[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
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[S. 604 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 604

   To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide 
   grants to promote responsible fatherhood, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 12, 2003

 Mr. Bayh (for himself, Mr. Domenici, and Mr. Santorum) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                                Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide 
   grants to promote responsible fatherhood, 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 ``Responsible Fatherhood Act of 
2003''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) Nearly 24,000,000 children in the United States, or 34 
        percent of all such children, live apart from their biological 
        father.
            (2) Sixty percent of couples who divorce have at least 1 
        child.
            (3) The number of children living with only a mother 
        increased from just over 5,000,000 in 1960, to 17,000,000 in 
        1999, and between 1981 and 1991 the percentage of children 
        living with only 1 parent increased from 19 percent to 25 
        percent.
            (4) Forty percent of children who live in households 
        without a father have not seen their father in at least 1 year 
        and 50 percent of such children have never visited their 
        father's home.
            (5) The most important factor in a child's upbringing is 
        whether the child is brought up in a loving, healthy, 
        supportive environment.
            (6) Children who live without contact with their biological 
        father are, in comparison to children who have such contact--
                    (A) 5 times more likely to live in poverty;
                    (B) more likely to bring weapons and drugs into the 
                classroom;
                    (C) twice as likely to commit crime;
                    (D) twice as likely to drop out of school;
                    (E) more likely to commit suicide;
                    (F) more than twice as likely to abuse alcohol or 
                drugs; and
                    (G) more likely to become pregnant as teenagers.
            (7) Violent criminals are overwhelmingly males who grew up 
        without fathers.
            (8) Between 20 and 30 percent of families in poverty are 
        headed by women who have suffered domestic violence during the 
        past year and between 40 and 60 percent of women with children 
        receiving welfare were abused sometime during their life.
            (9) Responsible fatherhood includes active participation in 
        financial support and child care, as well as the formation and 
        maintenance of a positive, healthy, and nonviolent relationship 
        between father and child and a cooperative relationship between 
        parents.
            (10) States should be encouraged to implement programs that 
        provide support for responsible fatherhood, promote marriage, 
        and increase the incidence of marriage, and should not be 
        restricted from implementing such programs.
            (11) Fatherhood programs should promote and provide support 
        services for--
                    (A) loving and healthy relationships between 
                parents and children; and
                    (B) cooperative parenting.
            (12) There is a social need to reconnect children and 
        fathers.
            (13) The promotion of responsible fatherhood and 
        encouragement of married 2-parent families should not--
                    (A) denigrate the standing or parenting efforts of 
                single mothers or other caregivers;
                    (B) lessen the protection of children from abusive 
                parents; or
                    (C) compromise the safety or health of the 
                custodial parent;
        but should increase the chance that children will have two 
        caring parents to help them grow up healthy and secure.
            (14) The promotion of responsible fatherhood must always 
        recognize and promote the values of nonviolence.
            (15) For the future of the United States and the future of 
        our children, Congress, States, and local communities should 
        assist parents to become more actively involved in their 
        children's lives.
            (16) Child support is an important means by which a parent 
        can take financial responsibility for a child and emotional 
        support is an important means by which a parent can take social 
        responsibility for a child.

SEC. 3. RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD GRANTS.

    Part D of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 651 et 
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 469C. RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD GRANTS.

    ``(a) Grants to States To Conduct Demonstration Programs.--
            ``(1) Authority to award grants.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall award grants 
                to up to 10 eligible States to conduct demonstration 
                programs to carry out the purposes described in 
                paragraph (2).
                    ``(B) Eligible state.--For purposes of this 
                subsection, an eligible State is a State that submits 
                to the Secretary the following:
                            ``(i) Application.--An application for a 
                        grant under this subsection, at such time, in 
                        such manner, and containing such information as 
                        the Secretary may require.
                            ``(ii) State plan.--A State plan that 
                        includes the following:
                                    ``(I) Project description.--A 
                                description of the types of projects 
                                the State will fund under the grant, 
                                including a good faith estimate of the 
                                number and characteristics of clients 
                                to be served under such projects and 
                                how the State intends to achieve at 
                                least 2 of the purposes described in 
                                paragraph (2).
                                    ``(II) Coordination efforts.--A 
                                description of how the State will 
                                coordinate and cooperate with State and 
                                local entities responsible for carrying 
                                out other programs that relate to the 
                                purposes intended to be achieved under 
                                the demonstration program, including as 
                                appropriate, entities responsible for 
                                carrying out jobs programs and programs 
                                serving children and families.
                                    ``(III) Records, reports, and 
                                audits.--An agreement to maintain such 
                                records, submit such reports, and 
                                cooperate with such reviews and audits 
                                as the Secretary finds necessary for 
                                purposes of oversight of the 
                                demonstration program.
                            ``(iii) Certifications.--The following 
                        certifications from the chief executive officer 
                        of the State:
                                    ``(I) A certification that the 
                                State will use funds provided under the 
                                grant to promote at least 2 of the 
                                purposes described in paragraph (2).
                                    ``(II) A certification that the 
                                State will return any unused funds to 
                                the Secretary in accordance with the 
                                reconciliation process under paragraph 
                                (4).
                                    ``(III) A certification that the 
                                funds provided under the grant will be 
                                used for programs and activities that 
                                target low-income participants and that 
                                not less than 50 percent of the 
                                participants in each program or 
                                activity funded under the grant shall 
                                be--
                                            ``(aa) parents of a child 
                                        who is, or within the past 24 
                                        months has been, a recipient of 
                                        assistance or services under a 
                                        State program funded under this 
                                        part and is described in 
                                        section 454(4)(A)(i); or
                                            ``(bb) parents, including 
                                        an expectant parent or a 
                                        married parent, whose income 
                                        (after adjustment for court-
                                        ordered child support paid or 
                                        received) does not exceed 150 
                                        percent of the poverty line.
                                    ``(IV) A certification that 
                                programs or activities funded under the 
                                grant will be provided with information 
                                regarding the prevention of domestic 
                                violence and that the State will 
                                consult with representatives of State 
                                and local domestic violence centers.
                                    ``(V) A certification that funds 
                                provided to a State under this 
                                subsection shall not be used to 
                                supplement or supplant other Federal, 
                                State, or local funds that are used to 
                                support programs or activities that are 
                                related to the purposes described in 
                                paragraph (2).
                    ``(C) Preferences and factors of consideration.--In 
                awarding grants under this subsection, the Secretary 
                shall take into consideration the following:
                            ``(i) Diversity of entities used to conduct 
                        programs and activities.--The Secretary shall, 
                        to the extent practicable, achieve a balance 
                        among the eligible States awarded grants under 
                        this subsection with respect to the size, urban 
                        or rural location, and employment of differing 
                        or unique methods of the entities that the 
                        States intend to use to conduct the programs 
                        and activities funded under the grants.
                            ``(ii) Priority for certain states.--The 
                        Secretary shall give priority to awarding 
                        grants to eligible States that have--
                                    ``(I) demonstrated progress in 
                                achieving at least 1 of the purposes 
                                described in paragraph (2) through 
                                previous State initiatives; or
                                    ``(II) demonstrated need with 
                                respect to reducing the incidence of 
                                out-of-wedlock births or absent fathers 
                                in the State.
            ``(2) Purposes.--The purposes described in this paragraph 
        are the following:
                    ``(A) Promoting responsible fatherhood through 
                marriage promotion.--To promote marriage or sustain 
                marriage through such activities as counseling, 
                mentoring, disseminating information about the benefits 
                of marriage and 2-parent involvement for children, 
                enhancing relationship skills, education regarding how 
                to control aggressive behavior, disseminating 
                information on the causes of domestic violence and 
                child abuse, marriage preparation programs, premarital 
                counseling, marital inventories, skills-based marriage 
                education, financial planning seminars, including 
                improving a family's ability to effectively manage 
                family business affairs by means such as education, 
                counseling, or mentoring on matters related to family 
                finances, including household management, budgeting, 
                banking, and handling of financial transactions and 
                home maintenance, and divorce education and reduction 
                programs, including mediation and counseling.
                    ``(B) Promoting responsible fatherhood through 
                parenting promotion.--To promote responsible parenting 
                through such activities as counseling, mentoring, and 
                mediation, disseminating information about good 
                parenting practices, skills-based parenting education, 
                encouraging child support payments, and other methods.
                    ``(C) Promoting responsible fatherhood through 
                fostering economic stability of fathers.--To foster 
                economic stability by helping fathers improve their 
                economic status by providing such activities as work 
                first services, job search, job training, subsidized 
                employment, job retention, job enhancement, and 
                encouraging education, including career-advancing 
                education, dissemination of employment materials, 
                coordination with existing employment services such as 
                welfare-to-work programs, referrals to local employment 
                training initiatives, and other methods.
            ``(3) Restriction on use of funds.--No funds provided under 
        this subsection may be used for costs attributable to court 
proceedings regarding matters of child visitation or custody, or for 
legislative advocacy.
            ``(4) Reconciliation process.--
                    ``(A) 3-year availability of amounts allotted.--
                Each eligible State that receives a grant under this 
                subsection for a fiscal year shall return to the 
                Secretary any unused portion of the grant for such 
                fiscal year not later than the last day of the second 
                succeeding fiscal year, together with any earnings on 
                such unused portion.
                    ``(B) Procedure for redistribution.--The Secretary 
                shall establish an appropriate procedure for 
                redistributing to eligible entities that have expended 
                the entire amount of a grant made under this subsection 
                for a fiscal year any amount that is returned to the 
                Secretary by eligible States under subparagraph (A).
            ``(5) Amount of grants.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), the 
                amount of each grant awarded under this subsection 
                shall be an amount sufficient to implement the State 
                plan submitted under paragraph (1)(B)(ii).
                    ``(B) Minimum amounts.--No eligible State shall--
                            ``(i) in the case of the District of 
                        Columbia or a State other than the Commonwealth 
                        of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin 
                        Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the 
                        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 
                        receive a grant for a fiscal year in an amount 
                        that is less than $1,000,000; and
                            ``(ii) in the case of the Commonwealth of 
                        Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, 
                        Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of 
                        the Northern Mariana Islands, receive a grant 
                        for a fiscal year in an amount that is less 
                        than $500,000.
            ``(6) Definition of state.--In this subsection the term 
        `State' means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, 
        the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin 
        Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the 
        Northern Mariana Islands.
            ``(7) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004 
        through 2008 for purposes of making grants to States under this 
        subsection.
    ``(b) Grants to Eligible Entities To Conduct Demonstration 
Programs.--
            ``(1) Authority to award grants.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall award grants 
                to eligible entities to conduct demonstration programs 
                to carry out the purposes described in (a)(2).
                    ``(B) Eligible entity.--For purposes of this 
                subsection, an eligible entity is a local government, 
                local public agency, community-based or nonprofit 
                organization, or private entity, including any 
                charitable or faith-based organization that submits to 
                the Secretary the following:
                            ``(i) Application.--An application for a 
                        grant under this subsection, at such time, in 
                        such manner, and containing such information as 
                        the Secretary may require.
                            ``(ii) Project description.--A description 
                        of the programs or activities the entity 
                        intends to carry out with funds provided under 
                        the grant, including a good faith estimate of 
                        the number and characteristics of clients to be 
                        served under such programs or activities and 
                        how the entity intends to achieve at least 2 of 
                        the purposes described in subsection (a)(2).
                            ``(iii) Coordination efforts.--A 
                        description of how the entity will coordinate 
                        and cooperate with State and local entities 
                        responsible for carrying out other programs 
                        that relate to the purposes intended to be 
                        achieved under the demonstration program, 
                        including as appropriate, entities responsible 
                        for carrying out jobs programs and programs 
                        serving children and families.
                            ``(iv) Records, reports, and audits.--An 
                        agreement to maintain such records, submit such 
                        reports, and cooperate with such reviews and 
                        audits as the Secretary finds necessary for 
                        purposes of oversight of the demonstration 
                        program.
                            ``(v) Certifications.--The following 
                        certifications:
                                    ``(I) A certification that the 
                                entity will use funds provided under 
                                the grant to promote at least 2 of the 
                                purposes described in subsection 
                                (a)(2).
                                    ``(II) A certification that the 
                                entity will return any unused funds to 
                                the Secretary in accordance with the 
                                reconciliation process under paragraph 
                                (3).
                                    ``(III) A certification that the 
                                funds provided under the grant will be 
                                used for programs and activities that 
                                target low-income participants and that 
                                not less than 50 percent of the 
                                participants in each program or 
                                activity funded under the grant shall 
                                be--
                                            ``(aa) parents of a child 
                                        who is, or within the past 24 
                                        months has been, a recipient of 
                                        assistance or services under a 
                                        State program funded under this 
                                        part and is described in 
                                        section 454(4)(A)(i); or
                                            ``(bb) parents, including 
                                        an expectant parent or a 
                                        married parent, whose income 
                                        (after adjustment for court-
                                        ordered child support paid or 
                                        received) does not exceed 150 
                                        percent of the poverty line.
                                    ``(IV) A certification that the 
                                entity will consult with 
                                representatives of State and local 
                                domestic violence centers.
                                    ``(V) A certification that funds 
                                provided to an entity under this 
                                subsection shall not be used to 
                                supplement or supplant other Federal, 
                                State, or local funds provided to the 
                                entity that are used to support 
                                programs or activities that are related 
                                to the purposes described in subsection 
                                (a)(2).
                    ``(C) Preferences and factors of consideration.--In 
                awarding grants under this subsection, the Secretary 
                shall, to the extent practicable, achieve a balance 
                among the eligible entities awarded grants under this 
                subsection with respect to the size, urban or rural 
                location, and employment of differing or unique methods 
                of the entities.
            ``(2) Restriction on use of funds.--No funds provided under 
        this subsection may be used for costs attributable to court 
        proceedings regarding matters of child visitation or custody, 
        or for legislative advocacy.
            ``(3) Reconciliation process.--
                    ``(A) 3-year availability of amounts allotted.--
                Each eligible entity that receives a grant under this 
                subsection for a fiscal year shall return to the 
                Secretary any unused portion of the grant for such 
                fiscal year not later than the last day of the second 
                succeeding fiscal year, together with any earnings on 
                such unused portion.
                    ``(B) Procedure for redistribution.--The Secretary 
                shall establish an appropriate procedure for 
                redistributing to eligible entities that have expended 
                the entire amount of a grant made under this subsection 
                for a fiscal year any amount that is returned to the 
                Secretary by eligible entities under subparagraph (A).
            ``(4) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated $30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004 
        through 2008 for purposes of making grants to eligible entities 
        under this subsection.''.

SEC. 4. NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD PROGRAMS.

    Section 469C of the Social Security Act, as added by section 3, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Media Campaign National Clearinghouse for Responsible 
Fatherhood.--
            ``(1) Media campaign and national clearinghouse.--
                    ``(A) In general.--From any funds appropriated 
                under paragraph (3), the Secretary shall contract with 
                a nationally recognized, nonprofit fatherhood promotion 
                organization described in paragraph (2) to--
                            ``(i) develop, promote, and distribute to 
                        interested States, local governments, public 
                        agencies, and private entities a media campaign 
                        that encourages the appropriate involvement of 
                        both parents in the life of any child of the 
                        parents, with a priority for programs that 
                        specifically address the issue of responsible 
                        fatherhood; and
                            ``(ii) develop a national clearinghouse to 
                        assist States and communities in efforts to 
                        promote and support marriage and responsible 
                        fatherhood by collecting, evaluating, and 
                        making available (through the Internet and by 
                        other means) to other States information 
                        regarding the media campaigns established under 
                        subsection (d).
                    ``(B) Coordination with domestic violence 
                programs.--The Secretary shall ensure that the 
                nationally recognized nonprofit fatherhood promotion 
                organization with a contract under subparagraph (A) 
                coordinates the media campaign developed under clause 
                (i) of such paragraph and the national clearinghouse 
                developed under clause (ii) of such paragraph with a 
                national, State, or local domestic violence program.
            ``(2) Nationally recognized, nonprofit fatherhood promotion 
        organization described.--The nationally recognized, nonprofit 
        fatherhood promotion organization described in this paragraph 
        is an organization that has at least 4 years of experience in--
                    ``(A) designing and disseminating a national public 
                education campaign, as evidenced by the production and 
                successful placement of television, radio, and print 
                public service announcements that promote the 
                importance of responsible fatherhood, a track record of 
                service to Spanish-speaking populations and 
                historically underserved or minority populations, the 
                capacity to fulfill requests for information and a 
                proven history of fulfilling such requests, and a 
                mechanism through which the public can request 
                additional information about the campaign; and
                    ``(B) providing consultation and training to 
                community-based organizations interested in 
                implementing fatherhood outreach, support, or skill 
                development programs with an emphasis on promoting 
                married fatherhood as the ideal.
            ``(3) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004 
        through 2008 to carry out this subsection.''.

SEC. 5. BLOCK GRANTS TO STATES TO ENCOURAGE MEDIA CAMPAIGNS.

    (a) In General.--Section 469C of the Social Security Act, as added 
by section 3 and amended by section 4, is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
    ``(d) Block Grants to States for Media Campaigns Promoting 
Responsible Fatherhood.--
            ``(1) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                    ``(A) Broadcast advertisement.--The term `broadcast 
                advertisement' means a communication intended to be 
                aired by a television or radio broadcast station, 
                including a communication intended to be transmitted 
                through a cable channel.
                    ``(B) Child at risk.--The term `child at risk' 
                means each young child whose family income does not 
                exceed the poverty line.
                    ``(C) Poverty line.--The term `poverty line' has 
                the meaning given such term in section 673(2) of the 
                Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (including 
                any revision required by such section) that is 
                applicable to a family of the size involved.
                    ``(D) Printed or other advertisement.--The term 
                `printed or other advertisement' includes any 
                communication intended to be distributed through a 
                newspaper, magazine, outdoor advertising facility, 
                mailing, or any other type of general public 
                advertising, but does not include any broadcast 
                advertisement.
                    ``(E) State.--The term `State' means each of the 50 
                States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of 
                Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, 
                American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern 
                Mariana Islands.
                    ``(F) Young child.--The term `young child' means an 
                individual under age 5.
            ``(2) State certifications.--Not later than October 1 of 
        each of fiscal year for which a State desires to receive an 
        allotment under this subsection, the chief executive officer of 
        the State shall submit to the Secretary a certification that 
        the State shall--
                    ``(A) use such funds to promote the formation and 
                maintenance of married 2-parent families, strengthen 
                fragile families, and promote responsible fatherhood 
                through media campaigns conducted in accordance with 
                the requirements of paragraph (4);
                    ``(B) return any unused funds to the Secretary in 
                accordance with the reconciliation process under 
                paragraph (5); and
                    ``(C) comply with the reporting requirements under 
                paragraph (6).
            ``(3) Payments to states.--For each of fiscal years 2004 
        through 2008, the Secretary shall pay to each State that 
        submits a certification under paragraph (2), from any funds 
        appropriated under paragraph (8), for the fiscal year an amount 
        equal to the amount of the allotment determined for the fiscal 
        year under paragraph (7).
            ``(4) Establishment of media campaigns.--Each State 
        receiving an allotment under this subsection for a fiscal year 
        shall use the allotment to conduct media campaigns as follows:
                    ``(A) Conduct of media campaigns.--
                            ``(i) Radio and television media 
                        campaigns.--
                                    ``(I) Production of broadcast 
                                advertisements.--At the option of the 
                                State, to produce broadcast 
                                advertisements that promote the 
                                formation and maintenance of married 2-
                                parent families, strengthen fragile 
                                families, and promote responsible 
                                fatherhood.
                                    ``(II) Air-time challenge 
                                program.--At the option of the State, 
                                to establish an air-time challenge 
                                program under which the State may spend 
                                amounts allotted under this section to 
                                purchase time from a broadcast station 
                                to air a broadcast advertisement 
                                produced under clause (i), but only if 
                                the State obtains an amount of time of 
                                the same class and during a comparable 
                                period to air the advertisement using 
                                non-Federal contributions.
                            ``(ii) Other media campaigns.--At the 
                        option of the state, to conduct a media 
                        campaign that consists of the production and 
                        distribution of printed or other advertisements 
                        that promote the formation and maintenance of 
                        married 2-parent families, strengthen fragile 
                        families, and promote responsible fatherhood.
                    ``(B) Administration of media campaigns.--A State 
                may administer media campaigns funded under this 
                subsection directly or through grants, contracts, or 
                cooperative agreements with public agencies, local 
                governments, or private entities, including charitable 
                and faith-based organizations.
                    ``(C) Consultation with domestic violence 
                assistance centers.--In developing broadcast and 
                printed advertisements to be used in the media 
                campaigns conducted under subparagraph (A), the State 
                or other entity administering the campaign shall 
                consult with representatives of State and local 
                domestic violence centers.
                    ``(D) Non-federal contributions.--In this 
                subsection, the term `non-Federal contributions' 
                includes contributions by the State and by public and 
                private entities. Such contributions may be in cash or 
                in kind. Such term does not include any amounts 
                provided by the Federal Government, or services 
                assisted or subsidized to any significant extent by the 
                Federal Government, or any amount expended by a State 
                before October 1, 2003.
            ``(5) Reconciliation process.--
                    ``(A) 3-year availability of amounts allotted.--
                Each State that receives an allotment under this 
                subsection shall return to the Secretary any unused 
                portion of the amount allotted to a State for a fiscal 
                year not later than the last day of the second 
                succeeding fiscal year together with any earnings on 
                such unused portion.
                    ``(B) Procedure for redistribution of unused 
                allotments.--The Secretary shall establish an 
                appropriate procedure for redistributing to States that 
                have expended the entire amount allotted under this 
                subsection any amount that is--
                            ``(i) returned to the Secretary by States 
                        under subparagraph (A); or
                            ``(ii) not allotted to a State under this 
                        section because the State did not submit a 
                        certification under paragraph (2) by October 1 
                        of a fiscal year.
            ``(6) Reporting requirements.--
                    ``(A) Monitoring and evaluation.--Each State 
                receiving an allotment under this subsection for a 
                fiscal year shall monitor and evaluate the media 
                campaigns conducted using funds made available under 
                this subsection in such manner as the Secretary, in 
                consultation with the States, determines appropriate.
                    ``(B) Annual reports.--Not less frequently than 
                annually, each State receiving an allotment under this 
                subsection for a fiscal year shall submit to the 
                Secretary reports on the media campaigns conducted 
                under this subsection at such time, in such manner, and 
                containing such information as the Secretary may 
                require.
            ``(7) Amount of allotments.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Except as provided in 
                subparagraph (B), of the amount appropriated for the 
                purpose of making allotments under this subsection for 
                a fiscal year, the Secretary shall allot to each State 
                that submits a certification under paragraph (2) for 
                the fiscal year an amount equal to the sum of--
                            ``(i) the amount that bears the same ratio 
                        to 50 percent of such funds as the number of 
                        young children in the State (as determined by 
                        the Secretary based on the most recent March 
                        supplement to the Current Population Survey of 
                        the Bureau of the Census before the beginning 
                        of the calendar year in which such fiscal year 
                        begins) as bears to the number of such children 
                        in all States; and
                            ``(ii) the amount that bears the same ratio 
                        to 50 percent of such funds as the number of 
                        children at risk in the State (as determined by 
                        the Secretary based on the most recent March 
                        supplement to the Current Population Survey of 
                        the Bureau of the Census before the beginning 
                        of the calendar year in which such fiscal year 
                        begins) bears to the number of such children in 
                        all States.
                    ``(B) Minimum allotments.--No allotment for a 
                fiscal year under this subsection shall be less than--
                            ``(i) in the case of the District of 
                        Columbia or a State other than the Commonwealth 
                        of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin 
                        Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the 
                        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 1 
                        percent of the amount appropriated for the 
                        fiscal year under paragraph (8); and
                            ``(ii) in the case of the Commonwealth of 
                        Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, 
                        Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of 
                        the Northern Mariana Islands, 0.5 percent of 
                        such amount.
                    ``(C) Pro rata reductions.--The Secretary shall 
                make such pro rata reductions to the allotments 
                determined under subparagraph (A) as are necessary to 
                comply with the requirements of subparagraph (B).
            ``(8) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2004 
        through 2008 for purposes of making allotments to States under 
        this subsection.''.
    (b) Evaluation.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
        shall conduct an evaluation of the impact of the media 
        campaigns funded under section 469C(d) of the Social Security 
        Act, as added by subsection (a).
            (2) Report.--Not later than December 31, 2006, the 
        Secretary of Health and Human Services shall report to Congress 
        the results of the evaluation under paragraph (1).
            (3) Funding.--Of the amount appropriated in accordance with 
        section 469C(d)(8) of the Social Security Act (as added by 
        subsection (a)) for fiscal year 2004, $1,000,000 of such amount 
        shall be transferred and made available for purposes of 
        conducting the evaluation required under this subsection, and 
        shall remain available until expended.
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