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House Journal: Page 962: Tuesday, March 26, 1996

13   consultation with the department of management and the
14   legislative fiscal committee, is authorized to receive
15   and deposit state child support incentive earnings in
16   the manner specified under applicable federal
17   requirements.
18     4.  The director of revenue and finance may
19   establish new positions and add state employees to the
20   child support recovery unit if the director determines
21   the employees are necessary to replace county-funded
22   positions eliminated due to termination, reduction, or
23   nonrenewal of a chapter 28E contract.  However, the
24   director must also determine that the resulting
25   increase in the state share of child support recovery
26   incentives exceeds the cost of the positions, the
27   positions are necessary to ensure continued federal
28   funding of the program, or the new positions can
29   reasonably be expected to recover more than twice the
30   amount of money to pay the salaries and support for
31   the new positions.
32     5.  The child support recovery unit shall continue
33   to work with the judicial department to determine the
34   feasibility of a pilot project utilizing a court-
35   appointed referee for judicial determinations on child
36   support matters.  The extent and location of any pilot
37   project shall be jointly developed by the judicial
38   department and the child support recovery unit.
39     6.  The department shall expend up to $50,000,
40   including federal financial participation, for the
41   fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, for a child
42   support public awareness campaign.  The department
43   shall cooperate with the office of the attorney
44   general in continuation of the campaign.  The public
45   awareness campaign shall emphasize, through a variety
46   of media activities and through continuation of the
47   publication of names of persons who are delinquent in
48   payment of child support obligations, the importance
49   of maximum involvement of both parents in the lives of
50   their children as well as the importance of payment of

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 1   child support obligations.
 2     7.  The department shall continue the pilot program
 3   option to provide and supervise a community service
 4   pilot project for absent parents who are ordered by
 5   the court to perform community service for failure to
 6   pay child support pursuant to section 598.23A.
 7     8.  The director of revenue and finance may enter a
 8   contract with private collection agencies to collect
 9   support payments for cases which have been identified
10   by the department as difficult collection cases if the
11   department determines that this form of collection is
12   more cost effective than departmental collection
13   methods.  The director may use a portion of the state

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