{"abstract":"This rule is intended to carry out the President's directives in Executive Order 13563: Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review. The final rule will make Child Support Enforcement program operations and enforcement procedures more flexible, more effective, and more efficient by recognizing the strength of existing State enforcement programs, advancements in technology that can enable improved collection rates, and the move toward electronic communication and document management. This final rule will improve and simplify program operations, and remove outmoded limitations to program innovations to better serve families. In addition, the final rule clarifies and corrects technical provisions in existing regulations. The rule makes significant changes to the regulations on case closure, child support guidelines, and medical support enforcement. It will improve child support collection rates because support orders will reflect the noncustodial parent's ability to pay support, and more noncustodial parents will support their children.","action":"Final rule.","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"},{"raw_name":"Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services","name":"Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services","id":45,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/45","parent_id":221,"slug":"centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services"},{"raw_name":"Administration for Children and Families","name":"Children and Families Administration","id":49,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/children-and-families-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/49","parent_id":221,"slug":"children-and-families-administration"}],"body_html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/2016/12/20/2016-29598.html","cfr_references":[{"chapter":null,"citation_url":null,"part":433,"title":42},{"chapter":null,"citation_url":null,"part":301,"title":45},{"chapter":null,"citation_url":null,"part":302,"title":45},{"chapter":null,"citation_url":null,"part":303,"title":45},{"chapter":null,"citation_url":null,"part":304,"title":45},{"chapter":null,"citation_url":null,"part":305,"title":45},{"chapter":null,"citation_url":null,"part":307,"title":45},{"chapter":null,"citation_url":null,"part":308,"title":45},{"chapter":null,"citation_url":null,"part":309,"title":45}],"citation":"81 FR 93492","comment_url":null,"comments_close_on":null,"correction_of":null,"corrections":[],"dates":"This final rule is effective on January 19, 2017. States may comply any time after the effective date, but before the final compliance date, except for the amendment to Sec. 433.152, which is effective on January 20, 2017. The compliance dates, or the dates that States must comply with the final rule, vary for the various sections of the Federal regulations. 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