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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 4411

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 2787 Session of 2008


        INTRODUCED BY CASORIO, BELFANTI, BRENNAN, HARKINS, JAMES,
           LONGIETTI, MANN, MUNDY, PETRI, READSHAW, REICHLEY, SIPTROTH,
           SURRA, SWANGER, R. TAYLOR AND WOJNAROSKI, SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, in support matters generally, further
     3     providing for costs and fees and for State disbursement unit.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Sections 4351(a.1) and 4374(c)(3) and (d)(2) of
     7  Title 23 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, amended or
     8  added May 13, 2008 (P.L.144, No.16), are amended to read:
     9  § 4351.  Costs and fees.
    10     * * *
    11     (a.1)  Annual fee.--The Commonwealth shall impose a fee of
    12  $25 in each case in which an individual has never received
    13  assistance under Title IV-A of the Social Security Act (49 Stat.
    14  620, 42 U.S.C. § 301 et seq.) and for whom the Commonwealth has
    15  collected at least $500 of support in a Federal fiscal year.
    16  [The Commonwealth shall pay the $25 fee for those cases in which
    17  the annual collection is between $500 and $1,999.99.] The $25
    18  fee shall be collected from the [custodial] parent who owes the

     1  child support obligation in [cases where annual collections
     2  equal $2,000 or more] all cases in which a fee is imposed under
     3  this subsection.
     4     * * *
     5  § 4374.  State disbursement unit.
     6     * * *
     7     (c)  Allocation of collections.--Subject to subsections (d),
     8  (e), (f) and (f.1), support collected on behalf of a family
     9  shall be distributed as follows:
    10         * * *
    11         (3)  In the case of a family that never received cash
    12     assistance from the Commonwealth, all support collections
    13     shall be paid to the family with the exception of the
    14     federally mandated $25 annual fee collected from the
    15     [custodial] parent who owes the child support obligation as
    16     required under section 4351(a.1) (relating to costs and
    17     fees).
    18     (d)  Retention by Commonwealth.--
    19         * * *
    20         (2)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
    21     federally mandated $25 annual fee collected from the
    22     [custodial] parent who owes the child support obligation as
    23     required under section 4351(a.1) shall be retained by the
    24     department.
    25     * * *
    26     Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.



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