Bill Text: NY S06784 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the income amounts to be utilized in issuing orders of child support and temporary spousal maintenance in supreme and family court.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-11-21 - SIGNED CHAP.466 [S06784 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6784
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 10, 2014
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       Introduced by Sen. AVELLA -- (at request of the Office of Court Adminis-
         tration)  --  read  twice  and ordered printed, and when printed to be
         committed to the Committee on Social Services
       AN ACT to amend the social services law and the domestic relations  law,
         in  relation  to  income  amounts  to be utilized in issuing orders of
         child support and temporary spousal maintenance in supreme and  family
         court
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2  of  section  111-i  of  the
    2  social  services  law, as amended by chapter 343 of the laws of 2009, is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    (b) The combined parental income amount to be reported  in  the  child
    5  support  standards  chart  and  utilized  in calculating orders of child
    6  support in accordance with subparagraph two of paragraph (c) of subdivi-
    7  sion one of section four hundred thirteen of the family  court  act  and
    8  subparagraph  two  of  paragraph (c) of subdivision one-b of section two
    9  hundred forty of the domestic relations law AS OF JANUARY  THIRTY-FIRST,
   10  TWO  THOUSAND  FOURTEEN shall be one hundred [thirty] FORTY-ONE thousand
   11  dollars; provided, however, beginning January thirty-first, two thousand
   12  [twelve] SIXTEEN and every two years thereafter, the  combined  parental
   13  income  amount shall increase by the [product] SUM of the average annual
   14  percentage changes in the consumer price index for all  urban  consumers
   15  (CPI-U)  as published by the United States department of labor bureau of
   16  labor statistics for the PRIOR two [year period] YEARS MULTIPLIED BY THE
   17  CURRENT COMBINED PARENTAL INCOME AMOUNT AND THEN rounded to the  nearest
   18  one thousand dollars.
   19    S  2.  Subparagraph  5  of paragraph b of subdivision 5-a of part B of
   20  section 236 of the domestic relations law, as added by  chapter  371  of
   21  the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
   22    (5)  "Income  cap"  shall  mean  up  to  and  including  five  hundred
   23  FORTY-THREE thousand dollars of the payor's annual income AS OF  JANUARY
   24  THIRTY-FIRST,  TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN; provided, however, beginning Janu-
   25  ary thirty-first, two thousand [twelve]  SIXTEEN  and  every  two  years
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  thereafter,  the  payor's  annual  income  amount  shall increase by the
    2  [product] SUM of the average annual percentage changes in  the  consumer
    3  price  index  for all urban consumers (CPI-U) as published by the United
    4  States  department of labor bureau of labor statistics for the PRIOR two
    5  [year period] YEARS MULTIPLIED BY  THE  CURRENT  PAYOR'S  ANNUAL  INCOME
    6  AMOUNT  AND THEN rounded to the nearest one thousand dollars. The office
    7  of court administration shall determine and publish the income cap.
    8    S 3.  This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after  it  shall
    9  have become a law.
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