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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Nguyen</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to amend Section 4201 of the Family Code, relating to child support. </ns0:Title>
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<html:p>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 to administer laws and regulations related to child support enforcement obligations. Existing law requires that each county maintain a local child support agency that has numerous responsibilities relating to the establishment, modification, and enforcement of child support obligations.</html:p>
<html:p>Existing law authorizes the court, in any proceeding in which the court makes or has made a child support order, to direct that child support payments be made to a designated county officer or State Disbursement Unit, as specified, or to direct the local child support agency to appear on behalf of the
minor children to enforce the order, or both.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would instead require that all child support payments be directed to the State Disbursement Unit and would authorize the court to direct the local child support agency to appear on behalf of the minor children to enforce the order. The bill would also require that every court order for payment of child support be deemed to be an application for child support enforcement services authorized pursuant to Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, as specified. The bill would require the court to transmit a copy of the child support order and the contact information of the support obligor and support obligee to the local child support agency, as specified. The bill would specify that a support obligee may decline to receive the child support services described above by submitting a specified form to their local child support agency unless otherwise required to receive those services under state or federal law. To the
extent these provisions increase the duties of local child support agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.</html:p>
<html:p>The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.</html:p>
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<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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Section 4201 of the
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<html:p>In any proceeding where a court makes or has made an order requiring the payment of child support to the person having custody of a child for whom support may be ordered, the following shall apply:</html:p>
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(a)
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The court shall order that all payments be directed to the State Disbursement Unit as implemented pursuant to Section 17309.
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(b)
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(1)
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Notwithstanding any other law, every court order for payment of child support shall be deemed to be an application for child support services authorized pursuant to Title IV-D of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 651 et seq.), and provided under Division 17 (commencing with Section 17000).
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(2)
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The court shall transmit a copy of the child support order and the contact information of the support obligor and support obligee to the local child support agency of the county where the order was issued. The contact information provided by the court shall include, as is available to the court at the time the order was issued, the names, addresses, telephone
numbers, and email addresses of the support obligor and support obligee.
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(3)
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A support obligee may decline to receive child support services authorized pursuant to Title IV-D of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 651 et seq.) by submitting a voluntary case closure request to their local child support agency unless otherwise required to receive those services under state or federal law. Declining to receive child support services pursuant to this paragraph shall not preclude the ability of the support obligee to make subsequent applications for child support services.
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(c)
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The court may direct the local child support agency to appear on behalf of the minor children in any proceeding to enforce the order.
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<html:p>If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.</html:p>
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