Bill Text: MI SB0520 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Family law; parenting time; reference to the uniform interstate family support act (UIFSA); update. Amends sec. 2 of 1982 PA 295 (MCL 552.602). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0517'15
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-12-01 - Referred To Committee On Judiciary [SB0520 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB0520-Engrossed.html
SB-0520, As Passed Senate, November 10, 2015
SENATE BILL No. 520
September 29, 2015, Introduced by Senators EMMONS and MACGREGOR and referred to the Committee on Families, Seniors and Human Services.
A bill to amend 1982 PA 295, entitled
"Support and parenting time enforcement act,"
by amending section 2 (MCL 552.602), as amended by 2014 PA 373.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) "Account" means any of the following:
(i) A demand deposit account.
(ii) A draft account.
(iii) A checking account.
(iv) A negotiable order of withdrawal account.
(v) A share account.
(vi) A savings account.
(vii) A time savings account.
(viii) A mutual fund account.
(ix) A securities brokerage account.
(x) A money market account.
(xi) A retail investment account.
(b) "Account" does not mean any of the following:
(i) A trust.
(ii) An annuity.
(iii) A qualified individual retirement account.
(iv) An account covered by the employee retirement income
security act of 1974, Public Law 93-406.
(v) A pension or retirement plan.
(vi) An insurance policy.
(c) "Alternative contempt track" means the alternative
contempt track docket established under section 35a.
(d) "Cash" means money or the equivalent of money, such as a
money order, cashier's check, or negotiable check or a payment by
debit or credit card, which equivalent is accepted as cash by the
agency accepting the payment.
(e) "Custody or parenting time order violation" means an
individual's act or failure to act that interferes with a parent's
right to interact with his or her child in the time, place, and
manner established in the order that governs custody or parenting
time between the parent and the child and to which the individual
accused of interfering is subject.
(f) "Department" means the department of human services.
(g) "Domestic relations matter" means a circuit court
proceeding as to child custody, parenting time, child support, or
spousal support, that arises out of litigation under a statute of
this state, including, but not limited to, the following:
(i) 1846 RS 84, MCL 552.1 to 552.45.
(ii) The family support act, 1966 PA 138, MCL 552.451 to
552.459.
(iii) The child custody act of 1970, 1970 PA 91, MCL 722.21 to
722.31.
(iv) 1968 PA 293, MCL 722.1 to 722.6.
(v) The paternity act, 1956 PA 205, MCL 722.711 to 722.730.
(vi) The revised uniform reciprocal enforcement of support
act, 1952 PA 8, MCL 780.151 to 780.183.
(vii) The uniform interstate family support act ,
1996 PA 310,
MCL
552.1101 to 552.1901.(2015).
(h) "Driver's license" means license as that term is defined
in section 25 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL
257.25.
(i) "Employer" means an individual, sole proprietorship,
partnership, association, or private or public corporation, the
United States or a federal agency, this state or a political
subdivision of this state, another state or a political subdivision
of another state, or another legal entity that hires and pays an
individual for his or her services.
(j) "Financial asset" means a deposit, account, money market
fund, stock, bond, or similar instrument.
(k) "Financial institution" means any of the following:
(i) A state or national bank.
(ii) A state or federally chartered savings and loan
association.
(iii) A state or federally chartered savings bank.
(iv) A state or federally chartered credit union.
(v) An insurance company.
(vi) An entity that offers any of the following to a resident
of this state:
(A) A mutual fund account.
(B) A securities brokerage account.
(C) A money market account.
(D) A retail investment account.
(vii) An entity regulated by the securities and exchange
commission that collects funds from the public.
(viii) An entity that is a member of the national association
of securities dealers and that collects funds from the public.
(ix) Another entity that collects funds from the public.
(l) "Friend of the court act" means the friend of the court
act, 1982 PA 294, MCL 552.501 to 552.535.
(m) "Friend of the court case" means that term as defined in
section 2 of the friend of the court act, MCL 552.502.
(n) "Income" means any of the following:
(i) Commissions, earnings, salaries, wages, and other income
due or to be due in the future to an individual from his or her
employer or a successor employer.
(ii) A payment due or to be due in the future to an individual
from a profit-sharing plan, a pension plan, an insurance contract,
an annuity, social security, unemployment compensation,
supplemental unemployment benefits, or worker's compensation.
(iii) An amount of money that is due to an individual as a
debt of another individual, partnership, association, or private or
public corporation, the United States or a federal agency, this
state or a political subdivision of this state, another state or a
political subdivision of another state, or another legal entity
that is indebted to the individual.
(o) "Insurer" means an insurer, health maintenance
organization, health care corporation, or other group, plan, or
entity that provides health care coverage in accordance with any of
the following acts:
(i) The public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.1101 to
333.25211.
(ii) The insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL 500.100 to
500.8302.
(iii) The nonprofit health care corporation reform act, 1980
PA 350, MCL 550.1101 to 550.1704.
(p) "Medical assistance" means medical assistance as
established under title XIX of the social security act, 42 USC 1396
to 1396w-5.
(q) "Most recent semiannual obligation" means the total amount
of current child support owed by a parent during the preceding
January 1 to June 30 or July 1 to December 31.
(r) "Occupational license" means a certificate, registration,
or license issued by a state department, bureau, or agency that has
regulatory authority over an individual that allows an individual
to legally engage in a regulated occupation or that allows the
individual to use a specific title in the practice of an
occupation, profession, or vocation.
(s) "Office of child support" means the office of child
support established in section 2 of the office of child support
act, 1971 PA 174, MCL 400.232.
(t) "Office of the friend of the court" means an agency
created in section 3 of the friend of the court act, MCL 552.503.
(u) "Order of income withholding" means an order entered by
the circuit court providing for the withholding of a payer's income
to enforce a support order under this act.
(v) "Payer" means an individual who is ordered by the circuit
court to pay support.
(w) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation,
association, governmental entity, or other legal entity.
(x) "Plan administrator" means that term as used in relation
to a group health plan under section 609 of title I of the employee
retirement income security act of 1974, 29 USC 1169, if the health
care coverage plan of the individual who is responsible for
providing a child with health care coverage is subject to that act.
(y) "Political subdivision" means a county, city, village,
township, educational institution, school district, or special
district or authority of this state or of a local unit of
government.
(z) "Recipient of support" means the following:
(i) The spouse, if the support order orders spousal support.
(ii) The custodial parent or guardian, if the support order
orders support for a minor child or a child who is 18 years of age
or older.
(iii) The department, if support has been assigned to that
department.
(iv) The county, if the minor child is in county-funded foster
care.
(aa) "Recreational or sporting license" means a hunting,
fishing, or fur harvester's license issued under the natural
resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL
324.101 to 324.90106, but does not include a commercial fishing
license or permit issued under part 473 of the natural resources
and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.47301 to
324.47362.
(bb) "Referee" means a person who is designated as a referee
under the friend of the court act.
(cc) "Source of income" means an employer or successor
employer, a labor organization, or another individual or entity
that owes or will owe income to the payer.
(dd) "State disbursement unit" or "SDU" means the entity
established in section 6 of the office of child support act, 1971
PA 174, MCL 400.236.
(ee) "State friend of the court bureau" means that bureau as
created in the state court administrative office under section 19
of the friend of the court act, MCL 552.519.
(ff) "Support" means all of the following:
(i) The payment of money for a child or a spouse ordered by
the circuit court, whether the order is embodied in an interim,
temporary, permanent, or modified order or judgment. Support may
include payment of the expenses of medical, dental, and other
health care, child care expenses, and educational expenses.
(ii) The payment of money ordered by the circuit court under
the paternity act, 1956 PA 205, MCL 722.711 to 722.730, for the
necessary expenses connected to the mother's pregnancy or the birth
of the child, or for the repayment of genetic testing expenses.
(iii) A surcharge under section 3a.
(gg) "Support order" means an order entered by the circuit
court for the payment of support, whether or not a sum certain.
(hh) "Title IV-D" means part D of title IV of the social
security act, 42 USC 651 to 669b.
(ii) "Title IV-D agency" means the agency in this state
performing the functions under title IV-D and includes a person
performing those functions under contract, including an office of
the friend of the court or a prosecuting attorney.
(jj) "Work activity" means any of the following:
(i) Unsubsidized employment.
(ii) Subsidized private sector employment.
(iii) Subsidized public sector employment.
(iv) Work experience, including work associated with the
refurbishing of publicly assisted housing, if sufficient private
sector employment is not available.
(v) On-the-job training.
(vi) Referral to and participation in the work first or
successor program prescribed in the social welfare act, 1939 PA
280, MCL 400.1 to 400.119b, or other job search and job readiness
assistance.
(vii) A community service program.
(viii) Vocational educational training, not to exceed 12
months with respect to an individual.
(ix) Job skills training directly related to employment.
(x) Education directly related to employment, in the case of
an individual who has not received a high school diploma or a
certificate of high school equivalency.
(xi) Satisfactory attendance at secondary school or in a
course of study leading to a certificate of general equivalence, in
the case of an individual who has not completed secondary school or
received such a certificate.
(xii) The provision of child care services to an individual
who is participating in a community service program.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect January
1, 2016.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless Senate Bill No. 517
of the 98th Legislature is enacted into law.
