State case registry.

A. The health care authority, acting as the state's child support enforcement agency pursuant to Title 4-D of the Social Security Act, shall establish a state case registry by October 1, 1998 that contains records with respect to: (1) each case in which services are being provided on or after October 1, 1998 by the state Title 4-D agency; and (2) each support order established or modified in the state on or after October 1, 1998, whether or not the order was obtained by the Title 4-D agency. B. The records maintained by the state case registry shall use standardized data elements for parents, such as names, social security numbers and other uniform identification numbers like dates of birth and case identification numbers and contain such other information, such as case status, as the United States secretary of health and human services may require. C. The Title 4-D agency and the administrative office of the courts shall work cooperatively to ensure that the requirements of Laws 1997, Chapter 237 are implemented in an effective, efficient and timely manner. The health care authority shall reimburse the administrative office of the courts for all costs incurred in furnishing the information. A cooperative agreement between the Title 4-D agency and the administrative office of the courts shall include costs to be charged by the administrative office of the courts for all work performed to conform to these requirements. The health care authority shall promptly provide the administrative office of the courts the data elements and formats required under Subsection B of this section as soon as they become available to the authority. D. The state case registry shall extract information from its automated system to share and compare information with and to receive information from other databases and information comparison services in order to obtain or provide information necessary to enable the Title 4-D agency or the United States secretary of health and human services or other state or federal agencies to carry out the Title 4-D program, subject to Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Such information comparison activities shall include the following: (1) furnishing to the federal case registry of child support orders established (and update as necessary with information, including notice of expiration of orders) the minimum amount of information on child support cases recorded in the state case registry that is necessary to operate the federal registry, as specified by the United States secretary of health and human services in regulations; (2) exchanging information with the federal parent locator service for the purposes specified in the State Directory of New Hires Act [50-13-1 to 50-13-4 NMSA 1978]; (3) exchanging information with New Mexico agencies and agencies of other states administering programs of temporary assistance for needy families and medicaid and other programs designated by the United States secretary of health and human services as necessary to perform state agency responsibilities under this section and under such programs; and (4) exchanging information with other agencies of the state, agencies of other states and interstate information networks as necessary and appropriate to carry out or assist other states to carry out purposes of the Title 4-D program.