The new law also provides for withholdings by employers and payroll processors with 10 or more full-time employees.
Introduced by Majority Leader and Committee on Human & Natural Resources Chairman Rory J. Respicio, Bill 163, now Public Law 31-95, will “relieve some of the economic hardship facing single parents by getting their child support payments to them quicker, enabling them to attend to the needs of their children sooner,” Respicio said.
“This new law will also mean additional benefits for Deputy Attorney General Barbara Cepeda and her staff at the AG’s Child Support Enforcement Division, because they will no longer have to manually determine and assign the child support payment to the appropriate child’s account. We learned in most cases, this process was very tedious, cumbersome, and added to the delay in disbursing the child support payments.”
Another measure introduced and enacted into law is Bill 299-31, now P.L. 31-125. This law empowers the Northern and Southern Soil and Water Conservation Districts by recognizing them as the elected government boards that they are, rather than subdivisions of the University of Guam.
The districts are mandated to work with UOG and the Department of Agriculture to promote conservation, development and the use of soil and water resources to control and prevent soil erosion and flooding, and to improve agriculture water management.
“In light of the major flooding events we’ve recently experienced, this bill could not have become law at a better time,” said Respicio.
