n\n(g) Assertion of jurisdiction over nonresidents pursuant to Article 2, Part A, RSA 546-B:3-4.\n\nIII. An individual petitioner or a support enforcement agency may commence a proceeding authorized under this chapter by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state which has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.\n\n546-B:13 Action by Minor Parent. A minor parent, or a guardian or other legal representative of a minor parent, may maintain a proceeding on behalf of or for the benefit of the minor's child.\n\n546-B:14 Application of Law of This State. Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, a responding tribunal of this state:\n\nI. Shall apply the procedural and substantive law, including the rules on choice of law, generally applicable to similar proceedings originating in this state and may exercise all powers and provide all remedies available in those proceedings; and\n\nII. Shall determine the duty of support and the amount payable in accordance with the law and support guidelines of this state.\n\n546-B:15 Duties of Initiating Tribunal.\n\nI. Upon the filing of a petition authorized by this chapter, an initiating tribunal of this state shall forward 3 copies of the petition and its accompanying documents:\n\n(a) To the responding tribunal or appropriate support enforcement agency in the responding state; or\n\n(b) If the identity of the responding tribunal is unknown, to the state information agency of the responding state with a request that they be forwarded to the appropriate tribunal and that receipt be acknowledged.\n\nII. If a responding state has not enacted this chapter or a law or procedure substantially similar to this chapter, a tribunal of this state may issue a certificate or other documents and make findings required by the law of the responding state. If the responding state is a foreign jurisdiction, the tribunal may specify the amount of support sought and provide other documents necessary to satisfy the requirements of the responding state.\n\n546-B:16 Duties and Powers of Responding Tribunal.\n\nI. When a responding tribunal of this state receives a petition or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to RSA 546-B:12, III, it shall cause the petition or pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and when it was filed.\n\nII. A responding tribunal of this state, to the extent otherwise authorized by law, may do one or more of the following:\n\n(a) Issue or enforce a support order, modify a child support order, or render a judgment to determine parentage;\n\n(b) Order an obligor to comply with a support order, specifying the amount and the manner of compliance;\n\n(c) Order income withholding;\n\n(d) Determine the amount of any arrearages, and specify a method of payment;\n\n(e) Enforce orders by civil or criminal contempt, or both;\n\n(f) Set aside property for satisfaction of the support order;\n\n(g) Place liens and order execution on the obligor's property;\n\n(h) Order an obligor to keep the tribunal informed of the obligor's current residential address, telephone number, employer, address of employment, and telephone number at the place of employment;\n\n(i) Issue a capias for an obligor who has failed after proper notice to appear at a hearing ordered by the tribunal and enter the capias in any local and state computer systems for criminal warrants;\n\n(j) Order the obligor to seek appropriate employment by specified methods;\n\n(k) Award reasonable attorney's fees and other fees and costs; or\n\n(l) Grant any other available remedy.\n\nIII. A responding tribunal of this state shall include in a support order issued under this chapter, or in the documents accompanying the order, the calculations on which the support order is based.\n\nIV. A responding tribunal of this state may not condition the payment of a support order issued under this chapter upon compliance by a party with provisions for visitation.\n\nV. If a responding tribunal of this state issues an order under this chapter, the tribunal shall send a copy of the order to the petitioner and the respondent and to the initiating tribunal, if any.\n\n546-B:17 Inappropriate Tribunal. If a petition or comparable pleading is received by an inappropriate tribunal of this state, it shall forward the pleading and accompanying documents to an appropriate tribunal in this state or another state and notify the petitioner where and when the pleading was sent.\n\n546-B:18 Duties of Support Enforcement Agency.\n\nI. A support enforcement agency of this state shall, upon request, provide services to a petitioner in a proceeding under this chapter insofar as is consistent with its responsibilities under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, as amended.\n\nII. A support enforcement agency that is providing services to the petitioner as appropriate shall:\n\n(a) Take all steps necessary to enable an appropriate tribunal in this state or another state to obtain jurisdiction over the respondent;\n\n(b) Request an appropriate tribunal to set a date, time, and place for a hearing;\n\n(c) Make a reasonable effort to obtain all relevant information, including information as to income and property of the parties;\n\n(d) Within 10 days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, after receipt of a written notice from an initiating, responding, or registering tribunal, send a copy of the notice to the petitioner;\n\n(e) Within 10 days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, after receipt of a written communication from the respondent or the respondent's attorney, send a copy of the communication to the petitioner; and\n\n(f) Notify the petitioner if jurisdiction over the respondent cannot be obtained.\n\nIII. This chapter does not create or negate a relationship of attorney and client or other fiduciary relationship between a support enforcement agency or the attorney for the agency and the individual being assisted by the agency.\n\n546-B:19 Duty of Attorney General. If the attorney general determines that the support enforcement agency is neglecting or refusing to provide services to an individual, the attorney general may order the agency to perform its duties under this chapter or may provide those services directly to the individual.\n\n546-B:20 Private Counsel. An individual may employ private counsel to represent the individual in proceedings authorized by this chapter.\n\n546-B:21 Duties of State Information Agency.\n\nI. The state central registry is the state information agency under this chapter.\n\nII. The state information agency shall:\n\n(a) Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this state which have jurisdiction under this chapter and any support enforcement agencies in this state and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state;\n\n(b) Maintain a register of tribunals and support enforcement agencies of other states;\n\n(c) Forward to the appropriate tribunal in the place in this state in which the individual obligee or the obligor resides, or in which the obligor's property is believed to be located, all documents concerning a proceeding under this chapter received from an initiating tribunal or the state information agency of the initiating state; and\n\n(d) Obtain information concerning the location of the obligor and the obligor's property within this state not exempt from execution, by such means as postal verification and federal or state locator services, examination of telephone directories, requests for the obligor's address from employers, and examination of governmental records including, to the extent not prohibited by other law, those relating to real property, vital statistics, law enforcement, taxation, motor vehicles, driver's licenses, and social security.\n\n546-B:22 Pleadings and Accompanying Documents.\n\nI. A petitioner seeking to establish or modify a support order or to determine parentage in a proceeding under this chapter shall verify the petition. Unless otherwise ordered under RSA 546-B:23, relative to nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances, the petition or accompanying documents shall provide, so far as known, the name, residential address, and social security numbers of the obligor and the obligee, and the name, sex, residential address, social security number, and date of birth of each child for whom support is sought. The petition shall be accompanied by a certified copy of any support order in effect. The petition may include any other information that may assist in locating or identifying the respondent.\n\nII. The petition shall specify the relief sought. The petition and accompanying documents shall conform substantially with the requirements imposed by the forms mandated by federal law for use in cases filed by a support enforcement agency.\n\n546-B:23 Nondisclosure of Information in Exceptional Circumstances. Upon a finding, which may be made ex parte, that the health, safety, or liberty of a party or child would be unreasonably put at risk by the disclosure of identifying information, or if an existing order so provides, a tribunal shall order that the address of the child or party or other identifying information not be disclosed in a pleading or other document filed in a proceeding under this chapter.\n\n546-B:24 Costs and Fees.\n\nI. The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs.\n\nII. If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney's fees, other costs, and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee's witnesses. The tribunal may not assess fees, costs, or expenses against the obligee or the support enforcement agency of either the initiating or the responding state, except as provided by other law. Attorney's fees may be taxed as costs, and may be ordered paid directly to the attorney, who may enforce the order in the attorney's own name. Payment of support owed to the obligee has priority over fees, costs and expenses.\n\nIII. The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney's fees if it determines that a hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under Article 6, RSA 546-B:39-52, relative to enforcement and modification of support order after registration, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.\n\n546-B:25 Limited Immunity of Petitioner.\n\nI. Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding before a responding tribunal, whether in person, by private attorney, or through services provided by the support enforcement agency, does not confer personal jurisdiction over the petitioner in another proceeding.\n\nII. A petitioner is not amenable to service of civil process while physically present in this state to participate in a proceeding under this chapter.\n\nIII. The immunity granted by this section does not extend to civil litigation based on acts unrelated to a proceeding under this chapter committed by a party while present in this state to participate in the proceeding.\n\n546-B:26 Nonparentage as Defense. A party whose parentage of a child has been previously determined by or pursuant to law may not plead nonparentage as a defense to a proceeding under this chapter.\n\n546-B:27 Special Rules of Evidence and Procedure.\n\nI. The physical presence of the petitioner in a responding tribunal of this state is not required for the establishment, enforcement, or modification of a support order or the rendition of a judgment determining parentage.\n\nII. A verified petition, affidavit, and/or other document substantially complying with federally mandated forms, and a document incorporated by reference in any of them, not excluded under the hearsay rule if given in person, is admissible in evidence if given under oath by a party or witness residing in another state.\n\nIII. A copy of the record of child support payments certified as a true copy of the original by the custodian of the record may be forwarded to a responding tribunal. The copy is evidence of facts asserted in it, and is admissible to show whether payments were made.\n\nIV. Copies of bills for testing for parentage, and for prenatal and postnatal health care of the mother and child, furnished to the adverse party at least 10 days before trial, are admissible in evidence to prove the amount of the charges billed and that the charges were reasonable, necessary, and customary.\n\nV. Documentary evidence transmitted from another state to a tribunal of this state by telephone, telecopier, or other means that do not provide an original writing may not be excluded from evidence on an objection based on the means of transmission.\n\nVI. In a proceeding under this chapter, a tribunal of this state may permit a party or witness residing in another state to be deposed or to testify by telephone, audiovisual means, or other electronic means at a designated tribunal or other location in that state. A tribunal of this state shall cooperate with tribunals of other states in designating an appropriate location for the deposition or testimony.\n\nVII. If a party called to testify at a civil hearing refuses to answer on the ground that the testimony may be self-incriminating, the trier of fact may draw an adverse inference from the refusal.\n\nVIII. A privilege against disclosure of communications between spouses does not apply in a proceeding under this chapter.\n\nIX. The defense of immunity based on the relationship of husband and wife or parent and child does not apply in a proceeding under this chapter.\n\n546-B:28 Communications Between Tribunals. A tribunal of this state may communicate with a tribunal of another state in writing, or by telephone or other means, to obtain information concerning the laws of that state, the legal effect of a judgment, decree, or order of that tribunal, and the status of a proceeding in the other state. A tribunal of this state may furnish similar information by similar means to a tribunal of another state.\n\n546-B:29 Assistance With Discovery. A tribunal of this state may:\n\nI. Request a tribunal of another state to assist in obtaining discovery.\n\nII. Upon request, compel a person over whom it has jurisdiction to respond to a discovery order issued by a tribunal of another state.\n\n546-B:30 Receipt and Disbursement of Payments. A support enforcement agency or other tribunal of this state shall disburse promptly any amounts received pursuant to a support order, as directed by the order. The agency or tribunal shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of another state a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the amounts and dates of all payments received.\n\nArticle 4\n\nEstablishment of Support Order\n\n546-B:31 Petition to Establish Support Order.\n\nI. If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this state may issue a support order if:\n\n(a) The individual seeking the order resides in another state; or\n\n(b) The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located in another state.\n\nII. The tribunal may issue a temporary child support order if:\n\n(a) The respondent has signed a verified statement acknowledging parentage;\n\n(b) The respondent has been determined by or pursuant to law to be the parent; or\n\n(c) There is other clear and convincing evidence that the respondent is the child's parent.\n\nIII. Upon finding, after notice and opportunity to be heard, that an obligor owes a duty of support, the tribunal shall issue a support order directed to the obligor and may issue other orders pursuant to RSA 546-B:16, relative to duties and powers of responding tribunal.\n\nArticle 5\n\nEnforcement of Order of\n\nAnother State Without Registration\n\n546-B:32 Employer's Receipt of Income-Withholding Order of Another State. An income-withholding order issued in another state may be sent to the person or entity defined as the obligor's employer, under RSA 458-B, without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this state.\n\n546-B:33 Employer's Compliance with Income-Withholding Order of Another State.\n\nI. Upon receipt of an income-withholding order, the obligor's employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor.\n\nII. The employer shall treat an income-withholding order issued in another state which appears regular on its face as if it had been issued by a tribunal of this state.\n\nIII. Except as otherwise provided by paragraph IV and RSA 546-B:34, the employer shall withhold and distribute the funds as directed in the withholding order by complying with the terms of the order which specify:\n\n(a) The duration and the amount of periodic payments of current child support, stated as a sum certain;\n\n(b) The person or agency designated to receive payments and the address to which the payments are to be forwarded;\n\n(c) Medical support, whether in the form of periodic cash payment, stated as a sum certain, or ordering the obligor to provide health insurance coverage for the child under a policy available through the obligor's employment;\n\n(d) The amount of periodic payments of fees and costs for a support enforcement agency, the issuing tribunal, and the obligee's attorney, stated as sums certain; and\n\n(e) The amount of periodic payments of arrearages and interest on arrearages, stated as sums certain.\n\nIV. The employer shall comply with the law of the state of the obligor's principal place of employment for withholding from income with respect to:\n\n(a) The employer's fee for processing an income-withholding order;\n\n(b) The maximum amount permitted to be withheld from the obligor's income;\n\n(c) The time periods within which the employer must implement the withholding order and forward the child support payment.\n\n546-B:34 Compliance with Multiple Income-Withholding Orders. If the obligor's employer receives multiple income-withholding orders with respect to the earnings of the same obligor, the employer satisfies the terms of the multiple orders if the employer complies with the law of the state of the obligor's principal place of employment to establish the priorities for withholding and allocating income withheld for multiple child support obligees.\n\n546-B:35 Immunity from Civil Liability. An employer who complies with an income-withholding order issued in another state in accordance with this article is not subject to civil liability to an individual or agency with regard to the employer's withholding child support from the obligor's income.\n\n546-B:36 Penalties for Noncompliance. An employer who willfully fails to comply with an income-withholding order issued by another state and received for enforcement is subject to the same penalties that may be imposed for noncompliance with an order issued by a tribunal of this state.\n\n546-B:37 Contest by Obligor.\n\nI. An obligor may contest the validity of enforcement of an income-withholding order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in this state in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state. RSA 546-B:42, relative to choice of law applies to the contest.\n\nII. The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:\n\n(a) A support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee;\n\n(b) Each employer which has directly received an income-withholding order; and\n\n(c) The person or agency designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order; or if no person or agency is designated, to the obligee.\n\n546-B:38 Administrative Enforcement of Orders.\n\nI. A party seeking to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both, issued by a tribunal of another state may send the documents required for registering the order to a support enforcement agency of this state.\n\nII. Upon receipt of the documents, the support enforcement agency, without initially seeking to register the order, shall consider and, if appropriate, use any administrative procedure authorized by the law of this state to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both. If the obligor does not contest administrative enforcement, the order need not be registered. If the obligor contests the validity or administrative enforcement of the order, the support enforcement agency shall register the order pursuant to this chapter.\n\nArticle 6\n\nEnforcement and Modification of\n\nSupport Order After Registration\n\nPart A. Registration and Enforcement of Support Order\n\n546-B:39 Registration of Order for Enforcement. A support order or an income-withholding order issued by a tribunal of another state may be registered in this state for enforcement.\n\n546-B:40 Procedure to Register Order for Enforcement.\n\nI. A support order or income-withholding order of another state may be registered in this state by sending the following documents and information to the appropriate tribunal in this state:\n\n(a) A letter of transmittal to the tribunal requesting registration and enforcement;\n\n(b) Two copies, including one certified copy, of all orders to be registered, including any modification of an order;\n\n(c) A sworn statement by the party seeking registration or a certified statement by the custodian of the records showing the amount of any arrearage;\n\n(d) The name of the obligor and, if known:\n\n(1) The obligor's address and social security number;\n\n(2) The name and address of the obligor's employer and any other source of income of the obligor; and\n\n(3) A description and the location of property of the obligor in this state not exempt from execution; and\n\n(e) The name and address of the obligee and, if applicable, the agency or person to whom support payments are to be remitted.\n\nII. On receipt of a request for registration, the registering tribunal shall cause the order to be filed as a foreign judgment, together with one copy of the documents and information, regardless of their form.\n\nIII. A petition or comparable pleading seeking a remedy that must be affirmatively sought under other law of this state may be filed at the same time as the request for registration or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for the remedy sought.\n\n546-B:41 Effect of Registration for Enforcement.\n\nI. A support order or income-withholding order issued in another state is registered when the order is filed in the registering tribunal of this state.\n\nII. A registered order issued in another state is enforceable in the same manner and is subject to the same procedures as an order issued by a tribunal of this state.\n\nIII. Except as otherwise provided in this article, a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce, but may not modify, a registered order if the issuing tribunal had jurisdiction.\n\n546-B:42 Choice of Law.\n\nI. The law of the issuing state governs the nature, extent, amount, and duration of current payments and other obligations of support and the payment of arrearages under the order.\n\nII. In a proceeding for arrearages, the statute of limitation under the laws of this state or of the issuing state, whichever is longer, applies.\n\nPart B. Contest of Validity or Enforcement\n\n546-B:43 Notice of Registration of Order.\n\nI. When a support order or income-withholding order issued in another state is registered, the registering tribunal shall notify the nonregistering party. The notice must be accompanied by a copy of the registered order and the documents and relevant information accompanying the order.\n\nII. The notice must inform the nonregistering party:\n\n(a) That a registered order is enforceable as of the date of registration in the same manner as an order issued by a tribunal of this state;\n\n(b) That a hearing to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order must be requested within 20 days after the date of mailing or personal service of the notice;\n\n(c) That failure to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order in a timely manner will result in confirmation of the order and enforcement of the order and the alleged arrearages, and precludes further contest of that order with respect to any matter that could have been asserted; and\n\n(d) Of the amount of any alleged arrearages.\n\nIII. Upon registration of an income-withholding order for enforcement, the registering tribunal or, if applicable, the support enforcement agency, shall notify the obligor's employer pursuant to RSA 458-B.\n\n546-B:44 Procedure to Contest Validity or Enforcement of Registered Order.\n\nI. A nonregistering party seeking to contest the validity or enforcement of a registered order in this state shall request a hearing within 20 days after the date of mailing or personal service of notice of the registration. The nonregistering party may seek to vacate the registration, to assert any defense to an allegation of noncompliance with the registered order, or to contest the remedies being sought or the amount of any alleged arrearages pursuant to RSA 546-B:45, relative to contest of registration or enforcement.\n\nII. If the nonregistering party fails to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order in a timely manner, the order is confirmed by operation of law.\n\nIII. If a nonregistering party requests a hearing to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order, the registering tribunal shall schedule the matter for hearing and give notice to the parties of the date, time, and place of the hearing.\n\n546-B:45 Contest of Registration or Enforcement.\n\nI. A party contesting the validity or enforcement of a registered order or seeking to vacate the registration has the burden of proving one or more of the following defenses:\n\n(a) The issuing tribunal lacked personal jurisdiction over the contesting party;\n\n(b) The order was obtained by fraud;\n\n(c) The order has been vacated, suspended, or modified by a later order;\n\n(d) The issuing tribunal has stayed the order pending appeal;\n\n(e) There is a defense under the law of this state to the remedy sought;\n\n(f) Full or partial payment has been made; or\n\n(g) The statute of limitation under RSA 546-B:42, relative to choice of law, precludes enforcement of some or all of the arrearages.\n\nII. If a party presents evidence establishing a full or partial defense under paragraph I, a tribunal may stay enforcement of the registered order, continue the proceeding to permit production of additional relevant evidence, and issue other appropriate orders. An uncontested portion of the registered order may be enforced by all remedies available under the law of this state.\n\nIII. If the contesting party does not establish a defense under paragraph I to the validity or enforcement of the order, the registering tribunal shall issue an order confirming the order.\n\n546-B:46 Confirmed Order. Confirmation of a registered order, whether by operation of law or after notice and hearing, precludes further contest of the order with respect to any matter that could have been asserted at the time of registration.\n\nPart C. Registration and Modification\n\nof Child Support Order\n\n546-B:47 Procedure to Register Child Support Order of Another State for Modification. A party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or to modify and enforce, a child support order issued in another state shall register that order in this state in the same manner provided in Part A of this article, RSA 546-B:39-42, if the order has not been registered. A petition for modification may be filed at the same time as a request for registration, or later. The pleading must specify the grounds for modification.\n\n546-B:48 Effect of Registration for Modification. A tribunal of this state may enforce a child support order of another state registered for purposes of modification, in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state, but the registered order may be modified only if the requirements of RSA 546-B:49, relative to modification of child support order of another state, have been met.\n\n546-B:49 Modification of Child Support Order of Another State.\n\nI. After a child support order issued in another state has been registered in this state, the responding tribunal of this state may modify that order only if, after notice and hearing, it finds that:\n\n(a) The following requirements are met:\n\n(1) The child, the individual obligee, and the obligor do not reside in the issuing state;\n\n(2) A petitioner who is a nonresident of this state seeks modification; and\n\n(3) The respondent is subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal of this state; or\n\n(b) The child, or a party who is an individual, is subject to the personal jurisdiction of the tribunal, and all of the individual parties have filed a written consent in the issuing tribunal providing that a tribunal of this state may modify the support order and assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over the order. However, if the issuing state is a foreign jurisdiction that has not enacted a law or established procedures substantially similar to the procedures under this chapter, the consent otherwise required of an individual residing in this state is not required for the tribunal to assume jurisdiction to modify the child support order.\n\nII. Modification of a registered child support order is subject to the same requirements, procedures, and defenses that apply to the modification of an order issued by a tribunal of this state and the order may be enforced and satisfied in the same manner.\n\nIII. A tribunal of this state may not modify any aspect of a child support order that may not be modified under the law of the issuing state. If 2 or more tribunals have issued child support orders for the same obligor and child, the order that controls and must be so recognized under RSA 546-B:9 establishes the aspects of the support order which are nonmodifiable.\n\nIV. On issuance of an order modifying a child support order issued in another state, a tribunal of this state becomes the tribunal of continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.\n\n546-B:50 Recognition of Order Modified in Another State. A tribunal of this state shall recognize a modification of its earlier child support order by a tribunal of another state which assumed jurisdiction pursuant to a law substantially similar to this chapter and, upon request, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, shall:\n\nI. Enforce the order that was modified only as to amounts accruing before the modification.\n\nII. Enforce only nonmodifiable aspects of that order.\n\nIII. Provide other appropriate relief only for violations of that order which occurred before the effective date of the modification.\n\nIV. Recognize the modifying order of the other state, upon registration, for the purpose of enforcement.\n\n546-B:51 Jurisdiction to Modify Child Support Order of Another State When Individual Parties Reside in This State.\n\nI. If all of the parties who are individuals reside in this state and the child does not reside in the issuing state, a tribunal of this state has jurisdiction to enforce and to modify the issuing state's child support order in a proceeding to register that order.\n\nII. A tribunal of this state exercising jurisdiction under this section shall apply the provisions of Articles 1 and 2, this article, and the procedural and substantive law of this state to the proceeding for enforcement or modification. Articles 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 do not apply.\n\n546-B:52 Notice to Issuing Tribunal of Modification. Within 30 days after issuance of a modified child support order, the party obtaining the modification shall file a certified copy of the order with the issuing tribunal that had continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over the earlier order, and in each tribunal in which the party knows the earlier order has been registered. A party who obtains the order and fails to file a certified copy is subject to appropriate sanctions by a tribunal in which the issue of failure to file arises. The failure to file does not affect the validity or enforceability of the modified order of the new tribunal having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction.\n\nArticle 7\n\nDetermination of Parentage\n\n546-B:53 Proceeding to Determine Parentage.\n\nI. A tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating or responding tribunal in a proceeding brought under this chapter or a law substantially similar to this chapter, the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, or the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act to determine that the petitioner is a parent of a particular child or to determine that a respondent is a parent of that child.\n\nII. In a proceeding to determine parentage, a responding tribunal of this state shall apply the procedural and substantive law of this state, and the rules of this state on choice of law.\n\nArticle 8\n\nInterstate Rendition\n\n546-B:54 Grounds for Rendition.\n\nI. For purposes of this article, \"governor\" includes an individual performing the functions of governor or the executive authority of a state covered by this chapter.\n\nII. The governor of this state may:\n\n(a) Demand that the governor of another state surrender an individual found in the other state who is charged criminally in this state with having failed to provide for the support of an obligee; or\n\n(b) On the demand by the governor of another state, surrender an individual found in this state who is charged criminally in the other state with having failed to provide for the support of an obligee.\n\nIII. A provision for extradition of individuals not inconsistent with this chapter applies to the demand even if the individual whose surrender is demanded was not in the demanding state when the crime was allegedly committed and has not fled from the demanding state.\n\n546-B:55 Conditions of Rendition.\n\nI. Before making demand that the governor of another state surrender an individual charged criminally in this state with having failed to provide for the support of an obligee, the governor of this state may require a prosecutor of this state to demonstrate that at least 60 days previously, the obligee had initiated proceedings for support pursuant to this chapter or that the proceeding would be of no avail.\n\nII. If, under this chapter or a law substantially similar to this chapter, the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, or the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, the governor of another state makes a demand that the governor of this state surrender an individual charged criminally in that state with having failed to provide for the support of a child or other individual to whom a duty of support is owed, the governor may require a prosecutor to investigate the demand and report whether a proceeding for support has been initiated or would be effective. If it appears that a proceeding would be effective but has not been initiated, the governor may delay honoring the demand for a reasonable time to permit the initiation of a proceeding.\n\nIII. If a proceeding for support has been initiated and the individual whose rendition is demanded prevails, the governor may decline to honor the demand. If the petitioner prevails and the individual whose rendition is demanded is subject to a support order, the governor may decline to honor the demand if the individual is complying with the support order.\n\nArticle 9\n\nMiscellaneous Provisions\n\n546-B:56 Uniformity of Application and Construction. This chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states enacting it.\n\n546-B:57 Rulemaking Authority. The commissioner of the department of health and human services may adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, which are deemed necessary for the efficient administration of the duties with which the department is charged under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, as amended, to provide interstate child support services, provided that such rules shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.\n\n546-B:58 Short Title. This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.\n\n546-B:59 Severability Clause. If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.\n\n546-B:60 Savings Clause. This chapter replaces former RSA 546, except that former RSA 546 shall be taken and treated as remaining in full force and effect for the purpose of sustaining any pending action or proceeding. Any judgment for support obtained under former RSA 546, or otherwise, shall be subject to enforcement under this chapter.\n\n263:33 Reference Changes. Amend the following RSA provisions by replacing \"wage\" \"a wage\" or \"wages\" with \"income\" or \"an income\": the chapter heading of RSA 458-B; 458-B:1, V; 458-B:1, IX; the section heading of RSA 458-B:2; 458-B:2, I; 458-B:2, III and IV; 458-B:3, II; 458-B:3, VII; 458-B:4, III; 458-B:5, III; 458-B:6, VI; 458-B:6, XI; 458-B:7, II; 458-B:8; 458-B:9; the section heading of 458-B:10.\n\n263:34 Repeal. The following are repealed:\n\nI. RSA 161-B:5-a, relative to the formula for distribution of child support.\n\nII. RSA 458-B:3, V, relative to an obligee receiving direct payment from obligor's employer.\n\nIII. RSA 546, relative to the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act.\n\n263:35 Effective Date.\n\nI. Section 26 and paragraph I of section 34 of this act shall take effect October 1, 1997.\n\nII. Section 32 and paragraph III of section 34 of this act shall take effect January 1, 1998.\n\nIII. Sections 6 and 28 of this act shall take effect October 1, 1998.\n\nIV. The remainder of this act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.\n\n(Approved: June 19, 1997)\n\n(Effective Date: I. Section 26 and paragraph I of section 34 shall take effect October 1, 1997.\n\nII. Section 32 and paragraph III of section 34 shall take effect January 1, 1998.\n\nI. Section 6 and 28 shall take effect October 1, 1998.\n\nII. The remainder shall take effect August 18, 1997.)\n\nLBAO\n\n97-1016\n\nRevised 2/19/97\n\nFISCAL NOTE\n\nAN ACT enacting the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA), and relative to child support.\n\nMETHODOLOGY:\n\nThe Office indicated that costs to the state include printing of affidavits of paternity; one-time costs for computer programming for creation of a state central registry for the denial of passports, for the data match with financial institutions, and for hiring reports. One-time costs to the Department of Employment Security for hiring reports will be for administrative costs, employer notification, computer equipment, fax, installation of dedicated telephone line, and computer programming. On-going costs for hiring reports will include quarterly processing of data match tapes by banks, Department of Employment Security data entry staff, partial funding of a field agent position, telephone line maintenance and computer runs and Office of Program Support computer programming. The following indicates expected state expenditures and federal revenues:\n\nFY 1998 FY 1999 FY 2000 FY 2001\n\nAffidavit for Paternity $ 3,400 $ 3,570 $ 3,748 $ 3,935\n\nState Registry 150,000 unknown\n\nPassports 10,000 unknown\n\nData Match Fin. Institutions 44,000 48,000 48,000 48,000\n\nHiring Reports 85,518 115,835 118,170 120,504\n\nTotal $292,918 $167,405+ $169,918+ $172,439+\n\nFederal $193,326 $110,487+ $112,146+ $113,810+\n\nGeneral $ 99,592 $ 56,918+ $ 57,772+ $ 58,629+\n\nThe Office determined revenue from data match for financial institutions and hire reporting. Revenue from the affidavits of paternity, state registry, and passport legislation is indeterminable.\n\nThe Office estimated that revenues from Aid for Dependent Children (AFDC) for FY 1998 will be 16% of $54,000,000 in collections. Of the AFDC collections, 8% is identified as paid annually to the states for AFDC collections made on their behalf and, of the balance, 50% is repayment to the federal government and 50% is reimbursement to the state general fund for AFDC expenditure. Comparing the fiscal impact of data match with financial institutions with the experience of other states, the Office estimated a 7% increase in the first year (1/2 for FY 1998 due to the effective date of the act), and a decrease, with diminishing returns as assets become less accessible, of 2% in FY 1999, and 3% in FY 2000 and 2001. The Office further estimated that collections due to hire reporting will increase by 17% in FY 1998 (1/2 due to the effective date of the act), and by 15% each year thereafter. The calculation for revenues follows:\n\nFY 1998 (1/2 year)\n\n$54,000,000 estimated revenue\n\n7% increase from data match $ 3,780,000\n\n17% increase from hiring report 9,180,000\n\nTotal Increase $12,960,000\n\n16% AFDC share $ 2,073,600\n\nMinus 8% to other states (165,888)\n\nBalance $ 1,907,712\n\nFederal share at 50% $ 953,856\n\nState General Fund share at 50% $ 953,856\n\nState General Fund Revenue for \u00bd year $ 476,928\n\nFY 1999\n\nBase increase in revenue $12,960,000\n\n2% decrease from data match $3,780,000 (75,600)\n\n15% increase in hiring report $9,180,000 1,377,000\n\nTotal Increase $14,261,400\n\n16% AFDC share $ 2,281,824\n\nMinus 8% to other states (182,546)\n\nBalance $ 2,099,278\n\nFederal share at 50% $ 1,049,639\n\nState General Fund share at 50% $ 1,049,639\n\nFY 2000\n\nBase increase in revenue $14,261,400\n\n3% decrease in data match $3,704,400 $ (111,132)\n\n15% increase in hiring reports $10,557,000 1,583,550\n\nTotal Increase $15,733,818\n\n16% AFDC share $ 2,517,411\n\nMinus 8% to other states (201,393)\n\nBalance $ 2,316,018\n\nFederal share at 50% $ 1,158,009\n\nState General Fund share at 50% $ 1,158,009\n\nFY 2001\n\nBase increase in revenue $15,733,812\n\n3% decrease in data match $3,593,268 (107,798)\n\n15% increase in hiring reports $12,140,550 1,821,083\n\nTotal Increase $17,447,097\n\n16% AFDC share $ 2,791,536\n\nMinus 8% to other states (223,323)\n\nBalance $ 2,568,213\n\nFederal share at 50% $ 1,284,107\n\nState General Fund share at 50% $ 1,284,107", "in_text": [], "chars": 96883}, "nver": 0, "namd": 0, "rsa": {"RSA 126:6-a": "/laws/126#s1", "RSA 541-A": "/laws/541-a", "RSA 126:14": "/laws/126#s12", "RSA 161-B:7": "/laws/161-b#s7", "RSA 161-C:10": "/laws/161-c#s10", "RSA 161-B:11": "/laws/161-b#s11", "RSA 161-C:2": "/laws/161-c#s2", "RSA 161-C:3-a": "/laws/161-c#s3-a", "RSA 359-C": "/laws/359-c", "RSA 161-C": "/laws/161-c", "RSA 161-C:3-c": "/laws/161-c#s3-c", "RSA 161-C:7": "/laws/161-c#s7", "RSA 161-C:9": "/laws/161-c#s9", "RSA 282-A:117-a": "/laws/282-a#s117-a", "RSA 168-A:2": "/laws/168-a#s2", "RSA 168-A:4": "/laws/168-a#s4", "RSA 161-B": "/laws/161-b", "RSA 168-A:5": "/laws/168-a#s5", "RSA 170-A:2": "/laws/170-a#s2", "RSA 546": "/laws/546", "RSA 546-A": "/laws/546-a", "RSA 546-B": "/laws/546-b", "RSA 173-B:11-a": "/laws/173-b", "RSA 458": "/laws/458", "RSA 168-A": "/laws/168-a", "RSA 173-B:4": "/laws/173-b#s4", "RSA 282-A": "/laws/282-a", "RSA 458:17": "/laws/458#s17", "RSA 458-B:3": "/laws/458-b#s3", "RSA 458-B:5": "/laws/458-b#s5", "RSA 522:1": "/laws/522#s1", "RSA 458-B:6": "/laws/458-b#s6", "RSA 458-B:1": "/laws/458-b#s1", "RSA 546-B:3": "/laws/546-b#s3", "RSA 546-B:27": "/laws/546-b#s27", "RSA 546-B:29": "/laws/546-b#s29", "RSA 546-B:12": "/laws/546-b#s12", "RSA 546-B:7": "/laws/546-b#s7", "RSA 546-B:31": "/laws/546-b#s31", "RSA 546-B:32-33": "/laws/546-b", "RSA 546-B:39-45": "/laws/546-b", "RSA 546-B:5-8": "/laws/546-b", "RSA 546-B:53": "/laws/546-b#s53", "RSA 546-B:3-4": "/laws/546-b", "RSA 546-B:23": "/laws/546-b#s23", "RSA 546-B:39-52": "/laws/546-b", "RSA 546-B:16": "/laws/546-b#s16", "RSA 458-B": "/laws/458-b", "RSA 546-B:34": "/laws/546-b#s34", "RSA 546-B:42": "/laws/546-b#s42", "RSA 546-B:45": "/laws/546-b#s45", "RSA 546-B:39-42": "/laws/546-b", "RSA 546-B:49": "/laws/546-b#s49", "RSA 546-B:9": "/laws/546-b#s9", "RSA 458-B:2": "/laws/458-b#s2", "RSA 161-B:5-a": "/laws/161-b#s5-a"}, "amends": {"RSA 126:6-a": "/laws/126#s1", "RSA 126:14": "/laws/126#s12", "RSA 161-B:7": "/laws/161-b#s7", "RSA 161-B:11": "/laws/161-b#s11", "RSA 161-C:2": "/laws/161-c#s2", "RSA 161-C:3-a": "/laws/161-c#s3-a", "RSA 161-C": "/laws/161-c", "RSA 168-A:2": "/laws/168-a#s2", "RSA 170-A:2": "/laws/170-a#s2", "RSA 173-B:11-a": "/laws/173-b", "RSA 282-A": "/laws/282-a", "RSA 458:17": "/laws/458#s17", "RSA 458-B:5": "/laws/458-b#s5", "RSA 161-B:5-a": "/laws/161-b#s5-a", "RSA 458-B:3": "/laws/458-b#s3", "RSA 546": "/laws/546", "RSA 161-C:3-c": "/laws/161-c#s3-c", "RSA 161-C:10": "/laws/161-c#s10", "RSA 168-A:4": "/laws/168-a#s4", "RSA 168-A:5": "/laws/168-a#s5", "RSA 522:1": "/laws/522#s1"}, "changed": ["161-B:5-a", "161-B:7", "161-B:11", "161-C:2", "161-C:3-a", "161-C:3-c", "161-C:3-d", "161-C:10", "161-C:26-b", "161-C:26-c", "168-A:2", "168-A:4", "168-A:5", "170-A:2", "282-A:117-a", "458-B:1", "458-B:2", "458-B:3", "458-B:4", "458-B:5", "458-B:6", "458-B:7", "458-B:8", "458-B:9", "458-B:10", "522:1"], "related": [{"g": 1, "o": "1995-1996/SB166", "n": "SB 166-FN-LOCAL", "t": "enacting the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA).", "y": 1996, "c": "Died", "s": "It contains the text of {b}, filed before it."}]}