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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 337

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Relating to: eliminating the 13-week limit on the garnishment of earnings of certain debtors.

Creditor Debt and debtors Garnishment

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

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill eliminates the 13-week limit imposed on the garnishment of earnings

of certain debtors. Under current law, a creditor may file a garnishment notice with

a court and pay a fee to a garnishee for the purpose of collecting an unsatisfied

judgment for money damages from earnings owed to the debtor by the garnishee.

Current law limits the number of weeks in which the earnings of a debtor, other than

a debtor who is an employee of the state or a political subdivision of the state, may

be garnished to 13 weeks.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Allen (R) , Behnke (R) , Gustafson (R) , Kitchens (R) , Murphy (R) , O'Connor (R) , Penterman (R) , Rettinger (R) , Rozar (R) , Spiros (R) , Tusler (R) , Wichgers (R)

6 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Hutton (R) , Knodl (R) , Stroebel (R) , Wanggaard (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 Feb 7, 2024 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 12, Noes 2

Passed 12–2 Feb 7, 2024 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Jun 30, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Tusler, Allen, Behnke, Conley, Gustafson, Kitchens, Murphy, O'Connor, Penterman, Rettinger, Rozar, Spiros and Wichgers; cosponsored by Senators Hutton, Cabral-Guevara, Wanggaard, Ballweg and Stroebel

  2. Jun 30, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs

  3. Jul 19, 2023 · Assembly

    Senator Knodl added as a cosponsor

  4. Oct 19, 2023 · Assembly

    LRB correction

  5. Nov 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Tusler

  6. Jan 10, 2024 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  7. Jan 17, 2024 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  8. Feb 7, 2024 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  9. Feb 7, 2024 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on State Affairs, Ayes 12, Noes 2

  10. Feb 7, 2024 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  11. Feb 8, 2024 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 2-13-2024 by Committee on Rules

  12. Feb 12, 2024 · Assembly

    Representative Conley withdrawn as a coauthor

  13. Feb 13, 2024 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  14. Feb 13, 2024 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  15. Feb 13, 2024 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  16. Feb 13, 2024 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  17. Feb 13, 2024 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  18. Feb 13, 2024 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  19. Feb 14, 2024 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  20. Feb 19, 2024 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Labor, Regulatory Reform, Veterans and Military Affairs

  21. Apr 15, 2024 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1