Title: A bill to amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to allow States to use incentive payments available under the child support enforcement program to improve parent-child relationships, increase child support collections, and improve outcomes for children by supporting parenting time arrangements for noncustodial parents in uncontested agreements, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Families

Summary:
This bill expands the use of federal incentive payments to states under the Child Support Enforcement Program to include establishing arrangements for how much time a child spends with each parent as agreed to by the parents under a child support or medical support order.  Generally, the incentive payments program provides funding based on a state's performance measures related to (1) establishing paternity, (2) the number of cases with child support orders in place, (3) the collection of current and past-due support payments, and (4) cost-effectiveness.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3283 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3283

To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to allow States 
to use incentive payments available under the child support enforcement 
 program to improve parent-child relationships, increase child support 
collections, and improve outcomes for children by supporting parenting 
 time arrangements for noncustodial parents in uncontested agreements, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 12, 2020

  Mr. Cornyn introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to allow States 
to use incentive payments available under the child support enforcement 
 program to improve parent-child relationships, increase child support 
collections, and improve outcomes for children by supporting parenting 
 time arrangements for noncustodial parents in uncontested agreements, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXPANDING PERMITTED USES OF INCENTIVE PAYMENTS.

    Section 458 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 658a) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (f)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``; or'' and 
                inserting a semicolon;
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph 
                (3); and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following 
                new paragraph:
            ``(2) to develop, implement, and evaluate procedures for 
        establishing a parenting time arrangement when establishing an 
        initial or modified child support order or a medical support 
        order (including procedures for carrying out a parenting time 
        arrangement made prior to the establishment or modification of 
        any such order); or''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(g) Definitions of Parenting Time Arrangement and Noncustodial 
Parent.--
            ``(1) Parenting time arrangement.--For purposes of 
        subsection (f)(2), the term `parenting time arrangement' means 
        an arrangement governing how much time a child spends with the 
        child's custodial parent and the child's noncustodial parent 
        that is mutually agreed to by the parents and is not contested 
        by either parent in any forum.
            ``(2) Noncustodial parent.--For purposes of paragraph (1), 
        the term `noncustodial parent' means the parent of a child that 
        the child does not live with for the majority of the child's 
        time.''.
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