HB354 Alabama 2015 Session

Under existing law, the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) provides uniform rules for the enforcement of family support orders. In 1996, as a condition of state eligibility for federal funding of child support enforcement, Congress mandated that each state enact the UIFSA

In 2008, the Uniform Law Commission amended UIFSA to incorporate the provisions of the Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support of Family Maintenance into state law. The Convention contains provisions that establish uniform procedures for the processing of international child support cases

In 2014, Congress enacted the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act. That act required each state to expeditiously enact the 2008 amendments to the UIFSA during its 2015 legislative session as a condition for continued receipt of federal funds supporting state child support programs

This bill would repeal the existing Uniform Interstate Family Support Act and replace it with the 2008 version of the UIFSA

This bill would also provide guidelines and procedures for the registration, enforcement, and modification of foreign support orders from countries that are parties to the Convention

To add Chapter 3D (commencing with Section 30-3D-101) to Title 30, Code of Alabama 1975; to adopt the 2008 Uniform Interstate Family Support Act; to provide guidelines and procedures for the registration, enforcement, and modification of foreign support orders from countries that are parties to the Hague Convention; and to repeal Chapter 3A, (commencing with Section 30-3A-101) of Title 30 of the Code of Alabama 1975.