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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Jan 21, 1997
Uniform Child Support Enforcement Act of 1997 - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) a national registry of abstracts of child support orders. Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require: (1) a State, as a condition for receiving Federal child support funds, to prescribe procedures requiring any State court or administrative agency that issues or modifies a child support order to transmit an abstract of the order to the IRS; and (2) a State to prescribe procedures requiring an individual with the right to collect child support to be presumed to have assigned such right to the IRS (unless the individual affirmatively elects to retain such right). Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prescribe guidelines under which the IRS shall collect child support through tax withholding procedures. Declares that child support obligations will be treated as taxes for purposes of penalties and interest.
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Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] · D–MA
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S475-476)
Introduced in Senate
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