ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 435

Approved May 26, 2004.

CHAPTER 435
(Senate Bill 38)

AN ACT concerning

Family Law - Child Support Enforcement - Earnings Withholding and

Medical Support Notices

FOR the purpose of repealing the requirement that the Child Support Enforcement
Administration send certain documents to an obligor by certified mail under
certain circumstances; requiring the Administration to send certain documents
to an obligor at the obligor's place of employment; altering the contents of a
certain statement of the obligor's right to contest the accuracy of information
provided in a certain earnings withholding notice; repealing the requirement
that a certain parent or support enforcement agency send a copy of an order to
provide health insurance coverage or a medical support notice to the parent's
employer by certified mail under certain circumstances; requiring a certain
parent or support enforcement agency to send a copy of an order to provide
health insurance coverage or a medical support notice to the parent's employer
in a certain manner under certain circumstances; and generally relating to child
support enforcement.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Family Law
Section 10-124 and 12-102(d)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1999 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article - Family Law
Section 12-102(a), (b), and (c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1999 Replacement Volume and 2003 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Family Law

10-124.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Part III, the Administration may
serve an earnings withholding notice on an employer of an obligor without the need
for any modification of the support order or any further action by a tribunal if:

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