House adopts 'deadbeat dad' bill with changes
HB83 would give to the Office of Recovery Services the power to suspend a person's driver's license if the person were overdue on child support payments.
Various amendments were approved by the House that would cut the delinquent noncustodial parent some slack. The most far-reaching, by Rep. LaVar Christensen, R-Sandy, would allow a delinquent parent to apply for a temporary, 90-day license that would allow him to drive only to work, to educational meetings and/or to child visits.
Sponsoring Rep. Julie Fischer, R-Fruit Heights, said custodial parents usually the divorced mother of the children are owed a collective $325 million that is going unpaid. Only 14 states, including Utah, don't have driver's license suspension as a "tool" in fighting owed child support.
Others states have found that as much as 7 percent of unpaid payments come in because of the use or threat of use of suspension of drivers' licenses, she said. Utah's ORS hopes that more than $2 million could come in right away if HB83 passes.
Opponents of the bill, however, said the "punishment doesn't fit the crime," and suspending a person's driver's license is too drastic a move for a parent who, because of a loss of a job or other problems, may fall behind in child support payments.
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