Date: 03/09/2009

Final
BILL SUMMARY for SB09-053

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Votes: View--> Action Taken:
Moved to refer Senate Bill 09-053 to the CommitteePASS



03:05 PM -- Senate Bill 09-053

Representative Schafer presented Senate Bill 09-053 which changes how the Department of Human Services collects child support payments from persons receiving public assistance through the Colorado Works program. She stated that the bill allows custodial parents that apply for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) to retain any unpaid child support that accrued prior to the date they received public assistance rather than assigning their rights to that money to the state. She stated that the change was mandated under the Federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. Representative Schafer stated that the state must comply with the federal requirement otherwise, potentially lose the federal TANF block funding. Representative Schafer stated that the counties will be responsible for loss of funds. Representative Schafer provided a fact sheet on the bill to the committee (Attachment B).

09HouseHHS0309AttachB.pdf

03:08 PM -- Emily Maxfield, Division of Child Enforcement, Department of Human Services, spoke in support of the bill.

03:11 PM -- Pat Ratliff, Colorado Counties, Inc, testified in support of the bill. She stated that the amount of money being lost by the implementation of the bill is not a large amount.
BILL:SB09-053
TIME: 03:16:20 PM
MOVED:Gagliardi
MOTION:Moved to refer Senate Bill 09-053 to the Committee of the Whole. The motion passed on a 10-0 roll call vote.
SECONDED:Acree
VOTE
Acree
Yes
Gerou
Yes
Green
Yes
Kefalas
Yes
Kerr J.
Yes
McGihon
Excused
Nikkel
Yes
Primavera
Yes
Swalm
Yes
Gagliardi
Yes
Riesberg
Yes
Final YES: 10 NO: 0 EXC: 1 ABS: 0 FINAL ACTION: PASS