PayChildSupport(or its coming out of winnings)

[Dennis]

Casino bill targets deadbeat parents
Gambling interests say plan unworkable

Friday May 09, 2003
By Jan Moller
Capital bureau
BATON ROUGE -- Louisiana casinos and racetracks would be required to seize winnings from gamblers overdue on their child-support payments under a bill that narrowly passed a House panel Thursday.
Health and Welfare Committee Chairwoman Sydnie Mae Durand, D-Parks, cast the tie-breaking vote on House Bill 1282, which would make Louisiana the first state to put private companies in the role traditionally reserved for government.

The bill's author, Rep. Warren Triche, D-Thibodaux, said he was undaunted by opposition from gambling interests that complained that the bill is unworkable and an invitation to lawsuits.
"I'm going to be able to say I did everything in the world to get court-ordered child support into the hands of those who need it, and I'm not going to worry about what the riverboats say," Triche said.
The law lets the state take lottery winnings, as well as workers' compensation payments, legal settlements and other money from parents who won't pay child support.
This month, the Department of Social Services had 182,000 delinquent accounts totaling nearly $800 million in overdue child-support payments, department spokeswoman Nannette White said.
Louisiana isn't the first state to look for private-sector help in collecting such money. Similar proposals have been floated in other states and by Presidents Bush and Clinton.
None has been enacted to date, in part because of strong opposition from the gambling industry.
Wade Duty, executive director of the Casino Association of Louisiana, said the bill would create logistical nightmares for the state's 14 riverboat casinos. Every casino employee who pays jackpots to gamblers would need to have 24-hour access to an electronic database of deadbeat parents, he said.
Duty said it would require about 15,000 employee-hours a year for casinos to conduct background checks on each jackpot winner. Because more than half of the state's riverboat customers come from out of state, many of those background checks would be a waste of time, he said.
Louisiana's riverboats pay out about 300,000 jackpots a year of $1,200 or more, which is the minimum that a gambler would have to win before being screened for overdue child support.
"Why don't we do it (background checks) for State Farm before they issue a settlement check?" Duty said.
Duty said the bill could expose casinos to lawsuits from gamblers unfairly denied jackpots because information from the state was wrong or out of date.

[Mr.Chad]

couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of people

anyone who want take care of there kids that they split and left doesn't deserve to breathe.

[FENWAY]

In Minnesota would not be able to get to the track to make a bet since Dead beat Dads lose their liscense if get way behind on child support payments.

[Chester]

AMEN

[The Major]

Hey Chester, where ya been?

Hope all is going well and good to see ya.

Russ