PRINTER'S NO. 1412
No. 1027 Session of 2004
INTRODUCED BY C. WILLIAMS, TARTAGLIONE, FERLO, EARLL, STOUT,
COSTA, MELLOW, ERICKSON, CORMAN, O'PAKE, STACK, RAFFERTY,
HUGHES, KITCHEN, A. WILLIAMS, SCHWARTZ AND WOZNIAK,
FEBRUARY 17, 2004
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 17, 2004
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 23 (Domestic Relations) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for information to
3 consumer reporting agency.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4303 of Title 23 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 4303. Information to consumer reporting agency.
9 Information regarding the name and the amount of arrearages
10 owed by an obligor shall be provided periodically to consumer
11 reporting agencies whenever the obligor owes overdue support,
12 subject to the following:
13 (1) The information shall be available only after the
14 obligor owing the arrearages has been notified of the
15 proposed action and given a period not to exceed 20 days to
16 contest the accuracy of the information. The notice shall be
17 as provided by local rule of the court of common pleas.
1 (2) Such information shall not be made available to:
2 (i) a consumer reporting agency which the department
3 determines not to have sufficient capability to
4 systematically and timely make accurate use of such
5 information; or
6 (ii) an entity which has not furnished evidence
7 satisfactory to the department that the entity is a
8 consumer reporting agency.
9 (3) Such information shall not be made available if the
10 arrearage resulted from failure of the obligor's employer to
11 attach income as provided in section 4348 (relating to
12 attachment of income).
13 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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