§ 19-11-30.8.Annual reports
Chapter 11. Enforcement of Duty of Support · Article 1. Child Support Recovery Act · Last amended 2009 · Last verified October 9, 2026
Full Text of § 19-11-30.8
Plain-English Summary
Georgia gives its child support agency powerful tools for finding a parent’s money. The bank match system in §§ 19-11-30.1 through 19-11-30.3 has banks and credit unions report account data on parents who owe support, and § 19-11-30.6 sets up wage and bank information sharing with other states. This section makes the agency answer to the legislature for how those systems are working.
The commissioner of human services shall file an annual report describing the status of the wage reporting and bank match systems. The report covers the previous state fiscal year and goes to two officers of the General Assembly: the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate. It is due no later than September 30 of each year. The duty is mandatory; the statute uses “shall” for both the report and its filing.
The section doesn’t list what the report must contain beyond describing the status of the two systems, and it gives parents no rights or remedies of its own. Its value for a parent or a lawyer is mostly as a pointer: if you want to know how Georgia’s bank match program has performed, these yearly reports to the legislature are where the department has to say so. The section was last amended in 2009.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who oversees Georgia’s child support bank match system?
The Department of Human Services runs it, and the legislature receives a yearly status report. Under this section, the commissioner of human services shall file an annual report describing the status of the wage reporting and bank match systems with the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate.
When is the annual bank match report due?
No later than September 30 of each year. The report covers the previous state fiscal year, so each September filing looks back at the year just ended. It goes to two officers of the General Assembly: the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate. The commissioner of human services is responsible for filing it.
What does the annual report have to cover?
The statute requires a report “describing the status” of two things: the wage reporting system and the bank match system. It doesn’t list specific figures or topics beyond that. The bank match system itself is set out in §§ 19-11-30.1 through 19-11-30.3, and interstate wage and bank information sharing is in § 19-11-30.6.
Is the commissioner required to file the report or only allowed to?
Required. The section says the commissioner of human services “shall” file the annual report and that it “shall” be filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate by September 30 for the previous state fiscal year. Nothing in the section makes the report optional or lets it be skipped in a given year.
Does this section give a parent any rights in a child support case?
Amendment History
Laws 1997, p. 1613, § 30; Laws 2002, p. 1247, § 16; Laws 2009, Act 102, § 2-4, eff. July 1, 2009.