Bill Text: CA SB1030 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Child support: reimbursement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-19 - Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB1030 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB1030-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1030	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Strickland

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2010

   An act to amend Section 3951 of the Family Code, relating to child
support.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1030, as introduced, Strickland. Child support: reimbursement.
   Existing federal law, Title IV-D of the Social Security Act,
requires the state to establish a single state entity to administer
the Title IV-D state plan for securing child support. Existing law
designates the Department of Child Support Services as the state
entity charged with administering all services and performing all
functions necessary to establish, collect, and distribute child
support. Existing law requires the department to enter into
cooperative agreements with local child support agencies to secure
child support. Existing law provides that an action to establish
child support may be prosecuted in the name of the county on behalf
of the child or a parent of the child.
   Existing law obligates a parent to support his or her child.
However, under existing law, a parent is not bound to compensate the
other parent, or a relative, for the voluntary support of the parent'
s child, without an agreement for compensation.
   This bill would specify that this provision shall not prevent a
parent, guardian, or relative caregiver from receiving Title IV-D
child support services.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 3951 of the Family Code is amended to read:
   3951.  (a) A parent is not bound to compensate the other parent,
or a relative, for the voluntary support of the parent's child,
without an agreement for compensation.
   (b) A parent is not bound to compensate a stranger for the support
of a child who has abandoned the parent without just cause.
   (c) Nothing in this section relieves a parent of the obligation to
support a child during any period in which the state, county, or
other governmental entity provides support for the child. 
   (d) Nothing in this section shall prevent a parent, guardian, or
relative caregiver from receiving child support services pursuant to
Title IV-D of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 651 et seq.).