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House Journal: Page 1444: Thursday, April 9, 1998

21     NEW SUBSECTION.  5.  On or after July 1, 1999, the
22   department shall implement a program for the
23   satisfaction of accrued support debts, based upon
24   timely payment by the obligor of both current support
25   due and any payments due for accrued support debt
26   under a periodic payment plan.  The unit shall adopt
27   rules pursuant to chapter 17A to establish the
28   criteria and procedures for obtaining satisfaction
29   under the program.  The rules adopted under this
30   subsection shall specify the cases and amounts to
31   which the program is applicable, and may provide for
32   the establishment of the program as a pilot program.
33     Sec. ___.  Section 598.22A, Code Supplement 1997,
34   is amended by adding the following new subsection:
35     NEW SUBSECTION.  4.  Payment of accrued support
36   debt due the department of human services shall be
37   credited pursuant to section 252B.3, subsection 5.
38                          DIVISION XII
39     ALTERNATIVES TO MEDIAN INCOME
40     Sec. ___.  Section 252B.7A, subsection 1, paragraph
41   d, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code Supplement 1997, is
42   amended to read as follows:
43     By July 1, 1999, the department shall adopt rules
44   for imputing income, whenever possible, based on the
45   earning capacity of a parent who does not provide
46   income information or for whom income information is
47   not available.  Until such time as the department
48   adopts rules establishing a different standard for
49   determining the income of a parent who does not
50   provide income information or for whom income

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 1   information is not available, the estimated state
 2   median income for a one-person family as published
 3   annually in the Federal Register for use by the
 4   federal office of community services, office of energy
 5   assistance, for the subsequent federal fiscal year.
 6                             DIVISION XIII
 7     INCOME WITHHOLDING ARREARAGE RATES
 8     Sec. ___.  Section 252D.18, subsection 1, Code
 9   1997, is amended by adding the following new
10   paragraph:
11     NEW PARAGRAPH.  d.  There has been a change in the
12   rules adopted by the department pursuant to chapter
13   17A regarding the amount of income to be withheld to
14   pay a delinquency.
15     Sec. ___.  INCOME WITHHOLDING RATES.
16     1.  Beginning July 1, 1998, the amount of income
17   withheld for the payment of delinquent support, as
18   determined by the child support recovery unit under
19   chapter 252D, shall be decreased on a prospective
20   basis from the current level of fifty percent of the

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