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SF 1947 Senate Long Description

Establishing a child support mediation pilot program to encourage mediation of child support agreements in cases involving establishment, modification or enforcement of child support orders and to evaluate the effectiveness of mediation in increasing compliance with child support orders, requiring administration by the commissioner of human services; requiring the commissioner to contract with a private mediation service to implement the program; requiring availability of the programs in the second, third and ninth judicial districts; specifying mediator qualifications; parties to pay for the services at a sliding scale rate based on ability to pay; requiring the family social sciences department of the university of Minnesota to coordinate the evaluation of the program, specifying certain evaluation requirements; requiring the commissioner to submit a preliminary evaluation to the legislature by a certain date for funding continuation purposes (ra)