SENATE FILE 2

BY  JOHNSON

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to reduction or termination of visitation based upon repeated willful failure to pay support.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

   Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  598.23B  Willful failure to pay support—— repeated contempt citations—— reduction or termination of visitation time.
   If a person against whom an order or decree for support has been entered pursuant to this chapter or chapter 234, 252A, 252C, 252F, 600B, or any other support chapter, or a comparable chapter of a foreign jurisdiction, willfully fails to make payments or provide medical support pursuant to that order or decree, and is repeatedly cited and punished by the court for contempt under this or any other chapter, the court may order modification of the visitation provisions of the order or decree to reduce or terminate visitation time with the child.
EXPLANATION
   This bill provides that if a person against whom an order or decree for support has been entered willfully fails to make payments or provide medical support pursuant to the order or decree and is repeatedly cited and punished by the court for contempt, the court may order modification of the visitation provisions of the decree or order to reduce or terminate visitation time with the child.