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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter will announce Wednesday whether he'll call a special session to address the state's noncompliance with federal child support rules.
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare officials say the state's ability to collect and distribute out-of-state child support payments will end in mid-June if state lawmakers don't reconvene and pass the Uniform Interstate Family Security Act.
The state also stands to lose $46 million in federal child support funding.
Otter told reporters earlier this month that he wasn't yet ready to call a special session.
A House panel voted 9-8 to kill the federal compliance guidelines in the final hours of the legislative session amid concerns it would destroy state sovereignty and cause enforcement of Sharia law.
If Otter calls a special session, it would be the first in nine years.
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