HB4 Alabama 2014 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

House Bill

In Committee

Current Status

Regular Session 2014

Session

1

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Becky Nordgren Representative
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2014
Title: Child support, employer who protects the wages of an employee from child support withholding ordered shall be personally liable for the debt, Sec. 30-3-69.1 added
Description: Under existing law, an employer who willfully fails or refuses to withhold or pay the amounts as ordered may be held to be in contempt of court, or personally liable to the obligee for failure to answer or withhold.
This bill would provide that an employer who pays his or her employee's wages in a manner intending to protect the wages of his or her employee from being garnished or withheld for the purpose of the collection of child support payment owed by the employee shall be personally liable for the child support that could have been garnished or withheld.
Subjects: Child Support

Pending third reading on day 14 Favorable from Children and Senior Advocacy with 1 amendment

Indefinitely Postponed

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Children and Senior Advocacy