SB 754, as introduced, Mitchell. Statewide Child Support Registry.
Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to develop an implementation plan for the Statewide Child Support Registry, which includes storage and data retrieval for all state child support orders.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 16576 of the Welfare and Institutions
2Code is amended to read:
(a) The department shall develop an implementation
4plan for the Statewide Child Support Registry. The Statewide Child
5Support Registry shall be operated by the agency responsible for
6operation of the Statewide Automated Child Support System
7(SACSS) or its replacement. The Statewide Child Support Registry
8shall include storage and data retrieval of the data elements
9specified in Section 16577 for all California child support orders.
10The plan shall be developed in consultation with clerks of the
11court, district attorneys, and child support advocates. The plan
P2 1shall be submitted to the Legislature by January 31, 1998. The
2implementation plan shall explain in general terms, among other
3things, how the Statewide Child Support Registry will operate to
4ensure that all data in the Statewide Child
Support Registry can
5be accessed and how data shall be integrated for statistical analysis
6and reporting purposes with all child support order data contained
7in the Statewide Automated Child Support System or its
8replacement and the Los Angeles Automated Child Support
9Enforcement System (ACSES) Replacement System.
10(b) begin deleteEach end deletebegin insertA end insertclerk of the court shall provide the information
11specified in Section 16577 within 20 days to the department or the
12Statewide Child Support Registry frombegin delete eachend deletebegin insert aend insert new or modified
13child support order, including child support arrearage orders.
14(c) The department shall maintain a system for compiling the
15child support data received from the clerks of the court, ensure
16that all child support data received from the clerks of the court are
17entered into the Statewide Child Support Registry within 10 days
18of receipt in the Statewide Child Support Registry, and ensure that
19the Statewide Child Support Registry is fully implemented
20statewide.
21(d) The department shall provide aggregate data on a periodic
22basis on the data maintained by the Statewide Child Support
23Registry to the Judicial Council, the appropriate agencies of the
24executive branch, and the Legislature for statistical analysis and
25review. The data shall not include individual identifying
26information for specific cases.
27(e) Any information maintained by the Statewide Child Support
28Registry received from
clerks of the court shall be provided to
29county district attorneys, the Franchise Tax Board, the courts, and
30others as provided by law.
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