1.Short title; table of
contents
(a)This Act may be cited as the Julia Carson Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families
Act of 2011
.
(b)The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
Title I—Promoting Responsible Fatherhood and Strengthening
Low-Income Families
Sec. 101. State assessments of barriers to employment and
financial support of children.
Sec. 102. Grants to States to conduct demonstration projects to
promote economic opportunity for low-income parents.
Sec. 103. Healthy marriage promotion and responsible fatherhood
programs.
Sec. 104. Elimination of separate TANF work participation rate
for 2-parent families.
Sec. 105. Ban on recovery of Medicaid costs for
births.
Sec. 106. Improved collection and distribution of child
support.
Sec. 107. Collection of child support under the supplemental
nutrition assistance program.
Sec. 108. Grants supporting healthy family partnerships for
domestic violence intervention and preventions.
Sec. 109. Procedures to address domestic violence.
Title II—Revenue provision
Sec. 201. Increase in credit percentage under earned income tax
credit for eligible individuals with no qualifying children.
2.Congress makes the following
findings:
(1)The United States almost has the highest
child poverty rate among 34 industrialized countries.
(2)Thirty-one percent
of all children in the United States lived with only 1 or neither of their
parents. African-American children are the most likely of all children to live
in such families—62 percent, compared to 48 percent of American Indian
children, 33 percent of Hispanic children, 22 percent of non-Hispanic white
children, and 15 percent of Asian-American and Pacific Islander
children.
(3)One of the most
important factors in a child’s upbringing is whether the child is brought up in
a loving, healthy, supportive environment.
(4)Children who grow
up with 2 parents are, on average, more likely than their peers in
single-parent homes to finish high school and be economically
self-sufficient.
(5)Father-child
interaction, like mother-child interaction, has been shown to promote the
positive physical, social, emotional, and mental development of
children.
(6)Children typically
live without both parents when their parents are divorced or did not marry.
More than 1/3 of all first marriages end in divorce, and
about 60 percent of divorcing couples have children. More than 40 percent of
all births are to unmarried women.
(7)More than 1 in 4
families with children have only 1 parent present, and more than 1 in 3
children live absent their biological father.
(8)Recent studies
demonstrate that most unwed fathers in urban areas are highly involved with the
mother of their child before and after the child's birth, with 80 percent
involved during the mother's pregnancy, and 50 percent living with the child’s
mother at the time of the child's birth. However, the relationship between the
parents often does not last, and many fathers do not maintain contact with
their children as the children grow up.
(9)An estimated 25
percent of the children who live in households without their father have not
seen their fathers in at least 1 year.
(10)Fathers' love, care, and emotional support
are positively linked to good social, emotional, and cognitive development in
their children; their children’s academic achievement; lower rates of risky
behaviors and contact the juvenile justice system; positive social behavior;
positive emotional health; and healthy self-esteem.
(11)Research has
demonstrated that most fathers want to do well for their children. Rates of
visitation among non-custodial fathers are higher than expected and mothers do
want fathers involved in the lives of their children.
(12)The inability of
parents to sustain a healthy relationship with their child’s other parent and
remain involved in their child's life can have severe negative consequences for
the parents, the child, their community, and taxpayers.
(13)Single-parent
families are 4 to 5 times as likely to be poor as married-couple
families.
(14)Children raised
in single-parent families are more likely than children raised in 2-parent
families to do poorly in school, have emotional and behavioral problems, become
teenage parents, commit crimes, smoke cigarettes, abuse drugs and alcohol, and
have poverty-level incomes as adults.
(15)High rates of
unemployment and low wages are primary reasons why parents do not marry and why
2-parent families break up.
(16)When components of family and jobs supports
are paired with responsible fatherhood programming, more fathers declare
paternity, more live with their children, and more non-custodial men pay child
support.
(17)Domestic violence
is also a significant problem leading to the nonformation or breakup of
2-parent families.
(18)Unemployment for Black workers remained
almost double what it is for Whites, a ratio unchanged in at least 35 years. In
metropolitan areas, Blacks are the racial group most spatially isolated from
available jobs.
(19)A history of
incarceration is a major barrier to employment. Sixty percent of young
African-American men who dropped out of high school have served time. When
these men leave prison, they often have difficulty finding a job and supporting
their children.
(20)Youth who are disconnected from school and
employment are more likely than others to engage in crime, become incarcerated,
and rely on public systems of support. While all races and ethnicities are
represented among this youth population, research studies show that
African-American males constitute a disproportionate share due to their
overrepresentation in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.
(21)Over ½ of State prison inmates are parents.
When noncustodial parents go to prison, most of them are required to pay their
child support obligation, even though they have little ability to pay the
support. When these parents leave prison, they typically owe more than $20,000
in child support debt. Noncustodial parents leaving prison often re-enter the
underground economy because of financial pressures or to avoid the child
support system, making it less likely that they will successfully rejoin
society and reunite with their families.
(22)Children should
receive the child support paid by their parents, and the government should not
keep the money to recover welfare costs. Regular child support income appears
to have a greater positive impact on children dollar for dollar than other
types of income. Researchers in Wisconsin found that when monthly child support
was passed through to families receiving assistance under the Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families program established under part A of title IV of
the Social Security Act (TANF) and disregarded 100 percent in determining
assistance for the families, fathers paid more child support, established their
legal relationship with their children more quickly, and worked less in the
underground economy. Moreover, the State costs of a full pass-through and
disregard of child support were fully offset by increased payments by fathers
and decreased public assistance use by families.
(23)Funding spent on Federal child support
collection is cost-effective, especially when it addresses fathers’ particular
circumstances and passes payments through to the family. The child support
program collects $4.88 in support payments for families for every public dollar
spent.
(24)The Department of
Health and Human Services National Child Support Enforcement Strategic Plan for
fiscal years 2005 through 2009 states that child support is no longer a
welfare reimbursement, revenue-producing device for the Federal and State
governments; it is a family-first program, intended to ensure families'
self-sufficiency by making child support a more reliable source of
income
.
(25)Current law
permits States to apply the cost of passing through child support to families
receiving assistance under the TANF program toward their maintenance of effort
(MOE) requirements, but only to the extent that the State disregards the child
support payments in determining the amount and type of TANF assistance.
(26)While the Federal government has over 40
programs that provide some funding for employment and training, the United
States is near the bottom of industrialized nations in spending on “active
labor market policy.” Low-income men have become increasingly disconnected from
school and work—and increasingly poor. A large portion of those men are
non-custodial fathers.
(27)The negative
effect of a criminal conviction is substantially larger for Blacks than for
Whites.
(28)African-Americans
constitute only 14 percent of drug users, but they represent 34 percent of
those arrested for drug offenses, 44 percent of drug convictions, and 45
percent of drug offenders in State prison. One in 15 African-American males
over 18 is behind bars as opposed to 1 out of 36 for Latinos and one out of 106
for White males. In addition, approximately 650,000 men and women are released
from State and Federal prison annually. This number does not include those who
come home from city and county jails. If current trends continue, the chilling
extrapolation is that 1 in 3 Black males born today can expect to spend time in
prison during his lifetime. These men are disproportionately removed from lower
income, segregated, and disinvested communities, where they will eventually
return—too often without the skills they need to become successful husbands,
fathers, neighbors, and wage earners.
(29)Programs that
increase employment opportunity and reduce barriers by increasing employment
opportunity and reducing recidivism will benefit children and families.
(30)Transitional jobs
programs have shown promise in reducing unemployment among chronically
unemployed or underemployed population groups, including formerly incarcerated
individuals, the homeless, and young African-American men.
(31)To strengthen
families it is important to improve the upward economic mobility of the
custodial and noncustodial parent wage-earners, as well as youth at risk of
early parenthood or incarceration, by providing the skills and experience
necessary to access jobs with family sustaining wages and benefits. In families
in which all the members do not live together, this is important to enable the
prompt and consistent payment of adequate child support.
(32)It is important
and useful to foster local and regional economic development and job
advancement for workers, especially young custodial and noncustodial parents,
by funding local collaborations among business, education, and the community in
the development of pathways for preparing disadvantaged citizens to meet the
workforce needs of the local and regional economy.
(33)Employers benefit
from working with and being supported by the local education, postsecondary,
and workforce systems in identifying the academic and occupational skill sets
needed to fill the skilled jobs in the changing economy. Local economic and
community development is enhanced when residents have access to higher wage
employment, thus increasing the tax base, fueling the economy, and contributing
to greater family economic security.
(34)Public-private
career pathways partnerships are an important tool for linking employers and
workers with the workforce education services they need and for integrating
community economic development and workforce education services. Transitional
jobs programs can serve as the first step in a career pathway by giving
unemployed individuals with multiple barriers to employment, valuable work
experience and related services.
(35)Evaluations of State child support
enforcement policies have shown that supportive child support enforcement
policies, rather than coercive ones, have a positive impact on father
involvement.
(36)The purpose of
child support is to provide necessary income support for and increase the
well-being of children living apart from a parent. To improve the ability of
low-income noncustodial parents to provide long-term support and care for their
children throughout their entire childhood, it is important that child support
polices support parental efforts to pursue education and employment and to stay
involved with their children.
(37)Responsible
parenthood includes active participation in financial support and
child-rearing, as well as the formation and maintenance of a positive, healthy,
and nonviolent relationship between parent and child and a cooperative,
healthy, and nonviolent relationship between parents.
(38)States should be
encouraged to implement voluntary programs that provide support for responsible
parenting, including by increasing the employment and financial security of
parents, and the parental involvement of noncustodial parents.
(39)Promoting
responsible parenthood saves the government money by reducing the need for
public assistance, increasing the educational attainment of children, reducing
juvenile delinquency and crime, reducing substance abuse, and lowering rates of
unemployment.
(40)Programs to
encourage responsible fatherhood or responsible motherhood should promote and
provide support services for—
(A)fostering loving
and healthy relationships between parents and children;
(B)increasing
responsibility of noncustodial parents for the long-term care and financial
well-being of their children;
(C)increasing
employment of low-income, noncustodial parents and improving compliance with
child support obligations; and
(D)reducing barriers
to active 2-parent involvement and cooperative parenting.
(41)The promotion of
marriage and responsible parenthood should not minimize the standing or
parenting efforts of single parents or other caregivers, lessen the protection
of children from abusive parents, or compromise the safety or health of the
custodial or noncustodial parent, but should increase the chance that children
will have 2 caring parents to help them grow up healthy and secure.
<enum>I</enum><header>Promoting
Responsible Fatherhood and Strengthening Low-Income Families</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6E7C72A6F7E2440E9CEED66870055A08"><enum>101.</enum><header>State
assessments of barriers to employment and financial support of
children</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBC06311E244044EB808395E2A96BFACB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>State
assessments and reports</header><text>As a condition of the continued approval
of a State plan under part D of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
651 et seq.), each State with an approved such plan, acting through the
appropriate State agencies, shall assess the State policies with respect to the
issues described in subsection (b) and submit a report to the Secretary of
Health and Human Services on the results of such assessment not later than
October 1, 2012.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5335EACF8C6445C684907EE9A87E4803"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Issues
described</header><text>For purposes of subsection (a), the issues described in
this subsection are the following:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H85967BA46E9D439B94C9E6D21BB479A5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The process of
setting and modifying child support obligations, particularly with respect to
low-income parents, including—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB076EF01C89A4C20A55D6DCC35881DBF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the role and
criteria for using imputed income in determining child support
obligations;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H26AE281D6AC04397B5D465232F8777FF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the process of
modifying obligations;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HADC36448697E46ADB755EB105C361D6B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the consideration
of income and employment status, including efforts to identify unreported
income;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAC470E11E67D4EB9A987F652B2C1F933"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the consideration
of incarceration;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H307B0D6DBBC9445C8FDDFAFBDB9AFAA0"><enum>(E)</enum><text>the consideration
of disability;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4DFEFBE54C5441E3A5E663FE05ADE14B"><enum>(F)</enum><text>the treatment of
arrearages, including interest charged, and laws or procedures that interfere
with forgiveness, adjustment, waiver, or compromise of arrears owed to the
State by low-income noncustodial parents who lack sufficient ability to pay
such arrearages;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBC4F8E0D7233482980B72E5A1BF8E3E4"><enum>(G)</enum><text>the procedures
related to retroactive support; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4FFE7BF46AFC47A988D87160FE657FAD"><enum>(H)</enum><text>State pass-through
and disregard policies for recipients of means-tested public benefits.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HF2E97B198430409EB28EE45F7D437D9B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The impact of
State criminal laws and law enforcement practices on the employment
acquisition, retention, and advancement prospects of individuals following
arrest, conviction, or incarceration, including—</text>
<subparagraph id="H14993E30936C4CA4996B9B7FDD046A26"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any efforts,
including counseling or employment support, to assist ex-prisoners with reentry
to a community and successful reunification with their families; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE75FAE3A5ACB47D28C3206F2997EA5E1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an assessment of
any efforts to seal or expunge arrest and conviction records and any efforts to
grant certificates or other acknowledgments of rehabilitation to ex-prisoners,
and to examine State occupational licensing and certification
procedures.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HED65C8303D5742ADB3183AE13B6A5A60"><enum>(3)</enum><text>An assessment of
the impact of debt on employment retention, including child support and
non-child support debts imposed to recover costs related to welfare and
criminal justice.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5994B15F88F8423FBAC1D4D25C661330"><enum>(4)</enum><text>An assessment of
State practices related to providing prisoners and ex-prisoners with valid
identification documents upon release from prison.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC2DF1F6DB80F430C87333ED46E58D146"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Identification of
any other barriers to healthy family formation or sustainable economic
opportunity for custodial and noncustodial parents that are created or
exacerbated by Federal or State laws, policies, or procedures, including an
examination of the rules of Federal and State means-tested programs, the
operation of the State workforce system, the availability of financial
education services, and the availability of domestic violence services and
child support procedures to help victims of domestic violence stay safe and
obtain the child support they are owed.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC189685E8C124A4B8DFECBAC6342CEBB"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Grants to states
for commissions on state law improvements in the best interest of children and
families</header><text>The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall award
grants to States to establish or support commissions to review the State
assessment conducted in accordance with subsection (a) and to make
recommendations on ways to improve State law in the best interest of children
and families.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HE38EC5F47B6F405295664C09FC2C0847"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Appropriations</header><text>Out
of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated,
there are appropriated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for each
of fiscal years 2011 through 2015, $3,000,000, to remain available until
expended, for the purpose of making—</text>
<paragraph id="HD2F43E53B836440AB6714B6CF8C4297D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>payments to States
to offset all or a portion of the costs of conducting the State assessments and
reports required under subsection (a); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HADBF109AD99B4CA5893E3898612BA0F1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>grants to States
under subsection (c).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H8157CED6107C4FCF998FEBABEA6514B0"><enum>102.</enum><header>Grants to
States to conduct demonstration projects to promote economic opportunity for
low-income parents</header>
<subsection id="HF819662C0E754C6FB1B1C98206428F8C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Court-Supervised
or IV–D agency-Supervised employment programs for noncustodial parents</header>
<paragraph id="H5FAE70BE54D44C6895C6AFBBD9D1235C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To assist States in
implementing section 466(a)(15) of the Social Security Act, the Secretary of
Health and Human Services shall award grants to States to conduct demonstration
projects to establish, in coordination with counties and other local or tribal
governments, court-supervised or IV–D agency supervised-employment programs for
noncustodial parents who have barriers to employment and a history of
nonpayment of child support obligations, as determined by a court or the IV–D
agency, and who are determined by the court or agency to be in need of
employment services or placement in order to pay such child support
obligations. A noncustodial parent described in the preceding sentence who is
an ex-offender shall be eligible to participate in a program established under
this subsection.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HBB5135A87FCF4994BD062E3304221025"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Requirements</header>
<subparagraph id="H9DC14C79192A439E905160056E1773A5"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Option to
participate prior to contempt finding</header><text>A State shall not be
eligible to receive a grant under this subsection unless any program
established with funds made available under the grant provides noncustodial
parents described in paragraph (1) with an option to participate in the program
prior to the court or agency entering a finding that the noncustodial parent is
in contempt for failure to pay a child support obligation and, potentially
subject to criminal penalties.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2EB17B8B811A441A8796A61F0B191EB3"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Program
goals</header><text>An employment program established with funds made available
under a grant awarded under this subsection shall be designed to do the
following:</text>
<clause id="H8ADC92CEA52F4A63B545896C67A118DF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>To
assist noncustodial parents described in paragraph (1) obtain and maintain
unsubsidized employment.</text>
</clause><clause id="HB25522380DEF41069323F3A2DDD5A4E4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>To
increase the amount of financial support received by children.</text>
</clause><clause id="HEF6733DA928C4AEF8B212E86130F8E84"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>To
help noncustodial parents described in paragraph (1) improve relationships with
their children and their children's custodial parent.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD2653A427CCB458A93EA9387B06F423B"><enum>(C)</enum><header>6 months of
continuous, timely payments</header><text>An employment program established
with funds made available under this subsection shall not permit a noncustodial
parent placed in the program to graduate from the program and avoid penalties
for failure to pay a child support obligation until the noncustodial parent
completes at least 6 months of continuous, timely payment of the parent’s child
support obligations.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF8F13DD8EDC949678C9AE7A5680BF2C3"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Use of
funds</header>
<clause id="H9030AFF5A2464EC1862A273C15A7054A"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Services provided
under an employment program established with funds made available under a grant
made under this subsection must include the following:</text>
<subclause id="H978C51FD3B734494A5980E0A8CB2FA5A"><enum>(I)</enum><text>Job placement,
including job development and supervised job search as necessary.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HD5162F5EFE814FB4959FFF377BB0CCA1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>Case management,
including educational assessment and advising, vocational assessment and career
exploration services, and court liaison services.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H730B820E2F474FA5816950C2AA4F1097"><enum>(III)</enum><text>Counseling on
responsible parenthood.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H58C4AC33F36C4C35A5B576A638BD341B"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>Referral for
support and educational services.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HB90362A103D949318B1F305AC485E9C8"><enum>(V)</enum><text>Employment
retention services.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="HF0406CBFDD15412F84E608F4C1477B32"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Services provided
under an employment program established with funds made available under a grant
made under this subsection may include the following:</text>
<subclause id="H90BE787B2CF74108BB2E7D343B8BE6ED"><enum>(I)</enum><text>Remedial education
services or educational referral.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H13AF940C197E443099A12AAEE3397EEF"><enum>(II)</enum><text>Support funds for
services such as transportation, child care, or short-term training.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HA1B79EAAD6224CEEBD7222C29BEE8388"><enum>(III)</enum><text>Transitional
jobs programs.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H95B943C60B0D43EDA547D1D6A8BF9237"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>Public-private
career pathway partnerships established in accordance with subsection
(b)(2).</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HA8EE764F851A40679DBD80DECDBD3BDA"><enum>(V)</enum><text>Occupational skill
training, including college credit programs.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HEA0D6ACCC83A4EB49580FCBCD7C64B1F"><enum>(VI)</enum><text>Curricula
development.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBB006EB5D8714D0C9BE8D0133B5ADE91"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Administration</header><text>A
State that receives a grant under this subsection may contract with a public or
private nonprofit organization, including a faith-based or community-based
organization, to administer (in conjunction with the court of jurisdiction or
the IV–D agency) the court-supervised or IV–D agency-supervised employment
program.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HB7DB703EBEA44216A7E9C4C32DC91180"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Transitional
jobs and public-Private partnership grants</header><text>The Secretary of Labor
shall award grants to States to conduct demonstration projects to carry out one
or more of the projects described in paragraphs (1) and (2).</text>
<paragraph id="H2BA3599F00094FBCA9FEF8570EC89510"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Transitional
jobs grants</header>
<subparagraph id="HD07341632BD44818B3879703B6D107CC"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>To establish and expand transitional jobs programs for
eligible individuals, including such programs conducted by local governments,
State employment agencies, nonprofit organizations, and faith-based or
community-based organizations or intermediaries, that—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="H965EAF0F15614CDAA5B0B138E2186EDF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>combine
time-limited employment in transitional jobs that may be subsidized with public
funds, with activities that promote skill development and remove barriers to
employment, such as case management services and education, training, child
support-related services, and other activities, pursuant to individual plans;
and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H0B118AAA7B9A4FB281A160532F6C8500"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>provide such
individuals with—</text>
<subclause commented="no" id="HA35309D25D3B432B97CBF3B4DE8137FB"><enum>(I)</enum><text>transitional jobs
placements and job placement assistance, to help the individuals make the
transition from subsidized employment in transitional jobs to stable
unsubsidized employment; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBA25423E137A4762964B8BEB478AD696"><enum>(II)</enum><text>retention
services after the transition to unsubsidized employment.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H92F42AAFA4444ED0ABC88395B45C914D"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Eligible
individuals</header><text>For purposes of this paragraph, the term
<term>eligible individuals</term> means individuals within any of the following
categories of disproportionately chronically unemployed individuals:</text>
<clause commented="no" id="HC9BA909664574A3C80EDCB658D640CBA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Individuals who
have attained age 16, but not attained age 36, and who have documented barriers
to employment such as lack of a high school diploma, limited English
proficiency, aging out of foster care, or offender status, particularly such
individuals who are parents or expectant parents.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H0A177BE89AC44715A10E02A786B18E78"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Formerly
incarcerated individuals.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H39DF0089E8114504B11B3D69F6C5D577"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>Homeless or
formerly homeless individuals.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HA6E7F8369D074974BD00E8BAA4DF30C8"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>Individuals with
disabilities.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H5D67FF4C47AA4653A136D1A4DBFB6EA4"><enum>(v)</enum><text>Individuals
designated by a court or the IV–D agency to participate in transitional jobs
programs.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H975F6D800230480E91B061FE31A08A8F"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Limitations on
use of funds</header>
<clause commented="no" id="HF702B8466F7B4CEB99D65AF6474BE7B0"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Allowable
activities</header><text>A State that receives a grant under this paragraph (or
a subgrantee of such State) (referred to in this paragraph as the <term>program
operator</term>) shall use the funds made available under the grant to operate
a transitional jobs program for eligible individuals consistent with the
following requirements:</text>
<subclause commented="no" id="HE8CE48FB7BF7412497FE0BA30EAF7848"><enum>(I)</enum><header>Jobs</header><text>The
program operator shall place eligible individuals in temporary jobs, the
incomes from which may be subsidized in whole or in part with public funds. An
eligible individual placed in such a job (referred to in this paragraph as
<term>a participant</term>) shall perform work directly for the program
operator or another public, nonprofit, or private sector organization (which
operator or organization may be referred to in this paragraph as a
<term>worksite employer</term>) within the community involved.</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="HDB63E810E5064D16B80507213F2BD356"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Hours</header>
<item commented="no" id="H9519A3110CC44AD4BE6F9EA7E0552D17"><enum>(aa)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subject to item (bb), the transitional jobs program shall
provide a participant with not less than 30, and not more than 40, hours per
week of a combination of paid employment and the services described in
subclauses (III), (IV), and (V).</text>
</item><item commented="no" id="H5323B33C5F9B4609A8161C0623B1F0BE"><enum>(bb)</enum><header>Accommodation
of special circumstances</header><text>The number of hours per week required
under item (aa) may be adjusted in the case of a participant who requires a
modified work week to accommodate special circumstances.</text>
</item></subclause><subclause commented="no" id="H4ABAF807B146463495A279B9BD190126"><enum>(III)</enum><header>Job
preparation and services</header><text>The program operator shall—</text>
<item commented="no" id="HC819F2AD1CBC4250A3CCCE5D91CC77CF"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>develop an
individual plan for each participant, which shall contain a goal that focuses
on preparation of the participant for unsubsidized jobs in demand in the local
economy that offer the potential for advancement and growth (including
increases in wages and benefits);</text>
</item><item commented="no" id="H076EA430F35E4A9EB510718128673DF9"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>develop
transitional jobs placements for participants that will best prepare them for
jobs described in item (aa) or participation in the public-private career
pathway partnerships established in accordance with paragraph (2); and</text>
</item><item commented="no" id="HB0D6325693A34AF4947146D4BDF34DAE"><enum>(cc)</enum><text>provide case
management services and ensure that appropriate education, training, and other
activities are available to participants, consistent with each participant’s
individual plan.</text>
</item></subclause><subclause commented="no" id="HD9651D1B87D64411A58BD3190AF58D9E"><enum>(IV)</enum><header>Job placement
assistance and retention services</header><text>The program operator shall
provide job placement assistance to help participants obtain unsubsidized
employment and shall provide retention services to the participants for a
minimum of 6 months after entry into the unsubsidized employment.</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="H86319B5DB6A94D43B1F6B709D86925DB"><enum>(V)</enum><header>Education or
training</header><text>In any workweek in which a participant is scheduled to
work at least 30 hours in the program, not less than 20 percent of the
scheduled hours and not more than 50 percent of the scheduled hours shall
involve participation in—</text>
<item commented="no" id="HC46916E327A64BB7833C26A69F6C583B"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>education or
training activities designed to improve the participant’s employability and
potential earnings;</text>
</item><item commented="no" id="H14FF6E8945B04B2CA4C82912EE2A1511"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>other activities
designed to reduce or eliminate any barriers that may impede the participant’s
ability to secure and advance in unsubsidized employment; or</text>
</item><item commented="no" id="HED8988AD4F0842D289A3A09F067A5318"><enum>(cc)</enum><text>activities
designed to promote financial literacy and the use of products and services
that increase personal savings and build financial assets for family support,
education, homeownership, and retirement.</text>
</item></subclause><subclause commented="no" id="H3713F1E0E581442EA3625CB47DA1CA9D"><enum>(VI)</enum><header>Duration</header>
<item commented="no" id="H6BF60B093AE241C696DB548A25F23057"><enum>(aa)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subject to item (bb), the duration of any placement in
the program shall be for a minimum period of 3 consecutive months.</text>
</item><item commented="no" id="H7F4C768FAA4C4532B68B51A4B95924A9"><enum>(bb)</enum><header>3-month
extension</header><text>A program placement may be extended for up to 2
additional consecutive 3-month periods upon the conclusion of the original
3-month placement period if such extension would be consistent with the
individual’s plan for transition to unsubsidized employment.</text>
</item></subclause><subclause commented="no" id="H787C1FD0E2414C1FA70E9CC17204B453"><enum>(VII)</enum><header>Supervision</header><text>The
worksite employer or program operator shall supervise program participants,
consistent with the goal of addressing the limited work experience and skills
of the participants.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H56FDC91C2B5542A49211A79CF9874202"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Reports</header><text>Not
later than 120 days after the end of the grant period, the State shall submit a
report to the Secretary of Labor that contains information on the number of
participants in the program who have entered unsubsidized employment, the
percentage of program participants who are employed during the second quarter
after exit, the percentage of program participants who are employed during the
fourth quarter after exit, the median earnings of program participants during
the second quarter after exit, the percentage of program participants who
obtain an education or training credential during participation or within one
year of exit, and demographic information regarding the participants.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H78164B73F1FF42F5BFBFEB2BE62F6C5D"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Technical
assistance</header><text>The Secretary of Labor shall enter into contracts with
entities with demonstrated experience in the provision of transitional jobs to
provide technical assistance to the program operators and worksite employers
for the programs assisted under this paragraph.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HEBA728C9EE4540F3A667EC778F4D3169"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Public-private
career pathways partnerships</header>
<subparagraph id="H44BDEF6039A142D1AA758C1D52725E5A"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>To allow workforce education providers representing
career pathway partnerships—</text>
<clause id="H01BE0AF6D23448AEBED2F8E6BA4F5D19"><enum>(i)</enum><text>to
create or expand career pathways, with groups of employers in specific industry
or occupational sectors, for disadvantaged workers, which may include any mix
of such employers’ existing lower wage employees, new hires or potential hires;
or</text>
</clause><clause id="HBF1C76E3D06A4C20ADD9D798030E377D"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>to
fill in gaps in career pathways in particular localities or regions as needed
to ensure that career pathways are accessible to unemployed disadvantaged
workers and at risk youth who have lower skills or limited English proficiency,
including through the creation of workforce education services, such as
<quote>bridge</quote> programs that contextualize basic skills, English
language, or college remedial education services to specific career pathways,
and efforts to create opportunities for gaining work experience in a career
pathway.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H921F1A595FE74C228037BAF9D4DA3AD1"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Use of
funds</header><text>Funds made available under a grant under this paragraph may
be used by career pathways partnerships for any expense reasonably related to
the accomplishment of the specific objectives of the partnership and the
purpose described in this paragraph, including any of the activities described
in subsection (a)(2)(D).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6C69FBD66E894AAE9BC9B79E566279F5"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Limitations</header>
<clause id="H40B6ADCC64974C7098BBA057ED44493B"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Of the funds made available to a career pathway
partnership to carry out the purpose described in this paragraph—</text>
<subclause id="HD536D88FFF00443CBC49EF930DDF0010"><enum>(I)</enum><text>not more than 30
percent of such funds may be used to pay or subsidize wages during a period of
work experience or internship, not to exceed 90 days; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HB3ABBE85AFAD4F68B0D19FEC4DA2746D"><enum>(II)</enum><text>not more than 10
percent of such funds may be used for administrative purposes, but this
limitation shall not apply to activities related to building and maintaining
partnerships, including such activities as conducting workforce needs
assessments, brokering public-private and interagency agreements, creating
customized curricula, and developing work experience opportunities.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H3F0B25ECA24A49CE96EC4A1CBF2FDE13"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Prohibition on
subsidizing wages of current employees</header><text>No funds made available to
carry out this paragraph shall be used to subsidize the wages of any individual
who, as of the date of the establishment of the career pathway partnership, is
an employee of any employer participating in the partnership.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H981DAF3DB41B4DEA848F2DBCAD80149D"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Requirements for
awarding of subgrants</header>
<clause id="H7E93E49E4358484C8F3D1E4C0A8905DB"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Funds shall be made available to career pathway
partnerships to carry out the purpose described in this paragraph based on a
performance-based accountability system that includes the following measures of
performance:</text>
<subclause id="H1C90E916D2774CB0A2858D5620CFFAF5"><enum>(I)</enum><text>The number of
individuals to be trained.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HED5999676FCB4D10A20BDCBBC24E56D1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>The percentage of
such individuals who complete the program.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H57E3D5AA665647E3A7B6FB99CB88D024"><enum>(III)</enum><text>The percentage
of such individuals who enter or advance in employment.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HB63A0F756734416E9CAFC964D2E3033F"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>The wage and
benefit gains of individuals who complete the program before and within 6
months after their program completion, including the extent to which the
individuals achieved economic self-sufficiency.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H8990BDABE8434E4992E8EAD30F6E2DEB"><enum>(V)</enum><text>The percentage of
individuals who complete the program and enter employment who retain employment
for at least 6 months.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H7D93A96850CC4CA8B09ECFDF44A72A5B"><enum>(VI)</enum><text>Where applicable,
the percentage of individuals who owe child support and complete the program
who improve in their payment of child support within 6 months after their
program completion.</text>
</subclause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="clause">In establishing
goals for such measures, due consideration shall be given to the education,
work experience, and job readiness of the individuals expected to participate
in the program, the barriers of such individuals to employment, and the local
job market.</continuation-text></clause><clause id="HE1FE386864D7476BB43892D383BA9259"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Considerations
for funding renewals</header><text>A subgrantee's level of success in achieving
employment, advancement, wage, and employment retention goals shall be a
primary consideration for determining whether to renew a grant made to such
entity and the funding level for such grant.</text>
</clause><clause id="H71E0B8F21B1A4D5C8C49A69EE79B6E29"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Priorities for
awards of subgrants</header><text>In awarding subgrants under this paragraph, a
State shall give priority to applications that—</text>
<subclause id="H18542CCAEF6346E2B7EA4EC6F585447E"><enum>(I)</enum><text>propose to serve
areas of high poverty, high youth unemployment, high dropout rates, or high
rates of low-income single-parent families;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HFBD650D9500A4A4881DED050CA09FD7D"><enum>(II)</enum><text>include a
substantial cash or in-kind match by all employers, including joint
labor-management programs where applicable, in the partnerships, such as paid
release time for employed workforce education participants;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H0037EF6A2F2D4FA0977FCF15068D148E"><enum>(III)</enum><text>use
instructional materials and instructors directly used in the specific business
or industry sectors of the partnership employers;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H5F146895C01946279A54E5C22EB693BC"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>link successful
completion of workforce education services to wage increases, promotions or job
hires;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H2876A2B1F1034D31A778B98FBB97CC36"><enum>(V)</enum><text>will result in
attainment of employer-recognized occupational and educational
credentials;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H8F99005BC9AD4C679537FEB26DC69787"><enum>(VI)</enum><text>address career
guidance and adult basic education and English language needs as well as
job-specific skills;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H0AB12D0A1CF94DBCB69BA4FB81494945"><enum>(VII)</enum><text>demonstrate a
blending of resources from partner agencies in the workforce system and other
sectors and Federal programs, including superior procedures for coordinating
responsible fatherhood promotion activities, where appropriate, to support the
development of high quality pathways;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HF30751CE0BAB4BE1A904BF4FA32098E9"><enum>(VIII)</enum><text>identify how
the subgrantee will maximize services to unemployed disadvantaged workers who
also face other barriers in the labor market, such as high school dropout,
offender status, aging out of foster care, low basic skill level, including
limited English proficiency, learning disabilities, physical, emotional or
behavior disabilities, or substance abuse recovery, which may be through direct
relationships with local providers of transitional jobs programs under which in
appropriate circumstances transitional jobs participants may access career
pathways programs upon completion of the transitional jobs program; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HE667AE60F05C46C086EF5B71CD382515"><enum>(IX)</enum><text>support
collaboration, as appropriate, between employers and labor organizations and
other workforce development professionals, including joint labor management
training and education programs where appropriate.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H20A00C10131143A09E5353266FA0F728"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this paragraph:</text>
<clause id="HC04B5FBB84B24E89ADCF69955516B99C"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Adult
education</header><text>The term <term>adult education</term> has the meaning
given that term in section 203 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (20
U.S.C. 9202).</text>
</clause><clause id="H4B4DFD9217A84C70B73917ED1BC6BC8C"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Career
pathway</header><text>The term <term>career pathway</term> means a linked set
of workforce education and job opportunities within a specific industry sector,
or for an occupational sector that cuts across multiple business and industry
sectors, which begins at the lowest skill and English language levels, and
extends through for-credit college opportunities such as earning relevant
associate or bachelor’s degrees, and prepares individuals for advancement in
jobs in demand in the local or regional labor market.</text>
</clause><clause id="H3A25654048A94AC6902D2A136A25A9BB"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Community-based
provider</header><text>The term <term>community-based provider</term> means a
not-for-profit organization, with local boards of directors, that directly
provides workforce education services.</text>
</clause><clause id="H785D9FC618594A6FBB1E584FACE09BA5"><enum>(iv)</enum><header>Institution of
higher education</header><text>The term <term>institution of higher
education</term> has the meaning given that term in section 101 of the Higher
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001).</text>
</clause><clause id="HD68F01FF8A2F453F9AE6E7F39893F860"><enum>(v)</enum><header>Charter
school</header><text>The term <term>charter school</term> has the meaning given
that term in section 5210 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 7221i).</text>
</clause><clause id="HE192897B801E4656B20BC93FB47A052C"><enum>(vi)</enum><header>Area vocational
education school</header><text>The term <term>area vocational and technical
education school</term> has the meaning given that term in section 3 of the
Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 (20 U.S.C.
2302).</text>
</clause><clause id="H1A121C63674447CB92480C7BD1725E6B"><enum>(vii)</enum><header>Disadvantaged
workers</header><text>The term <term>disadvantaged workers</term> means
unemployed individuals in low-income households or employed individuals in
low-income households with wages at or below <fraction>2/3</fraction> of the
median wage for the State or region applying for the grant.</text>
</clause><clause id="H23D8E94081634FCAA4B29418E7C524C2"><enum>(viii)</enum><header>Career
pathway partnership</header><text>The term <term>career pathway
partnership</term> means collaborations of 1 or more workforce education
providers, 1 or more employers, 1 or more labor organizations, where
applicable, as a result of such organization's representation of employees at
the worksite who have skills in which the training or employment programs are
proposed, and may include optional additional entities as needed to provide a
comprehensive range of workforce education and ancillary support
services.</text>
</clause><clause id="H5EB6589E61D04ED0B929403B5F8D3358"><enum>(ix)</enum><header>Workforce
education</header><text>The term <term>workforce education</term> means a set
of career guidance and exploration services, adult education and English
language services, job training, registered apprenticeship programs, and credit
and noncredit postsecondary education services aimed at preparing individuals
to enter and sustain employment in specific occupations and to have the
sufficient skills to respond to shifting employment opportunities.</text>
</clause><clause id="H7CF60914B7F34AC08BB2D5BF9FFAB45A"><enum>(x)</enum><header>Workforce
education provider</header><text>The term <term>workforce education
provider</term> means community-based providers, institutions of higher
education, area vocational and technical education schools, charter schools,
and other public nonprofit entities that have a demonstrated capacity to
provide quality workforce education services.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H10FF0E2466D24C1D8469C9703D4CF29C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Matching
requirement</header>
<paragraph id="H638711ADC45D4B7C8CD4A1B52839974F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary of Health and Human Services and the
Secretary of Labor may not award a grant to a State under this section unless
the State agrees that, with respect to the costs to be incurred by the State in
conducting a demonstration project with funds provided under the grant, the
State will make available non-Federal contributions in an amount equal to 10
percent of the amount of Federal funds paid to the State under such
grant.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6E6432FE42F04A45BF73BF2DF8DF36F3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Non-federal
contributions</header><text>In this subsection, the term <term>non-Federal
contributions</term> includes contributions by the State and by public and
private entities that may be in cash or in kind, but 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, 2007.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H202341FE1BBE43E293929C021EA6B960"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Worker
protections and labor standards</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H6A146556428941F6B3C792E9DEE7EB16"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Rate of pay;
benefits and working conditions</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HDCEC571AA9434ECAB829F11359A8622F"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>A worksite employer of a participant in a program or
activity funded under this section shall pay the participant at the rate paid
to employees of the worksite employer who are not participants in such program
or activity and who perform comparable work at the worksite, including periodic
increases where appropriate. If no other employees of the worksite employer
perform comparable work at the worksite, the worksite employer shall pay the
participant not less than the applicable Federal or State minimum wage,
whichever is higher.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H9CCDA91D14614A53851C1F653E207990"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Benefits and
conditions</header><text>An individual employed through participation in a
program or activity funded under this section shall be provided with benefits
and working conditions at the same level and to the same extent as such
benefits and conditions are provided to other employees of the employer of the
individual who have worked a similar length of time and perform the same
work.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HA51694E0E8F34279B4BBD812A25A2BFD"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Nonduplication</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HB82733ECEDE34937AC769B0B0E8EA765"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Funds provided through a grant made under this paragraph
shall be used only for a program or activity that does not duplicate, and is in
addition to, a program or activity otherwise available in the locality of the
program or activity funded under this section.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H91BFDA04231F49E1BBD220FC6AFBDD95"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Private,
nonprofit entity</header><text>Funds provided through a grant made under this
section shall not be provided to a private nonprofit entity to conduct programs
or activities that are the same as or substantially equivalent to activities
provided by a State or local government agency in the area in which such entity
is located, unless the requirements of paragraph (3) are met.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H59B11013E2DA4E488DA6C4F006D01A9F"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Nondisplacement</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H0506F1CAC6A44726A23AECC12DC01456"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>A worksite employer shall not displace an employee or
position (including partial displacement such as reduction in hours, wages, or
employment benefits) or impair contracts for services or collective bargaining
agreements, as a result of the use by such employer of a participant in a
program or activity funded under this section, and no participant in the
program or activity shall be assigned to fill any established unfilled position
vacancy.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H6EA7E72CE7CE44D9815685B215876924"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Job
opportunities</header><text>A job opportunity shall not be created under this
paragraph that will infringe in any manner on the promotional opportunity of an
employed individual.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HC898910D0D4141DDB44D345FBB97DC56"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Limitation on
services</header>
<clause commented="no" id="H5B8294D32BBA49EBAC12826B0EC5F541"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Supplantation of
hiring</header><text>A participant in any program or activity funded under this
section shall not perform any services or duties, or engage in activities, that
will supplant the hiring of employees that are not participants in the program
or activity.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H958C74119B874ECD8846B896BAE017D8"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Duties formerly
performed by another employee</header><text>A participant in any program or
activity funded under this section shall not perform services or duties, or
engage in activities, that are services, duties, or activities that had been
performed by or were assigned to any employee who recently resigned or was
discharged, who is subject to a reduction in force, who has recall rights
pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement or applicable personnel
procedures, who is on leave (such as terminal, temporary, vacation, emergency,
or sick leave), who is on strike, or who is being locked out.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HD8EEA0466FBA4FBCB02CC993CC10B727"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Concurrence of
local labor organization</header><text>No placement shall be made under a
program or activity funded under this section until the entity conducting the
program or activity has obtained the written concurrence of any local labor
organization representing employees who are engaged in the same or
substantially similar work as that proposed to be carried out for the worksite
employer with whom a participant is to be placed under the program or
activity.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H3EDD4F5EC84947E9A7FABBF162F0275D"><enum>(4)</enum><header>No impact on
union organizing</header><text>A State conducting a demonstration project
funded under this section and any entity conducting a program or activity
funded under this section shall provide the Secretary with a certified
assurance that none of such funds shall be used to assist or deter union
organizing.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H2C4758BF91E94D86B2341244733AC2DA"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Accountability</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H3F1F150BA4684AFD864772B1465346C5"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Funds provided under this section shall not be used to
subsidize training or employment with an employer that has a demonstrable
record of noncompliance with Federal labor, civil rights, workplace safety, or
related laws.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H36805916545B460C85BDCA98B2DA1076"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Certified
satisfactory record</header><text>Employers who receive training or wage
subsidies under programs or activities funded under this section shall have a
satisfactory record in labor relations and employment practices, as certified
by the Secretary of Labor.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H9826633906874D6BA059B2B8E233A3F5"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Application of
worker protection laws</header><text>A participant in a program or activity
funded under this section shall be considered to be an employee of any employer
that the participant is placed with for all purposes under Federal and State
law, including laws relating to health and safety, civil rights, and worker’s
compensation.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H7B6787D426074C65BB5F0A4CFB2AEE92"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Other job
quality standards</header><text>Employers who receive training or wage
subsidies under programs or activities funded under this section shall meet all
applicable State or local job or employer quality standards regarding such
issues as wages, benefits, advancement opportunities, and turnover rates
established for programs funded under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29
U.S.C. 2801 et seq.).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HDF7BA8841C12498690BA9E5AE1BB8454"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Grievance
procedure</header><text>An entity conducting a program or activity funded under
this section shall establish and maintain a procedure for the filing and
adjudication of grievances by employees of worksite employers who are not
participants in the program, or such employees’ representatives, or by
participants in such a program or activity alleging a violation of a provision
of this subsection that is similar to the grievance procedure established by a
State for purposes of section 407(f)(3) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
607(f)(3)).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9F86DC0C4334466DA2FAD2DA05AE1E8D"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Nonpreemption of
state law</header><text>The provisions of this subsection shall not be
construed to preempt any provision of State law that affords greater
protections to employees or participants than are afforded by this
subsection.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDDFBF7615D0D4BEB9CD10A85AEB10D5A"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Treatment of
amounts paid to participants</header><text>Amounts paid to a participant in a
program or activity funded under this section shall be—</text>
<subparagraph id="H0A4124C2FB6548D4ACB9E77F1D18406D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>considered earned
income for purpose of determining the participant's eligibility for the child
tax credit established under section 24 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
the earned income tax credit established under section 32 of such Code, and any
other tax benefit established under such Code the eligibility for which is
based on earned income; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6240941B7CCC44239504EE4ACE787DEA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>disregarded for
purposes of determining the participant's, the participant's family's, or the
participant's household's eligibility for, or amount of, assistance or benefits
provided under any means-tested program funded in whole or in part with Federal
funds.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H62953461CF2443A081172F9F9D997396"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Application</header>
<paragraph id="H0B27334830BA467A955BED60254FDE24"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Requirements for
all applications</header>
<subparagraph id="HEF5FE7D483D0493CB20C5313C981B80C"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>A State desiring to receive a grant to conduct a
demonstration project under this section shall submit an application—</text>
<clause id="HE3E3924588564667A369353C396FEBE1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>to
the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in the case of a grant under
subsection (a); or</text>
</clause><clause id="H5BD69F3A3CB447348C5AB73E4C05A4B3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>to
the Secretary of Labor, in the case of a grant under subsection (b);</text>
</clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">at such
time, in such manner, and containing such information or assurances as the
Secretary of Health and Human Services or the Secretary of Labor, as
appropriate, may require.</continuation-text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3CC4EB7BF61740658FE5F8D9A731124B"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Compliance with
worker protections and labor standards</header><text>The application shall
include an assurance that the State and any entity conducting a program or
activity under the project shall comply with the worker protections and labor
standards established in accordance with such protections under subsection
(d).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCC01EC48C44A481AB4C70CBD5DA30863"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Nondiscrimination</header><text>The
application shall include an assurance that the State and any entity conducting
a program or activity under the demonstration project shall comply with section
188(a)(2) of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2938(a)(2)) to the
same extent that such section would apply to the entity if the program or
activity conducted under the demonstration project was considered to be funded
or otherwise financially assisted under that Act.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9F1BC119C9D54AB7A6F9C7111A6C6B7C"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Assurance grant
will supplement, not supplant, other State funding</header><text>The
application shall include an assurance from the chief executive officer of the
State that funds made available under the grant will supplement, and not
supplant, other funds used by the State to establish or support employment
placements for low-income parents.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H5AB23FB4A5D64683AE49DE12AC09C76F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Specific
demonstration project requirements</header>
<subparagraph id="H0A2EC567E61A4B53BDE90E5A1D2A2938"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Court-supervised
or IV–D agency-supervised employment programs for noncustodial
parents</header><text>In order to conduct a demonstration project described in
subsection (a), a State shall include in the application submitted to the
Secretary of Health and Human Services the following:</text>
<clause id="H66639864795743CCA8C306E0B7FB7D3A"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Evidence of an
agreement between the State and 1 or more counties to establish an employment
program that meets the requirements of subsection (a).</text>
</clause><clause id="H779DE069BACF4203B498E83919A58324"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>The
number of potential noncustodial parents to be served by the program.</text>
</clause><clause id="HC7BE0122307B4E2682E3316237DDA6FB"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>The purposes
specific to that State’s program.</text>
</clause><clause id="H69576CDDFF3B47B6AE59ABE0DA4122F7"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>The
median income of the target population.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE89AEC5F29CE4AE3BCC61DC75FFA6E1A"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Public-private
career pathways partnerships</header><text>In order to conduct a demonstration
project described in paragraph (2) of subsection (b), a State shall include in
the application submitted to the Secretary of Labor a description of—</text>
<clause id="H8409D3CA53C3420E99D2E2A07CACAEB7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the
number, characteristics, and employment and earnings status of disadvantaged
individuals in the State or applicable region where the program is to be
conducted;</text>
</clause><clause id="H93300A18806240CBB137A9AFE3335060"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>which business
and industry sectors, or occupational clusters that cut across sectors, will be
targeted by the career pathways partnership, based on overall economic benefit
to the community, the current and future demand for workers, the advancement
opportunities for workers, the wages at each step of the career pathway, and
availability of worker benefits;</text>
</clause><clause id="HB6369710EC7F4E4D9DEE670D895B7FF4"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the
interventions that will be put in place to address any educational deficits,
limited English proficiency, or learning disabilities of individuals who
participate in the program and to ensure that such individuals have the
academic, technical, communications, and other job skills to function in the
jobs targeted by the partnership;</text>
</clause><clause id="HF809F66C9976474D956DE5C2C4D08702"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>how
the members of the partnership will collaborate on the development of
curriculum and delivery of training that will provide the necessary
occupational, academic and other work-related skills and credentialing needed
for the specific labor market areas;</text>
</clause><clause id="H2F3C0772AF754038B80B6F3EA13997AF"><enum>(v)</enum><text>the
supports that will be used to provide counseling, mentoring or other support to
individuals while in training or to assist them in navigating in complicated
work environments;</text>
</clause><clause id="H010789FAE0F74BB1A6FF7714EC110D4D"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>the
set of career exposure activities that will be put in place to provide hands-on
experience such as work experience, on the job training, internships, or
work-study;</text>
</clause><clause id="H0382FD9ACDFC4C1B899025724CB4C4EE"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>the agreements
that are in place with employers, industry groups, and labor organizations,
where applicable, to ensure access to jobs and advancement opportunities in the
targeted businesses, industry, or occupations;</text>
</clause><clause id="H8FD101BDBEFE48C481E1774D4D188DEA"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>how the
workforce education providers in the partnership will assess the employment
barriers and needs of local disadvantaged individuals who participate in the
program and will identify resources for meeting those needs;</text>
</clause><clause id="HA554C2A114DE4F298EB5BBAD9E61420C"><enum>(ix)</enum><text>how
the workforce education providers will work with partnership employers,
business and industry groups, labor organizations, where applicable, and local
economic development organizations to identify the priority workforce needs of
the local industry;</text>
</clause><clause id="HAF89620B8FFC43CEABF4E159BBDFE1D4"><enum>(x)</enum><text>how
the partnerships will ensure that the appropriate program delivery models and
formal agreements are in place to ensure maximum benefits to the individuals
receiving career pathway partnership services and to the employers and labor
organizations, where applicable, in the partnership and the industries or
businesses they represent;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCE9F95E36FBD49F09208A84E5C55E2BD"><enum>(xi)</enum><text>how partnership
employers and labor organizations, where applicable, will be actively involved
in identifying specific workforce education needs, planning the curriculum,
assisting in training activities, providing job opportunities, and coordinating
job retention for individuals hired after training through the program and
followup support; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H206C4961FDF04B0B951063DA27F15F3D"><enum>(xii)</enum><text>how the
partnership will build on existing career pathways programs, where applicable,
to serve the targeted population.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDF0DDD43112840FF8ABAE51706DF937A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Applications by
Indian tribes or tribal organizations</header><text>The Secretary of Health and
Human Services and the Secretary of Labor may exempt an Indian tribe or tribal
organization from any requirement of this section that the Secretary of Health
and Human Services or the Secretary of Labor determines would be inappropriate
to apply to the Indian tribe or tribal organization, taking into account the
resources, needs, and other circumstances of the Indian tribe or tribal
organization.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8B0AADAC1D11424F9D2FF1668B2CD847"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Priorities and
requirements for awarding grants</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HCBD73BC81ECB431BA0DA75815EE63D67"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the Secretary of
Health and Human Services (in the case of a grant under subsection (a)) and the
Secretary of Labor (in the case of a grant under subsection (b)) shall give
priority to making grants under this section to entities that—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HCAB11E3FF7E44F36A4A0C1B7A884D716"><enum>(A)</enum><text>demonstrate
success with respect to meeting the goals of quality job placement, long-term
unsubsidized job retention, and, where applicable, increasing child support
payments, decreasing unpaid child support arrearages, and increasing the
involvement of low-income noncustodial parents with their children through
their participation in responsible fatherhood activities, including
participation in programs that provide culturally relevant curricula in core
subjects including—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="HCA8CF54D79344F51B2E9EBC8AB7887E1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>conducting
activities with children;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H3EE004D6A81943C09791275F00190645"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>improving
communication skills;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H074600FFB7734C208EC61E142A605B3A"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>child support
management;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HEDB6CC82D130455FBEC358DFBD51C57B"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>providing
financially for the family's security and well-being;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H4D7115F7FFE64BC29A2CCCEA7EF60C14"><enum>(v)</enum><text>managing stress
and anger;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H7FC2106D935248A4828910B5277B18E7"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>maintaining
physical and mental health;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H87894F98C9314362AEF9E132D40B7EEA"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>parenting and
relationship skills;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H1BEE3CBD6B8A45F39481B2A20B55BB7B"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>child
development; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H46DD995AEEEB490A9CF15B1483C7AC4E"><enum>(ix)</enum><text>barriers to
responsible parenthood, including substance abuse, unemployment, criminal
justice system involvement, and inadequate housing; and</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6CC2E943A1F942D4AC11A600DD0F9C33"><enum>(B)</enum><text>coordinate with,
and link individuals as applicable to, other public and private benefits and
employment services for low-income adults among the different systems or
programs in which such adults are involved, including the criminal justice
system, the State programs funded under each part of title IV of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) (including programs and activities funded
under section 403(a)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 603(a)(2)),
educational assistance and student aid programs, and job training or employment
programs, including State employment agencies.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H830FE93979BA426A864674D351C6F7D8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Performance
measures</header><text>In making grants under this section, the Secretary of
Health and Human Services (in the case of a grant under subsection (a)) and the
Secretary of Labor (in the case of a grant under subsection (b)) shall ensure
that grantees demonstrate a plan for implementing measures to track their
performance with respect to meeting the goals of quality job placement,
long-term unsubsidized job retention, and, where applicable, increasing child
support payments, decreasing child support arrearages, and increasing the
involvement of low-income noncustodial parents with their children.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3832CBEBE70D4805B857506E27227743"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Reflective of
target populations</header><text>In making grants under this section, the
Secretary of Health and Human Services (in the case of a grant under subsection
(a)) and the Secretary of Labor (in the case of a grant under subsection (b))
shall give priority to States with proposed demonstration projects that are
designed to target low-income adults, including custodial and noncustodial
parents, and low-income married couples.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF1F6BC7940374F3C833C8B638F5283C6"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Substantial
funding for each of the purposes</header><text>In making grants under
subsection (b), the Secretary of Labor shall ensure that a substantial share of
the amount appropriated under subsection (j) for a fiscal year is used for
carrying out each of the projects described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of
subsection (b).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8F3AB5AA87AC4069805C3A04036F9046"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Regulatory and
policy flexibility</header><text>The Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of
Health and Human Services, in coordination with the Secretary of Education and
the Attorney General, shall work with grantees under this section to resolve
policy barriers that may impede blending of Federal resources to support these
demonstration projects.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBA38C81A18FB4BFB9D6B1F9A4248389E"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Evaluation</header><text>The
Secretary of Health and Human Services (in the case of a grant under subsection
(a)) and the Secretary of Labor (in the case of a grant under subsection (b))
shall provide for an independent and rigorous evaluation of the demonstration
projects conducted under this section that includes, to the maximum extent
feasible, random assignment or other appropriate statistical techniques, in
order to assess the effectiveness of the projects.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HDD1295EFC84445E6878B9E56D07AB45F"><enum>(i)</enum><header>General
definitions</header><text>In this section:</text>
<paragraph id="H5FA257A9FD454DD7909B0A95B6433FF0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>State</header><text>The
term <term>State</term> means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia,
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam,
American Samoa, and includes an Indian tribe or tribal organization.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1648D99C7F8841F6BA97E21E755A5627"><enum>(2)</enum><header>IV–D
agency</header><text>The term <term>IV–D agency</term> means the State or local
agency responsible for administering the State program established under part D
of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 651 et seq.).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD62B89691F9D4D73B8DECCF0FBA4EB31"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Indian tribe;
tribal organization</header><text>The terms <term>Indian tribe</term> and
<term>tribal organization</term> have the meaning given such terms in section 4
of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C.
450b).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HC48E782A9FCA480EBBD573B2360FA722"><enum>(j)</enum><header>Appropriation</header><text>Out
of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated,
there are appropriated to carry out this section—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H9F3C4B86264543BA993F4BC985360A33"><enum>(1)</enum><text>for programs
administered by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under subsection
(a), $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2015; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H332D5D67583440F4AE6F408E6A621A1C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>for programs
administered by the Secretary of Labor under subsection (b), $35,000,000 for
each of fiscal years 2011 through 2015.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H3F14700837F64A2AB2C6DFC57B84CB8F"><enum>103.</enum><header>Healthy
marriage promotion and responsible fatherhood programs</header>
<subsection id="H4F3DC40F22DC4AC888C704185892DA10"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Ensuring funding
for responsible fatherhood programs</header><text>Section 403(a)(2)(C) of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 603(a)(2)(C)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HEFD4F2258C084040BD588D6E4169FF0D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the
subparagraph heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">Limitation on use of</header-in-text></quote> and inserting
<quote><header-in-text level="subparagraph" style="OLC">Requirement to use
certain</header-in-text></quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H95C8D31B81C8480487EBE1D29C7E7B25"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in clause (i), by
striking <quote>may not award more than $50,000,000</quote> and inserting
<quote>shall award at least <fraction>1/2</fraction> of the
amounts</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HE92FE396E23B4EC4BEE7584B02AFA267"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Voluntary
participation</header>
<paragraph id="HF20780B0BE2847FFB9ADFDF6076F5269"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Assurance</header><text>Section
403(a)(2)(A)(ii)(II) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
603(a)(2)(A)(ii)(II)) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="HA1950B6146CD42CA8F4C7122041858BA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in item (aa), by
striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1BA6DDDFAFF841A18B76F0D39A0435B6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in item (bb), by
striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H61A83EDFAF09469388DDEDB4308D05A7"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following new items:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE1BC9C8AF276451E9C3FCD6163F771C1" style="OLC">
<item id="H20FD4C1F20BC4CD3B6C630B635B9FE4A"><enum>(cc)</enum><text>if
the entity is a State or an Indian tribe or tribal organization, to not
condition the receipt of assistance under the program funded under this part,
under a program funded with qualified State expenditures (as defined in section
409(a)(7)(B)(i)), or under any other program funded under this title on
enrollment in any such programs or activities; and</text>
</item><item id="HE06907F158904D31961907A8180296F8"><enum>(dd)</enum><text>to
permit any individual who has begun to participate in a particular program or
activity funded under this paragraph, including an individual whose
participation is specified in the individual responsibility plan developed for
the individual in accordance with section 408(b), to transfer to another such
program or activity funded under this paragraph upon notification to the entity
and the State agency responsible for administering the State program funded
under this
part.</text>
</item><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HEC5ADE019ED24F76B562ADCBD2F6D672"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Prohibition</header><text>Section
408(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 608(a)) is amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD84FBFB5F9744605BC00A351F9D63E85" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HA1DA845EA8254D3B825E70A1A086554E"><enum>(12)</enum><header>Ban on
conditioning receipt of tanf or certain other benefits on participation in a
healthy marriage or responsible fatherhood program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A
State to which a grant is made under section 403 shall not condition the
receipt of assistance under the State program funded under this part, under a
program funded with qualified State expenditures (as defined in section
409(a)(7)(B)(i)), or under any other program funded under this title, on
participation in a healthy marriage promotion activity (as defined in section
403(a)(2)(A)(iii)) or in an activity promoting responsible fatherhood (as
defined in section
403(a)(2)(C)(ii)).</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H690609BC29044E32B464CDD89528B463"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Penalty</header><text>Section
409(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 609(a)) is amended by adding at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8AE8E62776A749198FF9644393C3D586" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HBA1E8FFA68134EBCA0BB6D4442D0242D"><enum>(16)</enum><header>Penalty for
conditioning receipt of tanf or certain other benefits on participation in a
healthy marriage or responsible fatherhood program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If
the Secretary determines that a State has violated section 408(a)(12) during a
fiscal year, the Secretary shall reduce the grant payable to the State under
section 403(a)(1) for the immediately succeeding fiscal year by an amount equal
to 5 percent of the State family assistance
grant.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H28220DDF5CA245B38153789C2B1EE54A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Activities
promoting responsible fatherhood</header><text>Section 403(a)(2)(C)(ii) of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 603(a)(2)(C)(ii)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H7B8AE2F969044CF5AB8642A7599B4B39"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subclause (I),
by striking <quote>marriage or sustain marriage</quote> and insert
<quote>healthy relationships and marriages or to sustain healthy relationships
or marriages</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H303288B834474CBAB9AD8BB04DFD4400"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subclause (II),
by inserting <quote>educating youth who are not yet parents about the economic,
social, and family consequences of early parenting, helping participants in
fatherhood programs work with their own children to break the cycle of early
parenthood,</quote> after <quote>child support payments,</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H239D55F4A6C14E73A79E2F2A23719DE1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subclause
(III), by striking <quote>fathers</quote> and inserting <quote>low-income
fathers and other low-income noncustodial parents who are not eligible for
assistance under the State program funded under this part</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HDF0274E10D2F40CAB975CADD5DCF12D5"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Reauthorization</header><text>Section
403(a)(2)(D) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 603(a)(2)(D)) is amended by striking
<quote>year 2011</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>years 2011
through 2015</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HABA8CF584C72465E91EB1BA5F5321EC9"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on
October 1, 2010.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HD5FDA19C40A54678AFDC3D2EC035E8F9"><enum>104.</enum><header>Elimination of
separate TANF work participation rate for 2-parent families</header>
<subsection id="HFB3FB5D33E5E41AE9F9C2A75FBE9C35C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Section 407 of the <act-name parsable-cite="SSA">Social
Security Act</act-name> (42 U.S.C. 607) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H8FC3949C9E7A4B708EC55A06A63FFA8F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H622CB5CDB1B14FEB827BA6B2E81F86EC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>beginning in the
heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Participation Rate Requirements</header-in-text></quote> and all
that follows through <quote>A State</quote> in paragraph (1) and inserting
<quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Participation Rate
Requirements</header-in-text>.—A State</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF1A0B9A070D049008B90837906125D17"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
paragraph (2);</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HEF5FC07282044F87BECC774B3A9A4380"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF95DB5A3DC834A72BB0E4C04D85BD426"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)(A), by striking <quote>subsection (a)(1)</quote> and inserting
<quote>subsection (a)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H314336595ED1411DAD4DCA7D49885649"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (2),
by striking the paragraph heading and all that follows through <quote>A
family</quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Special rule</header-in-text>.—A family</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H11CB28DFD8854C6E9C0D8440DB5A3C52"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (4),
by striking <quote>paragraphs (1)(B) and (2)(B)</quote> and inserting
<quote>determining monthly participation rates under paragraph (1)(B)</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA2A1A84A226C4622A5FD887138A70713"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (5),
by striking <quote>rates</quote> and inserting <quote>rate</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H5C02189D5FE34119AB679EF4D430197A"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection
(c)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8D2DF560E1AE475698D6E49794646240"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)(B), in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking <quote>subsection
(b)(2)(B)</quote> and inserting <quote>subsection (b)(1)(B)(i)</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFD0500ED7CC94CDA9B6C43D3D4B32B63"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)(D)—</text>
<clause id="HA85DF0C217744BC4BB0059EE4836EA45"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>paragraphs (1)(B)(i) and (2)(B) of subsection (b)</quote> and
inserting <quote>subsection (b)(1)(B)(i)</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H643CB1E8DC4142C990CFD7682CF24764"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>and in 2-parent families, respectively,</quote>.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1DFAA72B5D1344498332A5EB0448C554"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective
date</header>
<paragraph id="HB8C2AC4AE816438485D636528B49E06C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect
on the date of enactment of this Act and shall apply to the determination of
minimum participation rates for months beginning on or after that date.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB5183EF34EC24A16A6C423DA74F28224"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation on
penalty imposition</header><text>Notwithstanding section 409(a)(3) of the
Social Security Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not
impose a penalty against a State under that section on the basis of the State's
failure to satisfy the participation rate required for any of fiscal years 2006
through 2009 if the State demonstrates that the State would have met such
requirement if, with respect to those months of any of such fiscal years that
began prior to or on the date of enactment of this Act, the State were
permitted to count 2-parent families that met the requirements of section
407(c)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 607(c)(1)(A)) in the
determination of monthly participation rates under section 407(b)(1)(B)(i) of
such Act (42 U.S.C. 607(b)(1)(B)(i)).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HF90154830AC4426BA033389DBF819D25"><enum>105.</enum><header>Ban on recovery
of Medicaid costs for births</header>
<subsection id="HC27D991811B94680A8280E0BF651C088"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Ban on
recovery</header>
<paragraph id="HD158F8BAB7B94B5982B91C44DB60B306"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 454 of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 654), is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H18727B2411864F2B921EC19ED800E9F0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>and</quote> at the end of paragraph (32);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFB549DC929584688AE09117B86B76A88"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking the
period at the end of paragraph (33) and inserting a semicolon; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H52C51A2809BF4F4D9AEFB836CDBEE46B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting after
paragraph (33) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1C051101EEF64477A48561AC324B909C" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H9FAFE88A7B2642758BE0B47FA6ABBEC9"><enum>(34)</enum><text>provide that,
except as provided in section 1902(a)(25)(F)(ii), the State shall not use the
State program operated under this part to collect any amount owed to the State
by reason of costs incurred under the State plan approved under title XIX for
the birth of a child for whom support rights have been assigned pursuant to
section 471(a)(17) or 1912;
and</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H5ECF98DD915B4333815162737200F908"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Rule of
construction</header><text>Nothing in section 454(34) of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 654(34)), as added by paragraph (1), shall be construed as
affecting the application of section 1902(a)(25) of such Act (42 U.S.C.
1396a(a)(25)) with respect to a State (relating to the State Medicaid plan
requirement for the State to take all reasonable measures to ascertain the
legal liability of third parties to pay for care and services available under
the plan).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9865053CE7774BE69E6E637145F5E982"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Repeal of
certain DRA amendments</header><text>For provisions repealing amendments to
section 454 of the Social Security Act made by section 7301(b)(1)(C) of the
Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, see section 106(a)(3) of this Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HABB05F97105543B8A55F43AC5FC0ECE6"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Clarification
that ban on recovery does not apply with respect to insurance of a parent with
an obligation To pay child support</header><text>Clause (ii) of section
1902(a)(25)(F) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)(25)(F)) is
amended by inserting <quote>only if such third-party liability is derived
through insurance,</quote> before <quote>seek</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HDCF3E2CFADDB4E3AA55FED8452CA961B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective
date</header>
<paragraph id="H66B7FBE974F748E3861960886E3C72AC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), the amendments made
by this section take effect on October 1, 2009.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H662405F2B74E4EEAA9B99729168985F6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Extension of
effective date for state law amendment</header><text>In the case of a State
plan under title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) which
the Secretary of Health and Human Services determines requires State
legislation in order for the plan to meet the additional requirements imposed
by the amendments made by this section, the State plan shall not be regarded as
failing to comply with the requirements of such title solely on the basis of
its failure to meet these additional requirements before the first day of the
first calendar quarter beginning after the close of the first regular session
of the State legislature that begins after the date of enactment of this Act.
For purposes of the previous sentence, in the case of a State that has a 2-year
legislative session, each year of the session is considered to be a separate
regular session of the State legislature.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HDCB1CE24E5E44BF5BD6BD70947545E64"><enum>106.</enum><header>Improved
collection and distribution of child support</header>
<subsection id="HD1C3F72BE0F14D1FBFCAA578AD5EDB98"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Distribution of
child support</header>
<paragraph id="HE8C6724A68DC48D2BD53F7984649F37E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Full
distribution of child support collected; reform of rules for distribution of
child support collected on behalf of children in foster care</header>
<subparagraph id="HCD28726A6B9543A1BCD7B925BF6B8C3B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Section 457 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 657) is
amended—</text>
<clause id="HE7C77DEAF87341809DB4140B6A12E5D8"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
striking subsection (a) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H24395482238546BDB2CD3BED307B25FB" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H02BDCE9344824429A43BB548BF03F4DD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Full
distribution of amounts collected on behalf of any family</header><text>Subject
to subsection (c), the entire amount collected on behalf of any family as
support by a State pursuant to a plan approved under this part shall be paid by
the State to the family.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</clause><clause id="H079B7AB544E1412BB6CBE10519C1119C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by
striking subsections (c) through (e) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9F5B84DAE24F4A2482828563A0825FD4" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC2927B54DF9A46409FA87A3748F45F8B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Amounts
collected for child for whom foster care maintenance payments are
made</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding the
preceding provisions of this section, amounts collected by a State as child
support for months in any period on behalf of a child for whom a public agency
is making foster care maintenance payments under part E shall be paid to the
public agency responsible for supervising the placement of the child, which may
use the payments in the manner it determines will serve the best interests of
the child, including setting such payments aside for the child’s future needs
or
use.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H479D7E6E9EF94F668107303011E98172"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Foster care
state plan amendment</header><text>Section 471(a)(17) of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 671(a)(17)) is amended—</text>
<clause id="H444AC0F99650466EA1DC3978BF4437DF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
inserting <quote>and consistent with the child's case plan</quote> after
<quote>where appropriate</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0E0393D4B82D43FB8230E26392405FEE"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>secure an assignment to the State of any rights to support</quote> and
inserting <quote>establish paternity and establish, modify, and enforce child
support obligations</quote>.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HACA366940F104C6E9DCDB6C9BC3445AC"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Social Security
Act amendments</header>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9B7B23C064C043AD97AE286BECB7ACF1"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Child support
State plan amendment</header><text>Section 454 of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 654), as amended by section 104(a)(1) of this Act, is amended by
inserting after paragraph (34) the following:</text>
<quoted-block act-name="" id="HD7294632891B4A3FBCD94BEB12BE3E7A" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H93E4864287D74522ACA2FCA0B0A7C3EC"><enum>(35)</enum><text>provide that a
State shall pay all collected child support to the payee, except as provided in
section
457(c).</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H689D25CDE3D4419A9AAD5538491DED78"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Disbursement of
support payments</header><text>Section 454B(c) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 654b(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:</text>
<quoted-block act-name="" id="H155C66961E8F4ECCAA0A6D14C5E5AB42" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HD1FA78DA6918433F85BEB39A0CB902AE"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Disbursement to
families</header><text>The State disbursement unit shall pay all collected
child support to the payee, except as otherwise provided in section
457.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H3854BD1C642246A9B88B0844A5945E3F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming
amendments</header>
<subparagraph id="HD201F6A98DF144D5B8F75017AA7C7A9F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Section
409(a)(7)(B)(i)(I)(aa) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 609(a)(7)(B)(i)(I)(aa)) is
amended by striking <quote>457(a)(1)(B)</quote> and inserting
<quote>457(a)</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC99A68E634CF4038AB86A52E31E09AB9"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Section 454(5) of
such Act (42 U.S.C. 654(5)) is amended by striking <quote>(A) in any
case</quote> and all that follows through <quote>(B)</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3977C29A291046A79972BEE2BC7B8A0A"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Section
466(a)(3)(B) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 666(a)(3)(B)) is amended—</text>
<clause id="H3E8B86AC674C4F4BA8D300CE17101742"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by
striking <quote>shall be distributed in accordance with section 457 in the case
of overdue support assigned to a State pursuant to section 408(a)(3) or
471(a)(17), or, in any other case,</quote>; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HD052C9E4DEAF4C5797D3C30C8208BCEC"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">and inserting <quote>or to the public
agency responsible for supervising the placement of the child, which may use
the payments in the manner the public agency determines will serve the best
interest of the child</quote> before the semicolon.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H1689825577AB488292B8996FBDB69B0F"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Repeal of
certain DRA amendments</header><text>Effective on the date of enactment of this
Act, subsections (a) and (b) of section 7301 of the Deficit Reduction Act of
2005 (Public Law 109–171; 120 Stat. 141) are repealed and parts A and D of
title IV of the Social Security Act shall be applied as if the amendments made
by such subsections had not been enacted.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HF227667EE92144FCA6D90F79CBE82E70"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Prohibition on
conditioning receipt of TANF on assignment of support</header><text>Section
408(a)(3) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 608(a)(3)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HEC1486506DAA4F82BFACF648B65A92C2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the paragraph
heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">No
assistance for families not</header-in-text></quote> and inserting
<quote><header-in-text level="paragraph" style="OLC">Prohibition on
conditioning assistance for families on</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFE10A1952F2E4467B54B36A7415FED7E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>not</quote> after <quote>shall</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD2D8560CB04642B4BE78D6DC2EDA5403"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>or under a program funded with qualified State expenditures (as defined
in section 409(a)(7)(B)(i))</quote> after <quote>this part</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0E7107D7050348C782F8486035E0B6E9"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>, not exceeding the total amount of assistance so paid to the
family,</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1A08B9714BD34F658A8E9DCD51357EA3"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Requirement To
disregard percentage of child support collected in determining amount and type
of TANF assistance</header><text>Section 408(a) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 608(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA1447907A3364095B9143B138D6F2753" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2ED7587143C2420788F8456B51B0008B"><enum>(12)</enum><header>Requirement to
disregard percentage of child support collected in determining amount and type
of TANF assistance</header><text>A State to which a grant is made under section
403 shall disregard at least the same percentage of amounts collected as
support on behalf of a family as the percentage of earned income that the State
disregards, in determining the amount or type of assistance provided to the
family under the State program funded under this part or under a program funded
with qualified State expenditures (as defined in section
409(a)(7)(B)(i)).</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H40D8E438F3FA49E982C2CBA3F0923807"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Restoration of
Federal funding</header><text>Effective on the date of enactment of this Act,
section 7309 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–171; 120
Stat. 147) is repealed and part D of title IV of the Social Security Act shall
be applied as if the amendment made by subsection (a) of that section had not
been enacted.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HFCB3B4CB2714467B87AE9931108E7A36"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Repeal of
mandatory fee for child support collection</header><text>Effective on the date
of enactment of this Act, section 7310 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
(Public Law 109–171; 120 Stat. 147) is repealed and part D of title IV of the
Social Security Act shall be applied as if the amendments made by that section
had not been enacted.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HD360E6F8DC6F4AF1A817AA54755E5861"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Prohibition on
considering a period of incarceration voluntary
unemployment</header><text>Section 466(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
666(a)) is amended by inserting after paragraph (19) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB6095DDB19314EACBFE492D15AC825F4" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HD0A45490CDE04872ACB516C0C87E21EC"><enum>(20)</enum><header>Procedures
relating to periods of incarceration of noncustodial parents</header>
<subparagraph id="H7856934234E8480CBFE19808142ABC95"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Procedures which require that, in determining or
modifying the amount of, or terms and conditions of, any support obligation of
a noncustodial parent, the State—</text>
<clause id="H324CB1CEC8BE4A6792BDE895B387EBE2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>shall not consider
any period of incarceration of such parent as a period of voluntary
unemployment that disqualifies the parent from obtaining a modification of the
support obligation consistent with the parent's ability to pay child support;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="H4D8D021015334085BBE5C3FDE818E485"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>subject to
subparagraph (B) in the case of an incarcerated parent, may—</text>
<subclause id="HC9EBC726EA264AE38D996A97934F3BEC"><enum>(I)</enum><text>temporarily
suspend any support obligation on the parent and the enforcement of any support
obligation of the parent existing prior to the period of incarceration;
and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HC07D33AA356549748686265EA7C759DC"><enum>(II)</enum><text>temporarily
prohibit the accrual of any interest on any support obligation of the parent
existing prior to the period of incarceration during any such period.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFAA5AD2383B347C4BCDFDE6D94C091BF"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Notice and
opportunity to challenge suspension</header><text>Such procedures shall require
the State to provide a custodial parent with—</text>
<clause id="HE484724AA4594551AA88D69F9F026CD4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>notice of any
suspension of review, adjustment, or enforcement of a support obligation and of
any prohibition on interest accrual on such obligation that is imposed in
accordance with subparagraph (A)(ii); and</text>
</clause><clause id="H2525851841A64FA0B0BB358DC1D79CE7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>an opportunity to
request that the suspension or prohibition be terminated or modified on the
basis that the noncustodial parent has sufficient income or resources to
continue payment of the support obligation during the noncustodial parent's
period of
incarceration.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD808D7F9602F4430BD26ABE35472CAD2"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Review and
adjustment of child support arrearages upon request</header><text>Section
466(a)(10) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 666(a)(10)) is amended by
adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA0255E9833024815A5B430CF47394963" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H63C060D778404EA293E676D83568BF9C"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Review and
adjustment of arrearages</header><text>Procedures which require the State to
review, and if appropriate, reduce the balance of arrearages permanently
assigned to the State under part A or E of this title, or under title XIX,
pursuant to standards and procedures established by the State, in cases where
the obligor lacks sufficient ability to pay the arrears, adjustment will
promote timely payment of current support, or barriers, such as incarceration,
may have limited the ability of the obligor to timely seek a modification of
the order, and it is in the best interests of the child to make such reduction.
Nothing in the preceding sentence shall be construed as affecting arrearages
that have not been permanently assigned to the State under any such part or
title.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H12FE0423C1944B51A4761CF8A13E8948"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Study and
report</header><text>Not later than October 1, 2012, the Secretary of Health
and Human Services shall study and submit a report to Congress regarding the
following:</text>
<paragraph id="H6226246C2ECB47618018F3B2E94B0D87"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The effect of age
eligibility restrictions for the earned income tax credit established under
section 32 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for individuals without
qualifying children on—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3D2F6735379749F4A221B1CAB19514F2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the ability of
young parents to pay child support;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDD1721566B75426797F2413AC0F45FD2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>compliance with
child support orders; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H52CA5A29AD094C42B988E0D89A134E06"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the relationship
between young noncustodial parents and their children.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HF59FA8E79DAE48F9B38DC66C1F9F451C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The impact of
State earned income tax credit programs, especially such programs with targeted
benefits for noncustodial parents, on—</text>
<subparagraph id="H1A5B086D45994FC9AB32CB83C5CBE7C4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the ability of
noncustodial parents to pay child support;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H242B18223E164FDAAEDFF2BD1EC3DDCA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>compliance with
child support orders; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE737C7F131484B4199079F59E0C1E271"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the relationship
between noncustodial parents and their children.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC5874FEBCF18411EAE1E2ACEB52AF8A1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The challenges
faced by legal immigrants and individuals for whom English is not their primary
language in fulfilling child support and other noncustodial parenting
obligations.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HD222446FD8DD4B64AB83E23D78B32673"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Effective
date</header>
<paragraph id="H57CF6A8C03A043039E0FC9941C68EAB5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Except as otherwise provided in this section, the
amendments made by this section shall take effect on October 1, 2009, and shall
apply to payments under parts A and D of title IV of the Social Security Act
for calendar quarters beginning on or after that date, and without regard to
whether regulations to implement the amendments are promulgated by such
date.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8909D37729A44F90B5A7E8B101548396"><enum>(2)</enum><header>State option to
accelerate effective date</header><text>Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a State
may elect to have the amendments made by the preceding provisions of this
section apply to the State and to amounts collected by the State (and to
payments under parts A and D of title IV of such Act), on and after such date
as the State may select that is not later than September 30, 2009.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H7F8714AD88B448638134BDFFE13AA324"><enum>107.</enum><header>Collection of
child support under the supplemental nutrition assistance program</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H181FF279F718488BB7ADC2EC863AC417"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Encouragement of
collection of child support</header><text>Section 5 of the Food and Nutrition
Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2014) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H0BBA1875C2B24565AD14AE73FACABEC0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(e)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H6612F8ABD74E4E71B54E2F315DFCA72D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraphs (5) and (6) as paragraphs (6) and (7), respectively;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H04FF1EC885EC4C3A86D544BF9A3B6824"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph
(4)(B), by striking <quote>paragraph (6)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph
(7)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HFED4F7AD0BAC444EB482F95A51F2238A"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by inserting after
paragraph (4) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB9CBFCEFB8774DF6A475073703EB4788" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="H34AA288DFD66423C86751EF90DAAD50D"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Deduction for
child support received</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H9B495711BEB24F1BAAD8E206028F8F00"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>A household shall be allowed a deduction of 20 percent of
all legally obligated child support payments received from an identified or
putative parent of a child in the household if that parent is not a household
member.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H05CD691772154306A800EEEF08DF2F5C"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Order of
determining deductions</header><text>A deduction under this paragraph shall be
determined before the computation of the excess shelter deduction under
paragraph (7).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H090AF5778C014A60A732C07F9C6AC8C5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(k)(4)(B), by striking <quote>subsection (e)(6)</quote> and inserting
<quote>subsection (e)(7)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HE3B221715A0C45B889F74255D5B1A9F5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Simplified
verification of child support payments</header><text>Section 5(n) of the Food
and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2014(n)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H4898676982634EC7ABDE5C050FCF0588"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the subsection
heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">State options to simplify</header-in-text></quote>, and inserting
<quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="OLC">Simplified</header-in-text></quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD0D3E4559BFD4DC998CAD1A6408E1945"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>Regardless of whether</quote> and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5205C000F90147BE9CB1C08DBE5074E9" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HC4205017561E4B4D86591E50BFB592CC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>A household that is paying legally obligated child
support through the program under part D of title IV of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 651 et seq.) shall receive—</text>
<subparagraph id="H72AEFAF8525842FFBA32AEDFC5AC92F5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a deduction under
subsection (e)(4); or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEAAF2501F8A446F6906266071D0E1094"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an exclusion under
subsection (d)(6) for child support payments made.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2B1B1ADFCA5C4BD396F75923B4805767"><enum>(2)</enum><header>State
options</header><text>Regardless of
whether</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HB1D0F4DF503746F5BD254A910C59978A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Inclusion of
economic opportunities programs in definition of work
program</header><text>Section 6(o)(2) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7
U.S.C. 2015(o)(2)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H17330B67FF1346868C672A8C667AE634"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(C), by striking <quote>or </quote> at the end;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDAF97659732F408DB11AAB158BE86C71"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(D), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; or</quote>;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H311DEEEBD7404D91A3834DA0D400EE67"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5AE399E6DEBC41A4B93254428F34BB66" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="H87BA4C9812DA4099BCF1231E2057102E"><enum>(E)</enum><text>participate in and
comply with the requirements of a demonstration project under section 106 of
the <short-title>Julia Carson Responsible Fatherhood and
Healthy Families Act of
2011</short-title>;</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H5C7EE0DF39D44E3FA213478A597EBD4C"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective
date</header>
<paragraph id="H01FBCF785CD54AC68A91CE2BCAAF1510"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>This section and the amendments made by this section take
effect on October 1, 2011.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H50506353D2954F38ABC30A12ACC82174"><enum>(2)</enum><header>State
option</header><text>A State may implement the amendments made by subsections
(a) and (b) for participating households at the first recertification of the
households that occurs on or after October 1, 2011.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HC9438090C17E4018AF02717789C97660"><enum>108.</enum><header>Grants
supporting healthy family partnerships for domestic violence intervention and
preventions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 403(a) of
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 603(a)) is amended by adding at the end the
following new paragraph:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5E8B70516AED4653B4BF7280E145FBEC" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H64FDB64ADCFB440BB4D71AEF1A806670"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Grants
supporting healthy family partnerships for domestic violence intervention and
prevention</header>
<subparagraph id="H0FB4E4CA01D342F6A9FE62C3EE6A1E3D"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall
award grants on a competitive basis to healthy family partnerships to develop
and implement promising practices for—</text>
<clause id="H7A471E3EE5B54AE28802AF3F015579D3"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">assessing and providing services to
individuals and families affected by domestic violence, including through
caseworker training, the provision of technical assistance to community
partners, and the implementation of safe visitation and exchange programs;
or</text>
</clause><clause id="H380A47D748124B83A3317A7E71B05EBC"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">preventing domestic violence, particularly
as a barrier to economic security, and fostering healthy relationships.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H03CF784C45D94B5EA85F8E0988033F70"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Education
services</header><text>In awarding grants under subparagraph (A), the Secretary
shall ensure that 10 percent of the funds made available under such grants are
used for high schools and other secondary educational institutions and
institutions of higher education to provide education services on the value of
healthy relationships, responsible parenting, and healthy marriages
characterized by mutual respect and nonviolence, and the importance of building
relationships skills such as communication, conflict resolution, and
budgeting.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H58B42E49806F4101B47F1CAEF13C234E"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Application</header><text>The
respective entity and organization of a healthy family partnership entered into
for purposes of receiving a grant under this paragraph shall submit a joint
application to the Secretary, at such time and in such manner as the Secretary
shall specify, containing—</text>
<clause id="HCDE71639D2624D5A81C830ABD22C2BF4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a
description of how the partnership intends to carry out the activities
described in subparagraph (A);</text>
</clause><clause id="HC93061994C0F44EEB99115BA41A90F84"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>an assurance that
funds made available under the grant shall be used to supplement, and not
supplant, other funds used by the entity or organization to carry out programs,
activities, or services described in subparagraph (A) or (B); and</text>
</clause><clause id="HC3A8A7A3B0134127A13D7F5D717F35EF"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>such other
information as the Secretary may require.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8F66A2CBB03648A3BEA1730933331EB3"><enum>(D)</enum><header>General rules
governing use of funds</header><text>The rules of section 404, other than
subsection (b) of that section, shall not apply to a grant made under this
paragraph.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD9EA7D5ABA6E4F86A67819C99E162123"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this paragraph:</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H97D75D1FA85547DD8CFB5ABEC8E5DB6B"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Domestic
violence</header><text>The term <term>domestic violence</term> has the meaning
given that term in section 402(a)(7)(B).</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H13D1FBE807E94DDF8348F8F46AD45F2D"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Healthy family
partnership</header><text>The term <term>healthy family partnership</term>
means a partnership between—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0AC5CB4567814B7AAB9AB4B1AF72B414"><enum>(I)</enum><text>an entity
receiving funds under a grant made under paragraph (2) to promote healthy
marriage or responsible fatherhood; and</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD0EE906462D14429AD3F62474B078B37"><enum>(II)</enum><text>an organization
with demonstrated expertise working with survivors of domestic violence.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H162493880ABC4BC4A3B55AD8C8D5B65C"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Appropriation</header><text>Out
of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated,
there are appropriated for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2015, $25,000,000
for purposes of awarding grants to healthy family partnerships under this
paragraph.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H9954BFE0202F495D97C799C9387D138C"><enum>109.</enum><header>Procedures to
address domestic violence</header>
<subsection id="HE52AF5CEC5264029BA13BB540528E31C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Section 403(a)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
603(a)(2)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HF18EAAB60CC24EA1B7357E815323EE38"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating
subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (F); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2345D3EA5362452189FA817E070F166D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after
subparagraph (C) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8693B130FB86425996F6BEC0F87291A9" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="H52F53655AA0F4A6982AAA85221D97A30"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Requirements for
receipt of funds</header><text>An entity may not be awarded a grant under this
paragraph unless the entity, as a condition of receiving funds under such a
grant—</text>
<clause id="H343CEC295A8F4820A19FCDB1109107E2"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">identifies in its application for the grant
the domestic violence experts at the local, State, or national level with whom
the entity will consult in the development and implementation of the programs
and activities of the entity;</text>
</clause><clause id="HB8A17C17141847CFB86924DD86C2D0CE"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">on award of the grant, and in consultation
with such domestic violence experts, develops a written protocol which
describes—</text>
<subclause id="H4AC2944DE684491BAB4A6A81999CA359"><enum>(I)</enum><text>how the entity
will identify instances or risks of domestic violence;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HF87EBF2641BF484AAEE5F6202718AB5C"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the procedures
for responding to such instances or risk, including making service referrals
and providing protections and appropriate assistance for identified individuals
and families;</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H7420C9F1A28E4703AAFE35FF554660B3"><enum>(III)</enum><text>how
confidentiality issues will be addressed; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HEE97E2714FD643229D5673B08219E8C0"><enum>(IV)</enum><text>the domestic
violence training that will be provided to ensure effective and consistent
implementation of the protocol; and</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H65F6C075AD984B07A11A7185CA4ED039"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>in an annual
report to the Secretary, includes a description of the domestic violence
protocols, and a description of any implementation issues identified with
respect to domestic violence and how the issues were addressed.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC1C696CF02304DC481045230F02ADE4C"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Domestic
violence defined</header><text>In this paragraph, the term <term>domestic
violence</term> has the meaning given that term in section
402(a)(7)(B).</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HFFC5FDB4210E46089AED2049AACDA926"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
amendments</header><text>Section 403(a)(2) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 603(a)(2)),
as amended by section 103(d) of this Act and subsection (a)(1) of this section,
is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H5ACF26A34A234C5683BB5B3668ACDAA8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A)(i)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H4714770A64194287A5CEE2E3FECB2F80"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>(B) and (C)</quote> and inserting <quote>(B), (C), and (D)</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFBA759E0AF6F475D8EE2E3F912460D50"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>subparagraph (D)</quote> and inserting <quote>subparagraph (F)</quote>;
and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H896648B8642E426396CE806C4093DCE2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraphs
(B)(i) and (C)(i), by striking <quote>(D)</quote> each place it appears and
inserting <quote>(F)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header>Revenue
provision</header>
<section id="HC825F55A948B4A4C878DBD0A6990CCEA" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>201.</enum><header>Increase in credit
percentage under earned income tax credit for eligible individuals with no
qualifying children</header>
<subsection id="H3C4009484E7D45AAB4932C102ADB132C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The row in the table
in subparagraph (A) of section 32(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
relating to no qualifying children is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H70F3EAEDC70C4D64BF1793D902CF31C9" style="OLC">
<table align-to-level="section" blank-lines-before="1" colsep="1" frame="topbot" line-rules="hor-ver" rowsep="0" rule-weights="4.4.4.0.0.0" table-template-name="Generic: 1 text, 2 num" table-type="">
<tgroup cols="3" grid-typeface="1.1" rowsep="0" thead-tbody-ldg-size="10.10.12"><colspec coldef="txt" colname="column1" colwidth="202pts" min-data-value="180"></colspec><colspec coldef="fig" colname="column2" colwidth="56pts" min-data-value="10"></colspec><colspec coldef="fig" colname="column3" colwidth="56pts" min-data-value="10" rowsep="0"></colspec>
<tbody>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">No qualifying
children</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">20</entry><entry align="right" colname="column3" rowsep="0">7.65</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup></table>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HAF2CE27C2235430D8671626B8556F427"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to taxable
years beginning after December 31, 2010.</text>
</subsection></section>