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5/15/1997 - Child support enforcement delay could be costly:
This bill must compete for today's time with other major issues like welfare reform and a multi-million dollar tax cut, but sponsor St. Louis City Representative Pat Dougherty is hopeful.
5/13/1997 - House tries to revive welfare reform:
"There is a good likelihood we would lose at least $60 million in federal money," said the bill's House handler, Rep. Pat Dougherty, D-St. Louis.
4/28/1997 - Children's Health Care Approved in the House:
But St. Louis Representative..Democrat Pat Dougherty, argued it's an issue of caring for Missouri children.
4/23/1997 - Welfare Costs Prompt Child Support Bills:
"When they did the welfare law, one of the biggest things they were attempting to do is to decrease the burden of the state on taxpayers to pay for somebody else's children," said the House Children Committee Chairman, Rep. Pat Dougherty, D-St. Louis.
4/23/1997 - Deadbeat parents, a new target of lawmakers:
The House bill is sponsored by Pat Dougherty, D-St. Louis. It would allow the Child Support Enforcement Division to seek penalties against parents who are more than $2,000 in arrears or 3 months behind in their support payments.
3/18/1997 - Deadbeat Dad truckers may be forced off the road:
Bill sponsor St. Louis Representative Pat Dougherty says part of the problem is parents who break the law to avoid paying.
3/18/1997 - Deadbeat Dads:
House Children Committee Chairman Pat Dougherty, D-St. Louis, the sponsor of the legislation, said he sees the measure as primarily a threat to get people to pay up.
2/20/1997 - Child Support Enforcement:
Rep. Pat Dougherty, chairman of the House Children, Youth and Families Committee, said he will be introducing a bill in the next two weeks that will look at making the child support enforcement system more efficient.
2/19/1997 - Adoption Records Debate:
"We are trying to change that," said the sponsor of one of the bills, Rep. Pat Dougherty, D-St. Louis. "We are trying that the release of identifying and non-identifying adoptive information apply to adoptions completed before and after August 13, 1986."
2/13/1997 - Ralston Move Worries St. Louis Lawmakers:
Representative Pat Dougherty said the loss would be devastating.
2/03/1997 - Some welfare reforms already being implemented:
"We don't have to like this," said Rep. Pat Dougherty, D-St. Louis. "It is a federal mandate. It is not an issue of like or dislike."
1/30/1997 - Proposed Bill Encourages Comany Day Care:
Representative Pat Dougherty says the bill will help many single parents forced to find work under new federal welfare laws.
1/29/1997 - Child Support Bill Meets Lawyer Opposition:
A bill proposed by St. Louis Rep. Pat Dougherty would allow the state's division of child support to get the money faster.
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