A bill to amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to allow States to use incentive payments available under the child support enforcement program to improve parent-child relationships, increase child support collections, and improve outcomes for children by supporting parenting time arrangements for noncustodial parents in uncontested agreements, and for other purposes.

II 116TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION S. 3283 To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to allow States to use incentive payments available under the child support enforcement program to improve parent-child relationships, increase child support collections, and improve outcomes for children by supporting parenting time arrangements for noncustodial parents in uncontested agreements, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES FEBRUARY 12, 2020 Mr. CORNYN introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to allow States to use incentive payments available under the child support enforcement program to improve par- ent-child relationships, increase child support collections, and improve outcomes for children by supporting par- enting time arrangements for noncustodial parents in uncontested agreements, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:14 Feb 14, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S3283.IS S3283 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 2 •S 3283 IS SECTION 1. EXPANDING PERMITTED USES OF INCENTIVE 1 PAYMENTS. 2 Section 458 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 3 658a) is amended— 4 (1) in subsection (f)— 5 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘; or’’ 6 and inserting a semicolon; 7 (B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as 8 paragraph (3); and 9 (C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the 10 following new paragraph: 11 ‘‘(2) to develop, implement, and evaluate proce- 12 dures for establishing a parenting time arrangement 13 when establishing an initial or modified child sup- 14 port order or a medical support order (including pro- 15 cedures for carrying out a parenting time arrange- 16 ment made prior to the establishment or modifica- 17 tion of any such order); or’’; and 18 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub- 19 section: 20 ‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS OF PARENTING TIME ARRANGE- 21 MENT AND NONCUSTODIAL PARENT.— 22 ‘‘(1) PARENTING TIME ARRANGEMENT.—For 23 purposes of subsection (f)(2), the term ‘parenting 24 time arrangement’ means an arrangement governing 25 how much time a child spends with the child’s custo- 26 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:14 Feb 28, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S3283.IS S3283 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 3 •S 3283 IS dial parent and the child’s noncustodial parent that 1 is mutually agreed to by the parents and is not con- 2 tested by either parent in any forum. 3 ‘‘(2) NONCUSTODIAL PARENT.—For purposes 4 of paragraph (1), the term ‘noncustodial parent’ 5 means the parent of a child that the child does not 6 live with for the majority of the child’s time.’’. 7 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:14 Feb 28, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\S3283.IS S3283 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS