{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-family-code-231.305","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Family Code § 231.305","heading":"MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING ON CHILD SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN RECEIVING PUBLIC ASSISTANCE.","body":"(a) The Title IV-D agency and the Texas Department of Human Services by rule shall adopt a memorandum of understanding governing the establishment and enforcement of court-ordered child support in cases involving children who receive financial assistance under Chapter 31, Human Resources Code. The memorandum shall require the agency and the department to:\n(1) develop procedures to ensure that the information the department is required to collect to establish and enforce child support:\n(A) is collected from the person applying to receive the financial assistance at the time the application is filed;\n(B) is accurate and complete when the department forwards the information to the agency;\n(C) is not information previously reported to the agency; and\n(D) is forwarded to the agency in an expeditious manner;\n(2) develop procedures to ensure that the agency does not duplicate the efforts of the department in gathering necessary information;\n(3) clarify each agency's responsibilities in the establishment and enforcement of child support;\n(4) develop guidelines for use by eligibility workers and child support enforcement officers in obtaining from an applicant the information required to establish and enforce child support for that child;\n(5) develop training programs for appropriate department personnel to enhance the collection of information for child support enforcement;\n(6) develop a standard time, not to exceed 30 days, for the department to initiate a sanction on request from the agency;\n(7) develop procedures for agency participation in department appeal hearings relating to noncompliance sanctions;\n(8) develop performance measures regarding the timeliness and the number of sanctions resulting from agency requests for noncompliance sanctions; and\n(9) prescribe:\n(A) the time in which the department is required to forward information under Subdivision (1)(D); and\n(B) what constitutes complete information under Subdivision (1)(B).\n(b) The Title IV-D agency and the Texas Department of Human Services shall review and renew or modify the memorandum not later than January 1 of each even-numbered year.\nAdded by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 341, Sec. 1.07, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 556, Sec. 57, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.","path":["FAMILY CODE","TITLE 5. THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP AND THE SUIT AFFECTING THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP","SUBTITLE D. ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES","CHAPTER 231. TITLE IV-D SERVICES","SUBCHAPTER D. LOCATION OF PARENTS AND RESOURCES"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.231.htm#231.305","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:10Z","sha256":"e017a27da28341b094bd55adc200b7359e0a4ac99aeb0d7125eaf081de0ac908","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-family-code-231.303","next":"us-tx/tex.-family-code-231.306"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}