[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2409 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2409

 To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to modify the 
calculation of the child support automation penalty and provide for the 
                   reinvestment of any such penalty.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 17, 2005

Ms. Matsui (for herself, Mr. Stark, and Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to modify the 
calculation of the child support automation penalty and provide for the 
                   reinvestment of any such penalty.

    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 Reinvestment Act of 
2005''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF CALCULATION OF PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO AUTOMATE 
              CHILD SUPPORT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REINVESTMENT OF 
              PENALTY.

    Section 455(a)(4) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 655(a)(4)) 
is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking ``preceding fiscal 
        year'' and inserting ``1st year in which the failure 
        occurred''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (C), by adding at the end the 
        following:
            ``(iv)(I) The Secretary shall reduce, by the amount 
        described in the applicable clause of subparagraph (D) of this 
        paragraph, the amount of any reduction that, in the absence of 
        this clause, would be required to be made under this paragraph 
        by reason of the failure of a State to achieve compliance with 
        a subparagraph of section 454(24) if--
                    ``(aa) the State has submitted, and the Secretary 
                has approved, a corrective compliance plan under 
                subparagraph (A)(i)(II) of this paragraph with respect 
                to the failure; and
                    ``(bb) the Secretary finds that the State has made 
                and is continuing to make a good faith effort to comply 
                with the plan.
            ``(II) The State shall expend for operation of the State 
        plan approved under section 454 an amount equal to the amount 
        by which any reduction that, in the absence of this clause, 
        would be required to be made under this paragraph is reduced 
        under this clause.''; and
            (3) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (E) 
        and inserting after subparagraph (C) the following:
            ``(D)(i) The amount described in this subparagraph is--
                    ``(I) 25 percent of the reduction, if the State has 
                increased expenditures by more than 5 but not more than 
                7 percent;
                    ``(II) 50 percent of the reduction, if the State 
                has increased expenditures by more than 7 but not more 
                than 9 percent;
                    ``(III) 75 percent of the reduction, if the State 
                has increased expenditures by more than 9 but not more 
                than 11 percent; or
                    ``(IV) 100 percent of the reduction, if the State 
                has increased expenditures by more than 11 percent.
            ``(ii) In clause (i), the term `increased expenditures' 
        means, with respect to a State and a fiscal year, the lesser 
        of--
                    ``(I) the average annual increase in the State 
                share of expenditures under the State plan approved 
                under this part in the 5-year period ending with the 
                preceding fiscal year; or
                    ``(II) the increase in the State share of such 
                expenditures in the preceding fiscal year.''.
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