(A)(1) If the amount of the prize money or the cost of goods or services awarded as a lottery prize award meets or exceeds the reportable winnings amounts set by 26 U.S.C. 6041, or a subsequent analogous section of the Internal Revenue Code, the director of the state lottery commission or the director’s designee shall require the person entitled to the prize award to affirm in writing, under oath, or by electronic means, whether or not the person is in default under a support order. The director or the director’s designee also may take any additional appropriate steps to determine if the person entitled to the prize award is in default under a support order. If the person entitled to the prize award affirms that the person is in default under a support order, or if the director or the director’s designee determines that the person is in default under a support order, the director or the director’s designee shall temporarily withhold payment of the prize award and notify the child support enforcement agency that administers the support order that the person is entitled to a prize award, of the amount of the prize award, and, if the prize award is to be paid in annual installments, of the number of installments.

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(2) Upon receipt of the notice from the director or the director’s designee, the child support enforcement agency shall conduct an investigation to determine whether the person entitled to the lottery prize award is subject to a final and enforceable determination of default made under sections 3123.01 to 3123.07 of the Revised Code. If the agency determines that the person is so subject, it shall issue an intercept directive as described in section 3123.89 of the Revised Code to the director at lottery commission headquarters requiring the director or the director’s designee to deduct from any unpaid prize award or any annual installment payment of an unpaid prize award, a specified amount for support in satisfaction of the support order under which the person is in default. To the extent possible, the amount specified to be deducted under the intercept directive shall satisfy the amount ordered for support in the support order under which the person is in default.

A child support enforcement agency shall issue an intercept directive within thirty days from the date the director or the director’s designee notifies the agency under division (A)(1) of this section. Within thirty days after the date on which the agency issues the intercept directive, the director or the director’s designee shall pay the amount specified in the intercept directive to the office of child support in the department of job and family services. But, if the prize award is to be paid in annual installments, the director or the director’s designee, on the date the next installment payment is due, shall deduct the amount specified in the intercept directive from that installment and, if necessary, any subsequent annual installments, at the time those installments become due and owing to the prize winner, and pay the amount to the office of child support.

(B) As used in this section:

(1) “Support order” has the same meaning as in section 3119.01 of the Revised Code.

(2) “Default” has the same meaning as in section 3121.01 of the Revised Code.

(C) No person shall knowingly make a false affirmation or oath required by division (A) of this section.