01/25/2001 03:08 PM House HES

                     ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE                                                                                 
            HOUSE HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES                                                                       
                        STANDING COMMITTEE                                                                                    
                         January 25, 2001                                                                                       
                             3:08 p.m.                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
COMMITTEE CALENDAR                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
OVERVIEW: CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT DIVISION                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
TAPES                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
01-5, SIDES A & B                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
CALL TO ORDER                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE  FRED  DYSON,  Chair,   convened  the  House  Health,                                                            
Education and  Social Services Standing  Committee meeting  to order                                                            
at 3:08 a.m.                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
PRESENT                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
Committee  members  present  were  Representatives   Dyson,  Wilson,                                                            
Coghill, Stevens, Kohring, Cissna, and Joule.                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
SUMMARY OF INFORMATION                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
BARBARA MIKLOS, Director,  Central Office, Child Support Enforcement                                                            
Division  (CSED), Department  of Revenue,  presented an overview  on                                                            
the  Children  Support  Enforcement  Division.    She  reviewed  the                                                            
current   caseload,   existing   support   orders,  orders   to   be                                                            
established, locating parents,  establishing paternity, establishing                                                            
administrative orders,  the appeal process, opening cases with court                                                            
orders,  domestic enforcement,  interstate  cases,  CSED review  for                                                            
modification of  administrative order, CSED review  for modification                                                            
of court orders,  and how child support  is collected by  CSED.  She                                                            
also answered questions from the committee.                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
DIANE  WENDLANDT,   Assistant  Attorney  General,  Collections   and                                                            
Support, Civil  Division (Anchorage),  Department of Law,  explained                                                            
due  process in  the  context of  child  support proceedings.    She                                                            
covered three  requirements of due  process, personal jurisdiction,                                                             
notice in  legal proceedings,  meaningful  opportunity to be  heard,                                                            
and examples  of due  process in  the welfare  reform context.   She                                                            
also answered questions from the committee.                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
ANNOUNCEMENTS                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
There were no announcements.                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
COMMITTEE ACTION                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                              
The committee took no action.                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
ADJOURNMENT                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
CHAIRMAN DYSON  called for an at-ease at 4:29 p.m.  in order to hear                                                            
HB 41.  [The  minutes for HB 41 are  found in the 4:30 p.m.  minutes                                                            
for the same date.]                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                
NOTE:  The meeting  was  recorded  and handwritten  log  notes  were                                                            
taken.   A copy  of the tape(s)  and  log notes may  be obtained  by                                                            
contacting  the  House Records  Office  at  State Capitol,  Room  3,                                                            
Juneau, Alaska  99801 (mailing address),  (907) 465-2214,  and after                                                            
adjournment of the second  session of the Twenty-Second Alaska State                                                            
Legislature  this  information  may be  obtained by  contacting  the                                                            
Legislative Reference Library at  (907) 465-3808.