Child Support Enforcement Reform Act of 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Expanding Collector Access to Information Title II: National Recognition of Child Support Orders Title III: Cost Sharing and Collections Disbursements Title IV: Accounting and Reviews Title V: Effective Date Child Support Enforcement Reform Act of 1995 - Title I: Expanding Collector Access to Information - Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to allow the Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS) to be used along with appropriate disclosure safeguards for parentage and child support establishment and visitation enforcement. (Sec. 102) Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement to provide the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) (Secretary) with access to quarterly estimated Federal income tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Requires that: (1) State agencies charged with child support enforcement maintain child support order registries and be allowed access to medical, financial, employment, and other specified data base information on absent parents; and (2) registry information from each State be sent to the Office of Child Support Enforcement (designated under title VI of this Act) within HHS for a national registry of all State child support orders. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on additional Federal databases which may assist the FPLS in locating individuals owing child support obligations. (Sec. 103) Requires the Secretary to expand FPLS to provide State agencies and courts with a national locate and case tracking network. (Sec. 104) Requires that private attorneys and pro se obligees be given access, in accordance with appropriate safeguards, to State locate resources and through State enforcement techniques with respect to child support, visitation, and parentage orders. (Sec. 105) Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require employers to withhold from employee wages amounts owed for child support. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to modify the W-4 form completed by new employees in order to enable employers to obtain employee child support and other information for the appropriate State employment security agency. (Sec. 106) Requires the heads of national and regional individual tracking systems to allow child support enforcement agencies access to their information for paternity or child support purposes. (Sec. 107) Requires that States: (1) broadcast warrants issued in child support proceedings over their crime information systems; (2) remit, in a criminal case, to any individual owed child support any security posted by or on behalf of the individual owing the support and then forfeited, to the extent of any arrearage in support owed; and (3) have procedures to obtain access to financial records for purposes of child support establishment and enforcement. Title II: National Recognition of Child Support Orders - Amends the Judicial Code to prescribe guidelines consistent with the provisions of this Act with respect to full faith and credit for child support and parentage orders among the States. (Sec. 202) Amends SSA title IV part D to provide for service of process on Federal employees and members of the armed forces in connection with parentage and child support proceedings. (Sec. 203) Requires that: (1) parents' identification and locate information be filed with the appropriate adjudicating entity in parentage and child support actions; (2) there be appropriate safeguards on such information where a court has ordered that the custodial parent or child receive physical protection from the noncustodial parent; (3) appropriate administrative agencies make reasonable attempts to timely notify any individual owed child support of any proceeding to establish, modify, or enforce the support obligation; (4) States allow parties seeking both parentage and child support establishment in a judicial proceeding to bring a joint action in a single cause of action; and (5) States provide for uniform procedures regarding jurisdiction and venue in parentage and child support cases. (Sec. 206) Amends the Consumer Credit Protection Act to allow appropriate State agencies to obtain from credit reporting agencies information for establishing and modifying child support awards. (Sec. 207) Amends SSA title IV part D to: (1) specify certain principles to be used in accordance with the application of State child support guidelines; and (2) require each State to adopt without material change the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act adopted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Title III: Cost Sharing and Collections Disbursements - Amends SSA title IV part D to modify the guidelines for the determination of cost sharing and disbursement of collected child support with respect to children receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children and children not eligible to receive such aid. (Sec. 302) Grants States the option of providing child support enforcement services to families whose income exceeds 200 percent of the poverty line. Title IV: Accounting and Reviews - Directs the Secretary to develop accounting guidelines for specified costs. Instructs the Comptroller General to review certain mandatory activities and reporting requirements imposed upon the States, and to submit recommendations thereon to the Secretary. Title V: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date of this Act.