Bill Text: NH HB1340 | 2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relative to exclusion of incarceration as voluntary unemployment for purposes of calculating child support.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-06-20 - Signed by Governor Sununu 06/14/2024; Chapter 73; eff. 1/1/2025 House Journal 16 [HB1340 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2024-HB1340-Enrolled.html
HB 1340 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES
2024 SESSION
24-2132
05/08
HOUSE BILL 1340
SPONSORS: Rep. Bickford, Straf. 3
COMMITTEE: Children and Family Law
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ANALYSIS
This bill provides that incarceration shall not be considered voluntary unemployment for purposes of calculating gross income under the child support guidelines.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2132
05/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Child Support Guidelines; Definition of Gross Income; Incarceration Not Considered Voluntary Unemployment. Amend RSA 458-C:2, IV(a) to read as follows:
(a) The court, in its discretion, may consider as gross income the difference between the amount a parent is earning and the amount a parent has earned in cases where the parent voluntarily becomes unemployed or underemployed, unless the parent is physically or mentally incapacitated; provided that in no case shall incarceration be considered voluntary unemployment.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2025.
