Committee Mission
The mission of the Policy and Regulations Committee is to provide a forum for a statewide dialogue between the State and local agencies on policy issues. To coordinate the county level review, discussion and comment on proposed or existing policy and/or regulation change and to assist in the development of new, or the revision of existing, policy and/or regulation in collaboration with State DCSS.
For a copy of the
Committee Charter, approved by the CSDA Board on February 9, 2011, please click on the attached link. Included in the Charter are the committee objectives, the committee officer roles and responsibilities, committee membership and membership selection. If you have questions or comments, please contact the Committee Chair and Sacramento DCSS Director
Terrie Hardy-Porter.
Agenda & Minutes
Click on the link to access an archive of the committee agendas and meeting minutes.
Actually, during each membership meeting the Chair of the Policy and Regulations Committee provides an update on the committee's activities. To access copies of their report, go to the CSDA membership minutes archive.
Next Meeting
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Monday, February 27, 2012 |
Time:
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10:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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Location:
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State DCSS, Rancho Cordova
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Link & Resources
One of the major roles of the committee is to provide feedback during the development of child support policy and regulations. Disseminated by DCSS in the form of a draft CSS letter, committee members and all LCSA Directors have a 10 day window to comment. To view an archive of the draft CSS letters and their corresponding feedback, please go to the CSS Letter archive.
The committee also provides a forum for those who have policy questions that need interpretation. If you have a policy interpretation question (PIQ) please see the attached process and complete the form in the following document PIQ's process and email it to CDA Policy/Communications Analyst Natalie Metzger-Smit. Click here for an archive of previously submitted CSDA PIQ's: archive.
What's New
On February 9, 2011 the CSDA Board of Directors approved the Committee's new
Charter.
Miscellaneous
The Office of Child Support Enforcement also provides guidance on child support policy through its PIQ process. Click on the link to access its
2008 archive of PIQ letters.
For more information about California's regulations and code sections, please go to the child support
links and resources page.