Whereas, the Department of Health and Human Services is finding it more difficult to locate parents delinquent in child support; and

Whereas, the sooner the Department of Health and Human Services has the authority to obtain information from wireless service providers, the sooner the department will be able to locate delinquent parents; and

Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 19-A MRSA §2158 is enacted to read:

§2158.__Information from wireless service provider

1.__Provide information.__A wireless service provider shall provide at the department's request information to the department on an owner of a cellular telephone who is a delinquent child support obligor after the department has exhausted all other avenues in attempting to locate the person.

2.__Rules.__The department shall adopt rules to implement this section.__Rules adopted pursuant to this section are major substantive rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this Act takes effect when approved.

SUMMARY

This bill requires a wireless service provider to provide at the department's request information to the Department of Health and Human Services on an owner of a cellular telephone who is a delinquent child support obligor after the department has exhausted all other avenues in attempting to locate the person.