A. The human services department, acting as the state's child support enforcement agency pursuant to Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, shall establish a state case registry by October 1, 1998 that contains records with respect to:

(1) each case in which services are being provided on or after October 1, 1998 by the state Title IV-D agency; and

(2) each support order established or modified in the state on or after October 1, 1998, whether or not the order was obtained by the Title IV-D agency.

B. The records maintained by the state case registry shall use standardized data elements for parents such as names, social security numbers and other uniform identification numbers like dates of birth and case identification numbers, and contain such other information such as on case status as the secretary of the United States department of health and human services may require.

C. The Title IV-D agency and the administrative office of the courts shall work cooperatively to ensure that the requirements of this act are implemented in an effective, efficient and timely manner. The human services department shall reimburse the administrative office of the courts for all costs incurred in furnishing the information. A cooperative agreement between the Title IV-D agency and the administrative office of the courts shall include costs to be charged by the administrative office of the courts for all work performed to conform to these requirements. The human services department shall promptly provide the administrative office of the courts the data elements and formats required under Subsection B of this section as soon as they become available to the department.

D. The state case registry shall extract information from its automated system to share and compare information with and to receive information from, other databases and information comparison services in order to obtain or provide information necessary to enable the Title IV-D agency or the United States health and human services department secretary or other state or federal agencies to carry out the Title IV-D program, subject to Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Such information comparison activities shall include the following:

(1) furnishing to the federal case registry of child support orders established (and update as necessary with information including notice of expiration of orders) the minimum amount of information on child support cases recorded in the state case registry that is necessary to operate the registry, as specified by the United States health and human services department secretary in regulations;

(2) exchanging information with the federal parent locator service for the purposes specified in the State Directory of New Hires Act [50-13-1 NMSA 1978];

(3) exchanging information with state agencies of the state and of other states administering programs of temporary assistance for needy families and medicaid, and other programs designated by the United States health and human services secretary, as necessary to perform state agency responsibilities under this part and under such programs; and

(4) exchanging information with other agencies of the state, agencies of other states and interstate information networks, as necessary and appropriate to carry out or assist other states to carry out purposes of the Title IV-D program.

History: Laws 1997, ch. 237, § 1.

Cross references. — For single state agency designation for Title IV-D, see 27-2-27 NMSA 1978.

For the Support Enforcement Act, see Chapter 40, Article 4A NMSA 1978.

For the State Directory of New Hires Act, see 50-13-1 NMSA 1978.

For Title IV-D of the federal Social Security Act, see 42 U.S.C. § 651 et seq.

For Section 6103 of the federal Internal Revenue Code, see 26 U.S.C. § 6103.