Work Training/Delinquent Child Support.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 1
SENATE BILL 984

Short Title: Work Training/Delinquent Child Support. (Public)
Sponsors: Senator Smith (Primary Sponsor).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
May 4, 2026
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FO R WORK OR WORK -RELATED ACTIVITIES AS AN 2
ALTERNATIVE REMEDY T O INCARCERATION FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE 3
DETERMINED TO BE DELINQUENT ON CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS. 4
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 5
SECTION 1. G.S. 50-13.4(f) reads as rewritten: 6
"(f) Remedies for enforcement of support of minor children shall be available as follows: 7
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(9) An order for the periodic payments of child support or a child support 9
judgment that provides for periodic payments is enf orceable by proceedings 10
for civil contempt, and disobedience may be punished by proceedings for 11
criminal contempt, as provided in Chapter 5A of the General Statutes. 12
Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 1-294, an order for the payment of 13
child support which has been appealed to the appellate division is enforceable 14
in the trial court by proceedings for civil contempt during the pendency of the 15
appeal. Upon motion of an aggrieved party, the court of the appellate division 16
in which the appeal is pending may stay any order for civil contempt entered 17
for child support until the appeal is decided, if justice requires. 18
As a special condition of a contempt order, the court may direct the person 19
into job search or dually specific education training. If the court s elects this 20
option, the court shall review the person 's progress in 30 -day intervals, at a 21
minimum, unless the person is enrolled and actively participating in 22
work-specific training. The person's enrollment in work-specific training shall 23
not exceed six m onths and the person shall satisfy all of the following 24
requirements: 25
a. Pay a minimum of fifty dollars ($50.00) monthly child support. 26
b. Notify the court upon completion from work-specific training. 27
c. Notify the court within 14 days of failing to satisfy the attendance 28
requirements of work-specific training. 29
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SECTION 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Community 31
Colleges System Office the sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000) in nonrecurring funds fo r 32
the 2026-2027 fiscal year to be distributed to applicable community colleges for the purpose of 33
defraying the costs of work‑specific training for participants in this program. 34
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law. 35