relative to exclusion of incarceration as voluntary unemployment for purposes of calculating child support.

This bill updates child support guidelines to ensure that a parent's time in prison is never counted as voluntary unemployment when calculating their income. By explicitly excluding incarceration from the definition of voluntary unemployment, the law prevents courts from reducing child support payments based on the assumption that a parent chose to be in prison. Starting January 1, 2025, judges will no longer have the discretion to treat imprisonment as a reason to lower a parent's reported earnings for support purposes. The change applies to all parents subject to child support orders, ensuring that incarceration does not automatically result in reduced financial obligations to their children.