Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that updates child support payment laws.

Highlights:

• Establishes new economic income tables used to calculate child support payments (Sec. 1).

• Specifies new costs for healthcare coverage and medical expenses (Sec. 1).

• Establishes a self sufficiency reserve (Sec. 1).

• Requires a standard deduction when a parent has multiple children (Sec. 1).

• Requires shared costs of child care regarding income with the following stipulations (Sec. 1):

• Payment allowing parent to work or maintain involvement in employment activities deemed necessary;

• Shall be verified as credible evidence by a court or childcare agency;

• Exclude any reimbursed or subsidized childcare costs; and

• Limits the allowable credit for joint childhood expenses at the statewide average.

• Establishes a parenting time adjustment to standard child support orders to account for the time a parent spends with a non-custodial child (Sec. 1).  

• Requires monthly $80 payment for all children subject to childcare order (Sec. 1).

• Specifies child care payment orders for families with a combined income of up to $300,000 (Sec. 1).

• Requires an evaluation of childcare order at least once every 4 years by the department of job and family services (Sec. 1).

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