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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 988

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representatives Tanner, Miller, Belcher and Unsoeld

Read first time 2/8/85 and referred to Committee on Judiciary.

AN ACT Relating to child support; and amending RCW 26.09.130.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 13, chapter 157, Laws of 1973 1st ex. sess. and RCW 26.09.130 are each amended to read as follows:

          The court may order the person obligated to pay ((support or)) maintenance to make an assignment of a part of ((his)) that person's periodic earnings or trust income to the person or agency entitled to receive the payments((:  PROVIDED, That)).  The court may on its own motion, and shall if requested by the person entitled to receive child support payments, order a wage assignment for the child support obligation.  The provisions of RCW 7.33.280 in regard to exemptions in garnishment proceedings shall apply to such assignments.  The assignment is binding on the employer, trustee or other payor of the funds two weeks after service upon him of notice that it has been made.  The payor shall withhold from the earnings or trust income payable to the person obligated to support the amount specified in the assignment and shall transmit the payments to the person specified in the order.  The payor may deduct from each payment a sum not exceeding one dollar as reimbursement for costs.  An employer shall not discharge or otherwise discipline an employee as a result of a wage or salary assignment authorized by this section.