[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5294 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5294

  To prohibit the provision of financial assistance from the Federal 
  Government to any person who is more than 60 days delinquent in the 
                payment of any child support obligation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 29, 1994

Mr. Bilirakis introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Government Operations

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the provision of financial assistance from the Federal 
  Government to any person who is more than 60 days delinquent in the 
                payment of any child support obligation.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Subsidy Termination for Overdue 
Payments Act of 1994''.

SEC. 2. CERTIFICATION OF COMPLIANCE WITH CHILD SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS 
              REQUIRED AS A CONDITION OF RECEIVING FEDERAL FINANCIAL 
              ASSISTANCE.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an 
agency or instrumentality of the Federal Government may not provide 
financial assistance to an applicant therefor unless the agency or 
instrumentality has obtained from the applicant a certification that 
the applicant is not more than 60 days delinquent in the payment of any 
child support obligation imposed by a court or an order of an 
administrative process established under State law, or if so 
delinquent, is in compliance with a plan or agreement entered into 
between the applicant and the person to whom the payment is to be made 
or a State providing services to the person with respect to the 
collection of the support.
    (b) Regulations.--Within 6 months after the date of the enactment 
of this section, each agency or instrumentality of the Federal 
Government that provides financial assistance shall prescribe such 
regulations as may be necessary to comply with subsection (a).
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