Section 231.305 - Memorandum of Understanding on Child Support for Children Receiving Public Assistance(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:(1) develop procedures to ensure that the information the department is required to collect to establish and enforce child support:(A) is collected from the person applying to receive the financial assistance at the time the application is filed;(B) is accurate and complete when the department forwards the information to the agency;(C) is not information previously reported to the agency; and(D) is forwarded to the agency in an expeditious manner;(2) develop procedures to ensure that the agency does not duplicate the efforts of the department in gathering necessary information;(3) clarify each agency's responsibilities in the establishment and enforcement of child support;(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;(5) develop training programs for appropriate department personnel to enhance the collection of information for child support enforcement;(6) develop a standard time, not to exceed 30 days, for the department to initiate a sanction on request from the agency;(7) develop procedures for agency participation in department appeal hearings relating to noncompliance sanctions;(8) develop performance measures regarding the timeliness and the number of sanctions resulting from agency requests for noncompliance sanctions; and(9) prescribe: (A) the time in which the department is required to forward information under Subdivision (1)(D); and(B) what constitutes complete information under Subdivision (1)(B).(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.Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 556, Sec. 57, eff. 9/1/1999.Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 341, Sec. 1.07, eff. 9/1/1995.