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Bills · 2009-2010 Regular Session

AB 182

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assignment of income, prizes, and earnings to pay a municipal court judgment.

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, if a person fails to pay a judgment ordered by a municipal

court, the court may do any of the following:

1. Defer any payment of the judgment for a period of time.

2. Allow the person to pay the judgment by making installment payments.

3. Order the person to perform community service work in lieu of paying the

judgment.

4. Suspend the person's driving privileges until the judgment is paid, including

taking possession of the person's license to drive.

This bill adds another option to the court, allowing the court to issue an order

assigning not more than 25 percent of the person's earnings, worker's compensation,

pension, and other money due to the person, such as lottery prizes, to pay an unpaid

judgment. The bill allows the municipal court to use the same procedures, notices,

and penalties that the circuit court utilizes for persons who are the subject of a circuit

court-ordered assignment. The bill also adds municipal court judgments to those

judgments that may be collected in circuit court.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Ballweg (R) , Gottlieb (R) , Grigsby (D) , Krusick (D) , Richards (D) , Sinicki (D) , Townsend (R)

8 cosponsors

Barca (D) , Carpenter (D) , Darling (R) , Lehman (D) , Olsen (R) , Plale (D) , Schultz (R) , Taylor (D)

Full history

  1. Apr 2, 2009 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Krusick, Gottlieb, Richards, Sinicki, Ballweg, Townsend and Grigsby;Cosponsored by Senators Plale, Darling, Carpenter, Lehman, Olsen, Schultz and Taylor

  2. Apr 2, 2009 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Corrections and the Courts

  3. May 13, 2009 · Assembly

    Representative Barca added as a coauthor

  4. Apr 28, 2010 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1