40-5-261. Procedures for making information available to consumer reporting agencies. (1) The department may make information about a support debt available to consumer reporting agencies, as defined in 31-3-102, upon request. The department may charge a fee to recover the cost of responding to requests for support debt information. The department shall provide advance notice to the obligor concerning the proposed release of information. However, lack of actual notice does not preclude the release of information to consumer reporting agencies. The notice may be incorporated into any notice served pursuant to Title 17, chapter 4, part 1; Title 40, chapter 5, part 4; this part; or the federal income tax refund intercept program under 42 U.S.C. 664. The notice must inform the obligor of the methods available for contesting the accuracy of the information.
(2) If contacted by an obligor wishing to contest the accuracy of information proposed for release to consumer reporting agencies, the department shall conduct an informal administrative review, separately or in conjunction with a hearing on any other matter concerning the obligor's support obligation, to determine the accuracy of the information. The accuracy of information provided by the department to consumer reporting agencies may be contested in accordance with the procedures provided in 31-3-124. An obligor dissatisfied with the outcome of a reinvestigation conducted by a consumer reporting agency may receive an administrative hearing on the accuracy of the information by filing a written request with the department. The hearing must be conducted in accordance with 40-5-226, and the resulting findings are subject to judicial review as provided in 40-5-253.
(3) The department shall within 30 days notify all consumer reporting agencies that were provided information pursuant to this section if a reported support debt is paid in full or is no longer being enforced by the department.
History: En. Sec. 6, Ch. 418, L. 1989.
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