[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1033 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1033

To amend title IV of the Social Security Act to coordinate the penalty 
      for the failure of a State to operate a State child support 
 disbursement unit with the alternative penalty procedure for failures 
                 to meet data processing requirements.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 13, 1999

Mrs. Feinstein introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title IV of the Social Security Act to coordinate the penalty 
      for the failure of a State to operate a State child support 
 disbursement unit with the alternative penalty procedure for failures 
                 to meet data processing requirements.

    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 ``Child Support Penalty Fairness 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ALTERNATIVE PENALTY PROCEDURE FOR FAILURE TO OPERATE STATE 
              DISBURSEMENT UNIT.

    (a) In General.--Section 455(a)(4) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 655(a)(4)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) The Secretary may not disapprove a State plan 
                under section 454 against a State with respect to a 
                failure to comply with section 454(27) for a fiscal 
                year as long as the State is receiving a penalty under 
                this paragraph with respect to a failure to comply with 
                either section 454(24)(A) or 454(24)(B) for the fiscal 
                year.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall take 
effect as if included in the amendments made by section 101 of the 
Child Support Performance and Incentive Act of 1998.
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