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Texas Family Code - Section 231.305. Memorandum Of Understanding On Child Support For Children Receiving Public Assistance

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§ 231.305. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING ON CHILD SUPPORT 
FOR CHILDREN RECEIVING PUBLIC ASSISTANCE.  (a) The Title IV-D 
agency and the Texas Department of Human Services by rule shall 
adopt a memorandum of understanding governing the establishment and 
enforcement of court-ordered child support in cases involving 
children who receive financial assistance under Chapter 31, Human 
Resources Code.  The memorandum shall require the agency and the 
department to:
		(1)  develop procedures to ensure that the information 
the department is required to collect to establish and enforce 
child support:
			(A)  is collected from the person applying to 
receive the financial assistance at the time the application is 
filed;
			(B)  is accurate and complete when the department 
forwards the information to the agency;
			(C)  is not information previously reported to the 
agency;  and            
			(D)  is forwarded to the agency in an expeditious 
manner;                  
		(2)  develop procedures to ensure that the agency does 
not duplicate the efforts of the department in gathering necessary 
information;
		(3)  clarify each agency's responsibilities in the 
establishment and enforcement of child support;
		(4)  develop guidelines for use by eligibility workers 
and child support enforcement officers in obtaining from an 
applicant the information required to establish and enforce child 
support for that child;
		(5)  develop training programs for appropriate 
department personnel to enhance the collection of information for 
child support enforcement;
		(6)  develop a standard time, not to exceed 30 days, for 
the department to initiate a sanction on request from the agency;
		(7)  develop procedures for agency participation in 
department appeal hearings relating to noncompliance sanctions;
		(8)  develop performance measures regarding the 
timeliness and the number of sanctions resulting from agency 
requests for noncompliance sanctions;  and
		(9)  prescribe:                                                               
			(A)  the time in which the department is required 
to forward information under Subdivision (1)(D);  and
			(B)  what constitutes complete information under 
Subdivision (1)(B).       
	(b)  The Title IV-D agency and the Texas Department of Human 
Services shall review and renew or modify the memorandum not later 
than January 1 of each even-numbered year.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 341, § 1.07, eff. Sept. 1, 
1995.  Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 556, § 57, eff. Sept. 
1, 1999.

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