GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2003
SESSION LAW 2004-21
HOUSE BILL 1497
AN ACT to adopt a flat collection assistance fee under the setoff debt collection act.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 105A-13(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) State Setoff. - To
recover the costs incurred by the Department in collecting debts under this
Chapter, a collection assistance fee of no more than fifteen five dollars
($15.00)($5.00) is imposed on each debt collected through setoff.
The Department must collect this fee as part of the debt and retain it. The
Department must set the amount of the collection assistance fee based on its
actual cost of collection under this Chapter for the immediately preceding
year. The collection assistance fee shall not be added to child support
debts or collected as part of child support debts. Instead, the Department
shall retain from collections under Division II of Article 4 of Chapter 105 of
the General Statutes the cost of collecting child support debts under this
Chapter."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective for fees assessed on or after January 1, 2005.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of June, 2004.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor
Approved 12:04 p.m. this 25th day of June, 2004