Child Support Improvement Act of 2004
Latest action · Aug 4, 2004 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJul 19, 2004
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
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.
Cosponsors 4
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jul 19, 2004.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-AL | Artur Davis | Original | Jul 19, 2004 |
| R-CO | Bob Beauprez | Original | Jul 19, 2004 |
| D-CA | Dennis A. Cardoza | Original | Jul 19, 2004 |
| R-TX | Pete Sessions | Original | Jul 19, 2004 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Aug 4, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
- Aug 3, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
- Jul 19, 2004Introduced in House
- Jul 19, 2004Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2194 | Child Support Improvement Act of 2004 | Related bill | Mar 11, 2004 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: 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
- Social Welfare
- State courts
- Tax refunds
- Taxation
- Texas
- Transportation and Public Works
- Unemployment insurance
- Veterans' disability compensation
- Web sites
- Welfare waivers
- Women
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