First Regular Session
              Sixty-fifth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 05-0037.01 Beth Kane            HOUSE BILL 05-1038
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Cadman
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 (None)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Judiciary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning automatic termination of child support.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently
       adopted.)
       
            Clarifies that, for child support orders entered on or after July 1,
       1997, unless a court finds that a child is otherwise emancipated,
       emancipation occurs and child support terminates automatically, without
       either party filing a motion, when the child attains 19 years of age, absent
       specified circumstances.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  14-10-115 (1.6), Colorado Revised Statutes, is
       amended to read:
            14-10-115.  Child support - guidelines - schedule of basic child
       support obligations.  (1.6)  For child support orders entered on or after
       July 1, 1997, unless a court finds that a child is otherwise emancipated,
       emancipation occurs and child support terminates automatically,
       without either party filing a motion, when the child attains nineteen
       years of age unless one or more of the following conditions exist:
            (a)  The parties agree otherwise in a written stipulation after July
       1, 1997.
            (b)  If the child is mentally or physically disabled, the court or the
       delegate child support enforcement unit may order child support,
       including payments for medical expenses or insurance or both, to
       continue beyond the age of nineteen.
            (c)  If the child is still in high school or an equivalent program,
       support continues until the end of the month following graduation.  A
       child who ceases to attend high school prior to graduation and later
       reenrolls is entitled to support upon reenrollment and until the end of the
       month following graduation, but not beyond age twenty-one.
            SECTION 2.  Effective date - applicability.  (1)  This act shall
       take effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
       ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly that is
       allowed for submitting a referendum petition pursuant to article V,
       section 1 (3) of the state constitution (August 10, 2005, if adjournment
       sine die is on May 11, 2005); except that, if a referendum petition is filed
       against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within such period,
       then the act, item, section, or part, if approved by the people, shall take
       effect on the date of the official declaration of the vote thereon by
       proclamation of the governor.
            (2)  The provisions of this act shall apply to child support orders
       entered on or after July 1, 1997.