[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 131 (Tuesday, July 27, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S5110]
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   PROVIDING ADEQUATE RESOURCES TO ENHANCE NEEDED TIME WITH SONS AND 
                         DAUGHTERS ACT OF 2021

  Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Finance be discharged from further consideration of S. 503 
and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 503) 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 agreements for noncustodial parents in 
     uncontested agreements, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged and the Senate 
proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. WHITEHOUSE. I know of no further debate.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read 
the third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time, the 
question is, Shall the bill pass?
  The bill (S. 503) was passed, as follows

                                 S. 503

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

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Providing Adequate Resources 
     to Enhance Needed Time with Sons and daughters Act of 2021'' 
     or the ``PARENTS Act of 2021''.

     SEC. 2. 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 agreement when establishing an 
     initial or modified child support order or a medical support 
     order (including procedures for carrying out a parenting time 
     agreement 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 Agreement and 
     Noncustodial Parent.--
       ``(1) Parenting time agreement.--For purposes of subsection 
     (f)(2), the term `parenting time agreement' means an 
     agreement 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.''.
  Mr. WHITEHOUSE. I ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider 
be considered made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

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