SENATE BILL No. 525

 

 

September 19, 2013, Introduced by Senator NOFS and referred to the Committee on Families, Seniors and Human Services.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1971 PA 174, entitled

 

"Office of child support act,"

 

by amending section 1 (MCL 400.231), as amended by 2004 PA 548.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Account" means any of the following:

 

     (i) A demand deposit account.

 

     (ii) A draft account.

 

     (iii) A checking account.

 

     (iv) A negotiable order of withdrawal account.

 

     (v) A share account.

 

     (vi) A savings account.

 

     (vii) A time savings account.

 

     (viii) A mutual fund account.

 

     (ix) A securities brokerage account.


 

     (x) A money market account.

 

     (xi) A retail investment account.

 

     (xii) An electronic access or debit card.

 

     (xiii) A qualified individual retirement account.

 

     (b) "Account" does not mean any of the following:

 

     (i) A trust.

 

     (ii) An annuity.

 

     (iii) A qualified individual retirement account.

 

     (iii) (iv) An account covered by the employee retirement income

 

security act of 1974, Public Law 93-406. , 88 Stat. 829.

 

     (iv) (v) A pension or retirement plan.

 

     (v) (vi) An insurance policy.

 

     (c) "Address" means the primary address shown on the records

 

of a financial institution used by the financial institution to

 

contact an account holder.

 

     (d) "Adult responsible for the child" means a parent, relative

 

who has physically cared for the child, putative father, or current

 

or former guardian of a child, including an emancipated or adult

 

child.

 

     (e) "Current employment" means employment within 1 year before

 

a friend of the court request for information.

 

     (f) "Department" means the family independence agency

 

department of human services.

 

     (g) "Financial asset" means stock, a bond, a money market

 

fund, a deposit, an account, or a similar instrument.

 

     (h) "Financial institution" means any of the following:

 

     (i) A state or national bank.


 

     (ii) A state or federally chartered savings and loan

 

association.

 

     (iii) A state or federally chartered savings bank.

 

     (iv) A state or federally chartered credit union.

 

     (v) An insurance company.

 

     (vi) An entity that offers any of the following to a resident

 

of this state:

 

     (A) A mutual fund account.

 

     (B) A securities brokerage account.

 

     (C) A money market account.

 

     (D) A retail investment account.

 

     (vii) An entity regulated by the securities and exchange

 

commission that collects funds from the public.

 

     (viii) An entity that is a member of the national association of

 

securities dealers and that collects funds from the public.

 

     (ix) An entity that collects funds from the public.

 

     (i) "Office" means the office of child support.

 

     (j) "Friend of the court case" means that term as defined in

 

section 2 of the friend of the court act, 1982 PA 294, MCL 552.502.

 

The term "friend of the court case", when used in a provision of

 

this act, is not effective until on and after December 1, 2002.

 

     (k) "Payer", "recipient of support", "source of income", and

 

"support" mean those terms as defined in section 2 of the support

 

and parenting time enforcement act, 1982 PA 295, MCL 552.602.

 

     (l) "State disbursement unit" or "SDU" means the entity

 

established in section 6 for centralized state receipt and

 

disbursement of support and fees.


 

     (m) "Title IV-D" means part D of title IV of the social

 

security act, 42 USC 651 to 655, 656 to 657, 658a to 660, and 663

 

to 669b.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless all of the following bills of the 97th Legislature are

 

enacted into law:

 

     (a) Senate Bill No. 523.                                     

 

           

 

     (b) Senate Bill No. 524.