[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2063 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2063

To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make available 
    to the Secretary of the Treasury information from the National 
 Directory of New Hires for use in collecting delinquent debt owed to 
            the Federal Government, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 25, 1997

    Mrs. Maloney of New York (for herself, Mr. Horn, Mr. Sabo, Mr. 
  Sensenbrenner, Mr. Frost, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Clement, Mr. Engel, Mr. 
 Evans, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Lipinski, Mr. Owens, Mr. Manton, Ms. 
Rivers, and Mr. Wynn) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
          to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make available 
    to the Secretary of the Treasury information from the National 
 Directory of New Hires for use in collecting delinquent debt owed to 
            the Federal Government, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Debt Collection Wage Information Act 
of 1997''.

SEC. 2. SHARING OF INFORMATION IN NATIONAL DIRECTORY OF NEW HIRES.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
make the information in the National Directory of New Hires established 
pursuant to section 453(i) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
653(i)) available to the Secretary of the Treasury for use in 
collecting delinquent indebtedness owed to the Federal Government.
    (b) Fee.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services may charge a 
fee to the Secretary of the Treasury in connection with providing 
information to the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to subsection 
(a). Any such fee shall not exceed an amount directly related to the 
costs of providing such information to the Secretary.
    (c) Authority to Disclose Information.--The Secretary of the 
Treasury may disclose to a Federal agency for use by the agency in 
collecting delinquent debt owed to the agency the information provided 
by the Secretary of Health and Human Services pursuant to subsection 
(a).
    (d) Inapplicability of Certain Computer Matching Requirements.--
Subsections (o), (p), (q), and (u) of section 552a of title 5, United 
States Code, shall not apply with respect to the provision or 
disclosure of information pursuant to subsection (a) or (c).
    (e) Sharing of State Information.--The provision of information to 
the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to subsection (a) shall not 
effect any determination of whether a State meets the requirements of 
section 303(h)(1)(C) of the Social Security Act.
    (f) Effective Date.--This Act shall take effect on January 1, 1999.
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