SB 19: "An Act repealing the termination date of changes made by ch. 87, SLA 1997 and ch. 132, SLA 1998 regarding child support enforcement and related programs; repealing the nonseverability provision of ch. 132, SLA 1998; repealing certain requirements for applicants for hunting and sport fishing licenses or tags, and for certain hunting permits, to provide social security numbers for child support enforcement purposes; and providing for an effective date."
00 SENATE BILL NO. 19 01 "An Act repealing the termination date of changes made by ch. 87, SLA 1997 and ch. 02 132, SLA 1998 regarding child support enforcement and related programs; repealing 03 the nonseverability provision of ch. 132, SLA 1998; repealing certain requirements for 04 applicants for hunting and sport fishing licenses or tags, and for certain hunting 05 permits, to provide social security numbers for child support enforcement purposes; and 06 providing for an effective date." 07 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 08 * Section 1. The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section 09 to read: 10 FINDINGS; PURPOSE; INTENT. (a) The legislature finds that 11 (1) many Alaska children are dependent on regular and adequate child support 12 payments in order to meet basic needs; 13 (2) the child support enforcement program in this state helps Alaska children
01 receive the support that has been ordered to meet those children's needs; 02 (3) in 1997 and 1998, legislation was enacted that improved and strengthened 03 the child support enforcement program and provided additional protections for parents and 04 children who are subject to child support orders, but the legislation included provisions that 05 will result in the repeal of those amendments on July 1, 2001; 06 (4) the changes to the child support enforcement program implemented 07 through the 1997 and 1998 Acts have now been tested in practice in this state and have been 08 found successful in ensuring that more children receive the support required to meet basic 09 needs; following the enactment of the 1997 and 1998 Acts, child support collections increased 10 and reached $85,000,000 in fiscal year 2000, the largest annual child support collection in the 11 state's history; 12 (5) in addition to increasing child support collections, the changes made by the 13 1997 and 1998 Acts are needed to assure compliance with federal requirements designed to 14 encourage accurate determination of child support obligations and timely payment of those 15 obligations; 16 (6) the federal government provides millions of dollars to assist the state in 17 financing effective child support enforcement programs; compliance with federal 18 requirements is a condition of receiving this federal financial participation; 19 (7) if the repeal provisions of the 1997 and 1998 Acts are not removed before 20 July 1, 2001, the state will be placed out of compliance with federal requirements for 21 continued federal financial participation in the state's child support enforcement program and 22 for a federal public assistance block grant to this state; according to federal law, if the repeal 23 provisions take effect the state will lose 24 (A) all federal child support enforcement funding, which amounted to 25 over $14,000,000 in federal fiscal year 2000; and 26 (B) the annual federal temporary assistance for needy families program 27 (TANF) block grant administered under the state's Alaska temporary assistance 28 program (ATAP), which amounted to over $65,000,000 in federal fiscal year 2000; 29 and 30 (8) at the request of Alaska's child support enforcement program, the state has 31 received a waiver of the federal requirement that social security numbers be provided by
01 applicants for hunting and sport fishing licenses or tags, and for certain hunting permits; 02 therefore, the state is no longer required by federal law to have in effect the provisions of the 03 1998 Act that require social security numbers on applications for hunting and sport fishing 04 licenses and tags, and for certain hunting permits, in order to assure continued federal 05 financial participation in the state's child support enforcement and public assistance programs; 06 and 07 (9) the 1998 Act included a nonseverability provision requiring that if any one 08 of the majority of the provisions of that Act were to be ruled unconstitutional as to any person 09 or circumstance, the majority of the provisions of the Act would be considered invalid; if the 10 nonseverability provision is triggered, all federal financial participation for the state's child 11 support enforcement and ATAP programs would be lost even if the unconstitutional provision 12 was a relatively minor one. 13 (b) The primary purpose of this Act is to ensure that the current law and court rules of 14 this state relating to child support enforcement and related programs continue in effect so that 15 significant improvements to the child support enforcement program will remain in effect and 16 that the mandates for receiving federal financial participation in the state's child support 17 enforcement and ATAP programs are met, thus assuring that children in this state can timely 18 receive needed child support from their parents and needy children can receive necessary 19 temporary assistance. 20 (c) The intent of this Act is that 21 (1) statutory changes made by ch. 87, SLA 1997 and ch. 132, SLA 1998 22 regarding child support enforcement and related programs that would have been repealed 23 under sec. 148(c), ch. 87, SLA 1997 and secs. 53 and 54(b), ch. 132, SLA 1998 on July 1, 24 2001, instead remain in effect on and after July 1, 2001, along with any changes made to 25 those statutory provisions by the revisor of statutes under authority of AS 01.05.031(b), 26 except for statutory changes made by ch. 132, SLA 1998 that require social security numbers 27 on applications for hunting and sport fishing licenses and tags and for certain hunting permits; 28 (2) any other amendments relating to child support enforcement and related 29 programs that affect the statutory provisions described in (1) of this subsection and that were 30 enacted in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, or 2001, other than by ch. 87, SLA 1997 or ch. 132, SLA 31 1998, continue in effect on and after July 1, 2001, along with any changes made to those
01 statutory provisions by the revisor of statutes under authority of AS 01.05.031(b); 02 (3) amendments to court rules made by ch. 87, SLA 1997 continue in effect on 03 and after July 1, 2001, and that the further amendments to those courts rules provided for in 04 sec. 148(c), ch. 87, SLA 1997 and sec. 53, ch. 132, SLA 1998, not occur; 05 (4) any other amendments to the court rules described in (3) of this subsection 06 that relate to child support enforcement and related programs and that were enacted in 1997, 07 1998, 1999, 2000, or 2001, other than by ch. 87, SLA 1997 or ch. 132, SLA 1998, continue in 08 effect on and after July 1, 2001; and 09 (5) statutory changes made by ch. 132, SLA 1998 that require that social 10 security numbers be provided by applicants for hunting and sport fishing licenses or tags and 11 for certain hunting permits would be repealed. 12 * Sec. 2. (a) Section 148(c), ch. 87, SLA 1997, as amended by sec. 53, ch. 132, SLA 1998, 13 is repealed. 14 (b) Sections 53, 54(b), 54(c), and 56, ch. 132, SLA 1998, are repealed. 15 * Sec. 3. AS 16.05.330(e) and 16.05.346(d) are repealed. 16 * Sec. 4. Sections 1 and 2 of this Act take effect immediately under AS 01.10.070(c). 17 * Sec. 5. Section 3 of this Act takes effect the day following the effective date of sec. 2 of 18 this Act.