Child Support Improvement and Work Promotion Act

Bill: 113-s-1877
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2013-12-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Advisory bodies
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Employee hiring
Family relationships
Government information and archives
Indian social and development programs
Intergovernmental relations
International law and treaties
Jurisdiction and venue
Separation, divorce, custody, support
State and local government operations
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Unemployment
Visas and passports

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-19
text: 
Child Support Improvement and Work Promotion Act - Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to utilize federal and state enforcement mechanisms and take necessary steps to ensure compliance with the U.S. treaty obligations under any multilateral child support convention in the event that a state plan does not comply with those obligations.
 
Authorizes a Central Authority for child support enforcement in a foreign reciprocating country or a foreign treaty country to obtain information from the Federal Parent Locator Service for the purpose of establishing parentage or child support obligations, and enforcing them.
 
Authorizes a state to require residents of a foreign reciprocating country or foreign treaty country who apply for services relating to establishment of paternity or child support obligations to make such an application through the foreign country's Central Authority for child support enforcement. Allows the state to accept or reject the application of any individual residing in a foreign country that is not a foreign reciprocating country or a foreign treaty country.
 
Allows collection of past-due support from federal tax refunds in response to a request from a foreign reciprocating country or a foreign treaty country.
 
Amends the federal judicial code with respect to full faith and credit for child support orders to revise requirements for state tribunals with appropriate jurisdiction to modify child support orders including an order issued in that state if one party resides in another state. Allows individual contestants to a child support order to consent to allow a state tribunal to continue to exercise jurisdiction to modify the order, or to change the tribunal and jurisdiction, in certain circumstances, to those of another state.
 
Allows issuance of passports to certain individuals with annual incomes of under $100,000 who owe arrearages of child support but have been making such payments over a period of time.
 
Authorizes child support enforcement programs operated by Indian tribes to conduct an experimental, pilot, or demonstration project to assist in promoting the SSA title IV part D objectives.
 
Authorizes establishment of voluntary parenting time arrangements under state part D plans.
 
Increases from 24 to 48 months the length of time information entered into the data base maintained by the National Directory of New Hires shall remain before being deleted.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide access to data in each component of the Federal Parent Locator Service for certain related federal or state research as well as assessments of the effectiveness of a federal program in achieving positive labor market outcomes.
 
Establishes in the executive branch a Child Support Enforcement Task Force.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-12-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2013-12-19
text: Introduced in Senate