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CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 154(FIN) am An Act making                               
statutory changes that will be repealed on July 1, 1999, relating to           
paternity determination and child support; making statutory changes            
that will be repealed on July 1, 1999, relating to reporting of and            
access to financial or other information for  child  support  purposes;        
                                                                               
                                                                               

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making statutory changes that will be repealed on July 1, 1999, to             
laws relating to occupational licenses, crewmember fishing licenses,           
drivers licenses, and other permits, certificates, or other                    
authorizations issued by the state, other than recreational fishing and        
hunting licenses, to facilitate administration of child support laws;          
making statutory changes that will be repealed on July 1, 1999,                
relating to immunity from civil liability for good faith compliance            
with reporting or other requirements for child support purposes;               
making statutory changes that will be repealed on July 1, 1999,                
relating to voiding fraudulent transfers and to penalties for                  
noncompliance with orders for child support purposes; making                   
statutory changes that will be repealed on July 1, 1999, providing             
that an obligor will be considered to be in substantial compliance             
with a support order or payment schedule if a court determines that            
the obligor is making the best efforts possible to have no arrearages;         
making statutory changes that will be repealed on July 1, 1999,                
providing that the authority of a tribunal to order that service be            
given to a party by first class mail applies to subsequent child               
support enforcement efforts by the agency with respect to that party;          
making statutory changes that will be repealed on July 1, 1999,                
allowing a party aggrieved by an order of nondisclosure of                     
information relating to a party or a child in a child support                  
proceeding to contest that order in a hearing when the order was               
based on an ex parte finding of risk; retaining existing law relating          
to the duty of employers and labor unions to provide employment                
and compensation reports to the child support enforcement agency;              
making statutory changes that will be repealed on July 1, 1999,                
requiring that administrative subpoenas of the child support                   
enforcement agency be served in the manner provided for service of             
liens by the agency; making statutory changes that will be repealed            
on July 1, 1999, requiring that administrative orders to withhold and          
deliver be served by the child support enforcement agency                      
electronically or in the manner provided for service of liens by the           
agency; retaining existing law with respect to whether a lien arising          
under the child support laws of another state shall be given full faith        
and credit in this state; making statutory changes that will be                
repealed on July 1, 1999, allowing the child support enforcement               
agency of this or another state, but not any other person, to serve a          
                                                                               

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copy of certain liens relating to child support at any time after              
recording of the lien; making statutory changes that will be repealed          
on July 1, 1999, allowing the periodic modification of child support           
orders without a showing of a material change in circumstances but             
only if the order was not modified in the three years preceding the            
periodic modification; making statutory changes that will be repealed          
on July 1, 1999, modifying the duties of the child support                     
enforcement agency but not authorizing the agency to enter into                
contracts or agreements with contractors to perform some or all of             
the function of the agencys disbursement unit; reenacting and                  
reinstating existing laws relating to child support and paternity              
determination upon the repeal of the changes made by this law on               
July 1, 1999; amending Rules 4, 5, 35, 52, 58, 78, 90.1, and 90.3,             
Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure; amending Rule 901, Alaska Rules               
of Evidence; amending Rules 3 and 5, Alaska Bar Association Rules;             
repealing the effective date of sec. 45, ch. 107, SLA 1996; and                
providing for an effective date was enrolled, signed by the President          
and Secretary, Speaker and Chief Clerk and the engrossed and                   
enrolled copies transmitted to the Office of the Governor at 8:25              
a.m., June 2, 1997.