“There’s a long version to this and a short version, and today’s proceedings have worn me out, and I’m only capable of doing the short version,” Sen. Grant Burgoyne, D-Boise, told the Senate as he presented HB 1, the child support enforcement bill. The bill, he said, is identical to SB 1067 from this year’s regular session through much of its text, but then includes amendments to other sections of code. Under the bill, he said, “An Idaho court will not recognize and enforce an order that violates due process.”

“Without cooperation with foreign countries, an international enforcement scheme is not possible,” Burgoyne said. "So far, 28 states have enacted these amendments." He read them off; they include Montana, both Dakotas, Wyoming and Washington. He also read off the names of the nations that have signed on to the 2007 Hague Convention on child support, including Albania, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The Senate voted unanimously to suspend its rules and take up the bill immediately.