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.

Bill: 116-s-3283
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2020-02-12
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Family relationships

Family services

Separation, divorce, custody, support

State and local finance
Latest action: action_date: 2020-02-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-02-12
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>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.<br> <br> 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.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3283 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 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.

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. .