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2005 SESSION
HB 1714 Garnishment; increasing maximum portion of protected disposable earnings.
Introduced by: Terry G. Kilgore | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Garnishment; increasing maximum portion of protected disposable earnings. Increases the amount of a worker's aggregate disposable earnings protected from garnishment. Currently, the amount subject to garnishment may not exceed the lesser of (i) 25 percent of the worker's disposable weekly earnings or (ii) the amount by which his disposable earnings exceed 30 times the federal minimum hourly wage. This bill raises the federal minimum wage multiplier from 30 to 40.
FULL TEXT
- 12/30/04 House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 057244372 pdf
- 02/25/05 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1714ER) pdf
- 03/28/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286) pdf
HISTORY
- 12/30/04 House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 057244372
- 12/30/04 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/14/05 House: Assigned to C. J. sub-committee: Civil Law
- 01/21/05 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (13-Y 5-N)
- 01/25/05 House: Read first time
- 01/26/05 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/27/05 House: Read third time and passed House (90-Y 7-N)
- 01/27/05 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (90-Y 7-N)
- 01/27/05 House: Communicated to Senate
- 01/28/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/28/05 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/09/05 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/05 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/05 Senate: Read third time
- 02/14/05 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/05 Senate: VOTE: (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/05 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1714ER)
- 02/25/05 House: Enrolled
- 02/25/05 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/28/05 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/20/05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 286 (effective 7/1/05)
- 03/28/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0286)