Act No. 203

Public Acts of 2004

Approved by the Governor

July 14, 2004

Filed with the Secretary of State

July 14, 2004

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2004

STATE OF MICHIGAN

92ND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2004

Introduced by Reps. Milosch, Tabor, Condino, Lipsey, Voorhees and Vander Veen

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4770

AN ACT to amend 1971 PA 174, entitled "An act to create the office of child support; and to prescribe certain powers and duties of the office, certain public and private agencies, and certain employers and former employers," (MCL 400.231 to 400.240) by adding section 6a.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 6a. (1) The child support bench warrant enforcement fund is created in the state treasury. The fund shall be expended only as provided under this section.

(2) The fees collected under section 2529(4) of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.2529, shall be deposited in the fund created under subsection (1).

(3) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments.

(4) Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall not lapse to the general fund.

(5) The office shall contract with law enforcement agencies to use the fund to enforce civil warrants related to child support. Money transmitted to the state treasurer under this section shall not supplant other money appropriated by the state for office of child support functions.

(6) The office shall make an annual report to the standing house and senate committees that consider child support issues and to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees that consider the family independence agency appropriation. The office shall report about the child support bench warrant enforcement fund all of the following:

(a) A listing of contracts entered into, including the amounts and agencies involved.

(b) The number of bench warrants served by personnel funded by each contract.

(c) The number of unserved, pending bench warrants as of the start date of the contract for each affected jurisdiction.

(7) Money used to administer the fund shall not exceed 10% of the annual money deposited to the fund.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 4771 of the 92nd Legislature is enacted into law.

Enacting section 2. This amendatory act takes effect October 1, 2004.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor