PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 490

CHAPTER 490
(House Bill 718)

AN ACT concerning

Child Support Reinvestment Fund

FOR the purpose of establishing a Child Support Reinvestment Fund within the Child
Support Enforcement Administration of the Department of Human Resources;
requiring a certain percentage of federal performance incentive dollars to be
retained by the Fund under certain conditions; providing that the Fund is not part
of the General Fund; establishing the uses of the Fund; prohibiting the Department
of Human Resources from making certain transfers or expenditures from the Fund;
permitting certain expenditures from the Fund under certain circumstances;
permitting the expenditure of certain federal funds under certain circumstances;
defining certain terms; and generally relating to the Child Support Reinvestment
Fund.

BY adding to

Article - Family Law

Section 10-106.1

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1991 Replacement Volume and 1994 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

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10-106.1.

(A)     (1) IN THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS
INDICATED.

(2)     "FUND" MEANS THE CHILD SUPPORT REINVESTMENT FUND.

(3)     "FEDERAL PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE DOLLARS" MEANS FEDERAL
FUNDS RETAINED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES FOR THE
COLLECTION OF CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS THAT ARE:

(I)      OVER AND ABOVE THE STANDARD FEDERAL
REIMBURSEMENT RATE FOR PROGRAM EXPENDITURES AS PROVIDED UNDER TITLE
IV-D OF THE FEDERAL SOCIAL SECURITY ACT; AND

(II)     RETAINED BY THE DEPARTMENT AFTER APPROPRIATE LOCAL
GOVERNMENT DISTRIBUTIONS ARE MADE AS PROVIDED UNDER § 10-116(B) OF THIS
ARTICLE.

(B)     THERE IS ESTABLISHED A CHILD SUPPORT REINVESTMENT FUND WITHIN
THE ADMINISTRATION.

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