Bill Text: MI HB5508 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Family law; child support; office of child support to develop an electronically accessible registry containing names of individuals with outstanding child support to intercept gambling winnings; establish. Amends sec. 3 of 1971 PA 174 (MCL 400.233). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5509'14

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-21 - Referred To Second Reading [HB5508 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB5508-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5508

 

May 1, 2014, Introduced by Rep. Zorn and referred to the Committee on Families, Children, and Seniors.

 

     A bill to amend 1971 PA 174, entitled

 

"Office of child support act,"

 

by amending section 3 (MCL 400.233), as amended by 2009 PA 238.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 3. The office shall do all of the following:

 

     (a) Serve as a state agency authorized to administer title IV-

 

D.

 

     (b) Assist a governmental agency or department in locating an

 

adult responsible for the child for any of the following purposes:

 

     (i) To establish parentage.

 

     (ii) To establish, set the amount of, modify, or enforce

 

support obligations.

 

     (iii) To disburse support receipts.

 

     (iv) To make or enforce child custody or parenting time orders.

 

     (c) Coordinate activity on a state level in a search for an

 

adult responsible for the child.

 

     (d) Obtain information that directly relates to the identity

 

or location of an adult responsible for the child.

 

     (e) Serve as the information agency as provided in the revised

 

uniform reciprocal enforcement of support act, 1952 PA 8, MCL

 

780.151 to 780.183, and the uniform interstate family support act,

 

1996 PA 310, MCL 552.1101 to 552.1901.

 

     (f) Develop guidelines for coordinating activities of a

 

governmental department, board, commission, bureau, agency, or

 

council, or a public or private agency, in providing information

 

necessary for the location of an adult responsible for the child.

 

     (g) Develop, administer, and coordinate with the state and

 

federal departments of treasury a procedure for offsetting the

 

state tax refunds and federal income tax refunds of a parent who is

 

obligated to support a child and who owes past due support. The

 

procedure shall include a guideline that the office submit to the

 

state department of treasury, not later than November 15 of each

 

year, all requests for the offset of state tax refunds claimed on

 

returns filed or to be filed for that tax year.

 

     (h) Develop and implement a statewide information system to

 

facilitate the establishment and enforcement of child support

 

obligations.

 

     (i) Publicize through regular and frequent, nonsexist public

 

service announcements the availability of support establishment and

 

enforcement services.

 

     (j) Develop and implement in cooperation with financial

 

institutions a data matching and lien and levy system to identify

 

assets of and to facilitate the collection of support from the

 

assets of individuals who have an account at a financial

 

institution and who are obligated to pay support as provided in

 

this act.

 

     (k) Provide discovery and support for support enforcement

 

activities as provided in the support and parenting time

 

enforcement act, 1982 PA 295, MCL 552.601 to 552.650.

 

     (l) Have in effect safeguards against the unauthorized use or

 

disclosure of case record information that are designed to protect

 

the privacy rights of the parties as specified in sections 454 and

 

454a of title IV-D, 42 USC 654 and 654a, and that are consistent

 

with the use and disclosure standards provided under section 64 of

 

the social welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400.64.

 

     (m) As provided in section 10 for friend of the court cases,

 

centralize administrative enforcement remedies and develop and

 

implement a centralized enforcement program to facilitate the

 

collection of support.

 

     (n) Coordinate, through the friend of the court bureau created

 

in section 19 of the friend of the court act, 1982 PA 294, MCL

 

552.519, the provision of services under title IV-D by friend of

 

the court offices.

 

     (o) Pursuant According to federal law, determine a method to

 

calculate a maximum obligation for reimbursement of medical

 

expenses in connection with a mother's pregnancy and the birth of a

 

child. The method shall be based on each parent's ability to pay

 

and on any other relevant factor, and apportion the expenses in the

 

same manner as health care expenses are divided under the child

 

support formula established under section 19 of the friend of the

 

court act, 1982 PA 294, MCL 552.519.

 

     (p) Not later than January 1, 2016, coordinate with the state

 

department of treasury in the development of notices and

 

administration of a secure, electronically accessible registry

 

containing information regarding individuals who are obligated to

 

support a child and who owe past due support to intercept winnings

 

and to conduct reviews as provided in section 9e of the Michigan

 

gaming control and revenue act, 1996 IL 1, MCL 432.209e.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5509 (request no.

 

05258'14) of the 97th Legislature is enacted into law.