[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4677 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4677

   To provide for monthly reporting of child support obligations to 
                  certain consumer reporting agencies.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 29, 1994

  Mr. Levin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for monthly reporting of child support obligations to 
                  certain consumer reporting agencies.

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

SECTION 1. MONTHLY REPORTING TO CERTAIN CONSUMER REPORTING AGENCIES OF 
              CHILD SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 466(a)(7) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 666(a)(7)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(7)(A)(i) Procedures which require the State agency to 
        provide to each qualified consumer reporting agency, on a 
        monthly basis, such information (and in such form and in such 
        manner) as the Secretary shall require by regulation with 
        respect to any child support obligation owed by an absent 
        parent to any person being provided services under the State 
        plan approved under this part, except that information with 
        respect to overdue support payable shall be made available 
        under such procedures only after--
                    ``(I) the State agency has transmitted to the 
                absent parent notice that the information is to be so 
                provided;
                    ``(II) the absent parent has been given a 
                reasonable opportunity to contest the accuracy of the 
                information; and
                    ``(III) full compliance with all procedural due 
                process requirements of the State.
            ``(ii) Clause (i) shall not be construed to require the 
        provision of more than 1 notice to an absent parent with 
        respect to child support payable by the absent parent pursuant 
        to a child support order.
            ``(B) As used in subparagraph (A), the term `qualified 
        consumer reporting agency' means--
                    ``(i) each consumer reporting agency (as defined in 
                section 603(f) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act) that 
                is a major reporting agency (as determined by the 
                Secretary in regulations); and
                    ``(ii) at the option of the State, any other 
                consumer reporting agency (as so defined).''.
    (b) Regulations.--Within 6 months after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall prescribe 
such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the amendment made by 
subsection (a).
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect 12 months after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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