[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3461 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3461

   To amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to require 
  States to administer qualifying examinations to all State employees 
 with new authority to make decisions regarding child welfare services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 8, 1993

 Mrs. Maloney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to require 
  States to administer qualifying examinations to all State employees 
 with new authority to make decisions regarding child welfare services.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT THAT STATES ADMINISTER QUALIFYING EXAMINATIONS 
              TO ALL STATE EMPLOYEES WITH NEW AUTHORITY TO MAKE 
              DECISIONS REGARDING CHILD WELFARE SERVICES.

    Section 474 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 674) is amended 
by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) The Secretary may not make a payment to a State under 
subsection (a) for any calendar quarter beginning after the 18-month 
period that begins with the date of the enactment of this subsection, 
unless the State has in effect procedures to ensure that, before the 
State provides to a prospective child welfare decisionmaker the 
authority to make decisions regarding child welfare services, the 
individual must take and pass an examination, administered by the 
State, that tests knowledge of such subjects as child development, 
family dynamics, dysfunctional behavior, substance abuse, child abuse, 
and community advocacy. As used in the preceding sentence, the term 
`prospective child welfare decisionmaker' means an individual who, on 
the date of the enactment of this subsection, does not have any 
authority to make a decision regarding child welfare services.''.

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