HM 0149 2003
1	House Memorial
2	A memorial to the Congress of the United States, urging
3	Congress to enact legislation to revise the Social
4	Security Act to provide for the collection of retroactive
5	child support payments and reimbursement for attorney fees
6	for parents or government agencies attempting to collect
7	such child support payments.
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9	WHEREAS, the collection of past-due child support payments
10	from deadbeat parents is an expensive, time-consuming, and
11	difficult process, and
12	WHEREAS, many deadbeat parents receive payments under the
13	Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. ss. 651 et seq., and
14	WHEREAS, payments for past-due child support and for
15	attorney fees for the collection of past-due child support to
16	parents or government agencies should be deducted from social
17	security payments before social security payments are made, and
18	WHEREAS, the Social Security Act should be amended to
19	permit the deduction of funds for the payment of past-due child
20	support and reimbursement for attorney fees for the collection
21	of past-due child support to parents or government agencies
22	prior to the payment of social security funds to recipients, and
23	WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States would be doing a
24	great service to many dependent children in this country by
25	revising the Social Security Act to provide for the payment of
26	past-due child support and reimbursement for attorney fees for
27	the collection of past-due child support to parents or
28	government agencies out of social security funds, NOW,
29	THEREFORE,
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31	Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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33	That the Congress of the United States is requested to
34	revise the Social Security Act to authorize the payment of past-
35	due child support payments and reimbursement of attorney fees to
36	parents or government agencies for the collection of past-due
37	child support from funds payable under the Social Security Act
38	prior to payment of such funds to social security recipients.
39	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
40	dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
41	President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
42	United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
43	the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.
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