MS HB1039

Requires any person receiving child support payments through the State Department of Human Services to submit an itemized list of all expenditures every three months, including actual amounts paid and descriptions of items or activities.

Directs the State Department of Human Services to review expenditure lists to determine if child support monies were spent appropriately on the child.

Requires recipients found to have spent child support monies inappropriately to participate in parenting classes until the inappropriate spending is resolved.

Requires the State Department of Human Services to provide payment receipt statements to the person paying child support.

Takes effect July 1, 2019.