be considered to be made to that section or other provision
of the Social Security Act.
(c) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of
this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; reference; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings, declarations, and purposes.
TITLE I—LOCATE AND CASE TRACKING
Sec. 101. Expansion of use of Federal parent locator system.
Sec. 102. Expansion of data bases accessed by parent locator systems.
Sec. 103. Expansion of access to national network for location of parents.
Sec. 104. Private attorney access to locate and enforcement services.
Sec. 105. Access to law enforcement systems of records.
Sec. 106. State networks for broadcasting warrants.
TITLE II—ESTABLISHMENT
Sec. 201. Jurisdiction, service of process, and full faith and credit.
Sec. 202. Service of process on Federal employees and members of the armed
services relating to child support, alimony, and parentage obli-
gations.
Sec. 203. Presumed address of obligor and obligee.
Sec. 204. Notification to custodial parents.
Sec. 205. State uniformity regarding establishment of parentage and support,
jurisdiction and venue, and Federal employee residential sta-
tus.
Sec. 206. Fair Credit Reporting Act amendments.
Sec. 207. National Child Support Guideline Commission.
Sec. 208. State child support guideline principles.
Sec. 209. Duration of support.
Sec. 210. National subpoena duces tecum.
Sec. 211. Uniform terms in orders.
Sec. 212. Social security numbers on marriage licenses and child support or-
ders.
Sec. 213. Administrative subpoena power.
TITLE III—PARENTAGE
Sec. 301. Parentage.
TITLE IV—ENFORCEMENT
Sec. 401. Anti-assignment clauses amended.
Sec. 402. National reporting of new hires and child support information.
Sec. 403. Direct income withholding.
Sec. 404. Priority of wage withholding.
Sec. 405. Definition of income subject to withholding includes workers’ com-
pensation.
Sec. 406. Consumer Credit Protection Act amendments.
Sec. 407. Election of remedies prohibition.
Sec. 408. Occupational, professional and business licenses
Sec. 409. Driver’s licenses.
Sec. 410. Attachment of bank accounts.
Sec. 411. Lotteries, settlements, payouts, awards, and forfeitures.
Sec. 412. Fraudulent transfer pursuit.
Sec. 413. Full IRS collection.
Sec. 414. Bonds.
Sec. 415. Tax offset for non-AFDC post-minor child.
Sec. 416. Attachment of public and private retirement funds.
Sec. 417. Reporting to credit bureaus.
Sec. 418. Criminal nonsupport.
Sec. 419. Statutes of limitation.
Sec. 420. Interest.
Sec. 421. Health-care enforcement.
Sec. 422. Bankruptcy.
Sec. 423. Federal Government cooperation in enforcement of support obliga-
tions of members of the armed forces and other persons enti-
tled to payments by the Federal Government.
Sec. 424. UIFSA endorsement.
TITLE V—COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION
Sec. 501. Priority of distribution of collections.
Sec. 502. Relationship of AFDC to CSE—limiting reimbursement claims to
award amount.
Sec. 503. Fees for non-AFDC clients.
Sec. 504. Collection and disbursement points for child support.
TITLE VI—FEDERAL ROLE
Sec. 601. Placement and role of the Federal Child Support Agency.
Sec. 602. Training.
Sec. 603. Staffing.
Sec. 604. Funding and incentives for child support agencies.
Sec. 605. Child support definition.
Sec. 606. Audits.
Sec. 607. Child support assurance demonstration projects.
TITLE VII—STATE ROLE
Sec. 701. Prohibition of residency requirement for IV–D services.
Sec. 702. Advocating for children’s economic security.
Sec. 703. Duties of IV–D agencies.
Sec. 704. Broader access to services.
Sec. 705. Process for change of payee in IV–D cases.
TITLE VIII—EFFECTIVE DATE
Sec. 801. Effective date.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS, DECLARATIONS, AND PURPOSES.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that—
(1) there is a large and growing number of
child support and parentage cases annually involving
disputes between parents or presumed parents who
reside in different States;
(2) the laws by which the courts of the various
States determine their authority to establish, en-
force, or modify a child support order, or to estab-
lish parentage are not uniform;
(3) those laws, along with the limits imposed by
a Federal system, on the authority of each State to
take certain actions outside its own boundaries, con-
tribute to—
(A) the pressing problem of parties moving
to avoid jurisdiction,
(B) inequities based solely on choice of
domicile,
(C) disregard of court orders resulting in
massive arrearages nationwide,
(D) excessive relitigation of cases,
(E) the establishment of conflicting orders
by the courts of various States, and
(F) inter-jurisdiction travel and commu-
nication that is so expensive and time consum-
ing as to disrupt parties’ occupations and com-
mercial activities; and
(4) among the results of these conditions are—
(A) the failure of the courts of such juris-
dictions to give full faith and credit to the judi-
cial proceedings of the other States,
(B) the deprivation of rights of liberty and
property without due process of law,
(C) burdens on commerce among the
States, and
(D) harm to the welfare of children and
their parents and other custodians.
(b) DECLARATION.—Based on the findings stated in
subsection (a), it is necessary to establish national stand-
ards under which the courts of each State will determine
their jurisdiction to establish, enforce, or modify a child
support order, or to establish parentage and the effect to
be given by each State to such determinations by the
courts of other States.
(c) PURPOSE.—The general purposes of this Act are
to—
(1) expand the forums available to establish,
enforce, or modify a child support order, or to estab-
lish parentage so that such actions may be heard in
the State that has the strongest interest in the
child’s financial security;
(2) promote and expand the exchange of infor-
mation and other forms of mutual assistance be-
tween States that are concerned with the same child;
(3) facilitate the enforcement of support decrees
among the States;
(4) discourage continuing interstate controver-
sies over child support in the interest of greater fi-
nancial stability and secure family relationships for
the child; and
(5) avoid jurisdictional competition and conflict
between courts in matters relating to the establish-
ment, enforcement, and modification of child support
orders, and to the establishment of parentage, which
have resulted in the movement of parties among
States and a low percentage of interstate cases with
support orders, thereby adversely affecting children’s
well-being.
(d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this Act—
(1) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means a State
of the United States, the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a territory or posses-
sion of the United States, and Indian country as de-
fined in section 1151 of title 18, United States
Code.
(2) COURT.—The term ‘‘court’’ means a court,
administrative process, or quasijudicial process of a
State that is authorized to—
(A) establish and enforce parentage orders;
(B) establish and enforce orders regarding
the amount of support payable by a contestant;
or
(C) modify orders regarding the amount of
support payable by a contestant.
TITLE I—LOCATE AND CASE
TRACKING
SEC. 101. EXPANSION OF USE OF FEDERAL PARENT LOCA-
TOR SYSTEM.
Section 453 (42 U.S.C. 653) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘for the purpose of enforcing
support obligations against such parent’’ in sub-
section (a) and inserting ‘‘for the purposes of par-
entage establishment, child support establishment,
modification, and enforcement, and child visitation
enforcement, provided that safeguards are in place
to prevent release of information when it may jeop-
ardize the safety of the children or either parent’’,
and
(2) by inserting ‘‘and such reasonable fees’’
after ‘‘such documents’’ in subsection (d).
SEC. 102. EXPANSION OF DATA BASES ACCESSED BY PAR-
ENT LOCATOR SYSTEMS.
(a) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR FEDERAL PAR-
ENT LOCATOR SERVICE.—Section 453 (42 U.S.C. 653) is
amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘the most recent address and
place of employment’’ in subsection (b) and inserting
‘‘the most recent residential address, employer name
and address, and amounts and nature of income and
assets’’,
(2) by striking ‘‘the resident parent’’ in sub-
section (c)(3) and inserting ‘‘either parent’’, and
(3) by adding at the end of subsection (e) the
following new paragraph:
‘‘(4) The Secretary of the Treasury shall enter into
an agreement with the Secretary to provide prompt access
for the Secretary (in accordance with this subsection and
section 6103(l)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986)
to the quarterly estimated Federal income tax returns
filed by individuals with the Internal Revenue Service.’’.
(b) STATE
INFORMATION.—Section 466(a) (42
U.S.C. 666(a)) is amended by inserting after paragraph
(10) the following new paragraphs:
‘‘(11) Procedures under which the State agency
shall have automated on-line or batch access (or, if
necessary, nonautomated access) to information re-
garding residential addresses, employers and em-
ployer addresses, income and assets, and medical in-
surance benefits with respect to absent parents
through various data bases. Such data bases shall
include data bases belonging to:
‘‘(A) the State revenue or taxation depart-
ment;
‘‘(B) the State motor vehicle registration
department;
‘‘(C) the State employment security de-
partment;
‘‘(D) the State crime information system;
‘‘(E) the State bureau of corrections;
‘‘(F) the State recreational, occupational,
and professional licensing department;
‘‘(G) the Secretary of State’s office;
‘‘(H) the State bureau of vital statistics;
‘‘(I) State or local agencies administering
public assistance;
‘‘(J) State or local real and personal prop-
erty record departments;
‘‘(K) publicly regulated utility companies
located in the State;
‘‘(L) credit reporting agencies located in
the State; and
‘‘(M) trade and labor unions located in the
State.
‘‘(12) Procedures under which the State agency
shall maintain a child support order registry which
shall include—
‘‘(A) each child support order in the State
in which the parties agree to the inclusion of
such order in the registry; and
‘‘(B) at the option of the State, all other
child support orders in the State.’’.
(c) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the
Congress that the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices should investigate pursuant to section 453(e) of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 653(e)) accessing Federal
data banks not already linked to the Parent Locator Serv-
ice which are deemed more-than-marginally useful to lo-
cate absent parents.
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
subsections (a) and (b) shall take effect on and after Jan-
uary 1, 1998.
SEC. 103. EXPANSION OF ACCESS TO NATIONAL NETWORK
FOR LOCATION OF PARENTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 453 (42 U.S.C. 653) is
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(g) The Secretary, through the Office of Child Sup-
port Enforcement, shall expand the Parent Locator Sys-
tem, established under this section to provide a national
network based on the comprehensive statewide child sup-
port enforcement systems developed by the various States.
Such an expansion—
‘‘(1) would allow each State to—
‘‘(A) locate any absent parent who owes a
child support obligation, for whom an obligation
is being established, or for whom an order for
visitation is being enforced by—
‘‘(i) accessing the records of other
State agencies and sources of locate infor-
mation, and
‘‘(ii) accessing Federal sources of lo-
cate information in the same fashion;
‘‘(B) access the files of other States to de-
termine whether there are other child support
orders and obtain the details of those orders;
‘‘(C) provide for both on-line and batch
processing of locate requests, with on-line ac-
cess restricted to cases in which the information
is needed immediately (i.e., court appearances)
and batch processing used to ‘troll’ data bases
to locate individuals or update information peri-
odically; and
‘‘(D) direct locate requests to individual
States or Federal agencies, broadcast requests
to selected States, or broadcast cases to all
States when there is no indication of the source
of needed information;
‘‘(2) provide for a maximum of 72-hour turn-
around time for information to be broadcast and re-
turned to a requesting State;
‘‘(3) provide ready access to courts of the infor-
mation on the network; and
‘‘(4) access the registry of child support orders
for public and private cases maintained at the State
level by the State agencies as described in section
466(a)(12).’’.
(b) EXPANDED STATE INTERACTION WITH NA-
TIONAL
NETWORK.—Section 
454(16) 
(42 
U.S.C.
654(16)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and (E)’’ and inserting ‘‘(E)’’,
and
(2) by striking ‘‘enforcement;’’ at the end of
subparagraph (E) and inserting ‘‘enforcement, and
(F) to provide access to the national network devel-
oped pursuant to section 453(g);’’.
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall take effect on and after January 1, 1998.
SEC. 104. PRIVATE ATTORNEY ACCESS TO LOCATE AND EN-
FORCEMENT SERVICES.
Section 466(a) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)), as amended by
section 102, is amended by inserting after paragraph (12)
the following new paragraph:
‘‘(13) Procedures under which private attorneys
and pro se obligees are given access to State locate
information and enforcement techniques of the State
child support enforcement agency, for the limited
purpose of establishing, modifying, and enforcing
child support, visitation, and parentage orders, pro-
vided that safeguards are in place to prevent release
of information when it may jeopardize the safety of
the children or either parent. Such procedures may
provide for reasonable fees for such access.’’.
SEC. 105. ACCESS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT SYSTEMS OF
RECORDS.
The head of the National Criminal Information Cen-
ter, of the National Law Enforcement Telecommuni-
cations Network, and of any other national or regional sys-
tem for tracking individuals shall—