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(1) establishing parenting time arrangements 
when obtaining child support orders is an important 
goal which should be accompanied by strong family 
violence safeguards; and 
(2) States should use existing funding sources 
to support the establishment of parenting time ar-
rangements, including child support incentives, Ac-
cess and Visitation Grants, and Healthy Marriage 
Promotion and Responsible Fatherhood Grants. 
SEC. 304. DATA EXCHANGE STANDARDIZATION FOR IM-
PROVED INTEROPERABILITY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 452 (42 U.S.C. 652), as 
amended by section 301(a)(1) of this Act, is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(o) DATA EXCHANGE STANDARDS FOR IMPROVED 
INTEROPERABILITY.— 
‘‘(1) DESIGNATION.—The Secretary shall, in 
consultation with an interagency work group estab-
lished by the Office of Management and Budget and 
considering State government perspectives, by rule, 
designate data exchange standards to govern, under 
this part— 
‘‘(A) necessary categories of information 
that State agencies operating programs under 
State plans approved under this part are re-
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quired under applicable Federal law to elec-
tronically exchange with another State agency; 
and 
‘‘(B) Federal reporting and data exchange 
required under applicable Federal law. 
‘‘(2) 
REQUIREMENTS.—The 
data 
exchange 
standards required by paragraph (1) shall, to the ex-
tent practicable— 
‘‘(A) incorporate a widely accepted, non- 
proprietary, searchable, computer-readable for-
mat, such as the eXtensible Markup Language; 
‘‘(B) contain interoperable standards devel-
oped and maintained by intergovernmental 
partnerships, such as the National Information 
Exchange Model; 
‘‘(C) incorporate interoperable standards 
developed and maintained by Federal entities 
with authority over contracting and financial 
assistance; 
‘‘(D) be consistent with and implement ap-
plicable accounting principles; 
‘‘(E) be implemented in a manner that is 
cost-effective and improves program efficiency 
and effectiveness; and 
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‘‘(F) be capable of being continually up-
graded as necessary. 
‘‘(3) RULE
OF
CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in 
this subsection shall be construed to require a 
change to existing data exchange standards found to 
be effective and efficient.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall issue a proposed rule within 24 
months after the date of the enactment of this section. 
The rule shall identify federally required data exchanges, 
include specification and timing of exchanges to be stand-
ardized, and address the factors used in determining 
whether and when to standardize data exchanges. It 
should also specify State implementation options and de-
scribe future milestones. 
SEC. 305. REPORT TO CONGRESS. 
The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall— 
(1) in conjunction with the strategic plan, re-
view and provide recommendations for cost-effective 
improvements to the child support enforcement pro-
gram under part D of title IV of the Social Security 
Act, and ensure that the plan addresses the effec-
tiveness and performance of the program, analyzes 
program practices, identifies possible new collection 
tools and approaches, and identifies strategies for 
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holding parents accountable for supporting their 
children and for building the capacity of parents to 
pay child support, with specific attention given to 
matters including front-end services, on-going case 
management, collections, Tribal-State partnerships, 
interstate and intergovernmental interactions, pro-
gram performance, data analytics, and information 
technology; 
(2) in carrying out paragraph (1), consult with 
and include input from— 
(A) State, tribal, and county child support 
directors; 
(B) judges who preside over family courts 
or other State or local courts with responsibility 
for conducting or supervising proceedings relat-
ing to child support enforcement, child welfare, 
or social services for children and their families, 
and organizations that represent the judges; 
(C) custodial parents and organizations 
that represent them; 
(D) noncustodial parents and organizations 
that represent them; and 
(E) organizations that represent fiduciary 
entities that are affected by child support en-
forcement policies; and 
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(3) in developing the report required by para-
graph (4), solicit public comment; 
(4) not later than June 30, 2015, submit to the 
Congress a report that sets forth policy options for 
improvements in child support enforcement, which 
report shall include the following: 
(A) A review of the effectiveness of State 
child support enforcement programs, and the 
collection practices employed by State agencies 
administering programs under such part, and 
an analysis of the extent to which the practices 
result in unintended consequences or perform-
ance issues associated with the programs and 
practices. 
(B) Recommendations for methods to en-
hance the effectiveness of child support enforce-
ment programs and collection practices. 
(C) A review of State best practices in re-
gards to establishing and operating State and 
multistate lien registries. 
(D) A compilation of State recovery and 
distribution policies. 
(E) Options, with analysis, for methods to 
engage noncustodial parents in the lives of their 
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