Section 111-I. Child support standards

1. Each social services district
  shall ascertain the ability of an absent parent to support or contribute
  to the support of his or her children, in accordance with the  statewide
  child  support standards as set forth in subdivision one of section four
  hundred thirteen of the family court act.
    * 2.  (a)  The  commissioner  shall  publish  annually  in  department
  regulations  the  revised self-support reserve as defined in section two
  hundred forty of the  domestic  relations  law  to  reflect  the  annual
  updating  of the poverty income guidelines amount for a single person as
  reported by the federal department of health and human services.
    (b) The commissioner shall publish in department regulations  a  child
  support  standards  chart  to reflect the dollar amounts yielded through
  application of the child support percentage as defined  in  section  two
  hundred forty of the domestic relations law.
    * NB Effective until January 31, 2010
    * 2.  (a)  The  commissioner  shall  publish  annually a child support
  standards chart. The child support standards chart  shall  include:  (i)
  the  revised poverty income guideline for a single person as reported by
  the federal department of health and human services;  (ii)  the  revised
  self-support  reserved  as  defined  in section two hundred forty of the
  domestic  relations  law;  (iii)  the  dollar  amounts  yielded  through
  application  of  the  child support percentage as defined in section two
  hundred forty of the domestic relations law  and  section  four  hundred
  thirteen  of the family court act; and (iv) the combined parental income
  amount.
    (b) The combined parental income amount to be reported  in  the  child
  support  standards  chart  and  utilized  in calculating orders of child
  support  in  accordance  with  subparagraph  two  of  paragraph  (c)  of
  subdivision one of section four hundred thirteen of the family court act
  and  subparagraph  two  of paragraph (c) of subdivision one-b of section
  two hundred forty of the domestic relations law  shall  be  one  hundred
  thirty   thousand   dollars;   provided,   however,   beginning  January
  thirty-first, two thousand twelve and every two  years  thereafter,  the
  combined  parental  income  amount  shall increase by the product of the
  average annual percentage changes in the consumer price  index  for  all
  urban  consumers (CPI-U) as published by the United States department of
  labor bureau of labor statistics for the two year period rounded to  the
  nearest one thousand dollars.
    (c)  The  commissioner shall publish the child support standards chart
  on an annual basis by April first of each year and  in  no  event  later
  than  forty-five days following publication of the annual poverty income
  guideline for a single person as reported by the federal  department  of
  health and human services.
    * NB Effective January 31, 2010