Child Support Assistance Act of 2015

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Child Support Assistance Act of 2015

(Sec. 2) Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act, with respect to the permissible purposes of consumer reports, to authorize a consumer reporting agency to furnish a consumer report in response to a request by the head of a state or local child support enforcement agency (or an authorized state or local government official), if the requester certifies that the report is needed for enforcing a child support order, award, agreement, or judgment.

Repeals the requirement for 10 days' prior notice to a consumer whose report is requested.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2091 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2091

   To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to clarify the ability to 
  request consumer reports in certain cases to establish and enforce 
                   child support payments and awards.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 29, 2015

Mr. Poliquin (for himself, Mr. Ellison, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, Mr. 
Duffy, Mr. Murphy of Florida, and Mrs. Wagner) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to clarify the ability to 
  request consumer reports in certain cases to establish and enforce 
                   child support payments and awards.

    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 ``Child Support Assistance Act of 
2015''.

SEC. 2. REQUESTS FOR CONSUMER REPORTS BY STATE OR LOCAL CHILD SUPPORT 
              ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.

    Paragraph (4) of section 604(a) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act 
(15 U.S.C. 1681b(a)(4)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``or determining the 
        appropriate level of such payments'' and inserting ``, 
        determining the appropriate level of such payments, or 
        enforcing a child support order, award, agreement, or 
        judgment'';
            (2) in subparagraph (B)--
                    (A) by striking ``paternity'' and inserting 
                ``parentage''; and
                    (B) by adding ``and'' at the end;
            (3) by striking subparagraph (C); and
            (4) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (C).
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