Volume 167, No. 131, covering the 1st Session of the 117th Congress (2021 – 2022), was published by the Congressional Record.
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“PROVIDING ADEQUATE RESOURCES TO ENHANCE NEEDED TIME WITH SONS AND DAUGHTERS ACT OF 2021” mentioning Sheldon Whitehouse was published in the Senate section on page S5110 on July 27.
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The publication is reproduced in full below:
PROVIDING ADEQUATE RESOURCES TO ENHANCE NEEDED TIME WITH SONS AND
DAUGHTERS ACT OF 2021
Mr. WHITEHOUSE. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be discharged from further consideration of S. 503 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
The legislative clerk read as follows:
A bill (S. 503) to amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to allow States to use incentive payments available under the child support enforcement program to improve parent-child relationships, increase child support collections, and improve outcomes for children by supporting parenting time agreements for noncustodial parents in uncontested agreements, and for other purposes.
There being no objection, the committee was discharged and the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
Mr. WHITEHOUSE. I know of no further debate.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read the third time.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass?
The bill (S. 503) was passed, as follows
S. 503
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Providing Adequate Resources to Enhance Needed Time with Sons and daughters Act of 2021” or the “PARENTS Act of 2021”.
SEC. 2. EXPANDING PERMITTED USES OF INCENTIVE PAYMENTS.
Section 458 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 658a) is amended–
(1) in subsection (f)–
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking “; or” and inserting a semicolon;
(B) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and
(C) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new paragraph:
“(2) to develop, implement, and evaluate procedures for establishing a parenting time agreement when establishing an initial or modified child support order or a medical support order (including procedures for carrying out a parenting time agreement made prior to the establishment or modification of any such order); or”; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
“(g) Definitions of Parenting Time Agreement and Noncustodial Parent.–
“(1) Parenting time agreement.–For purposes of subsection
(f)(2), the term `parenting time agreement’ means an agreement governing how much time a child spends with the child’s custodial parent and the child’s noncustodial parent that is mutually agreed to by the parents and is not contested by either parent in any forum.
“(2) Noncustodial parent.–For purposes of paragraph (1), the term `noncustodial parent’ means the parent of a child that the child does not live with for the majority of the child’s time.”.
Mr. WHITEHOUSE. I ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
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