125B.170 - Disclosure of information by enforcing authority; regulations.

125B.170  Disclosure of information by enforcing authority; regulations.

      1.  The enforcing authority shall release information concerning a responsible parent’s obligation or failure to pay support for a child to an agency of the kind defined in 15 U.S.C. § 1681a(f), except that the information may not be given to the agency until:

      (a) Notice of the proposed disclosure has been sent to the responsible parent and the responsible parent has had 20 days to correct the information; and

      (b) The agency has furnished evidence satisfactory to the enforcing authority that the agency is of the kind defined in 15 U.S.C. § 1681a(f).

      2.  The Division of Welfare and Supportive Services of the Department of Health and Human Services shall adopt regulations concerning the disclosure of information pursuant to this section, prescribing the content of the notice of the proposed disclosure and establishing procedures for the responsible parent to correct any of the information to be disclosed.

      3.  As used in this section, “enforcing authority” means the Division of Welfare and Supportive Services of the Department of Health and Human Services, its designated representative or the district attorney.

      (Added to NRS by 1985, 1428; A 1987, 2247; 1993, 540; 1997, 2300)

      NRS 125B.180  Concurrence of remedies.  A criminal prosecution brought in accordance with the provisions of NRS 201.015 to 201.080, inclusive, is not a bar to, or barred by, civil proceedings to compel support; but money paid toward the support of the child under the provisions of NRS 201.015 to 201.080, inclusive, must be allowed for and credited in determining or enforcing any civil liability.

      [31:87:1923; NCL § 3435]—(NRS A 1979, 1282)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 126.391)