SB-0529, As Passed Senate, February 20, 2014
September 19, 2013, Introduced by Senators CASWELL and COLBECK and referred to the Committee on Families, Seniors and Human Services.
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) Develop and implement guidelines for the allocation and
distribution of all child support payments that meet the
requirements of federal law, regulation, or rule.
(j) (i)
Publicize through regular and
frequent, nonsexist
public service announcements the availability of support
establishment and enforcement services.
(k) (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.
(l) (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.
(m) (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.
(n) (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.
(o) (n)
Coordinate, through the state 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.
(p) (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.