Senate Bill sb2208

    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SM 2208

    By Senator Miller





    18-993-03                                           See HB 149

  1                     Senate Memorial No. ____

  2         A memorial to the Congress of the United

  3         States, urging Congress to enact legislation to

  4         revise the Social Security Act to provide for

  5         the collection of retroactive child support

  6         payments and reimbursement for attorney's fees

  7         for parents or government agencies attempting

  8         to collect such child support payments.

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10         WHEREAS, the collection of past-due child support

11  payments from deadbeat parents is an expensive,

12  time-consuming, and difficult process, and

13         WHEREAS, many deadbeat parents receive payments under

14  the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. ss. 651 et seq., and

15         WHEREAS, payments for past-due child support and for

16  attorney's fees for the collection of past-due child support

17  to parents or government agencies should be deducted from

18  social security payments before social security payments are

19  made, and

20         WHEREAS, the Social Security Act should be amended to

21  permit the deduction of funds for the payment of past-due

22  child support and reimbursement for attorney's fees for the

23  collection of past-due child support to parents or government

24  agencies prior to the payment of social security funds to

25  recipients, and

26         WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States would be

27  doing a great service to many dependent children in this

28  country by revising the Social Security Act to provide for the

29  payment of past-due child support and reimbursement for

30  attorney's fees for the collection of past-due child support

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    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SM 2208
    18-993-03                                           See HB 149




 1  to parents or government agencies out of social security

 2  funds, NOW, THEREFORE,

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 4  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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 6         That the Congress of the United States is requested to

 7  revise the Social Security Act to authorize the payment of

 8  past-due child support payments and reimbursement of

 9  attorney's fees to parents or government agencies for the

10  collection of past-due child support from funds payable under

11  the Social Security Act prior to payment of such funds to

12  social security recipients.

13         ?BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be

14  dispatched to the President of the United States, to the

15  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the

16  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of

17  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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