The commissioner of human services, in cooperation with the child support enforcement agency, shall establish a program of wage and bank information sharing with other states. The commissioner is authorized to enter into reciprocal agreements with other states to share lists of absent parents who owe support payments to the child support enforcement agency. Such reciprocal agreements shall only be made with states which administer programs that the commissioner of human services, in consultation with the child support enforcement agency, determines are substantially similar. The wage and bank information sharing program shall apply only to states which have similar prohibitions and penalties for disclosure of information. The prohibitions and penalties of Code Section 19-11-30.4 shall also apply to any such information received from any other state under a reciprocal agreement.
(Code 1981, §19-11-30.6, enacted by Ga. L. 1997, p. 1613, § 30; Ga. L. 2002, p. 1247, § 14; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-4/HB 228; Ga. L. 2017, p. 646, § 2-3/SB 137.)
The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, substituted "child support enforcement agency" for "IV-D agency" throughout this Code section.
Law reviews.- For article on the 1997 enactment of this Code section, see 14 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 121 (1997).