3.0.0 2194 2023-01-15T11:03:08Z 2023-01-15T11:03:08Z Senate S S 2004-03-11 108 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2004-03-11T16:58:47Z Child Support Improvement Act of 2004 108 4859 HR 2004-08-04 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. Related bill CRS 2004-03-11 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2004-03-11 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 3/12/2004 S2720) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2004-03-11 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001056 Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX] John Cornyn R TX N L000304 Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT] JOSEPH LIEBERMAN D CT I. 2004-03-11 True C000286 Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA] SAXBY CHAMBLISS R GA 2004-03-23 False R000146 Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV] HARRY REID D NV M. 2004-03-29 False D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2004-04-20 False Social Welfare Administrative procedure Aid to dependent children Alimony Armed Forces and National Security Black lung Cash welfare block grants Child health Child support Coinsurance Collection of accounts Congress Congressional reporting requirements Data banks Department of Health and Human Services Directories Disabled Electronic funds transfers Electronic government information Families Federal-state relations Finance and Financial Sector Garnishment Government Operations and Politics Grants-in-aid Health Health insurance Identification devices Immigration Income tax Insurance premiums Intergovernmental fiscal relations Internet Interstate relations Jurisdiction Labor and Employment Law Medicaid Medical economics Old age, survivors and disability insurance Passports Paternity Performance measurement Personnel records Railroad retirement plans Science, Technology, Communications Social security numbers State courts Tax refunds Taxation Texas Transportation and Public Works Unemployment insurance Veterans' disability compensation Web sites Welfare waivers Women Social Welfare 00 2004-03-11 Introduced in Senate 2004-04-05T20:31:39Z Child Support Improvement Act of 2004 - Amends parts A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) and D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) modify the rule requiring assignment of support rights as a condition of receiving TANF; (2) increase child support payments to families; (3) revise child support distribution rules; (4) ban the recovery of Medicaid (SSA title XIX) costs for the birth of children for whom support rights have been assigned; and (5) change from mandatory to discretionary the authority of States to retain certain support rights assignments after a certain date (thus giving them the option to discontinue such assignments), and allow to remain assigned any rights assigned before enactment of this Act to a State to support obligations accruing before the date a family first receives TANF (thus giving States the option to discontinue such assignments).

Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of SSA title IV to provide for: (1) a decrease in the amount of child support arrearage triggering passport denial; (2) use of the tax refund intercept program to collect past-due child support on behalf of children who are not minors; (3) garnishment of compensation paid to veterans for service-connected disabilities in order to enforce child support obligations; and (4) revised interstate enforcement.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to specified congressional committees on the procedures States use to locate custodial parents for whom child support has been collected but not yet distributed.

Provides for the use of new hire information to assist in the administration of unemployment compensation programs under SSA title IV part D.

Amends Federal money and finance law to modify Federal debt collection practices.

Amends SSA title IV part D to provide for the maintenance of technical assistance and Federal Parent Locator Service funding.

Provides for the electronic disbursement of child support payments to families.

Allows States to expand their State disbursement unit to create a centralized payment location for all child support wage withholding.

Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to implement the medical support performance measure developed under the Child Support Performance and Incentive Act of 1998.

Prohibits the Secretary from requiring the State of Texas to apply for a waiver from applicable requirements to continue to operate the State's program for monitoring and enforcement of a child support court order without the necessity of a written application.

]]> Child Support Improvement Act of 2004 Display Title Child Support Improvement Act of 2004 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to improve the collection of child support, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Child Support Improvement Act of 2004 Introduced in Senate 2004-03-11T05:00:00Z 2004-03-11 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.