[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 106 (Thursday, July 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H7907-H7990]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                WELFARE AND MEDICAID REFORM ACT OF 1996

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 482 and rule 
XXIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House 
on the State of the Union for the further consideration of the bill, 
H.R. 3734.

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                     in the committee of the whole

  Accordingly the House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union for the further consideration of the 
bill (H.R. 3734) to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 
201(a)(1) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 
1997, with Ms. Greene of Utah in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The CHAIRMAN. When the Committee of the Whole rose earlier today, the 
amendment printed in part 2 of House Report 104-686 offered by the 
gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Ney] had been disposed of.


     amendment in the nature of a substitute offered by mr. tanner

  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, as the designee of the minority leader, I 
offer an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment in the nature of a substitute is as 
follows:

       Amendment in the nature of a substitute offered by Mr. 
     Tanner: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Bipartisan Welfare Reform 
     Act of 1996''.

     SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

       The table of contents of this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.

   TITLE I--BLOCK GRANTS FOR TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES

Sec. 101. Findings.
Sec. 102. Reference to Social Security Act.
Sec. 103. Block grants to States.
Sec. 104. Services provided by charitable, religious, or private 
              organizations.
Sec. 105. Census data on grandparents as primary caregivers for their 
              grandchildren.
Sec. 106. Report on data processing.
Sec. 107. Study on alternative outcomes measures.
Sec. 108. Conforming amendments to the Social Security Act.
Sec. 109. Conforming amendments to the Food Stamp Act of 1977 and 
              related provisions.
Sec. 110. Conforming amendments to other laws.
Sec. 111. Development of prototype of counterfeit-resistant social 
              security card required.
Sec. 112. Disclosure of receipt of Federal funds.
Sec. 113. Modifications to the job opportunities for certain low-income 
              individuals program.
Sec. 114. Secretarial submission of legislative proposal for technical 
              and conforming amendments.
Sec. 115. Application of current AFDC standards under medicaid program.
Sec. 116. Effective date; transition rule.

                 TITLE II--SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME

Sec. 200. Reference to Social Security Act.

                  Subtitle A--Eligibility Restrictions

Sec. 201. Denial of SSI benefits for 10 years to individuals found to 
              have fraudulently misrepresented residence in order to 
              obtain benefits simultaneously in 2 or more States.
Sec. 202. Denial of SSI benefits for fugitive felons and probation and 
              parole violators.
Sec. 203. Verification of eligibility for certain SSI disability 
              benefits.
Sec. 204. Treatment of prisoners.
Sec. 205. Effective date of application for benefits.
Sec. 206. Installment payment of large past-due supplemental security 
              income benefits.

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Sec. 207. Recovery of supplemental security income overpayments from 
              social security benefits.

               Subtitle B--Benefits for Disabled Children

Sec. 211. Definition and eligibility rules.
Sec. 212. Eligibility redeterminations and continuing disability 
              reviews.
Sec. 213. Additional accountability requirements.
Sec. 214. Reduction in cash benefits payable to institutionalized 
              individuals whose medical costs are covered by private 
              insurance.
Sec. 215. Modification respecting parental income deemed to disabled 
              children.
Sec. 216. Graduated benefits for additional children.

               Subtitle C--State Supplementation Programs

Sec. 221. Repeal of maintenance of effort requirements applicable to 
              optional State programs for supplementation of SSI 
              benefits.

   Subtitle D--Studies Regarding Supplemental Security Income Program

Sec. 231. Annual report on the supplemental security income program.
Sec. 232. Study of disability determination process.
Sec. 233. Study by General Accounting Office.

      Subtitle E--National Commission on the Future of Disability

Sec. 241. Establishment.
Sec. 242. Duties of the Commission.
Sec. 243. Membership.
Sec. 244. Staff and support services.
Sec. 245. Powers of Commission.
Sec. 246. Reports.
Sec. 247. Termination.
Sec. 248. Authorization of appropriations.

                        TITLE III--CHILD SUPPORT

Sec. 300. Reference to Social Security Act.

     Subtitle A--Eligibility for Services; Distribution of Payments

Sec. 301. State obligation to provide child support enforcement 
              services.
Sec. 302. Distribution of child support collections.
Sec. 303. Privacy safeguards.
Sec. 304. Rights to notification and hearings.

                  Subtitle B--Locate and Case Tracking

Sec. 311. State case registry.
Sec. 312. Collection and disbursement of support payments.
Sec. 313. State directory of new hires.
Sec. 314. Amendments concerning income withholding.
Sec. 315. Locator information from interstate networks.
Sec. 316. Expansion of the Federal parent locator service.
Sec. 317. Collection and use of social security numbers for use in 
              child support enforcement.

         Subtitle C--Streamlining and Uniformity of Procedures

Sec. 321. Adoption of uniform State laws.
Sec. 322. Improvements to full faith and credit for child support 
              orders.
Sec. 323. Administrative enforcement in interstate cases.
Sec. 324. Use of forms in interstate enforcement.
Sec. 325. State laws providing expedited procedures.

                  Subtitle D--Paternity Establishment

Sec. 331. State laws concerning paternity establishment.
Sec. 332. Outreach for voluntary paternity establishment.
Sec. 333. Cooperation by applicants for and recipients of temporary 
              family assistance.

             Subtitle E--Program Administration and Funding

Sec. 341. Performance-based incentives and penalties.
Sec. 342. Federal and State reviews and audits.
Sec. 343. Required reporting procedures.
Sec. 344. Automated data processing requirements.
Sec. 345. Technical assistance.
Sec. 346. Reports and data collection by the Secretary.

      Subtitle F--Establishment and Modification of Support Orders

Sec. 351. Simplified process for review and adjustment of child support 
              orders.
Sec. 352. Furnishing consumer reports for certain purposes relating to 
              child support.
Sec. 353. Nonliability for financial institutions providing financial 
              records to State child support enforcement agencies in 
              child support cases.

               Subtitle G--Enforcement of Support Orders

Sec. 361. Internal Revenue Service collection of arrearages.
Sec. 362. Authority to collect support from Federal employees.
Sec. 363. Enforcement of child support obligations of members of the 
              Armed Forces.
Sec. 364. Voiding of fraudulent transfers.
Sec. 365. Work requirement for persons owing past-due child support.
Sec. 366. Definition of support order.
Sec. 367. Reporting arrearages to credit bureaus.
Sec. 368. Liens.
Sec. 369. State law authorizing suspension of licenses.
Sec. 370. Denial of passports for nonpayment of child support.
Sec. 371. International child support enforcement.
Sec. 372. Financial institution data matches.
Sec. 373. Enforcement of orders against paternal or maternal 
              grandparents in cases of minor parents.
Sec. 374. Nondischargeability in bankruptcy of certain debts for the 
              support of a child.

                      Subtitle H--Medical Support

Sec. 376. Correction to ERISA definition of medical child support 
              order.
Sec. 377. Enforcement of orders for health care coverage.

     Subtitle I--Enhancing Responsibility and Opportunity for Non-
                          Residential Parents

Sec. 381. Grants to States for access and visitation programs.

                    Subtitle J--Effect of Enactment

Sec. 391. Effective dates.

      TITLE IV--RESTRICTING WELFARE AND PUBLIC BENEFITS FOR ALIENS

Sec. 400. Statements of national policy concerning welfare and 
              immigration.

              Subtitle A--Eligibility for Federal Benefits

Sec. 401. Aliens who are not qualified aliens ineligible for Federal 
              public benefits.
Sec. 402. Limited eligibility of certain qualified aliens for certain 
              Federal programs.
Sec. 403. Five-year limited eligibility of qualified aliens for Federal 
              means-tested public benefit.
Sec. 404. Notification and information reporting.

  Subtitle B--Eligibility for State and Local Public Benefits Programs

Sec. 411. Aliens who are not qualified aliens or nonimmigrants 
              ineligible for State and local public benefits.
Sec. 412. State authority to limit eligibility of qualified aliens for 
              State public benefits.

      Subtitle C--Attribution of Income and Affidavits of Support

Sec. 421. Federal attribution of sponsor's income and resources to 
              alien for purposes of medicaid eligibility.
Sec. 422. Authority for States to provide for attribution of sponsor's 
              income and resources to the alien with respect to State 
              programs.
Sec. 423. Requirements for sponsor's affidavit of support.
Sec. 424. Cosignature of alien student loans.

                     Subtitle D--General Provisions

Sec. 431. Definitions.
Sec. 432. Verification of eligibility for Federal public benefits.
Sec. 433. Statutory construction.
Sec. 434. Communication between State and local government agencies and 
              the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Sec. 435. Qualifying quarters.
Sec. 436. Title inapplicable to programs specified by Attorney General.
Sec. 437. Title inapplicable to programs of nonprofit charitable 
              organizations.

                   Subtitle E--Conforming Amendments

Sec. 441. Conforming amendments relating to assisted housing.

          TITLE V--REDUCTIONS IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT POSITIONS

Sec. 501. Reductions.
Sec. 502. Reductions in Federal bureaucracy.
Sec. 503. Reducing personnel in Washington, D.C. area.

                   TITLE VI--REFORM OF PUBLIC HOUSING

Sec. 601. Failure to comply with other welfare and public assistance 
              programs.
Sec. 602. Fraud under means-tested welfare and public assistance 
              programs.
Sec. 603. Annual adjustment factors for operating costs only; restraint 
              on rent increases.
Sec. 604. Effective date.

                         TITLE VII--CHILD CARE

Sec. 701. Short title and references.
Sec. 702. Goals.
Sec. 703. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 704. Lead agency.
Sec. 705. Application and plan.
Sec. 706. Limitation on State allotments.
Sec. 707. Activities to improve the quality of child care.
Sec. 708. Repeal of early childhood development and before- and after-
              school care requirement.
Sec. 709. Administration and enforcement.
Sec. 710. Payments.
Sec. 711. Annual report and audits.
Sec. 712. Report by the Secretary.
Sec. 713. Allotments.
Sec. 714. Definitions.
Sec. 715. Repeals.

                  TITLE VIII--CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS

                 Subtitle A--National School Lunch Act

Sec. 801. Value of food assistance.
Sec. 802. Commodity assistance.
Sec. 803. State disbursement to schools.
Sec. 804. Nutritional and other program requirements.
Sec. 805. Free and reduced price policy statement.

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Sec. 806. Special assistance.
Sec. 807. Miscellaneous provisions and definitions.
Sec. 808. Summer food service program for children.
Sec. 809. Commodity distribution.
Sec. 810. Child care food program.
Sec. 811. Pilot projects.
Sec. 812. Reduction of paperwork.
Sec. 813. Information on income eligibility.
Sec. 814. Nutrition guidance for child nutrition programs.
Sec. 815. Information clearinghouse.

                Subtitle B--Child Nutrition Act of 1966

Sec. 821. Special milk program.
Sec. 822. Reimbursement rates for free and reduced price breakfasts.
Sec. 823. Free and reduced price policy statement.
Sec. 824. School breakfast program authorization.
Sec. 825. State administrative expenses.
Sec. 826. Regulations.
Sec. 827. Prohibitions.
Sec. 828. Miscellaneous provisions and definitions.
Sec. 829. Accounts and records.
Sec. 830. Special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, 
              and children.
Sec. 831. Cash grants for nutrition education.
Sec. 832. Nutrition education and training.
Sec. 833. Breastfeeding promotion program.

               TITLE IX--FOOD STAMP AND RELATED PROGRAMS

Sec. 901. Definition of certification period.
Sec. 902. Expanded definition of ``coupon''.
Sec. 903. Treatment of children living at home.
Sec. 904. Adjustment of thrifty food plan.
Sec. 905. Definition of homeless individual.
Sec. 906. Income Exclusions.
Sec. 907. Deductions from income.
Sec. 908. Vehicle allowance.
Sec. 909. Vendor payments for transitional housing counted as income.
Sec. 910. Increased penalties for violating food stamp program 
              requirements.
Sec. 911. Disqualification of convicted individuals.
Sec. 912. Disqualification.
Sec. 913. Caretaker exemption.
Sec. 914. Employment and training.
Sec. 915. Comparable treatment for disqualification.
Sec. 916. Disqualification for receipt of multiple food stamp benefits.
Sec. 917. Disqualification of fleeing felons.
Sec. 918. Cooperation with child support agencies.
Sec. 919. Disqualification relating to child support arrears.
Sec. 920. Work requirement for able-bodied recipients.
Sec. 921. Encourage electronic benefit transfer systems.
Sec. 922. Value of minimum allotment.
Sec. 923. Benefits on recertification.
Sec. 924. Optional combined allotment for expedited households.
Sec. 925. Failure to comply with other means-tested public assistance 
              programs.
Sec. 926. Allotments for households residing in centers.
Sec. 927. Authority to establish authorization periods.
Sec. 928. Specific period for prohibiting participation of stores based 
              on lack of business integrity.
Sec. 929. Information for verifying eligibility for authorization.
Sec. 930. Waiting period for stores that initially fail to meet 
              authorization criteria.
Sec. 931. Operation of food stamp offices.
Sec. 932. Mandatory claims collection methods.
Sec. 933. Exchange of law enforcement information.
Sec. 934. Expedited coupon service.
Sec. 935.  Withdrawing fair hearing requests.
Sec. 936. Income, eligibility, and immigration status verification 
              systems.
Sec. 937. Bases for suspensions and disqualifications.
Sec. 938. Authority to suspend stores violating program requirements 
              pending administrative and judicial review.
Sec. 939. Disqualification of retailers who are disqualified from the 
              WIC program.
Sec. 940. Permanent debarment of retailers who intentionally submit 
              falsified applications.
Sec. 941. Expanded civil and criminal forfeiture for violations of the 
              food stamp act.
Sec. 942. Expanded authority for sharing information provided by 
              retailers.
Sec. 943. Limitation of Federal match.
Sec. 944. Collection of overissuances.
Sec. 945. Standards for administration.
Sec. 946. Response to waivers.
Sec. 947. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 948. Authorize States to operate simplified food stamp programs.
Sec. 949. Emergency food assistance program.
Sec. 950. Food bank demonstration project.
Sec. 951. Report on entitlement commodity processing.

                         TITLE X--MISCELLANEOUS

                     Subtitle A--General Provisions

Sec. 1001. Expenditure of Federal funds in accordance with laws and 
              procedures applicable to expenditure of State funds.
Sec. 1002. Elimination of housing assistance with respect to fugitive 
              felons and probation and parole violators.
Sec. 1003. Sense of the Senate regarding enterprise zones.
Sec. 1004. Sense of the Senate regarding the inability of the non-
              custodial parent to pay child support.
Sec. 1005. Food stamp eligibility.
Sec. 1006. Establishing national goals to prevent teenage pregnancies.
Sec. 1007. Sense of the Senate regarding enforcement of statutory rape 
              laws.
Sec. 1008. Sanctioning for testing positive for controlled substances.
Sec. 1009. Abstinence education.
Sec. 1010. Provisions to encourage electronic benefit transfer systems.
Sec. 1011. Reduction in block grants to States for social services.
Sec. 1012. Efficient use of Federal transportation funds.
Sec. 1013. Enhanced Federal match for child welfare automation 
              expenses.

                  Subtitle B--Earned Income Tax Credit

Sec. 1021. Earned income credit and other tax benefits denied to 
              individuals failing to provide taxpayer identification 
              numbers.
Sec. 1022. Rules relating to denial of earned income credit on basis of 
              disqualified income.
Sec. 1023. Modification of adjusted gross income definition for earned 
              income credit.
Sec. 1024. Notice of availability required to be provided to applicants 
              and former recipients of AFDC, food stamps, and medicaid.
Sec. 1025. Notice of availability of earned income tax credit and 
              dependent care tax credit to be included on W-4 form.
Sec. 1026. Advance payment of earned income tax credit through State 
              demonstration programs.
   TITLE I--BLOCK GRANTS FOR TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES

     SEC. 101. FINDINGS.

       The Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Marriage is the foundation of a successful society.
       (2) Marriage is an essential institution of a successful 
     society which promotes the interests of children.
       (3) Promotion of responsible fatherhood and motherhood is 
     integral to successful child rearing and the well-being of 
     children.
       (4) In 1992, only 54 percent of single-parent families with 
     children had a child support order established and, of that 
     54 percent, only about one-half received the full amount due. 
     Of the cases enforced through the public child support 
     enforcement system, only 18 percent of the caseload has a 
     collection.
       (5) The number of individuals receiving aid to families 
     with dependent children (in this section referred to as 
     ``AFDC'') has more than tripled since 1965. More than two-
     thirds of these recipients are children. Eighty-nine percent 
     of children receiving AFDC benefits now live in homes in 
     which no father is present.
       (A)(i) The average monthly number of children receiving 
     AFDC benefits--
       (I) was 3,300,000 in 1965;
       (II) was 6,200,000 in 1970;
       (III) was 7,400,000 in 1980; and
       (IV) was 9,300,000 in 1992.
       (ii) While the number of children receiving AFDC benefits 
     increased nearly threefold between 1965 and 1992, the total 
     number of children in the United States aged 0 to 18 has 
     declined by 5.5 percent.
       (B) The Department of Health and Human Services has 
     estimated that 12,000,000 children will receive AFDC benefits 
     within 10 years.
       (C) The increase in the number of children receiving public 
     assistance is closely related to the increase in births to 
     unmarried women. Between 1970 and 1991, the percentage of 
     live births to unmarried women increased nearly threefold, 
     from 10.7 percent to 29.5 percent.
       (6) The increase of out-of-wedlock pregnancies and births 
     is well documented as follows:
       (A) It is estimated that the rate of nonmarital teen 
     pregnancy rose 23 percent from 54 pregnancies per 1,000 
     unmarried teenagers in 1976 to 66.7 pregnancies in 1991. The 
     overall rate of nonmarital pregnancy rose 14 percent from 
     90.8 pregnancies per 1,000 unmarried women in 1980 to 103 in 
     both 1991 and 1992. In contrast, the overall pregnancy rate 
     for married couples decreased 7.3 percent between 1980 and 
     1991, from 126.9 pregnancies per 1,000 married women in 
     1980 to 117.6 pregnancies in 1991.
       (B) The total of all out-of-wedlock births between 1970 and 
     1991 has risen from 10.7 percent to 29.5 percent and if the 
     current trend continues, 50 percent of all births by the year 
     2015 will be out-of-wedlock.
       (7) The negative consequences of an out-of-wedlock birth on 
     the mother, the child, the family, and society are well 
     documented as follows:
       (A) Young women 17 and under who give birth outside of 
     marriage are more likely to go on public assistance and to 
     spend more years on welfare once enrolled. These combined 
     effects of ``younger and longer'' increase total AFDC costs 
     per household by 25 percent to 30 percent for 17-year olds.

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       (B) Children born out-of-wedlock have a substantially 
     higher risk of being born at a very low or moderately low 
     birth weight.
       (C) Children born out-of-wedlock are more likely to 
     experience low verbal cognitive attainment, as well as more 
     child abuse, and neglect.
       (D) Children born out-of-wedlock were more likely to have 
     lower cognitive scores, lower educational aspirations, and a 
     greater likelihood of becoming teenage parents themselves.
       (E) Being born out-of-wedlock significantly reduces the 
     chances of the child growing up to have an intact marriage.
       (F) Children born out-of-wedlock are 3 times more likely to 
     be on welfare when they grow up.
       (8) Currently 35 percent of children in single-parent homes 
     were born out-of-wedlock, nearly the same percentage as that 
     of children in single-parent homes whose parents are divorced 
     (37 percent). While many parents find themselves, through 
     divorce or tragic circumstances beyond their control, facing 
     the difficult task of raising children alone, nevertheless, 
     the negative consequences of raising children in single-
     parent homes are well documented as follows:
       (A) Only 9 percent of married-couple families with children 
     under 18 years of age have income below the national poverty 
     level. In contrast, 46 percent of female-headed households 
     with children under 18 years of age are below the national 
     poverty level.
       (B) Among single-parent families, nearly \1/2\ of the 
     mothers who never married received AFDC while only \1/5\ of 
     divorced mothers received AFDC.
       (C) Children born into families receiving welfare 
     assistance are 3 times more likely to be on welfare when they 
     reach adulthood than children not born into families 
     receiving welfare.
       (D) Mothers under 20 years of age are at the greatest risk 
     of bearing low-birth-weight babies.
       (E) The younger the single parent mother, the less likely 
     she is to finish high school.
       (F) Young women who have children before finishing high 
     school are more likely to receive welfare assistance for a 
     longer period of time.
       (G) Between 1985 and 1990, the public cost of births to 
     teenage mothers under the aid to families with dependent 
     children program, the food stamp program, and the medicaid 
     program has been estimated at $120,000,000,000.
       (H) The absence of a father in the life of a child has a 
     negative effect on school performance and peer adjustment.
       (I) Children of teenage single parents have lower cognitive 
     scores, lower educational aspirations, and a greater 
     likelihood of becoming teenage parents themselves.
       (J) Children of single-parent homes are 3 times more likely 
     to fail and repeat a year in grade school than are children 
     from intact 2-parent families.
       (K) Children from single-parent homes are almost 4 times 
     more likely to be expelled or suspended from school.
       (L) Neighborhoods with larger percentages of youth aged 12 
     through 20 and areas with higher percentages of single-parent 
     households have higher rates of violent crime.
       (M) Of those youth held for criminal offenses within the 
     State juvenile justice system, only 29.8 percent lived 
     primarily in a home with both parents. In contrast to these 
     incarcerated youth, 73.9 percent of the 62,800,000 children 
     in the Nation's resident population were living with both 
     parents.
       (9) Therefore, in light of this demonstration of the crisis 
     in our Nation, it is the sense of the Congress that 
     prevention of out-of-wedlock pregnancy and reduction in out-
     of-wedlock birth are very important Government interests and 
     the policy contained in part A of title IV of the Social 
     Security Act (as amended by section 103 of this Act) is 
     intended to address the crisis.

     SEC. 102. REFERENCE TO SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.

       Except as otherwise specifically provided, wherever in this 
     title an amendment is expressed in terms of an amendment to 
     or repeal of a section or other provision, the reference 
     shall be considered to be made to that section or other 
     provision of the Social Security Act.

     SEC. 103. BLOCK GRANTS TO STATES.

       Part A of title IV (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) is amended to 
     read as follows:

  ``PART A--BLOCK GRANTS TO STATES FOR TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY 
                                FAMILIES

     ``SEC. 401. PURPOSE.

       ``(a) In General.--The purpose of this part is to increase 
     the flexibility of States in operating a program designed 
     to--
       ``(1) provide assistance to needy families so that children 
     may be cared for in their own homes or in the homes of 
     relatives;
       ``(2) end the dependence of needy parents on government 
     benefits by promoting job preparation, work, and marriage;
       ``(3) prevent and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock 
     pregnancies and establish annual numerical goals for 
     preventing and reducing the incidence of these pregnancies; 
     and
       ``(4) encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent 
     families.
       ``(b) No Individual Entitlement.--This part shall not be 
     interpreted to entitle any individual or family to assistance 
     under any State program funded under this part.

     ``SEC. 402. ELIGIBLE STATES; STATE PLAN.

       ``(a) In General.--As used in this part, the term `eligible 
     State' means, with respect to a fiscal year, a State that, 
     during the 2-year period immediately preceding the fiscal 
     year, has submitted to the Secretary a plan that meets the 
     requirements of subsection (b) and has been approved by the 
     Secretary with respect to the fiscal year.
       ``(b) Contents of State Plans.--A plan meets the 
     requirements of this subsection if the plan includes the 
     following:
       ``(1) Outline of family assistance program.--
       ``(A) General provisions.--A written document that outlines 
     how the State will do the following:
       ``(i) Conduct a program, designed to serve all political 
     subdivisions in the State, that provides assistance to needy 
     families with (or expecting) children and provides parents 
     with job preparation, work, and support services to enable 
     them to leave the program and become self-sufficient.
       ``(ii) Determine, on an objective and equitable basis, the 
     needs of and the amount of assistance to be provided to needy 
     families, and treat families of similar needs and 
     circumstances similarly, subject to subparagraph (B).
       ``(iii) Require a parent or caretaker receiving assistance 
     under the program to engage in work (as defined by the State) 
     once the State determines the parent or caretaker is ready to 
     engage in work, or once the parent or caretaker has received 
     assistance under the program for 24 months (whether or not 
     consecutive), whichever is earlier.
       ``(iv) Ensure that parents and caretakers receiving 
     assistance under the program engage in work activities in 
     accordance with section 407.
       ``(v) Grant an opportunity for a fair hearing before the 
     State agency to any individual to whom assistance under the 
     program is denied, reduced, or terminated, or whose request 
     for such assistance is not acted on with reasonable 
     promptness.
       ``(vi) Take such reasonable steps as the State deems 
     necessary to restrict the use and disclosure of information 
     about individuals and families receiving assistance under the 
     program attributable to funds provided by the Federal 
     Government.
       ``(vii) Establish goals and take action to prevent and 
     reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, with 
     special emphasis on teenage pregnancies, and establish 
     numerical goals for reducing the illegitimacy ratio of the 
     State (as defined in section 403(a)(2)(B)) for calendar years 
     1996 through 2005.
       ``(B) Special provisions.--
       ``(i) The plan shall indicate whether the State intends to 
     treat families moving into the State from another State 
     differently than other families under the program, and if so, 
     how the State intends to treat such families under the 
     program.
       ``(ii) The plan shall indicate whether the State intends to 
     provide assistance under the program to individuals who are 
     not citizens of the United States, and if so, shall include 
     an overview of such assistance.
       ``(iii) The plan shall contain an estimate of the number of 
     individuals (if any) who will become ineligible for medical 
     assistance under the State plan approved under title XIX as a 
     result of changes in the rules governing eligibility for the 
     State program funded under this part, and shall indicate the 
     extent (if any) to which the State will provide medical 
     assistance to such individuals, and the scope of such medical 
     assistance.
       ``(2) Certification that the state will operate a child 
     support enforcement program.--The plan shall include a 
     certification by the chief executive officer of the State 
     that, during the fiscal year, the State will operate a child 
     support enforcement program under the State plan approved 
     under part D.
       ``(3) Certification that the state will not operate a 
     separate financial support program with state funds targeted 
     at certain child support recipients.--The plan shall include 
     a certification by the chief executive officer of the State 
     that, during the fiscal year, the State will not operate a 
     separate financial support program with State funds targeted 
     at child support recipients who would be eligible for 
     assistance under the program funded under this part were it 
     not for payments from the State-funded financial assistance 
     program.
       ``(4) Certification that the state will operate a child 
     protection program.--The plan shall include a certification 
     by the chief executive officer of the State that, during the 
     fiscal year, the State will operate a child protection 
     program under the State plan approved under part B.
       ``(5) Certification of the administration of the program.--
     The plan shall include a certification by the chief executive 
     officer of the State specifying which State agency or 
     agencies will administer and supervise the program referred 
     to in paragraph (1) for the fiscal year, which shall 
     include assurances that local governments and private 
     sector organizations--
       ``(A) have been working jointly with the State in all 
     phases of the plan and design of welfare services in the 
     State so that services are provided in a manner appropriate 
     to local populations;
       ``(B) have had at least 60 days to submit comments on the 
     final plan and the design of such services; and
       ``(C) will not have unfunded mandates imposed on them under 
     such plan.

     Such certification shall also include assurance that when 
     local elected officials are currently responsible for the 
     administration

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     of welfare services, the local elected officials will be able 
     to plan, design, and administer for their jurisdictions the 
     programs established pursuant to this Act.
       ``(6) Certification that the state will provide indians 
     with equitable access to assistance.--The plan shall include 
     a certification by the chief executive officer of the State 
     that, during the fiscal year, the State will provide each 
     Indian who is a member of an Indian tribe in the State that 
     does not have a tribal family assistance plan approved under 
     section 412 with equitable access to assistance under the 
     State program funded under this part attributable to funds 
     provided by the Federal Government.
       ``(7) Certification of nondisplacement and nonreplacement 
     of employees.--The plan shall include a certification that 
     the implementation of the plan will not result in--
       ``(A) the displacement of a currently employed worker or 
     position by an individual to whom assistance is provided 
     under the State program funded under this part;
       ``(B) the replacement of an employee who has been 
     terminated with an individual to whom assistance is provided 
     under the State program funded under this part; or
       ``(C) the replacement of an employee who is on layoff from 
     the same position filled by an individual to whom assistance 
     is provided under the State program funded under this part or 
     any equivalent position.
       ``(c) Approval of State Plans.--The Secretary shall approve 
     any State plan that meets the requirements of subsection (b) 
     if the Secretary determines that operating a State program 
     pursuant to the plan will contribute to achieving the 
     purposes of this part.
       ``(d) Public Availability of State Plan Summary.--The State 
     shall make available to the public a summary of any plan 
     submitted by the State under this section.

     ``SEC. 403. GRANTS TO STATES.

       ``(a) Grants.--
       ``(1) Family assistance grant.--
       ``(A) In general.--Each eligible State shall be entitled to 
     receive from the Secretary, for each of fiscal years 1996, 
     1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001 a grant in an amount equal 
     to the State family assistance grant.
       ``(B) State family assistance grant defined.--As used in 
     this part, the term `State family assistance grant' means the 
     greatest of--
       ``(i) \1/3\ of the total amount required to be paid to the 
     State under former section 403 (as in effect on September 30, 
     1995) for fiscal years 1992, 1993, and 1994 (other than with 
     respect to amounts expended by the State for child care under 
     subsection (g) or (i) of former section 402 (as so in 
     effect));
       ``(ii)(I) the total amount required to be paid to the State 
     under former section 403 for fiscal year 1994 (other than 
     with respect to amounts expended by the State for child care 
     under subsection (g) or (i) of former section 402 (as so in 
     effect)); plus
       ``(II) an amount equal to 85 percent of the amount (if any) 
     by which the total amount required to be paid to the State 
     under former section 403(a)(5) for emergency assistance for 
     fiscal year 1995 exceeds the total amount required to be paid 
     to the State under former section 403(a)(5) for fiscal year 
     1994, if, during fiscal year 1994, the Secretary approved 
     under former section 402 an amendment to the former State 
     plan with respect to the provision of emergency assistance in 
     the context of family preservation; or
       ``(iii) the amount required to be paid to the State under 
     former section 403 (as in effect on September 30, 1995) for 
     fiscal year 1995 (other than with respect to amounts expended 
     by the State under the State plan approved under part F (as 
     so in effect) or for child care under subsection (g) or (i) 
     of former section 402 (as so in effect)), plus the total 
     amount required to be paid to the State for fiscal year 1995 
     under former section 403(l) (as so in effect).
       ``(C) Total amount required to be paid to the state under 
     former section 403 defined.--As used in this part, the term 
     `total amount required to be paid to the State under former 
     section 403' means, with respect to a fiscal year--
       ``(i) in the case of a State to which section 1108 does not 
     apply, the sum of--

       ``(I) the Federal share of maintenance assistance 
     expenditures for the fiscal year, before reduction pursuant 
     to subparagraph (B) or (C) of section 403(b)(2) (as in effect 
     on September 30, 1995), as reported by the State on ACF Form 
     231;
       ``(II) the Federal share of administrative expenditures 
     (including administrative expenditures for the development of 
     management information systems) for the fiscal year, as 
     reported by the State on ACF Form 231;
       ``(III) the Federal share of emergency assistance 
     expenditures for the fiscal year, as reported by the State on 
     ACF Form 231;
       ``(IV) the Federal share of expenditures for the fiscal 
     year with respect to child care pursuant to subsections (g) 
     and (i) of former section 402 (as in effect on September 30, 
     1995), as reported by the State on ACF Form 231; and
       ``(V) the aggregate amount required to be paid to the State 
     for the fiscal year with respect to the State program 
     operated under part F (as in effect on September 30, 1995), 
     as determined by the Secretary, including additional 
     obligations or reductions in obligations made after the close 
     of the fiscal year; and

       ``(ii) in the case of a State to which section 1108 
     applies, the lesser of--

       ``(I) the sum described in clause (i); or
       ``(II) the total amount certified by the Secretary under 
     former section 403 (as in effect during the fiscal year) with 
     respect to the territory.

       ``(D) Information to be used in determining amounts.--
       ``(i) For fiscal years 1992 and 1993.--

       ``(I) In determining the amount described in subclauses (I) 
     through (IV) of subparagraph (C)(i) for any State for each of 
     fiscal years 1992 and 1993, the Secretary shall use 
     information available as of April 28, 1995.
       ``(II) In determining the amount described in subparagraph 
     (C)(i)(V) for any State for each of fiscal years 1992 and 
     1993, the Secretary shall use information available as of 
     January 6, 1995.
       ``(ii) For fiscal year 1994.--In determining the amounts 
     described in subparagraph (C)(i) for any State for fiscal 
     year 1994, the Secretary shall use information available as 
     of April 28, 1995.
       ``(iii) For fiscal year 1995.--

       ``(I) In determining the amount described in subparagraph 
     (B)(ii)(II) for any State for fiscal year 1995, the Secretary 
     shall use the information which was reported by the States 
     and estimates made by the States with respect to emergency 
     assistance expenditures and was available as of August 11, 
     1995.
       ``(II) In determining the amounts described in subclauses 
     (I) through (IV) of subparagraph (C)(i) for any State for 
     fiscal year 1995, the Secretary shall use information 
     available as of October 2, 1995.
       ``(III) In determining the amount described in subparagraph 
     (C)(i)(V) for any State for fiscal year 1995, the Secretary 
     shall use information available as of October 5, 1995.

       ``(E) Appropriation.--Out of any money in the Treasury of 
     the United States not otherwise appropriated, there are 
     appropriated for fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 
     and 2001 such sums as are necessary for grants under this 
     paragraph.
       ``(2) Grant to reward states that reduce out-of-wedlock 
     births.--
       ``(A) In general.--In addition to any grant under paragraph 
     (1), each eligible State shall be entitled to receive from 
     the Secretary for fiscal year 1998 or any succeeding fiscal 
     year, a grant in an amount equal to the State family 
     assistance grant multiplied by--
       ``(i) 5 percent if--

       ``(I) the illegitimacy ratio of the State for the fiscal 
     year is at least 1 percentage point lower than the 
     illegitimacy ratio of the State for fiscal year 1995; and
       ``(II) the rate of induced pregnancy terminations in the 
     State for the fiscal year is less than the rate of induced 
     pregnancy terminations in the State for fiscal year 1995; or

       ``(ii) 10 percent if--

       ``(I) the illegitimacy ratio of the State for the fiscal 
     year is at least 2 percentage points lower than the 
     illegitimacy ratio of the State for fiscal year 1995; and
       ``(II) the rate of induced pregnancy terminations in the 
     State for the fiscal year is less than the rate of induced 
     pregnancy terminations in the State for fiscal year 1995.

       ``(B) Illegitimacy ratio.--As used in this paragraph, the 
     term `illegitimacy ratio' means, with respect to a State and 
     a fiscal year--
       ``(i) the number of out-of-wedlock births that occurred in 
     the State during the most recent fiscal year for which such 
     information is available; divided by
       ``(ii) the number of births that occurred in the State 
     during the most recent fiscal year for which such information 
     is available.
       ``(C) Disregard of changes in data due to changed reporting 
     methods.--For purposes of subparagraph (A), the Secretary 
     shall disregard--
       ``(i) any difference between the illegitimacy ratio of a 
     State for a fiscal year and the illegitimacy ratio of the 
     State for fiscal year 1995 which is attributable to a change 
     in State methods of reporting data used to calculate the 
     illegitimacy ratio; and
       ``(ii) any difference between the rate of induced pregnancy 
     terminations in a State for a fiscal year and such rate for 
     fiscal year 1995 which is attributable to a change in State 
     methods of reporting data used to calculate such rate.
       ``(D) Appropriation.--Out of any money in the Treasury of 
     the United States not otherwise appropriated, there are 
     appropriated for fiscal year 1998 and for each succeeding 
     fiscal year such sums as are necessary for grants under this 
     paragraph.
       ``(3) Supplemental grant for population increases in 
     certain states.--
       ``(A) In general.--Each qualifying State shall, subject to 
     subparagraph (F), be entitled to receive from the Secretary--
       ``(i) for fiscal year 1997 a grant in an amount equal to 
     2.5 percent of the total amount required to be paid to the 
     State under former section 403 (as in effect during fiscal 
     year 1994) for fiscal year 1994; and
       ``(ii) for each of fiscal years 1998, 1999, and 2000, a 
     grant in an amount equal to the sum of--

       ``(I) the amount (if any) required to be paid to the State 
     under this paragraph for the immediately preceding fiscal 
     year; and
       ``(II) 2.5 percent of the sum of--

       ``(aa) the total amount required to be paid to the State 
     under former section 403 (as in effect during fiscal year 
     1994) for fiscal year 1994; and
       ``(bb) the amount (if any) required to be paid to the State 
     under this paragraph for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal 
     year for which the grant is to be made.

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       ``(B) Preservation of grant without increases for states 
     failing to remain qualifying states.--Each State that is not 
     a qualifying State for a fiscal year specified in 
     subparagraph (A)(ii) but was a qualifying State for a prior 
     fiscal year shall, subject to subparagraph (F), be entitled 
     to receive from the Secretary for the specified fiscal year, 
     a grant in an amount equal to the amount required to be paid 
     to the State under this paragraph for the most recent fiscal 
     year for which the State was a qualifying State.
       ``(C) Qualifying state.--
       ``(i) In general.--For purposes of this paragraph, a State 
     is a qualifying State for a fiscal year if--

       ``(I) the level of welfare spending per poor person by the 
     State for the immediately preceding fiscal year is less than 
     the national average level of State welfare spending per poor 
     person for such preceding fiscal year; and
       ``(II) the population growth rate of the State (as 
     determined by the Bureau of the Census for the most recent 
     fiscal year for which information is available) exceeds the 
     average population growth rate for all States (as so 
     determined) for such most recent fiscal year.

       ``(ii) State must qualify in fiscal year 1997.--
     Notwithstanding clause (i), a State shall not be a qualifying 
     State for any fiscal year after 1997 by reason of clause (i) 
     if the State is not a qualifying State for fiscal year 1997 
     by reason of clause (i).
       ``(iii) Certain states deemed qualifying states.--For 
     purposes of this paragraph, a State is deemed to be a 
     qualifying State for fiscal years 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000 
     if--

       ``(I) the level of welfare spending per poor person by the 
     State for fiscal year 1996 is less than 35 percent of the 
     national average level of State welfare spending per poor 
     person for fiscal year 1996; or

       ``(II) the population of the State increased by more than 
     10 percent from April 1, 1990, to July 1, 1994, as determined 
     by the Bureau of the Census.

       ``(D) Definitions.--As used in this paragraph:
       ``(i) Level of welfare spending per poor person.--The term 
     `level of State welfare spending per poor person' means, with 
     respect to a State and a fiscal year--

       ``(I) the sum of--

       ``(aa) the total amount required to be paid to the State 
     under former section 403 (as in effect during fiscal year 
     1994) for fiscal year 1994; and
       ``(bb) the amount (if any) paid to the State under this 
     paragraph for the immediately preceding fiscal year; divided 
     by

       ``(II) the number of individuals, according to the 1990 
     decennial census, who were residents of the State and whose 
     income was below the poverty line.

       ``(ii) National average level of state welfare spending per 
     poor person.--The term `national average level of State 
     welfare spending per poor person' means, with respect to a 
     fiscal year, an amount equal to--

       ``(I) the total amount required to be paid to the States 
     under former section 403 (as in effect during fiscal year 
     1994) for fiscal year 1994; divided by
       ``(II) the number of individuals, according to the 1990 
     decennial census, who were residents of any State and whose 
     income was below the poverty line.

       ``(iii) State.--The term `State' means each of the 50 
     States of the United States and the District of Columbia.
       ``(E) Appropriation.--Out of any money in the Treasury of 
     the United States not otherwise appropriated, there are 
     appropriated for fiscal years 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000 such 
     sums as are necessary for grants under this paragraph, in a 
     total amount not to exceed $800,000,000.
       ``(F) Grants reduced pro rata if insufficient 
     appropriations.--If the amount appropriated pursuant to this 
     paragraph for a fiscal year is less than the total amount of 
     payments otherwise required to be made under this paragraph 
     for the fiscal year, then the amount otherwise payable to any 
     State for the fiscal year under this paragraph shall be 
     reduced by a percentage equal to the amount so appropriated 
     divided by such total amount.
       ``(G) Budget scoring.--Notwithstanding section 257(b)(2) of 
     the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
     1985, the baseline shall assume that no grant shall be made 
     under this paragraph after fiscal year 2000.
       ``(4) Supplemental grant for operation of work program.--
       ``(A) Application requirements.--An eligible State may 
     submit to the Secretary an application for additional funds 
     to meet the requirements of section 407 with respect to a 
     fiscal year if the Secretary determines that--
       ``(i) the total expenditures of the State to meet such 
     requirements for the fiscal year exceed the total 
     expenditures of the State during fiscal year 1994 to carry 
     out part F (as in effect on September 30, 1994);
       ``(ii) the work programs of the State under section 407 are 
     coordinated with the job training programs established by 
     title II of the Job Training Partnership Act, or (if such 
     title is repealed by the Consolidated and Reformed 
     Education, Employment, and Rehabilitation Systems Act) the 
     Consolidated and Reformed Education, Employment, and 
     Rehabilitation Systems Act; and
       ``(iii) the State needs additional funds to meet such 
     requirements or certifies that it intends to exceed such 
     requirements.
       ``(B) Grants.--The Secretary may make a grant to any 
     eligible State which submits an application in accordance 
     with subparagraph (A) of this paragraph for a fiscal year in 
     an amount equal to the Federal medical assistance percentage 
     of the amount (if any) by which the total expenditures of the 
     State to meet or exceed the requirements of section 407 for 
     the fiscal year exceeds the total expenditures of the State 
     during fiscal year 1994 to carry out part F (as in effect on 
     September 30, 1994).
       ``(C) Regulations.--The Secretary shall issue regulations 
     providing for the equitable distribution of funds under this 
     paragraph.
       ``(D) Appropriations.--
       ``(i) In general.--Out of any money in the Treasury of the 
     United States not otherwise appropriated, there are 
     appropriated to the Secretary for grants under this 
     paragraph--

       ``(I) $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1999;
       ``(II) $850,000,000 for fiscal year 2000;
       ``(III) $900,000,000 for fiscal year 2001; and
       ``(IV) $1,100,000,000 for fiscal year 2002 and for each 
     succeeding fiscal year.

       ``(ii) Availability.--Amounts appropriated pursuant to 
     clause (i) shall remain available until expended.
       ``(b) Contingency Fund.--
       ``(1) Establishment.--There is hereby established in the 
     Treasury of the United States a fund which shall be known as 
     the `Contingency Fund for State Welfare Programs' (in this 
     section referred to as the `Fund').
       ``(2) Deposits into fund.--
       ``(A) Out of any money in the Treasury of the United States 
     not otherwise appropriated, there are appropriated for fiscal 
     years 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002 such sums as are 
     necessary for payment to the Fund in a total amount not to 
     exceed $2,000,000,000, except as provided in subparagraphs 
     (B) and (C).
       ``(B) If--
       ``(i) the average rate of total unemployment in the United 
     States for the most recent 3 months for which data for all 
     States are available is not less than 7 percent; and
       ``(ii) there are insufficient amounts in the Fund to pay 
     all State claims under paragraph (4) for a quarter in that 
     fiscal year;

     then there are appropriated for that fiscal year, in addition 
     to amounts appropriated under paragraph (2)(A), such sums as 
     equal the difference between the amount needed to pay all 
     State claims for that quarter and the amount remaining in the 
     Fund.
       ``(C) If--
       ``(i)(I)(aa) the average rate of total unemployment in a 
     State (seasonally adjusted) for the period consisting of the 
     most recent 3 months for which data for all States are 
     published is not less than 9 percent; or
       ``(bb) the average rate of total unemployment in such State 
     (seasonally adjusted) for the 3-month period is not less than 
     120 percent of such average rate for either of the prior 2 
     years; or
       ``(II) the average number of persons in the State receiving 
     assistance under the food stamp program, as defined in 
     section 3(h) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977, for the most 
     recent 3-month period for which data are available is not 
     less than 120 percent of such average monthly number for 
     fiscal year 1994 or for fiscal year 1995; and
       ``(ii) there are insufficient amounts in the Fund to pay 
     all State claims under paragraph (4) for a quarter in that 
     fiscal year; then

     there are appropriated for payment to the Fund for that 
     fiscal year, in addition to amounts appropriated pursuant to 
     paragraph (2)(A), for payments to States described in this 
     subparagraph, the amount by which payments to such States 
     under paragraph (4) would otherwise be reduced under 
     paragraph (8).
       ``(3) Payments to states.--The method of computing and 
     paying amounts to States from the Fund under this subsection 
     shall be as follows:
       ``(A) The Secretary shall, before each quarter, estimate 
     the amount to be paid to each State for the quarter from the 
     Fund, such estimate to be based on--
       ``(i) a report filed by the State containing an estimate by 
     the State of qualifying State expenditures for the quarter; 
     and
       ``(ii) such other information as the Secretary may find 
     relevant and reliable.
       ``(B) The Secretary shall then certify to the Secretary of 
     the Treasury the amount so estimated by the Secretary.
       ``(C) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon pay to 
     the State, at the time or times fixed by the Secretary, the 
     amount so certified.
       ``(4) Grants.--From amounts appropriated pursuant to 
     paragraph (2), the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to 
     each eligible State for a fiscal year an amount equal to the 
     lesser of--
       ``(A) the Federal medical assistance percentage for the 
     State for the fiscal year (as defined in section 1905(b), as 
     in effect on September 30, 1995) of the amount, if any, by 
     which the expenditures of the State in the fiscal year under 
     the State program funded under this part and expenditures on 
     cash assistance under other State programs with respect to 
     eligible families (as defined in section 
     409(a)(5)(B)(i)(III)) exceed historic State expenditures (as 
     defined in section 409(a)(5)(B)(iii)); or
       ``(B) the number of percentage points (if any) by which 40 
     percent of the State family assistance grant for the fiscal 
     year exceeds any payment to the State for the fiscal year 
     under section 403(a)(3).

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       ``(5) Annual reconciliation.--At the end of each fiscal 
     year, each State shall remit to the Secretary an amount equal 
     to the amount (if any) by which the total amount paid to the 
     State under paragraph (4) during the fiscal year exceeds the 
     lesser of--
       ``(A) the Federal medical assistance percentage for the 
     State for the fiscal year (as defined in section 1905(b), as 
     in effect on September 30, 1995) of the amount (if any) by 
     which the expenditures of the State in the fiscal year under 
     the State program funded under this part and expenditures on 
     cash assistance under other State programs with respect to 
     eligible families (as defined in section 
     409(a)(5)(B)(i)(III)) exceed historic State expenditures (as 
     defined in section 409(a)(5)(B)(iii)); or
       ``(B) the amount (if any) by which 40 percent of the State 
     family assistance grant for the fiscal year exceeds any 
     payment to the State for the fiscal year under section 
     403(a)(3).
       ``(6) Eligible state.--For purposes of this subsection, a 
     State is an eligible State for a fiscal year, if--
       ``(A)(i) the average rate of total unemployment in such 
     State (seasonally adjusted) for the period consisting of the 
     most recent 3 months for which data for all States are 
     published is not less than 6.5 percent; and
       ``(ii) the average rate of total unemployment in such State 
     (seasonally adjusted) for the 3-month period is not less than 
     110 percent of such average rate for either 1994 or 1995; 
     or
       ``(B)(i) the average number of persons in the State 
     receiving assistance under the food stamp program, as defined 
     in section 3(h) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977, for the most 
     recent 3-month period for which data are available is not 
     less than 110 percent of the product of--
       ``(I) such average monthly number for either fiscal year 
     1994 or fiscal year 1995; and
       ``(II) the number of percentage points (if any) by which 
     100 percent exceeds the percentage by which the Bipartisan 
     Welfare Reform Act of 1996, had it been in effect, would have 
     reduced such average monthly number in such State in such 
     fiscal year, as most recently estimated by the Secretary of 
     Agriculture before the date of the enactment of such Act; and
       ``(ii) the State is not participating in the program 
     established under section 23(b) of the Food Stamp Act of 
     1977.
       ``(7) State.--As used in this subsection, the term `State' 
     means each of the 50 States of the United States and the 
     District of Columbia.
       ``(8) Payment priority.--Claims by States for payment from 
     the Fund shall be filed quarterly. If the total amount of 
     claims for any quarter exceeds the amount available for 
     payment from the fund, claims shall be paid on a pro rata 
     basis in a manner to be determined by the Secretary, except 
     in the case of a State described in paragraph (2)(C).
       ``(9) Annual reports.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall 
     annually report to Congress on the status of the Fund.

     ``SEC. 404. USE OF GRANTS.

       ``(a) General Rules.--Subject to this part, a State to 
     which a grant is made under section 403 may use the grant--
       ``(1) in any manner that is reasonably calculated to 
     accomplish the purpose of this part, including to provide low 
     income households with assistance in meeting home heating and 
     cooling costs; or
       ``(2) in any manner that the State was authorized to use 
     amounts received under part A or F, as such parts were in 
     effect on September 30, 1995.
       ``(b) Limitation on Use of Grant for Administrative 
     Purposes.--
       ``(1) Limitation.--A State to which a grant is made under 
     section 403 shall not expend more than 15 percent of the 
     grant for administrative purposes.
       ``(2) Exception.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the use 
     of a grant for information technology and computerization 
     needed for tracking or monitoring required by or under this 
     part.
       ``(c) Authority To Treat Interstate Immigrants Under Rules 
     of Former State.--A State operating a program funded under 
     this part may apply to a family the rules (including benefit 
     amounts) of the program funded under this part of another 
     State if the family has moved to the State from the other 
     State and has resided in the State for less than 12 months.
       ``(d) Authority To Use Portion of Grant for Other 
     Purposes.--
       ``(1) In general.--A State may use not more than 20 percent 
     of the amount of the grant made to the State under section 
     403 for a fiscal year to carry out a State program pursuant 
     to the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990.
       ``(2) Applicable rules.--Any amount paid to the State under 
     this part that is used to carry out a State program pursuant 
     to the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 
     shall not be subject to the requirements of this part, but 
     shall be subject to the requirements that apply to Federal 
     funds provided directly under such Act to carry out the 
     program.
       ``(e) Authority To Reserve Certain Amounts for 
     Assistance.--A State may reserve amounts paid to the State 
     under this part for any fiscal year for the purpose of 
     providing, without fiscal year limitation, assistance under 
     the State program funded under this part.
       ``(f) Authority To Operate Employment Placement Program.--A 
     State to which a grant is made under section 403 may use the 
     grant to make payments (or provide job placement vouchers) to 
     State-approved public and private job placement agencies that 
     provide employment placement services to individuals who 
     receive assistance under the State program funded under this 
     part.
       ``(g) Implementation of Electronic Benefit Transfer 
     System.--A State to which a grant is made under section 403 
     is encouraged to implement an electronic benefit transfer 
     system for providing assistance under the State program 
     funded under this part, and may use the grant for such 
     purpose.

     ``SEC. 405. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.

       ``(a) Quarterly.--The Secretary shall pay each grant 
     payable to a State under section 403 in quarterly 
     installments.
       ``(b) Notification.--Not later than 3 months before the 
     payment of any such quarterly installment to a State, the 
     Secretary shall notify the State of the amount of any 
     reduction determined under section 412(a)(1)(B) with respect 
     to the State.
       ``(c) Computation and Certification of Payments to 
     States.--
       ``(1) Computation.--The Secretary shall estimate the amount 
     to be paid to each eligible State for each quarter under this 
     part, such estimate to be based on a report filed by the 
     State containing an estimate by the State of the total sum to 
     be expended by the State in the quarter under the State 
     program funded under this part and such other information as 
     the Secretary may find necessary.
       ``(2) Certification.--The Secretary of Health and Human 
     Services shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the 
     amount estimated under paragraph (1) with respect to a State, 
     reduced or increased to the extent of any overpayment or 
     underpayment which the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
     determines was made under this part to the State for any 
     prior quarter and with respect to which adjustment has not 
     been made under this paragraph.
       ``(d) Payment Method.--Upon receipt of a certification 
     under subsection (c)(2) with respect to a State, the 
     Secretary of the Treasury shall, through the Fiscal Service 
     of the Department of the Treasury and before audit or 
     settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the 
     State, at the time or times fixed by the Secretary of Health 
     and Human Services, the amount so certified.
       ``(e) Collection of State Overpayments to Families From 
     Federal Tax Refunds.--
       ``(1) In general.--Upon receiving notice from the Secretary 
     of Health and Human Services that a State agency 
     administering a program funded under this part has notified 
     the Secretary that a named individual has been overpaid under 
     the State program funded under this part, the Secretary of 
     the Treasury shall determine whether any amounts as refunds 
     of Federal taxes paid are payable to such individual, 
     regardless of whether the individual filed a tax return as a 
     married or unmarried individual. If the Secretary of the 
     Treasury finds that any such amount is so payable, the 
     Secretary shall withhold from such refunds an amount equal to 
     the overpayment sought to be collected by the State and pay 
     such amount to the State agency.
       ``(2) Regulations.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall 
     issue regulations, after review by the Secretary of Health 
     and Human Services, that provide--
       ``(A) that a State may only submit under paragraph (1) 
     requests for collection of overpayments with respect to 
     individuals--
       ``(i) who are no longer receiving assistance under the 
     State program funded under this part;
       ``(ii) with respect to whom the State has already taken 
     appropriate action under State law against the income or 
     resources of the individuals or families involved to collect 
     the past-due legally enforceable debt; and
       ``(iii) to whom the State agency has given notice of its 
     intent to request withholding by the Secretary of the 
     Treasury from the income tax refunds of such individuals;
       ``(B) that the Secretary of the Treasury will give a timely 
     and appropriate notice to any other person filing a joint 
     return with the individual whose refund is subject to 
     withholding under paragraph (1); and
       ``(C) the procedures that the State and the Secretary of 
     the Treasury will follow in carrying out this subsection 
     which, to the maximum extent feasible and consistent with the 
     provisions of this subsection, will be the same as those 
     issued pursuant to section 464(b) applicable to collection of 
     past-due child support.

     ``SEC. 406. FEDERAL LOANS FOR STATE WELFARE PROGRAMS.

       ``(a) Loan Authority.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall make loans to any 
     loan-eligible State, for a period to maturity of not more 
     than 3 years.
       ``(2) Loan-eligible state.--As used in paragraph (1), the 
     term `loan-eligible State' means a State against which a 
     penalty has not been imposed under section 409(e).
       ``(b) Rate of Interest.--The Secretary shall charge and 
     collect interest on any loan made under this section at a 
     rate equal to the current average market yield on outstanding 
     marketable obligations of the United States with remaining 
     periods to maturity comparable to the period to maturity of 
     the loan.
       ``(c) Use of Loan.--A State shall use a loan made to the 
     State under this section only for

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     any purpose for which grant amounts received by the State 
     under section 403(a) may be used, including--
       ``(1) welfare anti-fraud activities; and
       ``(2) the provision of assistance under the State program 
     to Indian families that have moved from the service area of 
     an Indian tribe with a tribal family assistance plan approved 
     under section 412.
       ``(d) Limitation on Total Amount of Loans to a State.--The 
     cumulative dollar amount of all loans made to a State under 
     this section during fiscal years 1997 through 2001 shall not 
     exceed 10 percent of the State family assistance grant.
       ``(e) Limitation on Total Amount of Outstanding Loans.--The 
     total dollar amount of loans outstanding under this section 
     may not exceed $1,700,000,000.
       ``(f) Appropriation.--Out of any money in the Treasury of 
     the United States not otherwise appropriated, there are 
     appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the cost of 
     loans under this section.

     ``SEC. 407. MANDATORY WORK REQUIREMENTS; INDIVIDUAL 
                   RESPONSIBILITY PLANS.

       ``(a) Participation Rate Requirements.--
       ``(1) All families.--A State to which a grant is made under 
     section 403 for a fiscal year shall achieve the minimum 
     participation rate specified in the following table for the 
     fiscal year with respect to all families receiving assistance 
     under the State program funded under this part:

                                                            The minimum
                                                          participation
      ``If the fiscal year is:                                 rate is:
        1997......................................................20   
        1998......................................................25   
        1999......................................................30   
        2000......................................................35   
        2001......................................................40   
        2002 or thereafter........................................50.  

       ``(2) 2-parent families.--A State to which a grant is made 
     under section 403 for a fiscal year shall achieve the minimum 
     participation rate specified in the following table for the 
     fiscal year with respect to 2-parent families receiving 
     assistance under the State program funded under this part:

                                                            The minimum
                                                          participation
      ``If the fiscal year is:                                 rate is:
        1997......................................................75   
        1998......................................................75   
        1999 or thereafter........................................90.  

       ``(b) Calculation of Participation Rates.--
       ``(1) All families.--
       ``(A) Average monthly rate.--For purposes of subsection 
     (a)(1), the participation rate for all families of a State 
     for a fiscal year is the average of the participation rates 
     for all families of the State for each month in the fiscal 
     year.
       ``(B) Monthly participation rates.--The participation rate 
     of a State for all families of the State for a month, 
     expressed as a percentage, is--
       ``(i) the number of families receiving assistance under the 
     State program funded under this part that include an adult 
     who is engaged in work for the month; divided by
       ``(ii) the amount by which--

       ``(I) the number of families receiving such assistance 
     during the month that include an adult receiving such 
     assistance; exceeds
       ``(II) the number of families receiving such assistance 
     that are subject in such month to a penalty described in 
     subsection (e)(1) but have not been subject to such penalty 
     for more than 3 months within the preceding 12-month period 
     (whether or not consecutive).

       ``(C) Special rule.--An individual shall be considered to 
     be engaged in work and to be an adult recipient of assistance 
     under a State program funded under this part for purposes of 
     subparagraph (B) for the first 6 months (whether or not 
     consecutive) after the first cessation of assistance to an 
     individual under the program during which the individual is 
     employed for an average of more than 25 hours per week in an 
     unsubsidized job in the private sector.
       ``(2) 2-parent families.--
       ``(A) Average monthly rate.--For purposes of subsection 
     (a)(2), the participation rate for 2-parent families of a 
     State for a fiscal year is the average of the participation 
     rates for 2-parent families of the State for each month in 
     the fiscal year.
       ``(B) Monthly participation rates.--The participation rate 
     of a State for 2-parent families of the State for a month 
     shall be calculated by use of the formula set forth in 
     paragraph (1)(B), except that in the formula the term `number 
     of 2-parent families' shall be substituted for the term 
     `number of families' each place such latter term appears.
       ``(3) Pro rata reduction of participation rate due to 
     caseload reductions not required by federal law.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall prescribe 
     regulations for reducing the minimum participation rate 
     otherwise required by this section for a fiscal year by the 
     number of percentage points equal to the number of percentage 
     points (if any) by which--
       ``(i) the number of families receiving assistance during 
     the fiscal year under the State program funded under this 
     part is less than
       ``(ii) the number of families that received aid under the 
     State plan approved under part A (as in effect on September 
     30, 1995) during fiscal year 1994 or 1995, whichever is the 
     greater.

     The minimum participation rate shall not be reduced to the 
     extent that the Secretary determines that the reduction in 
     the number of families receiving such assistance is required 
     by Federal law.
       ``(B) Eligibility changes not counted.--The regulations 
     described in subparagraph (A) shall not take into account 
     families that are diverted from a State program funded under 
     this part as a result of differences in eligibility criteria 
     under a State program funded under this part and eligibility 
     criteria under the State program operated under the State 
     plan approved under part A (as such plan and such part were 
     in effect on September 30, 1995). Such regulations shall 
     place the burden on the Secretary to prove that such families 
     were diverted as a direct result of differences in such 
     eligibility criteria.
       ``(4) State option to include individuals receiving 
     assistance under a tribal family assistance plan.--For 
     purposes of paragraphs (1)(B) and (2)(B), a State may, at its 
     option, include families receiving assistance under a tribal 
     family assistance plan approved under section 412.
       ``(5) State option for participation requirement 
     exemptions.--For any fiscal year, a State may, at its option, 
     not require an individual who is a single custodial parent 
     caring for a child who has not attained 12 months of age to 
     engage in work and may disregard such an individual in 
     determining the participation rates under subsection (a).
       ``(c) Engaged in Work.--
       ``(1) All families.--For purposes of subsection 
     (b)(1)(B)(i), a recipient is engaged in work for a month in a 
     fiscal year if the recipient is participating in such 
     activities for at least the minimum average number of hours 
     per week specified in the following table during the month, 
     not fewer than 20 hours per week of which are attributable to 
     an activity described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), 
     (7), or (8) of subsection (d) (or, if the participation of 
     the recipient in an activity described in subsection (d)(6) 
     has been taken into account for purposes of paragraph (1) or 
     (2) of subsection (b) for fewer than 4 weeks in the fiscal 
     year, an activity described in subsection (d)(6)):

                                                            The minimum
      ``If the month is                               average number of
      in fiscal year:                                hours per week is:
        1996......................................................20   
        1997......................................................20   
        1998......................................................20   
        1999 or thereafter....................................25.  

       ``(2) 2-parent families.--For purposes of subsection 
     (b)(2)(B)(i), an adult is engaged in work for a month in a 
     fiscal year if the adult is making progress in such 
     activities for at least 25 hours per week during the month, 
     not fewer than 20 hours per week of which are attributable to 
     an activity described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), 
     (7), or (8) of subsection (d) (or, if the participation of 
     the recipient in an activity described in subsection (d)(6) 
     has been taken into account for purposes of paragraph (1) or 
     (2) of subsection (b) for fewer than 8 weeks (no more than 4 
     of which may be consecutive) in the fiscal year, an activity 
     described in subsection (d)(6)).
       ``(3) Limitation on vocational education activities counted 
     as work.--For purposes of determining monthly participation 
     rates under paragraphs (1)(B)(i) and (2)(B)(i) of subsection 
     (b), not more than 20 percent of adults in all families and 
     in 2-parent families determined to be engaged in work in the 
     State for a month may meet the work activity requirement 
     through participation in vocational educational training.
       ``(4) Option to reduce number of hours of work required of 
     single parents with a child under age 6.--Notwithstanding 
     paragraph (1), a State may reduce to 20 the number of hours 
     per week during which a single custodial parent is required 
     pursuant to this section to engage in work activities if the 
     family of the parent includes an individual who has not 
     attained 6 years of age.
       ``(d) Work Activities Defined.--As used in this section, 
     the term `work activities' means--
       ``(1) unsubsidized employment;
       ``(2) subsidized private sector employment;
       ``(3) subsidized public sector employment;
       ``(4) work experience (including work associated with the 
     refurbishing of publicly assisted housing) if sufficient 
     private sector employment is not available;
       ``(5) on-the-job training;
       ``(6) job search and job readiness assistance;
       ``(7) community service programs;
       ``(8) vocational educational training (not to exceed 12 
     months with respect to any individual);
       ``(9) job skills training directly related to employment;
       ``(10) education directly related to employment, in the 
     case of a recipient who has not received a high school 
     diploma or a certificate of high school equivalency; and
       ``(11) satisfactory attendance at secondary school, in the 
     case of a recipient who--
       ``(A) has not completed secondary school; and
       ``(B) is a dependent child, or a head of household who has 
     not attained 20 years of age.
       ``(e) Penalties Against Individuals.--
       ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), if 
     an adult in a family receiving assistance under the State 
     program funded under this part refuses to engage in work 
     required in accordance with this section, the State shall--
       ``(A) reduce the amount of assistance otherwise payable to 
     the family pro rata (or

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     more, at the option of the State) with respect to any period 
     during a month in which the adult so refuses; or
       ``(B) terminate such assistance,

     subject to such good cause and other exceptions as the State 
     may establish.
       ``(2) Exception.--Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a State 
     may not reduce or terminate assistance under the State 
     program funded under this part based on a refusal of an adult 
     to work if the adult is a single custodial parent caring for 
     a child who has not attained 11 years of age, and the adult 
     proves that the adult has a demonstrated inability (as 
     determined by the State) to obtain needed child care, for 1 
     or more of the following reasons:
       ``(A) Unavailability of appropriate child care within a 
     reasonable distance from the individual's home or work site.
       ``(B) Unavailability or unsuitability of informal child 
     care by a relative or under other arrangements.
       ``(C) Unavailability of appropriate and affordable formal 
     child care arrangements.
       ``(f) Nondisplacement in Work Activities.--
       ``(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), an adult in a 
     family receiving assistance under a State program funded 
     under this part attributable to funds provided by the Federal 
     Government may fill a vacant employment position in order to 
     engage in a work activity described in subsection (d).
       ``(2) No filling of certain vacancies.--No adult in a work 
     activity described in subsection (d) which is funded, in 
     whole or in part, by funds provided by the Federal Government 
     shall be employed or assigned--
       ``(A) when any other individual is on layoff from the same 
     or any substantially equivalent job; or
       ``(B) if the employer has terminated the employment of any 
     regular employee or otherwise caused an involuntary reduction 
     of its workforce in order to fill the vacancy so created with 
     an adult described in paragraph (1).
       ``(3) No preemption.--Nothing in this subsection shall 
     preempt or supersede any provision of State or local law that 
     provides greater protection for employees from displacement.
       ``(g) Individual Responsibility Plans.--
       ``(1) Assessment.--The State agency responsible for 
     administering the State program funded under this part shall 
     make an initial assessment of the skills, prior work 
     experience, and employability of each applicant for, or 
     recipient of, assistance under the program who--
       ``(A) has attained 18 years of age; or
       ``(B) has not completed high school or obtained a 
     certificate of high school equivalency, and is not attending 
     secondary school.
       ``(2) Contents of plans.--
       ``(A) In general.--On the basis of the assessment made 
     under paragraph (1) with respect to an individual, the State 
     agency, in consultation with the individual, shall develop an 
     individual responsibility plan for the individual, which--
       ``(i) shall provide that participation by the individual in 
     job search activities shall be a condition of eligibility for 
     assistance under the State program funded under this part, 
     except during any period for which the individual is employed 
     full-time in an unsubsidized job in the private sector;
       ``(ii) sets forth an employment goal for the individual and 
     a plan for moving the individual immediately into private 
     sector employment;
       ``(iii) sets forth the obligations of the individual, which 
     may include a requirement that the individual attend school, 
     maintain certain grades and attendance, keep school age 
     children of the individual in school, immunize children, 
     attend parenting and money management classes, or do other 
     things that will help the individual become and remain 
     employed in the private sector;
       ``(iv) to the greatest extent possible shall be designed to 
     move the individual into whatever private sector employment 
     the individual is capable of handling as quickly as possible, 
     and to increase the responsibility and amount of work the 
     individual is to handle over time;
       ``(v) shall describe the services the State will provide 
     the individual so that the individual will be able to obtain 
     and keep employment in the private sector, and describe the 
     job counseling and other services that will be provided by 
     the State; and
       ``(vi) at the option of the State, may require the 
     individual to undergo appropriate substance abuse treatment.
       ``(B) Timing.--The State agency shall comply with 
     subparagraph (A) with respect to an individual--
       ``(i) within 90 days (or, at the option of the State, 180 
     days) after the effective date of this part, in the case of 
     an individual who, as of such effective date, is a recipient 
     of aid under the State plan approved under part A (as in 
     effect immediately before such effective date); or
       ``(ii) within 30 days (or, at the option of the State, 90 
     days) after the individual is determined to be eligible for 
     such assistance, in the case of any other individual.
       ``(3) Provision of program and employment information.--The 
     State shall inform all applicants for and recipients of 
     assistance under the State program funded under this part of 
     all available services under the program for which they are 
     eligible.
       ``(4) Penalty for noncompliance by individual.--The State 
     shall reduce, by such amount as the State considers 
     appropriate, the amount of assistance otherwise payable under 
     the State program funded under this part to a family that 
     includes an individual who fails without good cause to comply 
     with an individual responsibility plan signed by the 
     individual.
       ``(h) Sense of the Congress.--It is the sense of the 
     Congress that in complying with this section, each State that 
     operates a program funded under this part is encouraged to 
     assign the highest priority to requiring adults in 2-parent 
     families and adults in single-parent families that include 
     older preschool or school-age children to be engaged in work 
     activities.
       ``(i) Sense of the Congress That States Should Impose 
     Certain Requirements on Noncustodial, Nonsupporting Minor 
     Parents.--It is the sense of the Congress that the States 
     should require noncustodial, nonsupporting parents who have 
     not attained 18 years of age to fulfill community work 
     obligations and attend appropriate parenting or money 
     management classes after school.

     ``SEC. 408. PROHIBITIONS; REQUIREMENTS.

       ``(a) In General.--
       ``(1) No assistance for families without a minor child.--A 
     State to which a grant is made under section 403 shall not 
     use any part of the grant to provide assistance to a family, 
     unless the family includes--
       ``(A) a minor child who resides with a custodial parent or 
     other adult caretaker relative of the child; or
       ``(B) a pregnant individual.
       ``(2) No additional cash assistance for children born to 
     families receiving assistance.--
       ``(A) General rule.--A State to which a grant is made under 
     section 403 shall not use any part of the grant to provide 
     cash benefits for a minor child who is born to--
       ``(i) a recipient of assistance under the program operated 
     under this part; or
       ``(ii) a person who received such assistance at any time 
     during the 10-month period ending with the birth of the 
     child.
       ``(B) Exception for children born into families with no 
     other children.--Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to a minor 
     child who is born into a family that does not include any 
     other children.
       ``(C) Exception for vouchers.--Subparagraph (A) shall not 
     apply to vouchers which are provided in lieu of cash benefits 
     and which may be used only to pay for particular goods and 
     services specified by the State as suitable for the care of 
     the child involved.
       ``(D) Exception for rape or incest.--Subparagraph (A) shall 
     not apply with respect to a child who is born as a result of 
     rape or incest.
       ``(E) State election to opt out.--Subparagraph (A) shall 
     not apply to a State if State law specifically exempts the 
     State program funded under this part from the application of 
     subparagraph (A).
       ``(F) Substitution of family caps in effect under 
     waivers.--Subparagraph (A) shall not apply to a State--
       ``(i) if, as of the date of the enactment of this part, 
     there is in effect a waiver approved by the Secretary under 
     section 1115 which permits the State to deny aid under the 
     State plan approved under part A of this title (as in effect 
     without regard to the amendments made by title I of the 
     Bipartisan Welfare Reform Act of 1996) to a family by reason 
     of the birth of a child to a family member otherwise eligible 
     for such aid; and
       ``(ii) for so long as the State continues to implement such 
     policy under the State program funded under this part, under 
     rules prescribed by the State.
       ``(3) Reduction or elimination of assistance for 
     noncooperation in child support.--If the agency responsible 
     for administering the State plan approved under part D 
     determines that an individual is not cooperating with the 
     State in establishing, modifying, or enforcing a support 
     order with respect to a child of the individual, then the 
     State--
       ``(A) shall deduct from the assistance that would otherwise 
     be provided to the family of the individual under the State 
     program funded under this part the share of such assistance 
     attributable to the individual; and
       ``(B) may deny the family any assistance under the State 
     program.
       ``(4) No assistance for families not assigning certain 
     support rights to the state.--
       ``(A) In general.--A State to which a grant is made under 
     section 403 shall require, as a condition of providing 
     assistance to a family under the State program funded under 
     this part, that a member of the family assign to the State 
     any rights the family member may have (on behalf of the 
     family member or of any other person for whom the family 
     member has applied for or is receiving such assistance) to 
     support from any other person, not exceeding the total amount 
     of assistance so provided to the family, which accrue (or 
     have accrued) before the date the family leaves the program, 
     which assignment, on and after the date the family leaves the 
     program, shall not apply with respect to any support (other 
     than support collected pursuant to section 464) which accrued 
     before the family received such assistance and which the 
     State has not collected by--
       ``(i) September 30, 2000, if the assignment is executed on 
     or after October 1, 1997, and before October 1, 2000; or
       ``(ii) the date the family leaves the program, if the 
     assignment is executed on or after October 1, 2000.
       ``(B) Limitation.--A State to which a grant is made under 
     section 403 shall not require, as a condition of providing 
     assistance to any

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     family under the State program funded under this part, that a 
     member of the family assign to the State any rights to 
     support described in subparagraph (A) which accrue after the 
     date the family leaves the program, except to the extent 
     necessary to enable the State to comply with section 457.
       ``(5) No assistance for teenage parents who do not attend 
     high school or other equivalent training program.--A State to 
     which a grant is made under section 403 shall not use any 
     part of the grant to provide assistance to an individual who 
     has not attained 18 years of age, is not married, has a minor 
     child at least 12 weeks of age in his or her care, and has 
     not successfully completed a high-school education (or its 
     equivalent), if the individual does not participate in--
       ``(A) educational activities directed toward the attainment 
     of a high school diploma or its equivalent; or
       ``(B) an alternative educational or training program that 
     has been approved by the State.
       ``(6) No assistance for teenage parents not living in 
     adult-supervised settings.--
       ``(A) In general.--
       ``(i) Requirement.--Except as provided in subparagraph (B), 
     a State to which a grant is made under section 403 shall not 
     use any part of the grant to provide assistance to an 
     individual described in clause (ii) of this subparagraph if 
     the individual and the minor child referred to in clause 
     (ii)(II) do not reside in a place of residence maintained by 
     a parent, legal guardian, or other adult relative of the 
     individual as such parent's, guardian's, or adult relative's 
     own home.
       ``(ii) Individual described.--For purposes of clause (i), 
     an individual described in this clause is an individual who--

       ``(I) has not attained 18 years of age; and
       ``(II) is not married, and has a minor child in his or her 
     care.

       ``(B) Exception.--
       ``(i) Provision of, or assistance in locating, adult-
     supervised living arrangement.--In the case of an individual 
     who is described in clause (ii), the State agency referred to 
     in section 402(a)(4) shall provide, or assist the individual 
     in locating, a second chance home, maternity home, or other 
     appropriate adult-supervised supportive living arrangement, 
     taking into consideration the needs and concerns of the 
     individual, unless the State agency determines that the 
     individual's current living arrangement is appropriate, and 
     thereafter shall require that the individual and the minor 
     child referred to in subparagraph (A)(ii)(II) reside in such 
     living arrangement as a condition of the continued receipt 
     of assistance under the State program funded under this 
     part attributable to funds provided by the Federal 
     Government (or in an alternative appropriate arrangement, 
     should circumstances change and the current arrangement 
     cease to be appropriate).
       ``(ii) Individual described.--For purposes of clause (i), 
     an individual is described in this clause if the individual 
     is described in subparagraph (A)(ii), and--

       ``(I) the individual has no parent, legal guardian or other 
     appropriate adult relative described in subclause (II) of his 
     or her own who is living or whose whereabouts are known;
       ``(II) no living parent, legal guardian, or other 
     appropriate adult relative, who would otherwise meet 
     applicable State criteria to act as the individual's legal 
     guardian, of such individual allows the individual to live in 
     the home of such parent, guardian, or relative;
       ``(III) the State agency determines that--

       ``(aa) the individual or the minor child referred to in 
     subparagraph (A)(ii)(II) is being or has been subjected to 
     serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse, or 
     exploitation in the residence of the individual's own parent 
     or legal guardian; or
       ``(bb) substantial evidence exists of an act or failure to 
     act that presents an imminent or serious harm if the 
     individual and the minor child lived in the same residence 
     with the individual's own parent or legal guardian; or

       ``(IV) the State agency otherwise determines that it is in 
     the best interest of the minor child to waive the requirement 
     of subparagraph (A) with respect to the individual or the 
     minor child.

       ``(iii) Second-chance home.--For purposes of this 
     subparagraph, the term `second-chance home' means an entity 
     that provides individuals described in clause (ii) with a 
     supportive and supervised living arrangement in which such 
     individuals are required to learn parenting skills, including 
     child development, family budgeting, health and nutrition, 
     and other skills to promote their long-term economic 
     independence and the well-being of their children.
       ``(7) No medical services.--
       ``(A) In general.--Except as provided in subparagraph (B), 
     a State to which a grant is made under section 403 shall not 
     use any part of the grant to provide medical services.
       ``(B) Exception for family planning services.--As used in 
     subparagraph (A), the term `medical services' does not 
     include family planning services.
       ``(8) No assistance for more than 5 years.--
       ``(A) In general.--Except as provided in subparagraphs (B) 
     and (C), a State to which a grant is made under section 403 
     shall not use any part of the grant to provide cash 
     assistance to a family that includes an adult who has 
     received assistance under any State program funded under this 
     part attributable to funds provided by the Federal 
     Government, for 60 months (whether or not consecutive) after 
     the date the State program funded under this part commences.
       ``(B) Minor child exception.--In determining the number of 
     months for which an individual who is a parent or pregnant 
     has received assistance under the State program funded under 
     this part, the State shall disregard any month for which such 
     assistance was provided with respect to the individual and 
     during which the individual was--
       ``(i) a minor child; and
       ``(ii) not the head of a household or married to the head 
     of a household.
       ``(C) Hardship exception.--
       ``(i) In general.--The State may exempt a family from the 
     application of subparagraph (A) by reason of hardship or if 
     the family includes an individual who has been battered or 
     subjected to extreme cruelty.
       ``(ii) Limitation.--The number of families with respect to 
     which an exemption made by a State under clause (i) is in 
     effect for a fiscal year shall not exceed 20 percent of the 
     average monthly number of families to which assistance is 
     provided under the State program funded under this part.
       ``(iii) Battered or subject to extreme cruelty defined.--
     For purposes of clause (i), an individual has been battered 
     or subjected to extreme cruelty if the individual has been 
     subjected to--

       ``(I) physical acts that resulted in, or threatened to 
     result in, physical injury to the individual;
       ``(II) sexual abuse;
       ``(III) sexual activity involving a dependent child;
       ``(IV) being forced as the caretaker relative of a 
     dependent child to engage in nonconsensual sexual acts or 
     activities;
       ``(V) threats of, or attempts at, physical or sexual abuse;
       ``(VI) mental abuse; or
       ``(VII) neglect or deprivation of medical care.

       ``(D) Rule of interpretation.--Subparagraph (A) shall not 
     be interpreted to require any State to provide assistance to 
     any individual for any period of time under the State program 
     funded under this part.
       ``(9) Denial of assistance for 10 years to a person found 
     to have fraudulently misrepresented residence in order to 
     obtain assistance in 2 or more states.--A State to which a 
     grant is made under section 403 shall not use any part of the 
     grant to provide cash assistance to an individual during the 
     10-year period that begins on the date the individual is 
     convicted in Federal or State court of having made a 
     fraudulent statement or representation with respect to the 
     place of residence of the individual in order to receive 
     assistance simultaneously from 2 or more States under 
     programs that are funded under this title, title XIX, or the 
     Food Stamp Act of 1977, or benefits in 2 or more States under 
     the supplemental security income program under title XVI.
       ``(10) Denial of assistance for fugitive felons and 
     probation and parole violators.--
       ``(A) In general.--A State to which a grant is made under 
     section 403 shall not use any part of the grant to provide 
     assistance to any individual who is--
       ``(i) fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody or 
     confinement after conviction, under the laws of the place 
     from which the individual flees, for a crime, or an attempt 
     to commit a crime, which is a felony under the laws of the 
     place from which the individual flees, or which, in the case 
     of the State of New Jersey, is a high misdemeanor under the 
     laws of such State; or
       ``(ii) violating a condition of probation or parole imposed 
     under Federal or State law.
       ``(B) Exchange of information with law enforcement 
     agencies.--If a State to which a grant is made under section 
     403 establishes safeguards against the use or disclosure of 
     information about applicants or recipients of assistance 
     under the State program funded under this part, the 
     safeguards shall not prevent the State agency administering 
     the program from furnishing a Federal, State, or local law 
     enforcement officer, upon the request of the officer, with 
     the current address of any recipient if the officer 
     furnishes the agency with the name of the recipient and 
     notifies the agency that--
       ``(i) the recipient--

       ``(I) is described in subparagraph (A); or
       ``(II) has information that is necessary for the officer to 
     conduct the official duties of the officer; and

       ``(ii) the location or apprehension of the recipient is 
     within such official duties.
       ``(11) Denial of assistance for minor children who are 
     absent from the home for a significant period.--
       ``(A) In general.--A State to which a grant is made under 
     section 403 shall not use any part of the grant to provide 
     assistance for a minor child who has been, or is expected by 
     a parent (or other caretaker relative) of the child to be, 
     absent from the home for a period of 45 consecutive days or, 
     at the option of the State, such period of not less than 30 
     and not more than 90 consecutive days as the State may 
     provide for in the State plan submitted pursuant to section 
     402.
       ``(B) State authority to establish good cause exceptions.--
     The State may establish such good cause exceptions to 
     subparagraph (A) as the State considers appropriate if such 
     exceptions are provided for in the State plan submitted 
     pursuant to section 402.
       ``(C) Denial of assistance for relative who fails to notify 
     state agency of absence of child.--A State to which a grant 
     is

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     made under section 403 shall not use any part of the grant to 
     provide assistance for an individual who is a parent (or 
     other caretaker relative) of a minor child and who fails to 
     notify the agency administering the State program funded 
     under this part of the absence of the minor child from the 
     home for the period specified in or provided for pursuant to 
     subparagraph (A), by the end of the 5-day period that begins 
     with the date that it becomes clear to the parent (or 
     relative) that the minor child will be absent for such period 
     so specified or provided for.
       ``(12) Income security payments not to be disregarded in 
     determining the amount of assistance to be provided to a 
     family.--If a State to which a grant is made under section 
     403 uses any part of the grant to provide assistance for any 
     individual who is receiving a payment under a State plan for 
     old-age assistance approved under section 2, a State program 
     funded under part B that provides cash payments for foster 
     care, or the supplemental security income program under title 
     XVI, then the State shall not disregard the payment in 
     determining the amount of assistance to be provided under the 
     State program funded under this part, from funds provided by 
     the Federal Government, to the family of which the individual 
     is a member.
       ``(13) Provision of vouchers to families denied cash 
     assistance due to state-imposed time limits.--
       ``(A) Requirement.--If a family is denied assistance under 
     the State program funded under this part by reason of a time 
     limit imposed by the State other than pursuant to paragraph 
     (8), the State shall provide vouchers to the family in 
     accordance with subparagraph (B).
       ``(B) Characteristics of vouchers.--The vouchers referred 
     to in subparagraph (A) shall be--
       ``(i) in an amount equal to the amount determined by the 
     State to meet the needs of only the child or children in the 
     family, which shall be determined in the same manner as the 
     State would otherwise determines the needs of the child or 
     children under the program;
       ``(ii) designed appropriately to pay a third party for 
     goods and services to be provided by the third party to the 
     child or children in the family; and
       ``(iii) redeemable by a third party described in clause 
     (ii) for a dollar amount equal to the amount of the voucher.
       ``(b) Aliens.--For special rules relating to the treatment 
     of aliens, see section 402 of the Bipartisan Welfare Reform 
     Act of 1996.

     ``SEC. 409. PENALTIES.

       ``(a) In General.--Subject to this section:
       ``(1) Failure to submit required report.--
       ``(A) In general.--If the Secretary determines that a State 
     has not, within 1 month after the end of a fiscal quarter, 
     submitted the report required by section 411(a) for the 
     quarter, 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 4 percent of the State 
     family assistance grant.
       ``(B) Rescission of penalty.--The Secretary shall rescind a 
     penalty imposed on a State under subparagraph (A) with 
     respect to a report for a fiscal quarter if the State submits 
     the report before the end of the immediately succeeding 
     fiscal quarter.
       ``(2) Failure to participate in the income and eligibility 
     verification system.--If the Secretary determines that a 
     State program funded under this part is not participating 
     during a fiscal year in the income and eligibility 
     verification system required by section 1137, 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 not more than 2 percent of the State family 
     assistance grant.
       ``(3) Failure to comply with paternity establishment and 
     child support enforcement requirements under part d.--
     Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, if the 
     Secretary determines that the State agency that administers a 
     program funded under this part does not enforce the penalties 
     requested by the agency administering part D against 
     recipients of assistance under the State program who fail to 
     cooperate in establishing paternity in accordance with such 
     part, the Secretary shall reduce the grant payable to the 
     State under section 403(a)(1) for the immediately succeeding 
     fiscal year (without regard to this section) by not more than 
     5 percent.
       ``(4) Failure to timely repay a federal loan fund for state 
     welfare programs.--If the Secretary determines that a State 
     has failed to repay any amount borrowed from the Federal Loan 
     Fund for State Welfare Programs established under section 406 
     within the period of maturity applicable to the loan, plus 
     any interest owed on the loan, the Secretary shall reduce the 
     grant payable to the State under section 403(a)(1) for the 
     immediately succeeding fiscal year quarter (without regard to 
     this section) by the outstanding loan amount, plus the 
     interest owed on the outstanding amount. The Secretary shall 
     not forgive any outstanding loan amount or interest owed on 
     the outstanding amount.
       ``(5) Failure of any state to maintain certain level of 
     historic effort.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall reduce the grant 
     payable to the State under section 403(a)(1) for fiscal year 
     1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, or 2002 by the amount (if any) 
     by which qualified State expenditures for the then 
     immediately preceding fiscal year is less than the applicable 
     percentage of historic State expenditures with respect to the 
     fiscal year.
       ``(B) Definitions.--As used in this paragraph:
       ``(i) Qualified state expenditures.--

       ``(I) In general.--The term `qualified State expenditures' 
     means, with respect to a State and a fiscal year, the total 
     expenditures by the State during the fiscal year, under all 
     State programs, for any of the following with respect to 
     eligible families:
       ``(aa) Cash assistance.
       ``(bb) Child care assistance.
       ``(cc) Educational activities designed to increase self-
     sufficiency, job training, and work, excluding any 
     expenditure for public education in the State except 
     expenditures which involve the provision of services or 
     assistance to a member of an eligible family which is not 
     generally available to persons who are not members of 
     eligible families.
       ``(dd) Administrative costs in connection with the matters 
     described in items (aa), (bb), (cc), and (ee), but only to 
     the extent that such costs do not exceed 15 percent of the 
     total amount of qualified State expenditures for the fiscal 
     year.
       ``(ee) Any other use of funds allowable under section 
     404(a)(1).

       ``(II) Exclusion of transfers from other state and local 
     programs.--Such term does not include expenditures under any 
     State or local program during a fiscal year, except to the 
     extent that--

       ``(aa) such expenditures exceed the amount expended under 
     the State or local program in the fiscal year most recently 
     ending before the date of the enactment of this part; or
       ``(bb) the State is entitled to a payment under former 
     section 403 (as in effect immediately before such date of 
     enactment) with respect to such expenditures.

       ``(III) Eligible families.--As used in subclause (I), the 
     term `eligible families' means families eligible for 
     assistance under the State program funded under this part, 
     and families who would be eligible for such assistance but 
     for the application of paragraph (2) or (8) of section 408(a) 
     of this Act or section 402 of the Bipartisan Welfare Reform 
     Act of 1996.

       ``(ii) Applicable percentage.--The term `applicable 
     percentage' means--

       ``(I) for fiscal year 1996, 85 percent; and
       ``(II) for fiscal years 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001, 
     85 percent adjusted (if appropriate) in accordance with 
     subparagraph (C).

       ``(iii) Historic state expenditures.--The term `historic 
     State expenditures' means, with respect to a State and a 
     fiscal year specified in subparagraph (A), the lesser of--

       ``(I) the expenditures by the State under parts A and F (as 
     in effect during fiscal year 1994) for fiscal year 1994; or
       ``(II) the amount which bears the same ratio to the amount 
     described in subclause (I) as--

       ``(aa) the State family assistance grant for the fiscal 
     year immediately preceding the fiscal year specified in 
     subparagraph (A), plus the total amount required to be paid 
     to the State under former section 403 for fiscal year 1994 
     with respect to amounts expended by the State for child care 
     under subsection (g) or (i) of section 402 (as in effect 
     during fiscal year 1994); bears to
       ``(bb) the total amount required to be paid to the State 
     under former section 403 (as in effect during fiscal year 
     1994) for fiscal year 1994.

     Such term does not include any expenditures under the State 
     plan approved under part A (as so in effect) on behalf of 
     individuals covered by a tribal family assistance plan 
     approved under section 412, as determined by the Secretary.
       ``(iv) Expenditures by the state.--The term `expenditures 
     by the State' does not include--

       ``(I) any expenditures from amounts made available by the 
     Federal Government;
       ``(II) State funds expended for the medicaid program under 
     title XIX; or
       ``(III) any State funds which are used to match Federal 
     funds or are expended as a condition of receiving Federal 
     funds under Federal programs other than under this part.

       ``(C) Performance-based adjustments to applicable 
     percentage.--
       ``(i) Increase in maintenance of effort threshold for 
     failure to meet participation rates.--If the Secretary 
     determines that a State has failed to achieve the 
     participation rate required by section 407 for a fiscal year, 
     the Secretary shall increase the applicable percentage for 
     the State for the immediately succeeding fiscal year by not 
     more than 5 percentage points. In determining the amount of 
     any such increase, the Secretary shall take into account any 
     increase in the number of persons served by the State program 
     and any increase in the unemployment rate of the State, in 
     accordance with regulations which the Secretary shall 
     prescribe.
       ``(ii) Reduction in maintenance of effort threshold for 
     high performance states.--

       ``(I) Criteria.--The Secretary shall, by regulation, 
     establish measures of the effectiveness of the State program 
     funded under this part in moving recipients of assistance 
     under the program into full-time unsubsidized employment. In 
     developing the regulations, the Secretary shall take into 
     account the length of time former recipients of assistance 
     under the program remain employed, the earnings of such 
     former recipients who obtain private sector employment, the 
     total State caseload under the program, and the rate of 
     unemployment in the State.

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       ``(II) Reduction of threshold.--The Secretary shall reduce 
     the applicable percentage for a State for a fiscal year by 
     not more than 5 percentage points if the Secretary determines 
     that the State achieved the participation rate required by 
     section 407 for the immediately preceding fiscal year and 
     exceeded such performance threshold as the Secretary may 
     establish under subclause (I) of this clause.

       ``(6) Substantial noncompliance of state child support 
     enforcement program with requirements of part d.--
       ``(A) In general.--If a State program operated under part D 
     is found as a result of a review conducted under section 
     452(a)(4) not to have complied substantially with the 
     requirements of such part for any quarter, and the Secretary 
     determines that the program is not complying substantially 
     with such requirements at the time the finding is made, the 
     Secretary shall reduce the grant payable to the State under 
     section 403(a)(1) for the quarter and each subsequent quarter 
     that ends before the 1st quarter throughout which the program 
     is found to be in substantial compliance with such 
     requirements by--
       ``(i) not less than 1 nor more than 2 percent;
       ``(ii) not less than 2 nor more than 3 percent, if the 
     finding is the 2nd consecutive such finding made as a result 
     of such a review; or
       ``(iii) not less than 3 nor more than 5 percent, if the 
     finding is the 3rd or a subsequent consecutive such finding 
     made as a result of such a review.
       ``(B) Disregard of noncompliance which is of a technical 
     nature.--For purposes of subparagraph (A) of this paragraph 
     and section 452(a)(4), a State which is not in full 
     compliance with the requirements of this part shall be 
     determined to be in substantial compliance with such 
     requirements only if the Secretary determines that any 
     noncompliance with such requirements is of a technical nature 
     which does not adversely affect the performance of the 
     State's program operated under part D.
       ``(7) Failure of state receiving amounts from contingency 
     fund to maintain 100 percent of historic effort.--If, at the 
     end of any fiscal year during which amounts from the 
     Contingency Fund for State Welfare Programs have been paid to 
     a State, the Secretary finds that the State has failed, 
     during the fiscal year, to expend under the State program 
     funded under this part an amount equal to at least 100 
     percent of the level of historic State expenditures (as 
     defined in paragraph (7)(B)(iii) of this subsection) with 
     respect to the fiscal year, the Secretary shall reduce the 
     grant payable to the State under section 403(a)(1) for the 
     immediately succeeding fiscal year by the total of the 
     amounts so paid to the State.
       ``(8) Failure to expend additional state funds to replace 
     grant reductions.--If the grant payable to a State under 
     section 403(a)(1) for a fiscal year is reduced by reason of 
     this subsection, the State shall, during the immediately 
     succeeding fiscal year, expend under the State program funded 
     under this part an amount equal to the total amount of such 
     reductions.
       ``(9) Failure to provide voucher assistance.--If the 
     Secretary determines that a State program funded under this 
     part has failed to comply with section 408(a)(13) 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 the difference 
     between the amount the State would have expended on voucher 
     assistance pursuant to section 408(a)(13) during the fiscal 
     year in the absence of such noncompliance and the amount the 
     State expended on such voucher assistance during the fiscal 
     year.
       ``(10) Failure to provide transitional medical 
     assistance.--If the Secretary determines that a State has not 
     complied with section 408(a)(15) during a quarter, the 
     Secretary shall reduce the grant payable to the State under 
     section 403(a)(1) for the immediately succeeding quarter by 
     an amount equal to 5 percent of the portion of the State 
     family assistance grant that is payable to the State for such 
     succeeding quarter.
       ``(b) Reasonable Cause Exception.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary may not impose a penalty 
     on a State under subsection (a) with respect to a requirement 
     if the Secretary determines that the State has reasonable 
     cause for failing to comply with the requirement.
       ``(2) Exception.--Paragraph (1) of this subsection shall 
     not apply to any penalty under subsection (a)(5).
       ``(c) Corrective Compliance Plan.--
       ``(1) In general.--
       ``(A) Notification of violation.--Before imposing a penalty 
     against a State under subsection (a) with respect to a 
     violation of this part, the Secretary shall notify the State 
     of the violation and allow the State the opportunity to enter 
     into a corrective compliance plan in accordance with this 
     subsection which outlines how the State will correct the 
     violation and how the State will insure continuing compliance 
     with this part.
       ``(B) 60-day period to propose a corrective compliance 
     plan.--During the 60-day period that begins on the date the 
     State receives a notice provided under subparagraph (A) with 
     respect to a violation, the State may submit to the Federal 
     Government a corrective compliance plan to correct the 
     violation.
       ``(C) Consultation about modifications.--During the 60-day 
     period that begins with the date the Secretary receives a 
     corrective compliance plan submitted by a State in accordance 
     with subparagraph (B), the Secretary may consult with the 
     State on modifications to the plan.
       ``(D) Acceptance of plan.-- A corrective compliance plan 
     submitted by a State in accordance with subparagraph (B) is 
     deemed to be accepted by the Secretary if the Secretary does 
     not accept or reject the plan during 60-day period that 
     begins on the date the plan is submitted.
       ``(2) Effect of correcting violation.--The Secretary may 
     not impose any penalty under subsection (a) with respect to 
     any violation covered by a State corrective compliance plan 
     accepted by the Secretary if the State corrects the violation 
     pursuant to the plan.
       ``(3) Effect of failing to correct violation.--The 
     Secretary shall assess some or all of a penalty imposed on a 
     State under subsection (a) with respect to a violation if the 
     State does not, in a timely manner, correct the violation 
     pursuant to a State corrective compliance plan accepted by 
     the Secretary.
       ``(d) Limitation on Amount of Penalty.--
       ``(1) In general.--In imposing the penalties described in 
     subsection (a), the Secretary shall not reduce any quarterly 
     payment to a State by more than 25 percent.
       ``(2) Carryforward of unrecovered penalties.--To the extent 
     that paragraph (1) of this subsection prevents the Secretary 
     from recovering during a fiscal year the full amount of 
     penalties imposed on a State under subsection (a) of this 
     section for a prior fiscal year, the Secretary shall apply 
     any remaining amount of such penalties to the grant payable 
     to the State under section 403(a)(1) for the immediately 
     succeeding fiscal year.
       ``(e) Other Penalties.--If, after reasonable notice and 
     opportunity for hearing to the State agency administering or 
     supervising the administration of a State program funded 
     under this part, the Secretary finds that the State has 
     failed to comply substantially with any provision of this 
     part or of the State plan approved under section 402, the 
     Secretary shall, if subsection (a) does not apply to the 
     failure, notify the State agency that further payments will 
     not be made to the State under this part (or, in the 
     Secretary's discretion, that the payments will be reduced or 
     limited to categories under, or parts of, the State program 
     not affected by the failure) until the Secretary is satisfied 
     that there is no longer any such failure to comply. Until the 
     Secretary is so satisfied, the Secretary shall make no 
     further payments to the State (or shall reduce or limit 
     payments to categories under or parts of the State program 
     not affected by the failure).

     ``SEC. 410. APPEAL OF ADVERSE DECISION.

       ``(a) In General.--Within 5 days after the date the 
     Secretary takes any adverse action under this part with 
     respect to a State, the Secretary shall notify the chief 
     executive officer of the State of the adverse action, 
     including any action with respect to the State plan submitted 
     under section 402 or the imposition of a penalty under 
     section 409.
       ``(b) Administrative Review.--
       ``(1) In general.--Within 60 days after the date a State 
     receives notice under subsection (a) of an adverse action, 
     the State may appeal the action, in whole or in part, to the 
     Departmental Appeals Board established in the Department of 
     Health and Human Services (in this section referred to as the 
     `Board') by filing an appeal with the Board.
       ``(2) Procedural rules.--The Board shall consider an appeal 
     filed by a State under paragraph (1) on the basis of such 
     documentation as the State may submit and as the Board may 
     require to support the final decision of the Board. In 
     deciding whether to uphold an adverse action or any portion 
     of such an action, the Board shall conduct a thorough review 
     of the issues and take into account all relevant evidence. 
     The Board shall make a final determination with respect to an 
     appeal filed under paragraph (1) not less than 60 days after 
     the date the appeal is filed.
       ``(c) Judicial Review of Adverse Decision.--
       ``(1) In general.--Within 90 days after the date of a final 
     decision by the Board under this section with respect to an 
     adverse action taken against a State, the State may obtain 
     judicial review of the final decision (and the findings 
     incorporated into the final decision) by filing an action 
     in--
       ``(A) the district court of the United States for the 
     judicial district in which the principal or headquarters 
     office of the State agency is located; or
       ``(B) the United States District Court for the District of 
     Columbia.
       ``(2) Procedural rules.--The district court in which an 
     action is filed under paragraph (1) shall review the final 
     decision of the Board on the record established in the 
     administrative proceeding, in accordance with the standards 
     of review prescribed by subparagraphs (A) through (E) of 
     section 706(2) of title 5, United States Code. The review 
     shall be on the basis of the documents and supporting data 
     submitted to the Board.

     ``SEC. 411. DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING.

       ``(a) Quarterly Reports by States.--
       ``(1) General reporting requirement.--
       ``(A) Contents of report.--Beginning July 1, 1996, each 
     State shall collect on a monthly basis, and report to the 
     Secretary on a quarterly basis, the following disaggregated 
     case record information on the families receiving assistance 
     under the State program funded under this part:
       ``(i) The county of residence of the family.

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       ``(ii) Whether a child receiving such assistance or an 
     adult in the family is disabled.
       ``(iii) The ages of the members of such families.
       ``(iv) The number of individuals in the family, and the 
     relation of each family member to the youngest child in the 
     family.
       ``(v) The employment status and earnings of the employed 
     adult in the family.
       ``(vi) The marital status of the adults in the family, 
     including whether such adults have never married, are 
     widowed, or are divorced.
       ``(vii) The race and educational status of each adult in 
     the family.
       ``(viii) The race and educational status of each child in 
     the family.
       ``(ix) Whether the family received subsidized housing, 
     medical assistance under the State plan approved under title 
     XIX, food stamps, or subsidized child care, and if the latter 
     2, the amount received.
       ``(x) The number of months that the family has received 
     each type of assistance under the program.
       ``(xi) If the adults participated in, and the number of 
     hours per week of participation in, the following activities:

       ``(I) Education.
       ``(II) Subsidized private sector employment.
       ``(III) Unsubsidized employment.
       ``(IV) Public sector employment, work experience, or 
     community service.
       ``(V) Job search.
       ``(VI) Job skills training or on-the-job training.
       ``(VII) Vocational education.

       ``(xii) Information necessary to calculate participation 
     rates under section 407.
       ``(xiii) The type and amount of assistance received under 
     the program, including the amount of and reason for any 
     reduction of assistance (including sanctions).
       ``(xiv) From a sample of closed cases, whether the family 
     left the program, and if so, whether the family left due to--

       ``(I) employment;
       ``(II) marriage;
       ``(III) the prohibition set forth in section 408(a)(8);
       ``(IV) sanction; or
       ``(V) State policy.

       ``(xv) Any amount of unearned income received by any member 
     of the family.
       ``(xvi) The citizenship of the members of the family.
       ``(B) Use of estimates.--
       ``(i) Authority.--A State may comply with subparagraph (A) 
     by submitting an estimate which is obtained through the use 
     of scientifically acceptable sampling methods approved by the 
     Secretary.
       ``(ii) Sampling and other methods.--The Secretary shall 
     provide the States with such case sampling plans and data 
     collection procedures as the Secretary deems necessary to 
     produce statistically valid estimates of the performance of 
     State programs funded under this part. The Secretary may 
     develop and implement procedures for verifying the quality of 
     data submitted by the States.
       ``(2) Report on use of federal funds to cover 
     administrative costs and overhead.--The report required by 
     paragraph (1) for a fiscal quarter shall include a statement 
     of the percentage of the funds paid to the State under this 
     part for the quarter that are used to cover administrative 
     costs or overhead.
       ``(3) Report on state expenditures on programs for needy 
     families.--The report required by paragraph (1) for a fiscal 
     quarter shall include a statement of the total amount 
     expended by the State during the quarter on programs for 
     needy families.
       ``(4) Report on noncustodial parents participating in work 
     activities.--The report required by paragraph (1) for a 
     fiscal quarter shall include the number of noncustodial 
     parents in the State who participated in work activities (as 
     defined in section 407(d)) during the quarter.
       ``(5) Report on transitional services.--The report required 
     by paragraph (1) for a fiscal quarter shall include the total 
     amount expended by the State during the quarter to provide 
     transitional services to a family that has ceased to receive 
     assistance under this part because of employment, along with 
     a description of such services.
       ``(6) Regulations.--The Secretary shall prescribe such 
     regulations as may be necessary to define the data elements 
     with respect to which reports are required by this 
     subsection.
       ``(b) Annual Reports to the Congress by the Secretary.--Not 
     later than 6 months after the end of fiscal year 1997, and 
     each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary shall transmit to 
     the Congress a report describing--
       ``(1) whether the States are meeting--
       ``(A) the participation rates described in section 407(a); 
     and
       ``(B) the objectives of--
       ``(i) increasing employment and earnings of needy families, 
     and child support collections; and
       ``(ii) decreasing out-of-wedlock pregnancies and child 
     poverty;
       ``(2) the demographic and financial characteristics of 
     families applying for assistance, families receiving 
     assistance, and families that become ineligible to receive 
     assistance;
       ``(3) the characteristics of each State program funded 
     under this part; and
       ``(4) the trends in employment and earnings of needy 
     families with minor children living at home.

     ``SEC. 412. DIRECT FUNDING AND ADMINISTRATION BY INDIAN 
                   TRIBES.

       ``(a) Grants for Indian Tribes.--
       ``(1) Tribal family assistance grant.--
       ``(A) In general.--For each of fiscal years 1997, 1998, 
     1999, and 2000, the Secretary shall pay to each Indian tribe 
     that has an approved tribal family assistance plan a tribal 
     family assistance grant for the fiscal year in an amount 
     equal to the amount determined under subparagraph (B), and 
     shall reduce the grant payable under section 403(a)(1) to any 
     State in which lies the service area or areas of the Indian 
     tribe by that portion of the amount so determined that is 
     attributable to expenditures by the State.
       ``(B) Amount determined.--
       ``(i) In general.--The amount determined under this 
     subparagraph is an amount equal to the total amount of the 
     Federal payments to a State or States under section 403 (as 
     in effect during such fiscal year) for fiscal year 1994 
     attributable to expenditures (other than child care 
     expenditures) by the State or States under parts A and F (as 
     so in effect) for fiscal year 1994 for Indian families 
     residing in the service area or areas identified by the 
     Indian tribe pursuant to subsection (b)(1)(C) of this 
     section.
       ``(ii) Use of state submitted data.--

       ``(I) In general.--The Secretary shall use State submitted 
     data to make each determination under clause (i).
       ``(II) Disagreement with determination.--If an Indian tribe 
     or tribal organization disagrees with State submitted data 
     described under subclause (I), the Indian tribe or tribal 
     organization may submit to the Secretary such additional 
     information as may be relevant to making the determination 
     under clause (i) and the Secretary may consider such 
     information before making such determination.

       ``(2) Grants for indian tribes that received jobs funds.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall pay to each eligible 
     Indian tribe for each of fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 
     and 2000 a grant in an amount equal to the amount received by 
     the Indian tribe in fiscal year 1994 under section 482(i) (as 
     in effect during fiscal year 1994).
       ``(B) Eligible indian tribe.--For purposes of subparagraph 
     (A), the term `eligible Indian tribe' means an Indian tribe 
     or Alaska Native organization that conducted a job 
     opportunities and basic skills training program in fiscal 
     year 1995 under section 482(i) (as in effect during fiscal 
     year 1995).
       ``(C) Use of grant.--Each Indian tribe to which a grant is 
     made under this paragraph shall use the grant for the purpose 
     of operating a program to make work activities available to 
     members of the Indian tribe.
       ``(D) Appropriation.--Out of any money in the Treasury of 
     the United States not otherwise appropriated, there are 
     appropriated $7,638,474 for each fiscal year specified in 
     subparagraph (A) for grants under subparagraph (A).
       ``(b) 3-Year Tribal Family Assistance Plan.--
       ``(1) In general.--Any Indian tribe that desires to receive 
     a tribal family assistance grant shall submit to the 
     Secretary a 3-year tribal family assistance plan that--
       ``(A) outlines the Indian tribe's approach to providing 
     welfare-related services for the 3-year period, consistent 
     with this section;
       ``(B) specifies whether the welfare-related services 
     provided under the plan will be provided by the Indian tribe 
     or through agreements, contracts, or compacts with 
     intertribal consortia, States, or other entities;
       ``(C) identifies the population and service area or areas 
     to be served by such plan;
       ``(D) provides that a family receiving assistance under the 
     plan may not receive duplicative assistance from other State 
     or tribal programs funded under this part;
       ``(E) identifies the employment opportunities in or near 
     the service area or areas of the Indian tribe and the manner 
     in which the Indian tribe will cooperate and participate in 
     enhancing such opportunities for recipients of assistance 
     under the plan consistent with any applicable State 
     standards; and
       ``(F) applies the fiscal accountability provisions of 
     section 5(f)(1) of the Indian Self-Determination and 
     Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450c(f)(1)), relating to 
     the submission of a single-agency audit report required by 
     chapter 75 of title 31, United States Code.
       ``(2) Approval.--The Secretary shall approve each tribal 
     family assistance plan submitted in accordance with paragraph 
     (1).
       ``(3) Consortium of tribes.--Nothing in this section shall 
     preclude the development and submission of a single tribal 
     family assistance plan by the participating Indian tribes of 
     an intertribal consortium.
       ``(c) Minimum Work Participation Requirements and Time 
     Limits.--The Secretary, with the participation of Indian 
     tribes, shall establish for each Indian tribe receiving a 
     grant under this section minimum work participation 
     requirements, appropriate time limits for receipt of welfare-
     related services under the grant, and penalties against 
     individuals--
       ``(1) consistent with the purposes of this section;
       ``(2) consistent with the economic conditions and resources 
     available to each tribe; and
       ``(3) similar to comparable provisions in section 407(d).
       ``(d) Emergency Assistance.--Nothing in this section shall 
     preclude an Indian tribe from seeking emergency assistance 
     from any Federal loan program or emergency fund.
       ``(e) Accountability.--Nothing in this section shall be 
     construed to limit the ability of

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     the Secretary to maintain program funding accountability 
     consistent with--
       ``(1) generally accepted accounting principles; and
       ``(2) the requirements of the Indian Self-Determination and 
     Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.).
       ``(f) Penalties.--Subsections (a)(4), (b), and (e) of 
     section 409 shall apply to an Indian tribe with an approved 
     tribal assistance plan in the same manner as such subsections 
     apply to a State.
       ``(g) Data Collection and Reporting.--Section 411 shall 
     apply to an Indian tribe with an approved tribal family 
     assistance plan.
       ``(h) Special Rule for Indian Tribes in Alaska.--
       ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     this section, and except as provided in paragraph (2), an 
     Indian tribe in the State of Alaska that receives a tribal 
     family assistance grant under this section shall use the 
     grant to operate a program in accordance with requirements 
     comparable to the requirements applicable to the program of 
     the State of Alaska funded under this part. Comparability of 
     programs shall be established on the basis of program 
     criteria developed by the Secretary in consultation with the 
     State of Alaska and such Indian tribes.
       ``(2) Waiver.--An Indian tribe described in paragraph (1) 
     may apply to the appropriate State authority to receive a 
     waiver of the requirement of paragraph (1).

     ``SEC. 413. RESEARCH, EVALUATIONS, AND NATIONAL STUDIES.

       ``(a) Research.--The Secretary shall conduct research on 
     the benefits, effects, and costs of operating different State 
     programs funded under this part, including time limits 
     relating to eligibility for assistance. The research shall 
     include studies on the effects of different programs and the 
     operation of such programs on welfare dependency, 
     illegitimacy, teen pregnancy, employment rates, child well-
     being, and any other area the Secretary deems appropriate. 
     The Secretary shall also conduct research on the costs and 
     benefits of State activities under section 409.
       ``(b) Development and Evaluation of Innovative Approaches 
     To Reducing Welfare Dependency and Increasing Child Well-
     Being.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary may assist States in 
     developing, and shall evaluate, innovative approaches for 
     reducing welfare dependency and increasing the well-being of 
     minor children living at home with respect to recipients of 
     assistance under programs funded under this part. The 
     Secretary may provide funds for training and technical 
     assistance to carry out the approaches developed pursuant to 
     this paragraph.
       ``(2) Evaluations.--In performing the evaluations under 
     paragraph (1), the Secretary shall, to the maximum extent 
     feasible, use random assignment as an evaluation methodology.
       ``(c) Dissemination of Information.--The Secretary shall 
     develop innovative methods of disseminating information on 
     any research, evaluations, and studies conducted under this 
     section, including the facilitation of the sharing of 
     information and best practices among States and localities 
     through the use of computers and other technologies.
       ``(d) Annual Ranking of States and Review of Most and Least 
     Successful Work Programs.--
       ``(1) Annual ranking of states.--The Secretary shall rank 
     annually the States to which grants are paid under section 
     403 in the order of their success in placing recipients of 
     assistance under the State program funded under this part 
     into long-term private sector jobs, reducing the overall 
     welfare caseload, and, when a practicable method for 
     calculating this information becomes available, diverting 
     individuals from formally applying to the State program and 
     receiving assistance. In ranking States under this 
     subsection, the Secretary shall take into account the average 
     number of minor children living at home in families in the 
     State that have incomes below the poverty line and the amount 
     of funding provided each State for such families.
       ``(2) Annual review of most and least successful work 
     programs.--The Secretary shall review the programs of the 3 
     States most recently ranked highest under paragraph (1) and 
     the 3 States most recently ranked lowest under paragraph (1) 
     that provide parents with work experience, assistance in 
     finding employment, and other work preparation activities and 
     support services to enable the families of such parents to 
     leave the program and become self-sufficient.
       ``(e) Annual Ranking of States and Review of Issues 
     Relating to Out-of-Wedlock Births.--
       ``(1) Annual ranking of states.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall annually rank States 
     to which grants are made under section 403 based on the 
     following ranking factors:
       ``(i) Absolute out-of-wedlock ratios.--The ratio 
     represented by--

       ``(I) the total number of out-of-wedlock births in families 
     receiving assistance under the State program under this part 
     in the State for the most recent fiscal year for which 
     information is available; over
       ``(II) the total number of births in families receiving 
     assistance under the State program under this part in the 
     State for such year.

       ``(ii) Net changes in the out-of-wedlock ratio.--The 
     difference between the ratio described in subparagraph (A)(i) 
     with respect to a State for the most recent fiscal year for 
     which such information is available and the ratio with 
     respect to the State for the immediately preceding year.
       ``(2) Annual review.--The Secretary shall review the 
     programs of the 5 States most recently ranked highest under 
     paragraph (1) and the 5 States most recently ranked the 
     lowest under paragraph (1).
       ``(f) State-Initiated Evaluations.--A State shall be 
     eligible to receive funding to evaluate the State program 
     funded under this part if--
       ``(1) the State submits a proposal to the Secretary for the 
     evaluation;
       ``(2) the Secretary determines that the design and approach 
     of the evaluation is rigorous and is likely to yield 
     information that is credible and will be useful to other 
     States; and
       ``(3) unless otherwise waived by the Secretary, the State 
     contributes to the cost of the evaluation, from non-Federal 
     sources, an amount equal to at least 10 percent of the cost 
     of the evaluation.
       ``(g) Funding of Studies and Demonstrations.--
       ``(1) In general.--Out of any money in the Treasury of the 
     United States not otherwise appropriated, there are 
     appropriated $15,000,000 for each fiscal year specified in 
     section 403(a)(1) for the purpose of paying--
       ``(A) the cost of conducting the research described in 
     subsection (a);
       ``(B) the cost of developing and evaluating innovative 
     approaches for reducing welfare dependency and increasing the 
     well-being of minor children under subsection (b);
       ``(C) the Federal share of any State-initiated study 
     approved under subsection (f); and
       ``(D) an amount determined by the Secretary to be necessary 
     to operate and evaluate demonstration projects, relating to 
     this part, that are in effect or approved under section 1115 
     as of September 30, 1995, and are continued after such date.
       ``(2) Allocation.--Of the amount appropriated under 
     paragraph (1) for a fiscal year--
       ``(A) 50 percent shall be allocated for the purposes 
     described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1), and
       ``(B) 50 percent shall be allocated for the purposes 
     described in subparagraphs (C) and (D) of paragraph (1).

     ``SEC. 414. STUDY BY THE CENSUS BUREAU.

       ``(a) In General.--The Bureau of the Census shall expand 
     the Survey of Income and Program Participation as necessary 
     to obtain such information as will enable interested persons 
     to evaluate the impact of the amendments made by title I of 
     the Bipartisan Welfare Reform Act of 1996 on a random 
     national sample of recipients of assistance under State 
     programs funded under this part and (as appropriate) other 
     low income families, and in doing so, shall pay particular 
     attention to the issues of out-of-wedlock birth, welfare 
     dependency, the beginning and end of welfare spells, and the 
     causes of repeat welfare spells.
       ``(b) Appropriation.--Out of any money in the Treasury of 
     the United States not otherwise appropriated, there are 
     appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1996, 1997, 
     1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002 for payment to the Bureau of 
     the Census to carry out subsection (a).

     ``SEC. 415. WAIVERS.

       ``(a) Continuation of Waivers.--
       ``(1) Waivers in effect on date of enactment of welfare 
     reform.--Except as provided in paragraph (3), if any waiver 
     granted to a State under section 1115 or otherwise which 
     relates to the provision of assistance under a State plan 
     under this part (as in effect on September 30, 1995) is in 
     effect as of the date of the enactment of the Bipartisan 
     Welfare Reform Act of 1996, the amendments made by such Act 
     shall not apply with respect to the State before the 
     expiration (determined without regard to any extensions) of 
     the waiver to the extent such amendments are inconsistent 
     with the waiver.
       ``(2) Waivers granted subsequently.--Except as provided in 
     paragraph (3), if any waiver granted to a State under section 
     1115 or otherwise which relates to the provision of 
     assistance under a State plan under this part (as in effect 
     on September 30, 1995) is submitted to the Secretary before 
     the date of the enactment of the Bipartisan Welfare Reform 
     Act of 1996 and approved by the Secretary before the 
     effective date of this title, and the State demonstrates to 
     the satisfaction of the Secretary that the waiver will not 
     result in Federal expenditures under title IV of this Act (as 
     in effect without regard to the amendments made by the 
     Bipartisan Welfare Reform Act of 1996) that are greater than 
     would occur in the absence of the waiver, such amendments 
     shall not apply with respect to the State before the 
     expiration (determined without regard to any extensions) of 
     the waiver to the extent such amendments are inconsistent 
     with the waiver.
       ``(3) Financing limitation.--Notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, beginning with fiscal year 1996, a State 
     operating under a waiver described in paragraph (1) shall be 
     entitled to payment under section 403 for the fiscal year, in 
     lieu of any other payment provided for in the waiver.
       ``(b) State Option To Terminate Waiver.--
       ``(1) In general.--A State may terminate a waiver described 
     in subsection (a) before the expiration of the waiver.

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       ``(2) Report.--A State which terminates a waiver under 
     paragraph (1) shall submit a report to the Secretary 
     summarizing the waiver and any available information 
     concerning the result or effect of the waiver.
       ``(3) Hold harmless provision.--
       ``(A) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, a State that, not later than the date described in 
     subparagraph (B), submits a written request to terminate a 
     waiver described in subsection (a) shall be held harmless for 
     accrued cost neutrality liabilities incurred under the 
     waiver.
       ``(B) Date described.--The date described in this 
     subparagraph is the later of--
       ``(i) January 1, 1996; or
       ``(ii) 90 days following the adjournment of the first 
     regular session of the State legislature that begins after 
     the date of the enactment of the Bipartisan Welfare Reform 
     Act of 1996.
       ``(c) Secretarial Encouragement of Current Waivers.--The 
     Secretary shall encourage any State operating a waiver 
     described in subsection (a) to continue the waiver and to 
     evaluate, using random sampling and other characteristics of 
     accepted scientific evaluations, the result or effect of the 
     waiver.
       ``(d) Continuation of Individual Waivers.--A State may 
     elect to continue 1 or more individual waivers described in 
     subsection (a).

     ``SEC. 416. ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR FAMILY SUPPORT.

       ``The programs under this part and part D shall be 
     administered by an Assistant Secretary for Family Support 
     within the Department of Health and Human Services, who shall 
     be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and 
     consent of the Senate, and who shall be in addition to any 
     other Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services 
     provided for by law.

     ``SEC. 417. DEFINITIONS.

       ``As used in this part:
       ``(1) Adult.--The term `adult' means an individual who is 
     not a minor child.
       ``(2) Minor child.--The term `minor child' means an 
     individual who--
       ``(A) has not attained 18 years of age; or
       ``(B) has not attained 19 years of age and is a full-time 
     student in a secondary school (or in the equivalent level of 
     vocational or technical training).
       ``(3) Fiscal year.--The term `fiscal year' means any 12-
     month period ending on September 30 of a calendar year.
       ``(4) Indian, indian tribe, and tribal organization.--
       ``(A) In general.--Except as provided in subparagraph (B), 
     the terms `Indian', `Indian tribe', and `tribal organization' 
     have the meaning given such terms by section 4 of the Indian 
     Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 
     450b).
       ``(B) Special rule for indian tribes in alaska.--The term 
     `Indian tribe' means, with respect to the State of Alaska, 
     only the Metlakatla Indian Community of the Annette Islands 
     Reserve and the following Alaska Native regional nonprofit 
     corporations:
       ``(i) Arctic Slope Native Association.
       ``(ii) Kawerak, Inc.
       ``(iii) Maniilaq Association.
       ``(iv) Association of Village Council Presidents.
       ``(v) Tanana Chiefs Conference.
       ``(vi) Cook Inlet Tribal Council.
       ``(vii) Bristol Bay Native Association.
       ``(viii) Aleutian and Pribilof Island Association.
       ``(ix) Chugachmuit.
       ``(x) Tlingit Haida Central Council.
       ``(xi) Kodiak Area Native Association.
       ``(xii) Copper River Native Association.
       ``(5) State.--Except as otherwise specifically provided, 
     the term `State' means the 50 States of the United States, 
     the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
     the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, and American 
     Samoa.''.

     SEC. 104. SERVICES PROVIDED BY CHARITABLE, RELIGIOUS, OR 
                   PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS.

       (a) In General.--
       (1) State options.--A State may--
       (A) administer and provide services under the programs 
     described in subparagraphs (A) and (B)(i) of paragraph (2) 
     through contracts with charitable, religious, or private 
     organizations; and
       (B) provide beneficiaries of assistance under the programs 
     described in subparagraphs (A) and (B)(ii) of paragraph (2) 
     with certificates, vouchers, or other forms of disbursement 
     which are redeemable with such organizations.
       (2) Programs described.--The programs described in this 
     paragraph are the following programs:
       (A) A State program funded under part A of title IV of the 
     Social Security Act (as amended by section 103 of this Act).
       (B) Any other program established or modified under title 
     I, II, or VI of this Act, that--
       (i) permits contracts with organizations; or
       (ii) permits certificates, vouchers, or other forms of 
     disbursement to be provided to beneficiaries, as a means of 
     providing assistance.
       (b) Religious Organizations.--The purpose of this section 
     is to allow States to contract with religious organizations, 
     or to allow religious organizations to accept certificates, 
     vouchers, or other forms of disbursement under any program 
     described in subsection (a)(2), on the same basis as any 
     other nongovernmental provider without impairing the 
     religious character of such organizations, and without 
     diminishing the religious freedom of beneficiaries of 
     assistance funded under such program.
       (c) Nondiscrimination Against Religious Organizations.--In 
     the event a State exercises its authority under subsection 
     (a), religious organizations are eligible, on the same basis 
     as any other private organization, as contractors to provide 
     assistance, or to accept certificates, vouchers, or other 
     forms of disbursement, under any program described in 
     subsection (a)(2) so long as the programs are implemented 
     consistent with the Establishment Clause of the United States 
     Constitution. Except as provided in subsection (k), neither 
     the Federal Government nor a State receiving funds under such 
     programs shall discriminate against an organization which is 
     or applies to be a contractor to provide assistance, or which 
     accepts certificates, vouchers, or other forms of 
     disbursement, on the basis that the organization has a 
     religious character.
       (d) Religious Character and Freedom.--
       (1) Religious organizations.--A religious organization with 
     a contract described in subsection (a)(1)(A), or which 
     accepts certificates, vouchers, or other forms of 
     disbursement under subsection (a)(1)(B), shall retain its 
     independence from Federal, State, and local governments, 
     including such organization's control over the definition, 
     development, practice, and expression of its religious 
     beliefs.
       (2) Additional safeguards.--Neither the Federal Government 
     nor a State shall require a religious organization to--
       (A) alter its form of internal governance; or
       (B) remove religious art, icons, scripture, or other 
     symbols;

     in order to be eligible to contract to provide assistance, or 
     to accept certificates, vouchers, or other forms of 
     disbursement, funded under a program described in subsection 
     (a)(2).
       (e) Rights of Beneficiaries of Assistance.--
       (1) In general.--If an individual described in paragraph 
     (2) has an objection to the religious character of the 
     organization or institution from which the individual 
     receives, or would receive, assistance funded under any 
     program described in subsection (a)(2), the State in which 
     the individual resides shall provide such individual (if 
     otherwise eligible for such assistance) within a reasonable 
     period of time after the date of such objection with 
     assistance from an alternative provider that is accessible to 
     the individual and the value of which is not less than the 
     value of the assistance which the individual would have 
     received from such organization.
       (2) Individual described.--An individual described in this 
     paragraph is an individual who receives, applies for, or 
     requests to apply for, assistance under a program described 
     in subsection (a)(2).
       (f) Employment Practices.--A religious organization's 
     exemption provided under section 702 of the Civil Rights Act 
     of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e-1a) regarding employment practices 
     shall not be affected by its participation in, or receipt of 
     funds from, programs described in subsection (a)(2).
       (g) Nondiscrimination Against Beneficiaries.--Except as 
     otherwise provided in law, a religious organization shall not 
     discriminate against an individual in regard to rendering 
     assistance funded under any program described in subsection 
     (a)(2) on the basis of religion, a religious belief, or 
     refusal to actively participate in a religious practice.
       (h) Fiscal Accountability.--
       (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), any 
     religious organization contracting to provide assistance 
     funded under any program described in subsection (a)(2) shall 
     be subject to the same regulations as other contractors to 
     account in accord with generally accepted auditing principles 
     for the use of such funds provided under such programs.
       (2) Limited audit.--If such organization segregates Federal 
     funds provided under such programs into separate accounts, 
     then only the financial assistance provided with such funds 
     shall be subject to audit.
       (i) Compliance.--Any party which seeks to enforce its 
     rights under this section may assert a civil action for 
     injunctive relief exclusively in an appropriate State court 
     against the entity or agency that allegedly commits such 
     violation.
       (j) Limitations on Use of Funds for Certain Purposes.--No 
     funds provided directly to institutions or organizations to 
     provide services and administer programs under subsection 
     (a)(1)(A) shall be expended for sectarian worship, 
     instruction, or proselytization.
       (k) Preemption.--Nothing in this section shall be construed 
     to preempt any provision of a State constitution or State 
     statute that prohibits or restricts the expenditure of State 
     funds in or by religious organizations.

     SEC. 105. CENSUS DATA ON GRANDPARENTS AS PRIMARY CAREGIVERS 
                   FOR THEIR GRANDCHILDREN.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce, in 
     carrying out section 141 of title 13, United States Code, 
     shall expand the data collection efforts of the Bureau of the 
     Census (in this section referred to as the ``Bureau'') to 
     enable the Bureau to collect statistically significant data, 
     in connection with its decennial census and its mid-decade 
     census, concerning the growing trend of grandparents who are 
     the primary caregivers for their grandchildren.

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       (b) Expanded Census Question.--In carrying out subsection 
     (a), the Secretary of Commerce shall expand the Bureau's 
     census question that details households which include both 
     grandparents and their grandchildren. The expanded question 
     shall be formulated to distinguish between the following 
     households:
       (1) A household in which a grandparent temporarily provides 
     a home for a grandchild for a period of weeks or months 
     during periods of parental distress.
       (2) A household in which a grandparent provides a home for 
     a grandchild and serves as the primary caregiver for the 
     grandchild.

     SEC. 106. REPORT ON DATA PROCESSING.

       (a) In General.--Within 6 months after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human 
     Services shall prepare and submit to the Congress a report 
     on--
       (1) the status of the automated data processing systems 
     operated by the States to assist management in the 
     administration of State programs under part A of title IV of 
     the Social Security Act (whether in effect before or after 
     October 1, 1995); and
       (2) what would be required to establish a system capable 
     of--
       (A) tracking participants in public programs over time; and
       (B) checking case records of the States to determine 
     whether individuals are participating in public programs of 2 
     or more States.
       (b) Preferred Contents.--The report required by subsection 
     (a) should include--
       (1) a plan for building on the automated data processing 
     systems of the States to establish a system with the 
     capabilities described in subsection (a)(2); and
       (2) an estimate of the amount of time required to establish 
     such a system and of the cost of establishing such a system.

     SEC. 107. STUDY ON ALTERNATIVE OUTCOMES MEASURES.

       (a) Study.--The Secretary shall, in cooperation with the 
     States, study and analyze outcomes measures for evaluating 
     the success of the States in moving individuals out of the 
     welfare system through employment as an alternative to the 
     minimum participation rates described in section 407 of the 
     Social Security Act. The study shall include a determination 
     as to whether such alternative outcomes measures should be 
     applied on a national or a State-by-State basis and a 
     preliminary assessment of the effects of section 409(a)(5)(C) 
     of such Act.
       (b) Report.--Not later than September 30, 1998, the 
     Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Finance of the 
     Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of 
     Representatives a report containing the findings of the study 
     required by subsection (a).

     SEC. 108. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.

       (a) Amendments to Title II.--
       (1) Section 205(c)(2)(C)(vi) (42 U.S.C. 405(c)(2)(C)(vi)), 
     as so redesignated by section 321(a)(9)(B) of the Social 
     Security Independence and Program Improvements Act of 1994, 
     is amended--
       (A) by inserting ``an agency administering a program funded 
     under part A of title IV or'' before ``an agency operating''; 
     and
       (B) by striking ``A or D of title IV of this Act'' and 
     inserting ``D of such title''.
       (2) Section 228(d)(1) (42 U.S.C. 428(d)(1)) is amended by 
     inserting ``under a State program funded under'' before 
     ``part A of title IV''.
       (b) Amendment to Part B of Title IV.--Section 422(b)(2) (42 
     U.S.C. 622(b)(2)) is amended by striking ``under the State 
     plan approved'' and inserting ``under the State program 
     funded.''.
       (c) Amendments to Part D of Title IV.--
       (1) Section 451 (42 U.S.C. 651) is amended by striking 
     ``aid'' and inserting ``assistance under a State program 
     funded''.
       (2) Section 452(a)(10)(C) (42 U.S.C. 652(a)(10)(C)) is 
     amended--
       (A) by striking ``aid to families with dependent children'' 
     and inserting ``assistance under a State program funded under 
     part A'';
       (B) by striking ``such aid'' and inserting ``such 
     assistance''; and
       (C) by striking ``under section 402(a)(26) or'' and 
     inserting ``pursuant to section 408(a)(4) or under section''.
       (3) Section 452(a)(10)(F) (42 U.S.C. 652(a)(10)(F)) is 
     amended--
       (A) by striking ``aid under a State plan approved'' and 
     inserting ``assistance under a State program funded''; and
       (B) by striking ``in accordance with the standards referred 
     to in section 402(a)(26)(B)(ii)'' and inserting ``by the 
     State''.
       (4) Section 452(b) (42 U.S.C. 652(b)) is amended in the 
     first sentence by striking ``aid under the State plan 
     approved under part A'' and inserting ``assistance under the 
     State program funded under part A''.
       (5) Section 452(d)(3)(B)(i) (42 U.S.C. 652(d)(3)(B)(i)) is 
     amended by striking ``1115(c)'' and inserting ``1115(b)''.
       (6) Section 452(g)(2)(A)(ii)(I) (42 U.S.C. 
     652(g)(2)(A)(ii)(I)) is amended by striking ``aid is being 
     paid under the State's plan approved under part A or E'' and 
     inserting ``assistance is being provided under the State 
     program funded under part A''.
       (7) Section 452(g)(2)(A) (42 U.S.C. 652(g)(2)(A)) is 
     amended in the matter following clause (iii) by striking 
     ``aid was being paid under the State's plan approved under 
     part A or E'' and inserting ``assistance was being provided 
     under the State program funded under part A''.
       (8) Section 452(g)(2) (42 U.S.C. 652(g)(2)) is amended in 
     the matter following subparagraph (B)--
       (A) by striking ``who is a dependent child'' and inserting 
     ``with respect to whom assistance is being provided under the 
     State program funded under part A'';
       (B) by inserting ``by the State agency administering the 
     State plan approved under this part'' after ``found''; and
       (C) by striking ``under section 402(a)(26)'' and inserting 
     ``with the State in establishing paternity''.
       (9) Section 452(h) (42 U.S.C. 652(h)) is amended by 
     striking ``under section 402(a)(26)'' and inserting 
     ``pursuant to section 408(a)(4)''.
       (10) Section 453(c)(3) (42 U.S.C. 653(c)(3)) is amended by 
     striking ``aid under part A of this title'' and inserting 
     ``assistance under a State program funded under part A''.
       (11) Section 454(5)(A) (42 U.S.C. 654(5)(A)) is amended--
       (A) by striking ``under section 402(a)(26)'' and inserting 
     ``pursuant to section 408(a)(4)''; and
       (B) by striking ``; except that this paragraph shall not 
     apply to such payments for any month following the first 
     month in which the amount collected is sufficient to make 
     such family ineligible for assistance under the State plan 
     approved under part A;'' and inserting a comma.
       (12) Section 454(6)(D) (42 U.S.C. 654(6)(D)) is amended by 
     striking ``aid under a State plan approved'' and inserting 
     ``assistance under a State program funded''.
       (13) Section 456(a)(1) (42 U.S.C. 656(a)(1)) is amended by 
     striking ``under section 402(a)(26)''.
       (14) Section 466(a)(3)(B) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)(3)(B)) is 
     amended by striking ``402(a)(26)'' and inserting 
     ``408(a)(4)''.
       (15) Section 466(b)(2) (42 U.S.C. 666(b)(2)) is amended by 
     striking ``aid'' and inserting ``assistance under a State 
     program funded''.
       (16) Section 469(a) (42 U.S.C. 669(a)) is amended--
       (A) by striking ``aid under plans approved'' and inserting 
     ``assistance under State programs funded''; and
       (B) by striking ``such aid'' and inserting ``such 
     assistance''.
       (d) Amendments to Part E of Title IV.--
       (1) Section 470 (42 U.S.C. 670) is amended--
       (A) by striking ``would be'' and inserting ``would have 
     been''; and
       (B) by inserting ``(as such plan was in effect on March 1, 
     1996)'' after ``part A''.
       (2) Section 471(17) (42 U.S.C. 671(17)) is amended by 
     striking ``plans approved under parts A and D'' and inserting 
     ``program funded under part A and plan approved under part 
     D''.
       (3) Section 472(a) (42 U.S.C. 672(a)) is amended--
       (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)--
       (i) by striking ``would meet'' and inserting ``would have 
     met'';
       (ii) by inserting ``(as such sections were in effect on 
     June 1, 1995)'' after ``407''; and
       (iii) by inserting ``(as so in effect)'' after ``406(a)''; 
     and
       (B) in paragraph (4)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A)--

       (I) by inserting ``would have'' after ``(A)''; and
       (II) by inserting ``(as in effect on June 1, 1995)'' after 
     ``section 402''; and

       (ii) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by inserting ``(as in effect 
     on June 1, 1995)'' after ``406(a)''.
       (4) Section 472(h) (42 U.S.C. 672(h)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(h)(1) For purposes of title XIX, any child with respect 
     to whom foster care maintenance payments are made under this 
     section shall be deemed to be a dependent child as defined in 
     section 406 (as in effect as of June 1, 1995) and shall be 
     deemed to be a recipient of aid to families with dependent 
     children under part A of this title (as so in effect). For 
     purposes of title XX, any child with respect to whom foster 
     care maintenance payments are made under this section shall 
     be deemed to be a minor child in a needy family under a State 
     program funded under part A and shall be deemed to be a 
     recipient of assistance under such part.
       ``(2) For purposes of paragraph (1), a child whose costs in 
     a foster family home or child care institution are covered by 
     the foster care maintenance payments being made with respect 
     to the child's minor parent, as provided in section 
     475(4)(B), shall be considered a child with respect to whom 
     foster care maintenance payments are made under this 
     section.''.
       (5) Section 473(a)(2) (42 U.S.C. 673(a)(2)) is amended--
       (A) in subparagraph (A)(i)--
       (i) by inserting ``(as such sections were in effect on June 
     1, 1995)'' after ``407'';
       (ii) by inserting ``(as so in effect)'' after ``specified 
     in section 406(a)''; and
       (iii) by inserting ``(as such section was in effect on June 
     1, 1995)'' after ``403'';
       (B) in subparagraph (B)(i)--
       (i) by inserting ``would have'' after ``(B)(i)''; and
       (ii) by inserting ``(as in effect on June 1, 1995)'' after 
     ``section 402''; and
       (C) in subparagraph (B)(ii)(II), by inserting ``(as in 
     effect on June 1, 1995)'' after ``406(a)''.
       (6) Section 473(b) (42 U.S.C. 673(b)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(b)(1) For purposes of title XIX, any child who is 
     described in paragraph (3) shall be deemed to be a dependent 
     child as defined in section 406 (as in effect as of June 1, 
     1995) and shall be deemed to be a recipient of aid to 
     families with dependent children under part

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     A of this title (as so in effect) in the State where such 
     child resides.
       ``(2) For purposes of title XX, any child who is described 
     in paragraph (3) shall be deemed to be a minor child in a 
     needy family under a State program funded under part A and 
     shall be deemed to be a recipient of assistance under such 
     part.
       ``(3) A child described in this paragraph is any child--
       ``(A)(i) who is a child described in subsection (a)(2), and
       ``(ii) with respect to whom an adoption assistance 
     agreement is in effect under this section (whether or nor 
     adoption assistance payments are provided under the agreement 
     or are being made under this section), including any such 
     child who has been placed for adoption in accordance with 
     applicable State and local law (whether or not an 
     interlocutory or other judicial decree of adoption has been 
     issued), or
       ``(B) with respect to whom foster care maintenance payments 
     are being made under section 472.
       ``(4) For purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2), a child whose 
     costs in a foster family home or child-care institution are 
     covered by the foster care maintenance payments being made 
     with respect to the child's minor parent, as provided in 
     section 475(4)(B), shall be considered a child with respect 
     to whom foster care maintenance payments are being made under 
     section 472.''.
       (e) Repeal of Part F of Title IV.--Part F of title IV (42 
     U.S.C. 681-687) is repealed.
       (f) Amendment to Title X.--Section 1002(a)(7) (42 U.S.C. 
     1202(a)(7)) is amended by striking ``aid to families with 
     dependent children under the State plan approved under 
     section 402 of this Act'' and inserting ``assistance under a 
     State program funded under part A of title IV''.
       (g) Amendments to Title XI.--
       (1) Section 1108 (42 U.S.C. 1308) is amended--
       (A) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (g);
       (B) by striking all that precedes subsection (c) and 
     inserting the following:

     ``SEC. 1108. ADDITIONAL GRANTS TO PUERTO RICO, THE VIRGIN 
                   ISLANDS, GUAM, AND AMERICAN SAMOA; LIMITATION 
                   ON TOTAL PAYMENTS.

       ``(a) Limitation on Total Payments to Each Territory.--
     Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the total 
     amount certified by the Secretary of Health and Human 
     Services under titles I, X, XIV, and XVI, under parts A and B 
     of title IV, and under subsection (b) of this section, for 
     payment to any territory for a fiscal year shall not exceed 
     the ceiling amount for the territory for the fiscal year.
       ``(b) Entitlement to Matching Grant.--
       ``(1) In general.--Each territory shall be entitled to 
     receive from the Secretary for each fiscal year a grant in an 
     amount equal to 75 percent of the amount (if any) by which--
       ``(A) the total expenditures of the territory during the 
     fiscal year under the territory programs funded under parts A 
     and B of title IV; exceeds
       ``(B) the sum of--
       ``(i) the total amount required to be paid to the territory 
     (other than with respect to child care) under former section 
     403 (as in effect on September 30, 1995) for fiscal year 
     1995, which shall be determined by applying subparagraphs (C) 
     and (D) of section 403(a)(1) to the territory;
       ``(ii) the total amount required to be paid to the 
     territory under former section 434 (as so in effect) for 
     fiscal year 1995; and
       ``(iii) the total amount expended by the territory during 
     fiscal year 1995 pursuant to parts A, B, and F of title IV 
     (as so in effect), other than for child care.
       ``(2) Use of grant.--Any territory to which a grant is made 
     under paragraph (1) may expend the amount under any program 
     operated or funded under any provision of law specified in 
     subsection (a).
       ``(c) Definitions.--As used in this section:
       ``(1) Territory.--The term `territory' means Puerto Rico, 
     the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.
       ``(2) Ceiling amount.--The term `ceiling amount' means, 
     with respect to a territory and a fiscal year, the mandatory 
     ceiling amount with respect to the territory plus the 
     discretionary ceiling amount with respect to the 
     territory, reduced for the fiscal year in accordance with 
     subsection (f).
       ``(3) Mandatory ceiling amount.--The term `mandatory 
     ceiling amount' means--
       ``(A) $105,538,000 with respect to Puerto Rico;
       ``(B) $4,902,000 with respect to Guam;
       ``(C) $3,742,000 with respect to the Virgin Islands; and
       ``(D) $1,122,000 with respect to American Samoa.
       ``(4) Discretionary ceiling amount.--The term 
     `discretionary ceiling amount' means, with respect to a 
     territory and a fiscal year, the total amount appropriated 
     pursuant to subsection (d)(3) for the fiscal year for payment 
     to the territory.
       ``(5) Total amount expended by the territory.--The term 
     `total amount expended by the territory'--
       ``(A) does not include expenditures during the fiscal year 
     from amounts made available by the Federal Government; and
       ``(B) when used with respect to fiscal year 1995, also does 
     not include--
       ``(i) expenditures during fiscal year 1995 under subsection 
     (g) or (i) of section 402 (as in effect on September 30, 
     1995); or
       ``(ii) any expenditures during fiscal year 1995 for which 
     the territory (but for section 1108, as in effect on 
     September 30, 1995) would have received reimbursement from 
     the Federal Government.
       ``(d) Discretionary Grants.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall make a grant to each 
     territory for any fiscal year in the amount appropriated 
     pursuant to paragraph (3) for the fiscal year for payment to 
     the territory.
       ``(2) Use of grant.--Any territory to which a grant is made 
     under paragraph (1) may expend the amount under any program 
     operated or funded under any provision of law specified in 
     subsection (a).
       ``(3) Limitation on authorization of appropriations.--For 
     grants under paragraph (1), there are authorized to be 
     appropriated to the Secretary for each fiscal year--
       ``(A) $7,951,000 for payment to Puerto Rico;
       ``(B) $345,000 for payment to Guam;
       ``(C) $275,000 for payment to the Virgin Islands; and
       ``(D) $190,000 for payment to American Samoa.
       ``(e) Authority To Transfer Funds Among Programs.--
     Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any 
     territory to which an amount is paid under any provision of 
     law specified in subsection (a) may use part or all of the 
     amount to carry out any program operated by the territory, or 
     funded, under any other such provision of law.
       ``(f) Maintenance of Effort.--The ceiling amount with 
     respect to a territory shall be reduced for a fiscal year by 
     an amount equal to the amount (if any) by which--
       ``(1) the total amount expended by the territory under all 
     programs of the territory operated pursuant to the provisions 
     of law specified in subsection (a) (as such provisions were 
     in effect for fiscal year 1995) for fiscal year 1995; exceeds
       ``(2) the total amount expended by the territory under all 
     programs of the territory that are funded under the 
     provisions of law specified in subsection (a) for the fiscal 
     year that immediately precedes the fiscal year referred to in 
     the matter preceding paragraph (1).''; and
       (C) by striking subsections (d) and (e).
       (2) Section 1109 (42 U.S.C. 1309) is amended by striking 
     ``or part A of title IV,''.
       (3) Section 1115 (42 U.S.C. 1315) is amended--
       (A) in subsection (a)(2)--
       (i) by inserting ``(A)'' after ``(2)'';
       (ii) by striking ``403,'';
       (iii) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``, 
     and''; and
       (iv) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(B) costs of such project which would not otherwise be a 
     permissible use of funds under part A of title IV and which 
     are not included as part of the costs of projects under 
     section 1110, shall to the extent and for the period 
     prescribed by the Secretary, be regarded as a permissible use 
     of funds under such part.''; and
       (B) in subsection (c)(3), by striking ``under the program 
     of aid to families with dependent children'' and inserting 
     ``part A of such title''.
       (4) Section 1116 (42 U.S.C. 1316) is amended--
       (A) in each of subsections (a)(1), (b), and (d), by 
     striking ``or part A of title IV,''; and
       (B) in subsection (a)(3), by striking ``404,''.
       (5) Section 1118 (42 U.S.C. 1318) is amended--
       (A) by striking ``403(a),'';
       (B) by striking ``and part A of title IV,''; and
       (C) by striking ``, and shall, in the case of American 
     Samoa, mean 75 per centum with respect to part A of title 
     IV''.
       (6) Section 1119 (42 U.S.C. 1319) is amended--
       (A) by striking ``or part A of title IV''; and
       (B) by striking ``403(a),''.
       (7) Section 1133(a) (42 U.S.C. 1320b-3(a)) is amended by 
     striking ``or part A of title IV,''.
       (8) Section 1136 (42 U.S.C. 1320b-6) is repealed.
       (9) Section 1137 (42 U.S.C. 1320b-7) is amended--
       (A) in subsection (b), by striking paragraph (1) and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(1) any State program funded under part A of title IV of 
     this Act;''; and
       (B) in subsection (d)(1)(B)--
       (i) by striking ``In this subsection--'' and all that 
     follows through ``(ii) in'' and inserting ``In this 
     subsection, in'';
       (ii) by redesignating subclauses (I), (II), and (III) as 
     clauses (i), (ii), and (iii); and
       (iii) by moving such redesignated material 2 ems to the 
     left.
       (h) Amendment to Title XIV.--Section 1402(a)(7) (42 U.S.C. 
     1352(a)(7)) is amended by striking ``aid to families with 
     dependent children under the State plan approved under 
     section 402 of this Act'' and inserting ``assistance under a 
     State program funded under part A of title IV''.
       (i) Amendment to Title XVI as in Effect With Respect to the 
     Territories.--Section 1602(a)(11), as in effect without 
     regard to the amendment made by section 301 of the Social 
     Security Amendments of 1972 (42 U.S.C. 1382 note), is amended 
     by striking ``aid under the State plan approved'' and 
     inserting ``assistance under a State program funded''.
       (j) Amendment to Title XVI as in Effect With Respect to the 
     States.--Section 1611(c)(5)(A) (42 U.S.C. 1382(c)(5)(A)) is 
     amended to read as follows: ``(A) a State program funded 
     under part A of title IV,''.
       (k) Amendment to Title XIX.--Section 1902(j) (42 U.S.C. 
     1396a(j)) is amended by striking ``1108(c)'' and inserting 
     ``1108(g)''.

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     SEC. 109. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO THE FOOD STAMP ACT OF 1977 
                   AND RELATED PROVISIONS.

       (a) Section 5 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2014) 
     is amended--
       (1) in the second sentence of subsection (a), by striking 
     ``plan approved'' and all that follows through ``title IV of 
     the Social Security Act'' and inserting ``program funded 
     under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 
     U.S.C. 601 et seq.)'';
       (2) in subsection (d)--
       (A) in paragraph (5), by striking ``assistance to families 
     with dependent children'' and inserting ``assistance under a 
     State program funded''; and
       (B) by striking paragraph (13) and redesignating paragraphs 
     (14), (15), and (16) as paragraphs (13), (14), and (15), 
     respectively;
       (3) in subsection (j), by striking ``plan approved under 
     part A of title IV of such Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.)'' and 
     inserting ``program funded under part A of title IV of the 
     Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.)''; and
       (4) by striking subsection (m).
       (b) Section 6 of such Act (7 U.S.C. 2015) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (c)(5), by striking ``the State plan 
     approved'' and inserting ``the State program funded''; and
       (2) in subsection (e)(6), by striking ``aid to families 
     with dependent children'' and inserting ``benefits under a 
     State program funded''.
       (c) Section 16(g)(4) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 2025(g)(4)) is 
     amended by striking ``State plans under the Aid to Families 
     with Dependent Children Program under'' and inserting ``State 
     programs funded under part A of''.
       (d) Section 17 of such Act (7 U.S.C. 2026) is amended--
       (1) in the first sentence of subsection (b)(1)(A), by 
     striking ``to aid to families with dependent children under 
     part A of title IV of the Social Security Act'' and inserting 
     ``or are receiving assistance under a State program funded 
     under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 
     U.S.C. 601 et seq.)''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)(3), by adding at the end the 
     following new subparagraph:
        ``(I) The Secretary may not grant a waiver under this 
     paragraph on or after October 1, 1995. Any reference in this 
     paragraph to a provision of title IV of the Social Security 
     Act shall be deemed to be a reference to such provision as in 
     effect on September 30, 1995.'';
       (e) Section 20 of such Act (7 U.S.C. 2029) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(2)(B) by striking ``operating--'' and 
     all that follows through ``(ii) any other'' and inserting 
     ``operating any''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)--
       (i) by striking ``(b)(1) A household'' and inserting ``(b) 
     A household''; and
       (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``training program'' 
     and inserting ``activity'';
       (B) by striking paragraph (2); and
       (C) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through (F) as 
     paragraphs (1) through (6), respectively.
       (f) Section 5(h)(1) of the Agriculture and Consumer 
     Protection Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-186; 7 U.S.C. 612c 
     note) is amended by striking ``the program for aid to 
     families with dependent children'' and inserting ``the State 
     program funded''.
       (g) Section 9 of the National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 
     1758) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in paragraph (2)(C)(ii)(II)--
       (i) by striking ``program for aid to families with 
     dependent children'' and inserting ``State program funded''; 
     and
       (ii) by inserting before the period at the end the 
     following: ``that the Secretary determines complies with 
     standards established by the Secretary that ensure that the 
     standards under the State program are comparable to or more 
     restrictive than those in effect on March 1, 1996''; and
       (B) in paragraph (6)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A)(ii)--

       (I) by striking ``an AFDC assistance unit (under the aid to 
     families with dependent children program authorized'' and 
     inserting ``a family (under the State program funded''; and
       (II) by striking ``, in a State'' and all that follows 
     through ``9902(2)))'' and inserting ``that the Secretary 
     determines complies with standards established by the 
     Secretary that ensure that the standards under the State 
     program are comparable to or more restrictive than those in 
     effect on March 1, 1996''; and

       (ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``aid to families 
     with dependent children'' and inserting ``assistance under 
     the State program funded under part A of title IV of the 
     Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) that the 
     Secretary determines complies with standards established by 
     the Secretary that ensure that the standards under the State 
     program are comparable to or more restrictive than those in 
     effect on March 1, 1996''; and
       (2) in subsection (d)(2)(C)--
       (A) by striking ``program for aid to families with 
     dependent children'' and inserting ``State program funded''; 
     and
       (B) by inserting before the period at the end the 
     following: ``that the Secretary determines complies with 
     standards established by the Secretary that ensure that the 
     standards under the State program are comparable to or more 
     restrictive than those in effect on June 1, 1995''.
       (h) Section 17(d)(2)(A)(ii)(II) of the Child Nutrition Act 
     of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786(d)(2)(A)(ii)(II)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``program for aid to families with 
     dependent children established'' and inserting ``State 
     program funded''; and
       (2) by inserting before the semicolon the following: ``that 
     the Secretary determines complies with standards established 
     by the Secretary that ensure that the standards under the 
     State program are comparable to or more restrictive than 
     those in effect on June 1, 1995''.

     SEC. 110. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO OTHER LAWS.

       (a) Subsection (b) of section 508 of the Unemployment 
     Compensation Amendments of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 603a; Public Law 
     94-566; 90 Stat. 2689) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(b) Provision for Reimbursement of Expenses.--For 
     purposes of section 455 of the Social Security Act, expenses 
     incurred to reimburse State employment offices for furnishing 
     information requested of such offices--
       ``(1) pursuant to the third sentence of section 3(a) of the 
     Act entitled `An Act to provide for the establishment of a 
     national employment system and for cooperation with the 
     States in the promotion of such system, and for other 
     purposes', approved June 6, 1933 (29 U.S.C. 49b(a)), or
       ``(2) by a State or local agency charged with the duty of 
     carrying a State plan for child support approved under part D 
     of title IV of the Social Security Act,

     shall be considered to constitute expenses incurred in the 
     administration of such State plan.''.
       (b) Section 9121 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 
     of 1987 (42 U.S.C. 602 note) is repealed.
       (c) Section 9122 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 
     of 1987 (42 U.S.C. 602 note) is repealed.
       (d) Section 221 of the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act 
     of 1983 (42 U.S.C. 602 note), relating to treatment under 
     AFDC of certain rental payments for federally assisted 
     housing, is repealed.
       (e) Section 159 of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility 
     Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 602 note) is repealed.
       (f) Section 202(d) of the Social Security Amendments of 
     1967 (81 Stat. 882; 42 U.S.C. 602 note) is repealed.
       (g) Section 903 of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless 
     Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 11381 note), 
     relating to demonstration projects to reduce number of AFDC 
     families in welfare hotels, is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``aid to families with 
     dependent children under a State plan approved'' and 
     inserting ``assistance under a State program funded''; and
       (2) in subsection (c), by striking ``aid to families with 
     dependent children in the State under a State plan approved'' 
     and inserting ``assistance in the State under a State program 
     funded''.
       (h) The Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et 
     seq.) is amended--
       (1) in section 404C(c)(3) (20 U.S.C. 1070a-23(c)(3)), by 
     striking ``(Aid to Families with Dependent Children)''; and
       (2) in section 480(b)(2) (20 U.S.C. 1087vv(b)(2)), by 
     striking ``aid to families with dependent children under a 
     State plan approved'' and inserting ``assistance under a 
     State program funded''.
       (i) The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology 
     Education Act (20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.) is amended--
       (1) in section 231(d)(3)(A)(ii) (20 U.S.C. 
     2341(d)(3)(A)(ii)), by striking ``the program for aid to 
     dependent children'' and inserting ``the State program 
     funded'';
       (2) in section 232(b)(2)(B) (20 U.S.C. 2341a(b)(2)(B)), by 
     striking ``the program for aid to families with dependent 
     children'' and inserting ``the State program funded''; and
       (3) in section 521(14)(B)(iii) (20 U.S.C. 
     2471(14)(B)(iii)), by striking ``the program for aid to 
     families with dependent children'' and inserting ``the State 
     program funded''.
       (j) The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
     U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) is amended--
       (1) in section 1113(a)(5) (20 U.S.C. 6313(a)(5)), by 
     striking ``Aid to Families with Dependent Children Program'' 
     and inserting ``State program funded under part A of title IV 
     of the Social Security Act'';
       (2) in section 1124(c)(5) (20 U.S.C. 6333(c)(5)), by 
     striking ``the program of aid to families with dependent 
     children under a State plan approved under'' and inserting 
     ``a State program funded under part A of''; and
       (3) in section 5203(b)(2) (20 U.S.C. 7233(b)(2))--
       (A) in subparagraph (A)(xi), by striking ``Aid to Families 
     with Dependent Children benefits'' and inserting ``assistance 
     under a State program funded under part A of title IV of the 
     Social Security Act''; and
       (B) in subparagraph (B)(viii), by striking ``Aid to 
     Families with Dependent Children'' and inserting ``assistance 
     under the State program funded under part A of title IV of 
     the Social Security Act''.
       (k) Chapter VII of title I of Public Law 99-88 (25 U.S.C. 
     13d-1) is amended to read as follows: ``Provided further, 
     That general assistance payments made by the Bureau of Indian 
     Affairs shall be made--
       ``(1) after April 29, 1985, and before October 1, 1995, on 
     the basis of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) 
     standards of need; and
       ``(2) on and after October 1, 1995, on the basis of 
     standards of need established under the State program funded 
     under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act,


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     except that where a State ratably reduces its AFDC or State 
     program payments, the Bureau shall reduce general assistance 
     payments in such State by the same percentage as the State 
     has reduced the AFDC or State program payment.''.
       (l) The Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 1 et seq.) 
     is amended--
       (1) in section 51(d)(9) (26 U.S.C. 51(d)(9)), by striking 
     all that follows ``agency as'' and inserting ``being eligible 
     for financial assistance under part A of title IV of the 
     Social Security Act and as having continually received such 
     financial assistance during the 90-day period which 
     immediately precedes the date on which such individual is 
     hired by the employer.'';
       (2) in section 3304(a)(16) (26 U.S.C. 3304(a)(16)), by 
     striking ``eligibility for aid or services,'' and all that 
     follows through ``children approved'' and inserting 
     ``eligibility for assistance, or the amount of such 
     assistance, under a State program funded'';
       (3) in section 6103(l)(7)(D)(i) (26 U.S.C. 
     6103(l)(7)(D)(i)), by striking ``aid to families with 
     dependent children provided under a State plan approved'' and 
     inserting ``a State program funded'';
       (4) in section 6103(l)(10) (26 U.S.C. 6103(l)(10))--
       (A) by striking ``(c) or (d)'' each place it appears and 
     inserting ``(c), (d), or (e)''; and
       (B) by adding at the end of subparagraph (B) the following 
     new sentence: ``Any return information disclosed with respect 
     to section 6402(e) shall only be disclosed to officers and 
     employees of the State agency requesting such information.'';
       (5) in section 6103(p)(4) (26 U.S.C. 6103(p)(4)), in the 
     matter preceding subparagraph (A)--
       (A) by striking ``(5), (10)'' and inserting ``(5)''; and
       (B) by striking ``(9), or (12)'' and inserting ``(9), (10), 
     or (12)'';
       (6) in section 6334(a)(11)(A) (26 U.S.C. 6334(a)(11)(A)), 
     by striking ``(relating to aid to families with dependent 
     children)'';
       (7) in section 6402 (26 U.S.C. 6402)--
       (A) in subsection (a), by striking ``(c) and (d)'' and 
     inserting ``(c), (d), and (e)'';
       (B) by redesignating subsections (e) through (i) as 
     subsections (f) through (j), respectively; and
       (C) by inserting after subsection (d) the following:
       ``(e) Collection of Overpayments Under Title IV-A of the 
     Social Security Act.--The amount of any overpayment to be 
     refunded to the person making the overpayment shall be 
     reduced (after reductions pursuant to subsections (c) and 
     (d), but before a credit against future liability for an 
     internal revenue tax) in accordance with section 405(e) of 
     the Social Security Act (concerning recovery of overpayments 
     to individuals under State plans approved under part A of 
     title IV of such Act).''; and
       (8) in section 7523(b)(3)(C) (26 U.S.C. 7523(b)(3)(C)), by 
     striking ``aid to families with dependent children'' and 
     inserting ``assistance under a State program funded under 
     part A of title IV of the Social Security Act''.
       (m) Section 3(b) of the Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. 
     49b(b)) is amended by striking ``State plan approved under 
     part A of title IV'' and inserting ``State program funded 
     under part A of title IV''.
       (n) The Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1501 et 
     seq.) is amended--
       (1) in section 4(29)(A)(i) (29 U.S.C. 1503(29)(A)(i)), by 
     striking ``(42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.)'';
       (2) in section 106(b)(6)(C) (29 U.S.C. 1516(b)(6)(C)), by 
     striking ``State aid to families with dependent children 
     records,'' and inserting ``records collected under the State 
     program funded under part A of title IV of the Social 
     Security Act,'';
       (3) in section 121(b)(2) (29 U.S.C. 1531(b)(2))--
       (A) by striking ``the JOBS program'' and inserting ``the 
     work activities required under title IV of the Social 
     Security Act''; and
       (B) by striking the second sentence;
       (4) in section 123(c) (29 U.S.C. 1533(c))--
       (A) in paragraph (1)(E), by repealing clause (vi); and
       (B) in paragraph (2)(D), by repealing clause (v);
       (5) in section 203(b)(3) (29 U.S.C. 1603(b)(3)), by 
     striking ``, including recipients under the JOBS program'';
       (6) in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section 204(a)(1) (29 
     U.S.C. 1604(a)(1) (A) and (B)), by striking ``(such as the 
     JOBS program)'' each place it appears;
       (7) in section 205(a) (29 U.S.C. 1605(a)), by striking 
     paragraph (4) and inserting the following:
       ``(4) the portions of title IV of the Social Security Act 
     relating to work activities;'';
       (8) in section 253 (29 U.S.C. 1632)--
       (A) in subsection (b)(2), by repealing subparagraph (C); 
     and
       (B) in paragraphs (1)(B) and (2)(B) of subsection (c), by 
     striking ``the JOBS program or'' each place it appears;
       (9) in section 264 (29 U.S.C. 1644)--
       (A) in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (b)(1), by 
     striking ``(such as the JOBS program)'' each place it 
     appears; and
       (B) in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (d)(3), by 
     striking ``and the JOBS program'' each place it appears;
       (10) in section 265(b) (29 U.S.C. 1645(b)), by striking 
     paragraph (6) and inserting the following:
       ``(6) the portion of title IV of the Social Security Act 
     relating to work activities;'';
       (11) in the second sentence of section 429(e) (29 U.S.C. 
     1699(e)), by striking ``and shall be in an amount that does 
     not exceed the maximum amount that may be provided by the 
     State pursuant to section 402(g)(1)(C) of the Social Security 
     Act (42 U.S.C. 602(g)(1)(C))'';
       (12) in section 454(c) (29 U.S.C. 1734(c)), by striking 
     ``JOBS and'';
       (13) in section 455(b) (29 U.S.C. 1735(b)), by striking 
     ``the JOBS program,'';
       (14) in section 501(1) (29 U.S.C. 1791(1)), by striking 
     ``aid to families with dependent children under part A of 
     title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.)'' 
     and inserting ``assistance under the State program funded 
     under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act'';
       (15) in section 506(1)(A) (29 U.S.C. 1791e(1)(A)), by 
     striking ``aid to families with dependent children'' and 
     inserting ``assistance under the State program funded'';
       (16) in section 508(a)(2)(A) (29 U.S.C. 1791g(a)(2)(A)), by 
     striking ``aid to families with dependent children'' and 
     inserting ``assistance under the State program funded''; and
       (17) in section 701(b)(2)(A) (29 U.S.C. 1792(b)(2)(A))--
       (A) in clause (v), by striking the semicolon and inserting 
     ``; and''; and
       (B) by striking clause (vi).
       (o) Section 3803(c)(2)(C)(iv) of title 31, United States 
     Code, is amended to read as follows:
       ``(iv) assistance under a State program funded under part A 
     of title IV of the Social Security Act''.
       (p) Section 2605(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Low-Income Home Energy 
     Assistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8624(b)(2)(A)(i)) is 
     amended to read as follows:
       ``(i) assistance under the State program funded under part 
     A of title IV of the Social Security Act;''.
       (q) Section 303(f)(2) of the Family Support Act of 1988 (42 
     U.S.C. 602 note) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``(A)''; and
       (2) by striking subparagraphs (B) and (C).
       (r) The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
     of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.) is amended--
       (1) in the first section 255(h) (2 U.S.C. 905(h)), by 
     striking ``Aid to families with dependent children (75-0412-
     0-1-609);'' and inserting ``Block grants to States for 
     temporary assistance for needy families;''; and
       (2) in section 256 (2 U.S.C. 906)--
       (A) by striking subsection (k); and
       (B) by redesignating subsection (l) as subsection (k).
       (s) The Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et 
     seq.) is amended--
       (1) in section 210(f) (8 U.S.C. 1160(f)), by striking ``aid 
     under a State plan approved under'' each place it appears and 
     inserting ``assistance under a State program funded under'';
       (2) in section 245A(h) (8 U.S.C. 1255a(h))--
       (A) in paragraph (1)(A)(i), by striking ``program of aid to 
     families with dependent children'' and inserting ``State 
     program of assistance''; and
       (B) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ``aid to families with 
     dependent children'' and inserting ``assistance under a State 
     program funded under part A of title IV of the Social 
     Security Act''; and
       (3) in section 412(e)(4) (8 U.S.C. 1522(e)(4)), by striking 
     ``State plan approved'' and inserting ``State program 
     funded''.
       (t) Section 640(a)(4)(B)(i) of the Head Start Act (42 
     U.S.C. 9835(a)(4)(B)(i)) is amended by striking ``program of 
     aid to families with dependent children under a State plan 
     approved'' and inserting ``State program of assistance 
     funded''.
       (u) Section 9 of the Act of April 19, 1950 (64 Stat. 47, 
     chapter 92; 25 U.S.C. 639) is repealed.
       (v) Subparagraph (E) of section 213(d)(6) of the School-To-
     Work Opportunities Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. 6143(d)(6)) is 
     amended to read as follows:
       ``(E) part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 
     U.S.C. 601 et seq.) relating to work activities;''.
       (w) Section 552a(a)(8)(B)(iv)(III) of title 5, United 
     States Code, is amended by striking ``section 464 or 1137 of 
     the Social Security Act'' and inserting ``section 404(e), 
     464, or 1137 of the Social Security Act.''.

     SEC. 111. DEVELOPMENT OF PROTOTYPE OF COUNTERFEIT-RESISTANT 
                   SOCIAL SECURITY CARD REQUIRED.

       (a) Development.--
       (1) In general.--The Commissioner of Social Security (in 
     this section referred to as the ``Commissioner'') shall, in 
     accordance with this section, develop a prototype of a 
     counterfeit-resistant social security card. Such prototype 
     card shall--
       (A) be made of a durable, tamper-resistant material such as 
     plastic or polyester,
       (B) employ technologies that provide security features, 
     such as magnetic stripes, holograms, and integrated circuits, 
     and
       (C) be developed so as to provide individuals with reliable 
     proof of citizenship or legal resident alien status.
       (2) Assistance by attorney general.--The Attorney General 
     of the United States shall provide such information and 
     assistance as the Commissioner deems necessary to enable the 
     Commissioner to comply with this section.
       (b) Study and Report.--
       (1) In general.--The Commissioner shall conduct a study and 
     issue a report to Congress which examines different methods 
     of improving the social security card application process.
       (2) Elements of study.--The study shall include an 
     evaluation of the cost and work

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     load implications of issuing a counterfeit-resistant social 
     security card for all individuals over a 3-, 5-, and 10-year 
     period. The study shall also evaluate the feasibility and 
     cost implications of imposing a user fee for replacement 
     cards and cards issued to individuals who apply for such a 
     card prior to the scheduled 3-, 5-, and 10-year phase-in 
     options.
       (3) Distribution of report.--The Commissioner shall submit 
     copies of the report described in this subsection along with 
     a facsimile of the prototype card as described in subsection 
     (a) to the Committees on Ways and Means and Judiciary of the 
     House of Representatives and the Committees on Finance and 
     Judiciary of the Senate within 1 year after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 112. DISCLOSURE OF RECEIPT OF FEDERAL FUNDS.

       (a) In General.--Whenever an organization that accepts 
     Federal funds under this Act or the amendments made by this 
     Act makes any communication that in any way intends to 
     promote public support or opposition to any policy of a 
     Federal, State, or local government through any broadcasting 
     station, newspaper, magazine, outdoor advertising facility, 
     direct mailing, or any other type of general public 
     advertising, such communication shall state the following: 
     ``This was prepared and paid for by an organization that 
     accepts taxpayer dollars.''.
       (b) Failure To Comply.--If an organization makes any 
     communication described in subsection (a) and fails to 
     provide the statement required by that subsection, such 
     organization shall be ineligible to receive Federal funds 
     under this Act or the amendments made by this Act.
       (c) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term 
     ``organization'' means an organization described in section 
     501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
       (d) Effective Dates.--This section shall take effect--
       (1) with respect to printed communications 1 year after the 
     date of enactment of this Act; and
       (2) with respect to any other communication on the date of 
     enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 113. MODIFICATIONS TO THE JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR CERTAIN 
                   LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS PROGRAM.

       Section 505 of the Family Support Act of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 
     1315 note) is amended--
       (1) in the heading, by striking ``DEMONSTRATION'';
       (2) by striking ``demonstration'' each place such term 
     appears;
       (3) in subsection (a), by striking ``in each of fiscal 
     years'' and all that follows through ``10'' and inserting 
     ``shall enter into agreements with'';
       (4) in subsection (b)(3), by striking ``aid to families 
     with dependent children under part A of title IV of the 
     Social Security Act'' and inserting ``assistance under the 
     program funded part A of title IV of the Social Security Act 
     of the State in which the individual resides'';
       (5) in subsection (c)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)(C), by striking ``aid to families with 
     dependent children under part A of title IV of the Social 
     Security Act'' and inserting ``assistance under a State 
     program funded part A of title IV of the Social Security 
     Act'';
       (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``aid to families with 
     dependent children under title IV of such Act'' and inserting 
     ``assistance under a State program funded part A of title IV 
     of the Social Security Act'';
       (6) in subsection (d), by striking ``job opportunities and 
     basic skills training program (as provided for under title IV 
     of the Social Security Act)'' and inserting ``the State 
     program funded under part A of title IV of the Social 
     Security Act''; and
       (7) by striking subsections (e) through (g) and inserting 
     the following:
       ``(e) Authorization of Appropriations.--For the purpose of 
     conducting projects under this section, there is authorized 
     to be appropriated an amount not to exceed $25,000,000 for 
     any fiscal year.''.

     SEC. 114. SECRETARIAL SUBMISSION OF LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL FOR 
                   TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

       Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the 
     Commissioner of Social Security, in consultation, as 
     appropriate, with the heads of other Federal agencies, shall 
     submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a 
     legislative proposal proposing such technical and conforming 
     amendments as are necessary to bring the law into conformity 
     with the policy embodied in this title.

     SEC. 115. APPLICATION OF CURRENT AFDC STANDARDS UNDER 
                   MEDICAID PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--Title XIX is amended--
       (1) by redesignating section 1931 as section 1932; and
       (2) by inserting after section 1930 the following new 
     section:


            ``application of afdc standards and methodology

       ``Sec. 1931. (a)(1) Subject to the succeeding provisions of 
     this section, with respect to a State any reference in this 
     title (or other provision of law in relation to the operation 
     of this title) to a provision of part A of title IV, or a 
     State plan under such part (or a provision of such a plan), 
     including standards and methodologies for determining income 
     and resources under such part or plan, shall be considered a 
     reference to such a provision or plan as in effect as of July 
     1, 1996, with respect to the State.
       ``(2) In applying section 1925(a)(1), the reference to 
     `section 402(a)(8)(B)(ii)(II)' is deemed a reference to a 
     corresponding earning disregard rule (if any) established 
     under a State program funded under part A of title IV (as in 
     effect on and after October 1, 1996).
       ``(3) The provisions of section 406(h) (as in effect on 
     July 1, 1996) shall apply, in relation to this title, with 
     respect to individuals who receive assistance under a State 
     program funded under part A of title IV (as in effect on and 
     after October 1, 1996) and are eligible for medical 
     assistance under this title or who are described in 
     subsection (b)(1) in the same manner as they apply before 
     such date with respect to individuals who become ineligible 
     for aid to families with dependent children as a result 
     (wholly or partly) of the collection or increased collection 
     of child or spousal support under part D of title IV.
       ``(4) With respect to the reference in section 1902(a)(5) 
     to a State plan approved under part A of title IV, a State 
     may treat such reference as a reference either to a State 
     program funded under such part (as in effect on and after 
     October 1, 1996) or to the State plan under this title.
       ``(b)(1) For purposes of this title, subject to paragraph 
     (2), in determining eligibility for medical assistance, an 
     individual shall be deemed to be receiving aid or assistance 
     under a State plan approved under part A of title IV (and 
     shall be treated as meeting the income and resource standards 
     under such part) only if the individual meets--
       ``(A) the income and resource standards under such plan, 
     and
       ``(B) the eligibility requirements of such plan under 
     subsections (a) through (c) of section 406 and section 
     407(a),

     as in effect as of July 1, 1996. Subject to paragraph (2)(B), 
     the income and resource methodologies under such plan as of 
     such date shall be used in the determination of whether any 
     individual meets income and resource standards under such 
     plan.
       ``(2) For purposes of applying this section, a State may--
       ``(A) lower its income standards applicable with respect to 
     part A of title IV, but not below the income standards 
     applicable under its State plan under such part on May 1, 
     1988; and
       ``(B) use income and resource standards or methodologies 
     that are less restrictive than the standards or methodologies 
     used under the State plan under such part as of July 1, 1996.
       ``(3) For purposes of applying this section, a State may, 
     subject to paragraph (4), treat all individuals (or 
     reasonable categories of individuals) receiving assistance 
     under the State program funded under part A of title IV (as 
     in effect on or after October 1, 1996) as individuals who are 
     receiving aid or assistance under a State plan approved under 
     part A of title IV (and thereby eligible for medical 
     assistance under this title).
       ``(4) For purposes of section 1925, an individual who is 
     receiving assistance under the State program funded under 
     part A of title IV (as in effect on or after October 1, 1996) 
     and is eligible for medical assistance under this title shall 
     be treated as an individual receiving aid or assistance 
     pursuant to a plan of the State approved under part A of 
     title IV (as in effect as of July 1, 1996) (and thereby 
     eligible for continuation of medical assistance under such 
     section).
       ``(c) In the case of a waiver of a provision of part A of 
     title IV in effect with respect to a State as of July 1, 
     1996, if the waiver affects eligibility of individuals for 
     medical assistance under this title, such waiver may (but 
     need not) continue to be applied, at the option of the State, 
     in relation to this title after the date the waiver would 
     otherwise expire. If a State elects not to continue to apply 
     such a waiver, then, after the date of the expiration of the 
     waiver, subsection (a) shall be applied as if any provisions 
     so waived had not been waived.
       ``(d) Nothing in this section, or part A of title IV, shall 
     be construed as preventing a State from providing for the 
     same application form for assistance under a State program 
     funded under part A of title IV (on or after October 1, 1996) 
     and for medical assistance under this title.
       ``(e) The provisions of this section shall apply 
     notwithstanding any other provision of this title.''.
       (b) Plan Amendment.--Section 1902(a) (42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)) 
     is amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (61),
       (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (62) and 
     inserting ``; and'', and
       (3) by inserting after paragraph (62) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(63) provide for administration and determinations of 
     eligibility with respect to individuals who are (or seek to 
     be) eligible for medical assistance based on the application 
     of section 1931.''.
       (c) Elimination of Requirement of Minimum AFDC Payment 
     Levels.--(1) Section 1902(c) (42 U.S.C. 1396a(c)) is amended 
     by striking ``if--'' and all that follows and inserting the 
     following: ``if the State requires individuals described in 
     subsection (l)(1) to apply for assistance under the State 
     program funded under part A of title IV as a condition of 
     applying for or receiving medical assistance under this 
     title.''.
       (2) Section 1903(i) (42 U.S.C. 1396b(i)) is amended by 
     striking paragraph (9).

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     SEC. 116. EFFECTIVE DATE; TRANSITION RULE.

       (a) In General.--Except as otherwise provided in this 
     title, this title and the amendments made by this title shall 
     take effect on October 1, 1996.
       (b) Transition Rules.--
       (1) State option to accelerate effective date.--
       (A) In general.--If, within 3 months after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human 
     Services receives from a State, a plan described in section 
     402(a) of the Social Security Act (as added by the amendment 
     made by section 103 of this Act), this title and the 
     amendments made by this title (except section 409(a)(5) of 
     the Social Security Act, as added by the amendment made by 
     such section 103) shall also apply with respect to the State 
     during the period that begins on the date the Secretary 
     approves the plan and ends on September 30, 1996, except that 
     the State shall be considered an eligible State for fiscal 
     year 1996 for purposes of part A of title IV of the Social 
     Security Act (as in effect pursuant to the amendment made by 
     such section 103).
       (B) Limitations on federal obligations.--
       (i) Under afdc program.--If the Secretary receives from a 
     State the plan referred to in subparagraph (A), the total 
     obligations of the Federal Government to the State under part 
     A of title IV of the Social Security Act (as in effect on 
     September 30, 1995) with respect to expenditures by the State 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act shall not exceed 
     an amount equal to--

       (I) the State family assistance grant (as defined in 
     section 403(a)(1)(B) of the Social Security Act (as in effect 
     pursuant to the amendment made by section 103 of this Act)); 
     minus
       (II) any obligations of the Federal Government to the State 
     under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (as in 
     effect on September 30, 1995) with respect to expenditures by 
     the State during the period that begins on October 1, 1995, 
     and ends on the day before the date of the enactment of this 
     Act.

       (ii) Under temporary family assistance program.--
     Notwithstanding section 403(a)(1) of the Social Security Act 
     (as in effect pursuant to the amendment made by section 103 
     of this Act), the total obligations of the Federal Government 
     to a State under such section 403(a)(1) for fiscal year 1996 
     after the termination of the State AFDC program shall not 
     exceed an amount equal to--

       (I) the amount described in clause (i)(I) of this 
     subparagraph; minus
       (II) any obligations of the Federal Government to the State 
     under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (as in 
     effect on September 30, 1995) with respect to expenditures by 
     the State on or after October 1, 1995.

       (iii) Child care obligations excluded in determining 
     federal afdc obligations.--As used in this subparagraph, the 
     term ``obligations of the Federal Government to the State 
     under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act'' does 
     not include any obligation of the Federal Government with 
     respect to child care expenditures by the State.
       (C) Submission of state plan for fiscal year 1996 deemed 
     acceptance of grant limitations and formula.--The submission 
     of a plan by a State pursuant to subparagraph (A) is deemed 
     to constitute the State's acceptance of the grant reductions 
     under subparagraph (B)(ii) (including the formula for 
     computing the amount of the reduction).
       (D) Definitions.--As used in this paragraph:
       (i) State afdc program.--The term ``State AFDC program'' 
     means the State program under parts A and F of title IV of 
     the Social Security Act (as in effect on September 30, 1995).
       (ii) State.--The term ``State'' means the 50 States and the 
     District of Columbia.
       (2) Claims, actions, and proceedings.--The amendments made 
     by this title shall not apply with respect to--
       (A) powers, duties, functions, rights, claims, penalties, 
     or obligations applicable to aid, assistance, or services 
     provided before the effective date of this title under the 
     provisions amended; and
       (B) administrative actions and proceedings commenced before 
     such date, or authorized before such date to be commenced, 
     under such provisions.
       (3) Closing out account for those programs terminated or 
     substantially modified by this title.--In closing out 
     accounts, Federal and State officials may use scientifically 
     acceptable statistical sampling techniques. Claims made with 
     respect to State expenditures under a State plan approved 
     under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (as in 
     effect before the effective date of this Act) with respect to 
     assistance or services provided on or before September 30, 
     1995, shall be treated as claims with respect to expenditures 
     during fiscal year 1995 for purposes of reimbursement even if 
     payment was made by a State on or after October 1, 1995. Each 
     State shall complete the filing of all claims under the State 
     plan (as so in effect) no later than September 30, 1997. The 
     head of each Federal department shall--
       (A) use the single audit procedure to review and resolve 
     any claims in connection with the close out of programs under 
     such State plans; and
       (B) reimburse States for any payments made for assistance 
     or services provided during a prior fiscal year from funds 
     for fiscal year 1995, rather than from funds authorized by 
     this title.
       (4) Continuance in office of assistant secretary for family 
     support.--The individual who, on the day before the effective 
     date of this title, is serving as Assistant Secretary for 
     Family Support within the Department of Health and Human 
     Services shall, until a successor is appointed to such 
     position--
       (A) continue to serve in such position; and
       (B) except as otherwise provided by law--
       (i) continue to perform the functions of the Assistant 
     Secretary for Family Support under section 417 of the Social 
     Security Act (as in effect before such effective date); and
       (ii) have the powers and duties of the Assistant Secretary 
     for Family Support under section 416 of the Social Security 
     Act (as in effect pursuant to the amendment made by section 
     103 of this Act).
                 TITLE II--SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME

     SEC. 200. REFERENCE TO SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.

       Except as otherwise specifically provided, wherever in this 
     title an amendment is expressed in terms of an amendment to 
     or repeal of a section or other provision, the reference 
     shall be considered to be made to that section or other 
     provision of the Social Security Act.
                  Subtitle A--Eligibility Restrictions

     SEC. 201. DENIAL OF SSI BENEFITS FOR 10 YEARS TO INDIVIDUALS 
                   FOUND TO HAVE FRAUDULENTLY MISREPRESENTED 
                   RESIDENCE IN ORDER TO OBTAIN BENEFITS 
                   SIMULTANEOUSLY IN 2 OR MORE STATES.

       (a) In General.--Section 1614(a) (42 U.S.C. 1382c(a)) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(5) An individual shall not be considered an eligible 
     individual for the purposes of this title during the 10-year 
     period that begins on the date the individual is convicted in 
     Federal or State court of having made a fraudulent statement 
     or representation with respect to the place of residence of 
     the individual in order to receive assistance simultaneously 
     from 2 or more States under programs that are funded under 
     title IV, title XIX, or the Food Stamp Act of 1977, or 
     benefits in 2 or more States under the supplemental security 
     income program under this title.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 202. DENIAL OF SSI BENEFITS FOR FUGITIVE FELONS AND 
                   PROBATION AND PAROLE VIOLATORS.

       (a) In General.--Section 1611(e) (42 U.S.C. 1382(e)) is 
     amended by inserting after paragraph (3) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(4) A person shall not be considered an eligible 
     individual or eligible spouse for purposes of this title with 
     respect to any month if during such month the person is--
       ``(A) fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody or 
     confinement after conviction, under the laws of the place 
     from which the person flees, for a crime, or an attempt to 
     commit a crime, which is a felony under the laws of the place 
     from which the person flees, or which, in the case of the 
     State of New Jersey, is a high misdemeanor under the laws of 
     such State; or
       ``(B) violating a condition of probation or parole imposed 
     under Federal or State law.''.
       (b) Exchange of Information With Law Enforcement 
     Agencies.--Section 1611(e) (42 U.S.C. 1382(e)), as amended by 
     subsection (a), is amended by inserting after paragraph (4) 
     the following new paragraph:
       ``(5) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Commissioner shall furnish any Federal, State, or local law 
     enforcement officer, upon the request of the officer, with 
     the current address, Social Security number, and photograph 
     (if applicable) of any recipient of benefits under this 
     title, if the officer furnishes the Commissioner with the 
     name of the recipient and notifies the Commissioner that--
       ``(A) the recipient--
       ``(i) is described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph 
     (4); or
       ``(ii) has information that is necessary for the officer to 
     conduct the officer's official duties; and
       ``(B) the location or apprehension of the recipient is 
     within the officer's official duties.''.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 203. VERIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN SSI 
                   DISABILITY BENEFITS.

       Section 1631 (42 U.S.C. 1383) is amended by adding at the 
     end the following new subsection:
       ``(o)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the 
     Commissioner of Social Security determines that an 
     individual, who is 18 years of age or older, is eligible to 
     receive benefits pursuant to section 1614(a)(3), the 
     Commissioner shall, at the time of the determination, either 
     exempt the individual from an eligibility review or establish 
     a schedule for reviewing the individual's continuing 
     eligibility in accordance with paragraph (2).
       ``(2)(A) The Commissioner shall establish a periodic review 
     with respect to the continuing eligibility of an individual 
     to receive benefits, unless the individual is exempt from 
     review under subparagraph (C) or is subject to a scheduled 
     review under subparagraph (B). A periodic review under this 
     subparagraph shall be initiated by the Commissioner not later 
     than 30 months after the date a determination is made that 
     the individual is eligible for benefits and every 30 months 
     thereafter, unless a waiver is granted under section 
     221(i)(2). However, the Commissioner shall not postpone the 
     initiation

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     of a periodic review for more than 12 months in any case in 
     which such waiver has been granted unless exigent 
     circumstances require such postponement.
       ``(B)(i) In the case of an individual, other than an 
     individual who is exempt from review under subparagraph (C) 
     or with respect to whom subparagraph (A) applies, the 
     Commissioner shall schedule a review regarding the 
     individual's continuing eligibility to receive benefits at 
     any time the Commissioner determines, based on the evidence 
     available, that there is a significant possibility that the 
     individual may cease to be entitled to such benefits.
       ``(ii) The Commissioner may establish classifications of 
     individuals for whom a review of continuing eligibility is 
     scheduled based on the impairments that are the basis for 
     such individuals' eligibility for benefits. A review of an 
     individual covered by a classification shall be scheduled in 
     accordance with the applicable classification, unless the 
     Commissioner determines that applying such schedule is 
     inconsistent with the purpose of this Act or the integrity of 
     the supplemental security income program.
       ``(C)(i) The Commissioner may exempt an individual from 
     review under this subsection, if the individual's eligibility 
     for benefits is based on a condition that, as a practical 
     matter, has no substantial likelihood of improving to a point 
     where the individual will be able to perform substantial 
     gainful activity.
       ``(ii) The Commissioner may establish classifications of 
     individuals who are exempt from review under this subsection 
     based on the impairments that are the basis for such 
     individuals' eligibility for benefits. Notwithstanding any 
     such classification, the Commissioner may, at the time of 
     determining an individual's eligibility, schedule a review of 
     such individual's continuing eligibility if the Commissioner 
     determines that a review is necessary to preserve the 
     integrity of the supplemental security income program.
       ``(3) The Commissioner may revise a determination made 
     under paragraph (1) and schedule a review under paragraph 
     (2)(B), if the Commissioner obtains credible evidence that an 
     individual may no longer be eligible for benefits or the 
     Commissioner determines that a review is necessary to 
     maintain the integrity of the supplemental security income 
     program. Information obtained under section 1137 may be used 
     as the basis to schedule a review.
       ``(4)(A) The requirements of sections 1614(a)(4) and 1633 
     shall apply to reviews conducted under this subsection.
       ``(B) Such reviews may be conducted by the applicable State 
     agency or the Commissioner, whichever is appropriate.
       ``(5) Not later than 3 months after the date of the 
     enactment of this subsection, the Commissioner shall 
     establish a schedule for reviewing the continuing eligibility 
     of each individual who is receiving benefits pursuant to 
     section 1614(a)(3) on such date of enactment and who has 
     attained 18 years of age, unless such individual is exempt 
     under paragraph (2)(C). Such review shall be scheduled under 
     the procedures prescribed by or under paragraph (2), except 
     that the reviews shall be scheduled so that the eligibility 
     of \1/3\ of all such nonexempt individuals is reviewed within 
     1 year after such date of enactment, the eligibility of \1/3\ 
     of such nonexempt individuals is reviewed within 1 year after 
     such date of enactment, and all remaining nonexempt 
     individuals who continue receiving benefits shall have their 
     eligibility reviewed within 3 years after such date of 
     enactment. Each individual determined eligible to continue 
     receiving benefits in a review scheduled under this paragraph 
     shall, at the time of the determination, be subject to 
     paragraph (2).''.

     SEC. 204. TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.

       (a) Implementation of Prohibition Against Payment of 
     Benefits to Prisoners.--
       (1) In general.--Section 1611(e)(1) (42 U.S.C. 1382(e)(1)) 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     subparagraph:
       ``(I)(i) The Commissioner shall enter into a contract, with 
     any interested State or local institution referred to in 
     subparagraph (A), under which--
       ``(I) the institution shall provide to the Commissioner, on 
     a monthly basis, the names, social security account numbers, 
     dates of birth, and such other identifying information 
     concerning the inmates of the institution as the Commissioner 
     may require for the purpose of carrying out paragraph (1); 
     and
       ``(II) the Commissioner shall pay to any such institution, 
     with respect to each inmate of the institution who is 
     eligible for a benefit under this title for the month 
     preceding the first month throughout which such inmate is in 
     such institution and becomes ineligible for such benefit (or 
     becomes eligible only for a benefit payable at a reduced 
     rate) as a result of the application of this paragraph, an 
     amount not to exceed $400 if the institution furnishes the 
     information described in subclause (I) to the Commissioner 
     within 30 days after such individual becomes an inmate of 
     such institution, or an amount not to exceed $200 if the 
     institution furnishes such information after 30 days after 
     such date but within 90 days after such date.
       ``(ii) The provisions of section 552a of title 5, United 
     States Code, shall not apply to any contract entered into 
     under clause (i) or to information exchanged pursuant to such 
     contract.''.
       (2) Conforming OASDI amendments.--Section 202(x)(3) (42 
     U.S.C. 402(x)(3)) is amended--
       (A) by inserting ``(A)'' after ``(3)''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(B)(i) The Commissioner shall enter into a contract, with 
     any interested State or local institution described in clause 
     (i) or (ii) of paragraph (1)(A) the primary purpose of which 
     is to confine individuals as described in paragraph (1)(A), 
     under which--
       ``(I) the institution shall provide to the Commissioner, on 
     a monthly basis, the names, social security account numbers, 
     dates of birth, and such other identifying information 
     concerning the individuals confined in the institution as the 
     Commissioner may require for the purpose of carrying out 
     paragraph (1); and
       ``(II) the Commissioner shall pay to any such institution, 
     with respect to each individual who is entitled to a benefit 
     under this title for the month preceding the first month 
     throughout which such individual is confined in such 
     institution as described in paragraph (1)(A), an amount not 
     to exceed $400 if the institution furnishes the information 
     described in subclause (I) to the Commissioner within 30 days 
     after the date such individual's confinement in such 
     institution begins, or an amount not to exceed $200 if the 
     institution furnishes such information after 30 days after 
     such date but within 90 days after such date.
       ``(ii) The provisions of section 552a of title 5, United 
     States Code, shall not apply to any contract entered into 
     under clause (i) or to information exchanged pursuant to such 
     contract.''.
       (b) Denial of SSI Benefits for 10 Years to a Person Found 
     To Have Fraudulently Obtained SSI Benefits While in Prison.--
       (1) In general.--Section 1611(e)(1) (42 U.S.C. 1382(e)(1)), 
     as amended by subsection (a)(1), is amended by adding at the 
     end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(J) In any case in which the Commissioner of Social 
     Security finds that a person has made a fraudulent statement 
     or representation in order to obtain or to continue to 
     receive benefits under this title while being an inmate in a 
     penal institution, such person shall not be considered an 
     eligible individual or eligible spouse for any month ending 
     during the 10-year period beginning on the date on which such 
     person ceases being such an inmate.''.
       (2) Effective date.--The amendment made by this subsection 
     shall apply with respect to statements or representations 
     made on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (c) Elimination of OASDI Requirement That Confinement Stem 
     From Crime Punishable by Imprisonment for More Than 1 Year.--
       (1) In general.--Section 202(x)(1)(A) (42 U.S.C. 
     402(x)(1)(A)) is amended--
       (A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking 
     ``during'' and inserting ``throughout'';
       (B) in clause (i), by striking ``pursuant'' and all that 
     follows through ``imposed''; and
       (C) in clause (ii)(I), by striking ``an offense punishable 
     by imprisonment for more than 1 year'' and inserting ``a 
     criminal offense''.
       (2) Effective date.--The amendments made by this subsection 
     shall be effective with respect to benefits payable for 
     months beginning more than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.
       (d) Study of Other Potential Improvements in the Collection 
     of Information Respecting Public Inmates.--
       (1) Study.--The Commissioner of Social Security shall 
     conduct a study of the desirability, feasibility, and cost 
     of--
       (A) establishing a system under which Federal, State, and 
     local courts would furnish to the Commissioner such 
     information respecting court orders by which individuals are 
     confined in jails, prisons, or other public penal, 
     correctional, or medical facilities as the Commissioner may 
     require for the purpose of carrying out sections 202(x) and 
     1611(e)(1) of the Social Security Act; and
       (B) requiring that State and local jails, prisons, and 
     other institutions that enter into contracts with the 
     Commissioner under section 202(x)(3)(B) or 1611(e)(1)(I) of 
     the Social Security Act furnish the information required by 
     such contracts to the Commissioner by means of an electronic 
     or other sophisticated data exchange system.
       (2) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of Social Security 
     shall submit a report on the results of the study conducted 
     pursuant to this subsection to the Committee on Finance of 
     the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House 
     of Representatives.

     SEC. 205. EFFECTIVE DATE OF APPLICATION FOR BENEFITS.

       (a) In General.--Subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section 
     1611(c)(7) (42 U.S.C. 1382(c)(7)) are amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(A) the first day of the month following the date such 
     application is filed, or
       ``(B) the first day of the month following the date such 
     individual becomes eligible for such benefits with respect to 
     such application.''.
       (b) Special Rule Relating to Emergency Advance Payments.--
     Section 1631(a)(4)(A) (42 U.S.C. 1383(a)(4)(A)) is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``for the month following the date the 
     application is filed'' after ``is presumptively eligible for 
     such benefits''; and
       (2) by inserting ``, which shall be repaid through 
     proportionate reductions in such benefits over a period of 
     not more than 6 months'' before the semicolon.

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       (c) Conforming Amendments.--
       (1) Section 1614(b) (42 U.S.C. 1382c(b)) is amended by 
     striking ``at the time the application or request is filed'' 
     and inserting ``on the first day of the month following the 
     date the application or request is filed''.
       (2) Section 1631(g)(3) (42 U.S.C. 1382j(g)(3)) is amended 
     by inserting ``following the month'' after ``beginning with 
     the month''.
       (d) Effective Date.--
       (1) In general.--The amendments made by this section shall 
     apply to applications for benefits under title XVI of the 
     Social Security Act filed on or after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, without regard to whether regulations 
     have been issued to implement such amendments.
       (2) Benefits under title xvi.--For purposes of this 
     subsection, the term ``benefits under title XVI of the Social 
     Security Act'' includes supplementary payments pursuant to an 
     agreement for Federal administration under section 1616(a) of 
     the Social Security Act, and payments pursuant to an 
     agreement entered into under section 212(b) of Public Law 93-
     66.

     SEC. 206. INSTALLMENT PAYMENT OF LARGE PAST-DUE SUPPLEMENTAL 
                   SECURITY INCOME BENEFITS.

       (a) In General.--Section 1631(a) (42 U.S.C. 1383) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(10)(A) If an individual is eligible for past-due monthly 
     benefits under this title in an amount that (after any 
     withholding for reimbursement to a State for interim 
     assistance under subsection (g)) equals or exceeds the 
     product of--
       ``(i) 12, and
       ``(ii) the maximum monthly benefit payable under this title 
     to an eligible individual (or, if appropriate, to an eligible 
     individual and eligible spouse),

     then the payment of such past-due benefits (after any such 
     reimbursement to a State) shall be made in installments as 
     provided in subparagraph (B).
       ``(B)(i) The payment of past-due benefits subject to this 
     subparagraph shall be made in not to exceed 3 installments 
     that are made at 6-month intervals.
       ``(ii) Except as provided in clause (iii), the amount of 
     each of the first and second installments may not exceed an 
     amount equal to the product of clauses (i) and (ii) of 
     subparagraph (A).
       ``(iii) In the case of an individual who has--
       ``(I) outstanding debt attributable to--
       ``(aa) food,
       ``(bb) clothing,
       ``(cc) shelter, or
       ``(dd) medically necessary services, supplies or equipment, 
     or medicine; or
       ``(II) current expenses or expenses anticipated in the near 
     term attributable to--
       ``(aa) medically necessary services, supplies or equipment, 
     or medicine, or
       ``(bb) the purchase of a home, and

     such debt or expenses are not subject to reimbursement by a 
     public assistance program, the Secretary under title XVIII, a 
     State plan approved under title XV or XIX, or any private 
     entity legally liable to provide payment pursuant to an 
     insurance policy, pre-paid plan, or other arrangement, the 
     limitation specified in clause (ii) may be exceeded by an 
     amount equal to the total of such debt and expenses.
       ``(C) This paragraph shall not apply to any individual who, 
     at the time of the Commissioner's determination that such 
     individual is eligible for the payment of past-due monthly 
     benefits under this title--
       ``(i) is afflicted with a medically determinable impairment 
     that is expected to result in death within 12 months; or
       ``(ii) is ineligible for benefits under this title and the 
     Commissioner determines that such individual is likely to 
     remain ineligible for the next 12 months.
       ``(D) For purposes of this paragraph, the term `benefits 
     under this title' includes supplementary payments pursuant to 
     an agreement for Federal administration under section 
     1616(a), and payments pursuant to an agreement entered into 
     under section 212(b) of Public Law 93-66.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 1631(a)(1) (42 U.S.C. 
     1383(a)(1)) is amended by inserting ``(subject to paragraph 
     (10))'' immediately before ``in such installments''.
       (c) Effective Date.--
       (1) In general.--The amendments made by this section are 
     effective with respect to past-due benefits payable under 
     title XVI of the Social Security Act after the third month 
     following the month in which this Act is enacted.
       (2) Benefits payable under title xvi.--For purposes of this 
     subsection, the term ``benefits payable under title XVI of 
     the Social Security Act'' includes supplementary payments 
     pursuant to an agreement for Federal administration under 
     section 1616(a) of the Social Security Act, and payments 
     pursuant to an agreement entered into under section 212(b) of 
     Public Law 93-66.

     SEC. 207. RECOVERY OF SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME 
                   OVERPAYMENTS FROM SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS.

       (a) In General.--Part A of title XI is amended by adding at 
     the end the following new section:


      ``RECOVERY OF SSI OVERPAYMENTS FROM SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS

       ``Sec. 1146. (a) In General.--Whenever the Commissioner of 
     Social Security determines that more than the correct amount 
     of any payment has been made to any person under the 
     supplemental security income program authorized by title XVI, 
     and the Commissioner is unable to make proper adjustment or 
     recovery of the amount so incorrectly paid as provided in 
     section 1631(b), the Commissioner (notwithstanding section 
     207) may recover the amount incorrectly paid by decreasing 
     any amount which is payable under the Federal Old-Age and 
     Survivors Insurance program or the Federal Disability 
     Insurance program authorized by title II to that person or 
     that person's estate.
       ``(b) No Effect on SSI Benefit Eligibility or Amount.--
     Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b) of section 1611, in 
     any case in which the Commissioner takes action in accordance 
     with subsection (a) to recover an overpayment from any 
     person, neither that person, nor any individual whose 
     eligibility or benefit amount is determined by considering 
     any part of that person's income, shall, as a result of such 
     action--
       ``(1) become eligible under the program of supplemental 
     security income benefits under title XVI, or
       ``(2) if such person or individual is already so eligible, 
     become eligible for increased benefits thereunder.
       ``(c) Program Under Title XVI.--For purposes of this 
     section, the term `supplemental security income program 
     authorized by title XVI' includes supplementary payments 
     pursuant to an agreement for Federal administration under 
     section 1616(a), and payments pursuant to an agreement 
     entered into under section 212(b) of Public Law 93-66.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--
       (1) Section 204 (42 U.S.C. 404) is amended by adding at the 
     end the following new subsection:
       ``(g) For payments which are adjusted or withheld to 
     recover an overpayment of supplemental security income 
     benefits paid under title XVI (including State supplementary 
     payments which were paid under an agreement pursuant to 
     section 1616(a) or section 212(b) of Public Law 93-66), see 
     section 1146.''.
       (2) Section 1631(b) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new paragraph:
       ``(5) For the recovery of overpayments of benefits under 
     this title from benefits payable under title II, see section 
     1146.''.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act 
     and shall apply to overpayments outstanding on or after such 
     date.
               Subtitle B--Benefits for Disabled Children

     SEC. 211. DEFINITION AND ELIGIBILITY RULES.

       (a) Definition of Childhood Disability.--Section 1614(a)(3) 
     (42 U.S.C. 1382c(a)(3)) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``An individual'' and 
     inserting ``Except as provided in subparagraph (C), an 
     individual'';
       (2) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``(or, in the case of 
     an individual under the age of 18, if he suffers from any 
     medically determinable physical or mental impairment of 
     comparable severity)'';
       (3) by redesignating subparagraphs (C) through (H) as 
     subparagraphs (D) through (I), respectively;
       (4) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following new 
     subparagraph:
       ``(C) An individual under the age of 18 shall be considered 
     disabled for the purposes of this title if that individual 
     has a medically determinable physical or mental impairment, 
     which results in marked and severe functional limitations, 
     and which can be expected to result in death or which has 
     lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of 
     not less than 12 months.''; and
       (5) in subparagraph (F), as so redesignated by paragraph 
     (3) of this subsection, by striking ``(D)'' and inserting 
     ``(E)''.
       (b) Changes to Childhood SSI Regulations.--
       (1) Modification to medical criteria for evaluation of 
     mental and emotional disorders.--The Commissioner of Social 
     Security shall modify sections 112.00C.2. and 112.02B.2.c.(2) 
     of appendix 1 to subpart P of part 404 of title 20, Code of 
     Federal Regulations, to eliminate references to maladaptive 
     behavior in the domain of personal/behavorial function.
       (2) Discontinuance of individualized functional 
     assessment.--The Commissioner of Social Security shall 
     discontinue the individualized functional assessment for 
     children set forth in sections 416.924d and 416.924e of title 
     20, Code of Federal Regulations.
       (c) Effective Date; Regulations; Application to Current 
     Recipients.--
       (1) In general.--The amendments made by subsections (a) and 
     (b) shall apply to applicants for benefits for months 
     beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
     without regard to whether regulations have been issued to 
     implement such amendments.
       (2) Regulations.--The Commissioner of Social Security shall 
     issue such regulations as the Commissioner determines to be 
     necessary to implement the amendments made by subsections (a) 
     and (b) not later than 60 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.
       (3) Application to current recipients.--
       (A) Eligibility determinations.--Not later than 1 year 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner 
     of Social Security shall redetermine the eligibility of any 
     individual under age 18 who is receiving supplemental 
     security income benefits based on a disability under title 
     XVI of the Social Security Act as of the date of the 
     enactment of this Act and whose eligibility for such benefits 
     may terminate by reason of the amendments made by subsection 
     (a) or (b). With respect to any redetermination under this 
     subparagraph--

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       (i) section 1614(a)(4) of the Social Security Act (42 
     U.S.C. 1382c(a)(4)) shall not apply;
       (ii) the Commissioner of Social Security shall apply the 
     eligibility criteria for new applicants for benefits under 
     title XVI of such Act;
       (iii) the Commissioner shall give such redetermination 
     priority over all continuing eligibility reviews and other 
     reviews under such title; and
       (iv) such redetermination shall be counted as a review or 
     redetermination otherwise required to be made under section 
     208 of the Social Security Independence and Program 
     Improvements Act of 1994 or any other provision of title XVI 
     of the Social Security Act.
       (B) Grandfather provision.--The amendments made by 
     subsections (a) and (b), and the redetermination under 
     subparagraph (A), shall only apply with respect to the 
     benefits of an individual described in subparagraph (A) for 
     months beginning on or after the date of redetermination with 
     respect to the individual.
       (C) Notice.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of Social Security 
     shall notify an individual described in subparagraph (A) of 
     the provisions of this paragraph.

     SEC. 212. ELIGIBILITY REDETERMINATIONS AND CONTINUING 
                   DISABILITY REVIEWS.

       (a) Continuing Disability Reviews Relating to Certain 
     Children.--Section 1614(a)(3)(H) (42 U.S.C. 1382c(a)(3)(H)), 
     as so redesignated by section 211(a)(3) of this Act, is 
     amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(i)'' after ``(H)''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new clause:
       ``(ii)(I) Not less frequently than once every 3 years, the 
     Commissioner shall review in accordance with paragraph (4) 
     the continued eligibility for benefits under this title of 
     each individual who has not attained 18 years of age and is 
     eligible for such benefits by reason of an impairment (or 
     combination of impairments) which may improve (or, which is 
     unlikely to improve, at the option of the Commissioner).
       ``(II) A parent or guardian of a recipient whose case is 
     reviewed under this clause shall present, at the time of 
     review, evidence demonstrating that the recipient is, and has 
     been, receiving treatment, to the extent considered medically 
     necessary and available, of the condition which was the basis 
     for providing benefits under this title.''.
       (b) Disability Eligibility Redeterminations Required for 
     SSI Recipients Who Attain 18 Years of Age.--
       (1) In general.--Section 1614(a)(3)(H) (42 U.S.C. 
     1382c(a)(3)(H)), as so redesignated by section 211(a)(3) of 
     this Act and as amended by subsection (a) of this section, is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new clause:
       ``(iii) If an individual is eligible for benefits under 
     this title by reason of disability for the month preceding 
     the month in which the individual attains the age of 18 
     years, the Commissioner shall redetermine such eligibility--
       ``(I) during the 1-year period beginning on the 
     individual's 18th birthday; and
       ``(II) by applying the criteria used in determining the 
     initial eligibility for applicants who have attained the age 
     of 18 years.
     With respect to a redetermination under this clause, 
     paragraph (4) shall not apply and such redetermination shall 
     be considered a substitute for a review or redetermination 
     otherwise required under any other provision of this 
     subparagraph during that 1-year period.''.
       (2) Conforming repeal.--Section 207 of the Social Security 
     Independence and Program Improvements Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 
     1382 note; 108 Stat. 1516) is hereby repealed.
       (c) Continuing Disability Review Required for Low Birth 
     Weight Babies.--Section 1614(a)(3)(H) (42 U.S.C. 
     1382c(a)(3)(H)), as so redesignated by section 211(a)(3) of 
     this Act and as amended by subsections (a) and (b) of this 
     section, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     clause:
       ``(iv)(I) Not later than 12 months after the birth of an 
     individual, the Commissioner shall review in accordance with 
     paragraph (4) the continuing eligibility for benefits under 
     this title by reason of disability of such individual whose 
     low birth weight is a contributing factor material to the 
     Commissioner's determination that the individual is disabled.
       ``(II) A review under subclause (I) shall be considered a 
     substitute for a review otherwise required under any other 
     provision of this subparagraph during that 12-month period.
       ``(III) A parent or guardian of a recipient whose case is 
     reviewed under this clause shall present, at the time of 
     review, evidence demonstrating that the recipient is, and has 
     been, receiving treatment, to the extent considered medically 
     necessary and available, of the condition which was the basis 
     for providing benefits under this title.''.
       (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall apply to benefits for months beginning on or after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, without regard to whether 
     regulations have been issued to implement such amendments.
       (e) Appropriation.--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 the conduct of continuing disability reviews pursuant to 
     the amendments made by this section--
       (1) $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1997;
       (2) $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1998; and
       (3) $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1999.

     SEC. 213. ADDITIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) Tightening of Representative Payee Requirements.--
       (1) Clarification of role.--Section 1631(a)(2)(B)(ii) (42 
     U.S.C. 1383(a)(2)(B)(ii)) is amended by striking ``and'' at 
     the end of subclause (II), by striking the period at the end 
     of subclause (IV) and inserting ``; and'', and by adding 
     after subclause (IV) the following new subclause:
       ``(V) advise such person through the notice of award of 
     benefits, and at such other times as the Commissioner of 
     Social Security deems appropriate, of specific examples of 
     appropriate expenditures of benefits under this title and the 
     proper role of a representative payee.''.
       (2) Documentation of expenditures required.--
       (A) In general.--Subparagraph (C)(i) of section 1631(a)(2) 
     (42 U.S.C. 1383(a)(2)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(C)(i) In any case where payment is made to a 
     representative payee of an individual or spouse, the 
     Commissioner of Social Security shall--
       ``(I) require such representative payee to document 
     expenditures and keep contemporaneous records of transactions 
     made using such payment; and
       ``(II) implement statistically valid procedures for 
     reviewing a sample of such contemporaneous records in order 
     to identify instances in which such representative payee is 
     not properly using such payment.''.
       (B) Conforming amendment with respect to parent payees.--
     Clause (ii) of section 1631(a)(2)(C) (42 U.S.C. 
     1383(a)(2)(C)) is amended by striking ``Clause (i)'' and 
     inserting ``Subclauses (II) and (III) of clause (i)''.
       (3) Effective date.--The amendments made by this subsection 
     shall apply to benefits paid after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act.
       (b) Dedicated Savings Accounts.--
       (1) In general.--Section 1631(a)(2)(B) (42 U.S.C. 
     1383(a)(2)(B)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(xiv) Notwithstanding clause (x), the Commissioner of 
     Social Security may, at the request of the representative 
     payee, pay any lump sum payment for the benefit of a child 
     into a dedicated savings account that could only be used to 
     purchase for such child--
       ``(I) education and job skills training;
       ``(II) special equipment or housing modifications or both 
     specifically related to, and required by the nature of, the 
     child's disability; and
       ``(III) appropriate therapy and rehabilitation.''.
       (2) Disregard of trust funds.--Section 1613(a) (42 U.S.C. 
     1382b(a)) is amended--
       (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (10),
       (B) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (11) and 
     inserting ``; and'', and
       (C) by inserting after paragraph (11) the following:
       ``(12) all amounts deposited in, or interest credited to, a 
     dedicated savings account described in section 
     1631(a)(2)(B)(xiv).''.
       (3) Effective date.--The amendments made by this subsection 
     shall apply to payments made after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act.

     SEC. 214. REDUCTION IN CASH BENEFITS PAYABLE TO 
                   INSTITUTIONALIZED INDIVIDUALS WHOSE MEDICAL 
                   COSTS ARE COVERED BY PRIVATE INSURANCE.

       (a) In General.--Section 1611(e)(1)(B) (42 U.S.C. 
     1382(e)(1)(B)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``title XIX, or'' and inserting ``title 
     XIX,''; and
       (2) by inserting ``or, in the case of an eligible 
     individual under the age of 18 receiving payments (with 
     respect to such individual) under any health insurance policy 
     issued by a private provider of such insurance'' after 
     ``section 1614(f)(2)(B),''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section 
     shall apply to benefits for months beginning 90 or more days 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act, without regard 
     to whether regulations have been issued to implement such 
     amendments.

     SEC. 215. MODIFICATION RESPECTING PARENTAL INCOME DEEMED TO 
                   DISABLED CHILDREN.

       (a) In General.--Section 1614(f)(2) (42 U.S.C. 1382c(f)(2)) 
     is amended--
       (1) by adding at the end of subparagraph (A) the following: 
     ``For purposes of the preceding sentence, the income of such 
     parent or spouse of such parent shall be reduced by--
       ``(A) the allocation for basic needs described in 
     subparagraph (C)(i); and
       ``(B) the earned income disregard described in subparagraph 
     (C)(ii).''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(C)(i) The allocation for basic needs described by this 
     clause is--
       ``(I) in the case of an individual who does not have a 
     spouse, an amount equal to 50 percent of the maximum monthly 
     benefit payable under this title to an eligible individual 
     who does not have an eligible spouse; or
       ``(II) in the case of an individual who has a spouse, an 
     amount equal to 50 percent of the maximum monthly benefit 
     payable under this title to an eligible individual who has an 
     eligible spouse.
       ``(ii) The earned income disregard described by this clause 
     is an amount determined by deducting the first $780 per year 
     (or proportionally smaller amounts for shorter periods) plus 
     64 percent of the remainder

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     from the earned income (determined in accordance with section 
     1612(a)(1)) of the parent (and spouse, if any).''.
       (b) Preservation of Medicaid Eligibility.--Section 1634 (42 
     U.S.C. 1383c) is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(f) Any child who has not attained 18 years of age and 
     who would be eligible for a payment under this title but for 
     the amendment made by section 215(a) of the Peronsal 
     Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 shall be 
     deemed to be receiving such payment for purposes of 
     eligibility of the child for medical assistance under a State 
     plan approved under title XIX of this Act.''.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall apply to months after 1996.

     SEC. 216. GRADUATED BENEFITS FOR ADDITIONAL CHILDREN.

       (a) In General.--Section 1611(b) (42 U.S.C. 1382(b)) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(3)(A) The benefit under this title for each eligible 
     blind or disabled individual as determined pursuant to 
     section 1611(a)(1) who--
       ``(i) is a child under the age of 18,
       ``(ii) lives in the same household as 1 or more persons who 
     are also eligible blind or disabled children under the age of 
     18, and
       ``(iii) does not live in a group or foster home,
     shall be equal to the applicable percentage of the amount in 
     section 1611(b)(1), reduced by the amount of any income of 
     such child, including income deemed to such child under 
     section 1614(f)(2).
       ``(B) For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable 
     percentage shall be determined under the following table:

The applicable percentage for each eligible child is:
100 percentchild.......................................................
81.2 percenthildren....................................................
71.8 percenthildren....................................................
65.9 percenthildren....................................................
61.8 percenthildren....................................................
58.5 percenthildren....................................................
55.9 percenthildren....................................................
53.5 percenthildren....................................................
51.7 percenthildren....................................................
50.2 percentchildren...................................................
48.7 percentchildren...................................................
47.4 percent.''.dren or more...........................................

       ``(C) For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable 
     household size shall be determined by the number of eligible 
     blind and disabled children under the age of 18 in such 
     household whose countable income and resources do not exceed 
     the limits specified in section 1611(a)(1).''.
       (b) Preservation of Medicaid Eligibility.--Section 1634 (42 
     U.S.C. 1383c), as amended by section 215(b) of this Act, is 
     amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(g) Any child who has not attained 18 years of age and 
     would be eligible for a payment under this title but for the 
     limitation on payment amount imposed by section 1611(b)(3) 
     shall be deemed to be receiving such benefit for purposes of 
     establishing such child's eligibility for medical assistance 
     under a State plan approved under title XIX.''.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect--
       (1) on the date of the enactment of this Act, with respect 
     to payments made on the basis of determinations of 
     eligibility made on or after such date, and
       (2) on January 1, 1998, with respect to payments made for 
     months beginning after such date on the basis of 
     determinations of eligibility made before the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.
               Subtitle C--State Supplementation Programs

     SEC. 221. REPEAL OF MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT REQUIREMENTS 
                   APPLICABLE TO OPTIONAL STATE PROGRAMS FOR 
                   SUPPLEMENTATION OF SSI BENEFITS.

       Section 1618 (42 U.S.C. 1382g) is hereby repealed.
   Subtitle D--Studies Regarding Supplemental Security Income Program

     SEC. 231. ANNUAL REPORT ON THE SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME 
                   PROGRAM.

       Title XVI (42 U.S.C. 1381 et seq.), as amended by section 
     201(c) of this Act, is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new section:


                       ``ANNUAL REPORT ON PROGRAM

       ``Sec. 1637. (a) Not later than May 30 of each year, the 
     Commissioner of Social Security shall prepare and deliver a 
     report annually to the President and the Congress regarding 
     the program under this title, including--
       ``(1) a comprehensive description of the program;
       ``(2) historical and current data on allowances and 
     denials, including number of applications and allowance rates 
     at initial determinations, reconsiderations, administrative 
     law judge hearings, council of appeals hearings, and Federal 
     court appeal hearings;
       ``(3) historical and current data on characteristics of 
     recipients and program costs, by recipient group (aged, 
     blind, work disabled adults, and children);
       ``(4) projections of future number of recipients and 
     program costs, through at least 25 years;
       ``(5) number of redeterminations and continuing disability 
     reviews, and the outcomes of such redeterminations and 
     reviews;
       ``(6) data on the utilization of work incentives;
       ``(7) detailed information on administrative and other 
     program operation costs;
       ``(8) summaries of relevant research undertaken by the 
     Social Security Administration, or by other researchers;
       ``(9) State supplementation program operations;
       ``(10) a historical summary of statutory changes to this 
     title; and
       ``(11) such other information as the Commissioner deems 
     useful.
       ``(b) Each member of the Social Security Advisory Board 
     shall be permitted to provide an individual report, or a 
     joint report if agreed, of views of the program under this 
     title, to be included in the annual report under this 
     section.''.

     SEC. 232. STUDY OF DISABILITY DETERMINATION PROCESS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, and from funds otherwise 
     appropriated, the Commissioner of Social Security shall make 
     arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences, or other 
     independent entity, to conduct a study of the disability 
     determination process under titles II and XVI of the Social 
     Security Act. This study shall be undertaken in consultation 
     with professionals representing appropriate disciplines.
       (b) Study Components.--The study described in subsection 
     (a) shall include--
       (1) an initial phase examining the appropriateness of, and 
     making recommendations regarding--
       (A) the definitions of disability in effect on the date of 
     the enactment of this Act and the advantages and 
     disadvantages of alternative definitions; and
       (B) the operation of the disability determination process, 
     including the appropriate method of performing comprehensive 
     assessments of individuals under age 18 with physical and 
     mental impairments;
       (2) a second phase, which may be concurrent with the 
     initial phase, examining the validity, reliability, and 
     consistency with current scientific knowledge of the 
     standards and individual listings in the Listing of 
     Impairments set forth in appendix 1 of subpart P of part 404 
     of title 20, Code of Federal Regulations, and of related 
     evaluation procedures as promulgated by the Commissioner of 
     Social Security; and
       (3) such other issues as the applicable entity considers 
     appropriate.
       (c) Reports and Regulations.--
       (1) Reports.--The Commissioner of Social Security shall 
     request the applicable entity, to submit an interim report 
     and a final report of the findings and recommendations 
     resulting from the study described in this section to the 
     President and the Congress not later than 18 months and 24 
     months, respectively, from the date of the contract for such 
     study, and such additional reports as the Commissioner deems 
     appropriate after consultation with the applicable entity.
       (2) Regulations.--The Commissioner of Social Security shall 
     review both the interim and final reports, and shall issue 
     regulations implementing any necessary changes following each 
     report.

     SEC. 233. STUDY BY GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE.

       Not later than January 1, 1998, the Comptroller General of 
     the United States shall study and report on--
       (1) the impact of the amendments made by, and the 
     provisions of, this title on the supplemental security income 
     program under title XVI of the Social Security Act; and
       (2) extra expenses incurred by families of children 
     receiving benefits under such title that are not covered by 
     other Federal, State, or local programs.
      Subtitle E--National Commission on the Future of Disability

     SEC. 241. ESTABLISHMENT.

       There is established a commission to be known as the 
     National Commission on the Future of Disability (referred to 
     in this subtitle as the ``Commission'').

     SEC. 242. DUTIES OF THE COMMISSION.

       (a) In General.--The Commission shall develop and carry out 
     a comprehensive study of all matters related to the nature, 
     purpose, and adequacy of all Federal programs serving 
     individuals with disabilities. In particular, the Commission 
     shall study the disability insurance program under title II 
     of the Social Security Act and the supplemental security 
     income program under title XVI of such Act.
       (b) Matters Studied.--The Commission shall prepare an 
     inventory of Federal programs serving individuals with 
     disabilities, and shall examine--
       (1) trends and projections regarding the size and 
     characteristics of the population of individuals with 
     disabilities, and the implications of such analyses for 
     program planning;
       (2) the feasibility and design of performance standards for 
     the Nation's disability programs;
       (3) the adequacy of Federal efforts in rehabilitation 
     research and training, and opportunities to improve the lives 
     of individuals with disabilities through all manners of 
     scientific and engineering research; and
       (4) the adequacy of policy research available to the 
     Federal Government, and what actions might be undertaken to 
     improve the quality and scope of such research.
       (c) Recommendations.--The Commission shall submit to the 
     appropriate committees of the Congress and to the President 
     recommendations and, as appropriate, proposals for 
     legislation, regarding--
       (1) which (if any) Federal disability programs should be 
     eliminated or augmented;

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       (2) what new Federal disability programs (if any) should be 
     established;
       (3) the suitability of the organization and location of 
     disability programs within the Federal Government;
       (4) other actions the Federal Government should take to 
     prevent disabilities and disadvantages associated with 
     disabilities; and
       (5) such other matters as the Commission considers 
     appropriate.

     SEC. 243. MEMBERSHIP.

       (a) Number and Appointment.--
       (1) In general.--The Commission shall be composed of 15 
     members, of whom--
       (A) five shall be appointed by the President, of whom not 
     more than 3 shall be of the same major political party;
       (B) three shall be appointed by the Majority Leader of the 
     Senate;
       (C) two shall be appointed by the Minority Leader of the 
     Senate;
       (D) three shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of 
     Representatives; and
       (E) two shall be appointed by the Minority Leader of the 
     House of Representatives.
       (2) Representation.--The Commission members shall be chosen 
     based on their education, training, or experience. In 
     appointing individuals as members of the Commission, the 
     President and the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate 
     and the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of 
     Representatives shall seek to ensure that the membership of 
     the Commission reflects the general interests of the business 
     and taxpaying community and the diversity of individuals with 
     disabilities in the United States.
       (b) Comptroller General.--The Comptroller General of the 
     United States shall advise the Commission on the methodology 
     and approach of the study of the Commission.
       (c) Term of Appointment.--The members shall serve on the 
     Commission for the life of the Commission.
       (d) Meetings.--The Commission shall locate its headquarters 
     in the District of Columbia, and shall meet at the call of 
     the Chairperson, but not less than 4 times each year during 
     the life of the Commission.
       (e) Quorum.--Ten members of the Commission shall constitute 
     a quorum, but a lesser number may hold hearings.
       (f) Chairperson and Vice Chairperson.--Not later than 15 
     days after the members of the Commission are appointed, such 
     members shall designate a Chairperson and Vice Chairperson 
     from among the members of the Commission.
       (g) Continuation of Membership.--If a member of the 
     Commission becomes an officer or employee of any government 
     after appointment to the Commission, the individual may 
     continue as a member until a successor member is appointed.
       (h) Vacancies.--A vacancy on the Commission shall be filled 
     in the manner in which the original appointment was made not 
     later than 30 days after the Commission is given notice of 
     the vacancy.
       (i) Compensation.--Members of the Commission shall receive 
     no additional pay, allowances, or benefits by reason of their 
     service on the Commission.
       (j) Travel Expenses.--Each member of the Commission shall 
     receive travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 
     subsistence, in accordance with sections 5702 and 5703 of 
     title 5, United States Code.

     SEC. 244. STAFF AND SUPPORT SERVICES.

       (a) Director.--
       (1) Appointment.--Upon consultation with the members of the 
     Commission, the Chairperson shall appoint a Director of the 
     Commission.
       (2) Compensation.--The Director shall be paid the rate of 
     basic pay for level V of the Executive Schedule.
       (b) Staff.--With the approval of the Commission, the 
     Director may appoint such personnel as the Director considers 
     appropriate.
       (c) Applicability of Civil Service Laws.--The staff of the 
     Commission shall be appointed without regard to the 
     provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing 
     appointments in the competitive service, and shall be paid 
     without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter 
     III of chapter 53 of such title relating to classification 
     and General Schedule pay rates.
       (d) Experts and Consultants.--With the approval of the 
     Commission, the Director may procure temporary and 
     intermittent services under section 3109(b) of title 5, 
     United States Code.
       (e) Staff of Federal Agencies.--Upon the request of the 
     Commission, the head of any Federal agency may detail, on a 
     reimbursable basis, any of the personnel of such agency to 
     the Commission to assist in carrying out the duties of the 
     Commission under this subtitle.
       (f) Other Resources.--The Commission shall have reasonable 
     access to materials, resources, statistical data, and other 
     information from the Library of Congress and agencies and 
     elected representatives of the executive and legislative 
     branches of the Federal Government. The Chairperson of the 
     Commission shall make requests for such access in writing 
     when necessary.
       (g) Physical Facilities.--The Administrator of the General 
     Services Administration shall locate suitable office space 
     for the operation of the Commission. The facilities shall 
     serve as the headquarters of the Commission and shall include 
     all necessary equipment and incidentals required for proper 
     functioning of the Commission.

     SEC. 245. POWERS OF COMMISSION.

       (a) Hearings.--The Commission may conduct public hearings 
     or forums at the discretion of the Commission, at any time 
     and place the Commission is able to secure facilities and 
     witnesses, for the purpose of carrying out the duties of the 
     Commission under this subtitle.
       (b) Delegation of Authority.--Any member or agent of the 
     Commission may, if authorized by the Commission, take any 
     action the Commission is authorized to take by this section.
       (c) Information.--The Commission may secure directly from 
     any Federal agency information necessary to enable the 
     Commission to carry out its duties under this subtitle. Upon 
     request of the Chairperson or Vice Chairperson of the 
     Commission, the head of a Federal agency shall furnish the 
     information to the Commission to the extent permitted by law.
       (d) Gifts, Bequests, and Devises.--The Commission may 
     accept, use, and dispose of gifts, bequests, or devises of 
     services or property, both real and personal, for the purpose 
     of aiding or facilitating the work of the Commission. Gifts, 
     bequests, or devises of money and proceeds from sales of 
     other property received as gifts, bequests, or devises shall 
     be deposited in the Treasury and shall be available for 
     disbursement upon order of the Commission.
       (e) Mails.--The Commission may use the United States mails 
     in the same manner and under the same conditions as other 
     Federal agencies.

     SEC. 246. REPORTS.

       (a) Interim Report.--Not later than 1 year prior to the 
     date on which the Commission terminates pursuant to section 
     247, the Commission shall submit an interim report to the 
     President and to the Congress. The interim report shall 
     contain a detailed statement of the findings and conclusions 
     of the Commission, together with the Commission's 
     recommendations for legislative and administrative action, 
     based on the activities of the Commission.
       (b) Final Report.--Not later than the date on which the 
     Commission terminates, the Commission shall submit to the 
     Congress and to the President a final report containing--
       (1) a detailed statement of final findings, conclusions, 
     and recommendations; and
       (2) an assessment of the extent to which recommendations of 
     the Commission included in the interim report under 
     subsection (a) have been implemented.
       (c) Printing and Public Distribution.--Upon receipt of each 
     report of the Commission under this section, the President 
     shall--
       (1) order the report to be printed; and
       (2) make the report available to the public upon request.

     SEC. 247. TERMINATION.

       The Commission shall terminate on the date that is 2 years 
     after the date on which the members of the Commission have 
     met and designated a Chairperson and Vice Chairperson.

     SEC. 248. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are 
     necessary to carry out the purposes of the Commission.
                        TITLE III--CHILD SUPPORT

     SEC. 300. REFERENCE TO SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.

       Except as otherwise specifically provided, where ever in 
     this title an amendment is expressed in terms of an amendment 
     to or repeal of a section or other provision, the reference 
     shall be considered to be made to that section or other 
     provision of the Social Security Act.
     Subtitle A--Eligibility for Services; Distribution of Payments

     SEC. 301. STATE OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE CHILD SUPPORT 
                   ENFORCEMENT SERVICES.

       (a) State Plan Requirements.--Section 454 (42 U.S.C. 654) 
     is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(4) provide that the State will--
       ``(A) provide services relating to the establishment of 
     paternity or the establishment, modification, or enforcement 
     of child support obligations, as appropriate, under the plan 
     with respect to--
       ``(i) each child for whom (I) assistance is provided under 
     the State program funded under part A of this title, (II) 
     benefits or services for foster care maintenance and adoption 
     assistance are provided under the State program funded under 
     part B of this title, or (III) medical assistance is provided 
     under the State plan approved under title XIX, unless the 
     State agency administering the plan determines (in accordance 
     with paragraph (29)) that it is against the best interests of 
     the child to do so; and
       ``(ii) any other child, if an individual applies for such 
     services with respect to the child; and
       ``(B) enforce any support obligation established with 
     respect to--
       ``(i) a child with respect to whom the State provides 
     services under the plan; or
       ``(ii) the custodial parent of such a child.''; and
       (2) in paragraph (6)--
       (A) by striking ``provide that'' and inserting ``provide 
     that--'';
       (B) by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the 
     following new subparagraph:
       ``(A) services under the plan shall be made available to 
     residents of other States on the same terms as to residents 
     of the State submitting the plan;'';
       (C) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``on individuals not 
     receiving assistance under

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     any State program funded under part A'' after ``such services 
     shall be imposed'';
       (D) in each of subparagraphs (B), (C), (D), and (E)--
       (i) by indenting the subparagraph in the same manner as, 
     and aligning the left margin of the subparagraph with the 
     left margin of, the matter inserted by subparagraph (B) of 
     this paragraph; and
       (ii) by striking the final comma and inserting a semicolon; 
     and
       (E) in subparagraph (E), by indenting each of clauses (i) 
     and (ii) 2 additional ems.
       (b) Continuation of Services for Families Ceasing To 
     Receive Assistance Under the State Program Funded Under Part 
     A.--Section 454 (42 U.S.C. 654) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (23);
       (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (24) and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding after paragraph (24) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(25) provide that if a family with respect to which 
     services are provided under the plan ceases to receive 
     assistance under the State program funded under part A, the 
     State shall provide appropriate notice to the family and 
     continue to provide such services, subject to the same 
     conditions and on the same basis as in the case of other 
     individuals to whom services are furnished under the plan, 
     except that an application or other request to continue 
     services shall not be required of such a family and paragraph 
     (6)(B) shall not apply to the family.''.
       (c) Conforming Amendments.--
       (1) Section 452(b) (42 U.S.C. 652(b)) is amended by 
     striking ``454(6)'' and inserting ``454(4)''.
       (2) Section 452(g)(2)(A) (42 U.S.C. 652(g)(2)(A)) is 
     amended by striking ``454(6)'' each place it appears and 
     inserting ``454(4)(A)(ii)''.
       (3) Section 466(a)(3)(B) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)(3)(B)) is 
     amended by striking ``in the case of overdue support which a 
     State has agreed to collect under section 454(6)'' and 
     inserting ``in any other case''.
       (4) Section 466(e) (42 U.S.C. 666(e)) is amended by 
     striking ``paragraph (4) or (6) of section 454'' and 
     inserting ``section 454(4)''.

     SEC. 302. DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD SUPPORT COLLECTIONS.

       (a) In General.--Section 457 (42 U.S.C. 657) is amended to 
     read as follows:

     ``SEC. 457. DISTRIBUTION OF COLLECTED SUPPORT.

       ``(a) In General.--An amount collected on behalf of a 
     family as support by a State pursuant to a plan approved 
     under this part shall be distributed as follows:
       ``(1) Families receiving assistance.--In the case of a 
     family receiving assistance from the State, the State shall--
       ``(A) pay to the Federal Government the Federal share of 
     the amount so collected; and
       ``(B) retain, or distribute to the family, the State share 
     of the amount so collected.
       ``(2) Families that formerly received assistance.--In the 
     case of a family that formerly received assistance from the 
     State:
       ``(A) Current support payments.--To the extent that the 
     amount so collected does not exceed the amount required to be 
     paid to the family for the month in which collected, the 
     State shall distribute the amount so collected to the family.
       ``(B) Payments of arrearages.--To the extent that the 
     amount so collected exceeds the amount required to be paid to 
     the family for the month in which collected, the State shall 
     distribute the amount so collected as follows:
       ``(i) Distribution of arrearages that accrued after the 
     family ceased to receive assistance.--

       ``(I) Pre-october 1997.--The provisions of this section 
     (other than subsection (b)(1)) as in effect and applied on 
     the day before the date of the enactment of section 302 of 
     the Bipartisan Welfare Reform Act of 1996 shall apply with 
     respect to the distribution of support arrearages that--

       ``(aa) accrued after the family ceased to receive 
     assistance, and
       ``(bb) are collected before October 1, 1997.

       ``(II) Post-september 1997.--With respect the amount so 
     collected on or after October 1, 1997, or before such date, 
     at the option of the State--

       ``(aa) In general.--The State shall first distribute the 
     amount so collected (other than any amount described in 
     clause (iv)) to the family to the extent necessary to satisfy 
     any support arrearages with respect to the family that 
     accrued after the family ceased to receive assistance from 
     the State.
       ``(bb) Reimbursement of governments for assistance provided 
     to the family.--After the application of division (aa) and 
     clause (ii)(II)(aa) with respect to the amount so collected, 
     the State shall retain the State share of the amount so 
     collected, and pay to the Federal Government the Federal 
     share (as defined in subsection (c)(2)(A)) of the amount so 
     collected, but only to the extent necessary to reimburse 
     amounts paid to the family as assistance by the State.
       ``(cc) Distribution of the remainder to the family.--To the 
     extent that neither division (aa) nor division (bb) applies 
     to the amount so collected, the State shall distribute the 
     amount to the family.
       ``(ii) Distribution of arrearages that accrued before the 
     family received assistance.--

       ``(I) Pre-october 2000.--The provisions of this section 
     (other than subsection (b)(1)) as in effect and applied on 
     the day before the date of the enactment of section 302 of 
     the Bipartisan Welfare Reform Act of 1996 shall apply with 
     respect to the distribution of support arrearages that--

       ``(aa) accrued before the family received assistance, and
       ``(bb) are collected before October 1, 2000.

       ``(II) Post-september 2000.--Unless, based on the report 
     required by paragraph (4), the Congress determines otherwise, 
     with respect to the amount so collected on or after October 
     1, 2000, or before such date, at the option of the State--

       ``(aa) In general.--The State shall first distribute the 
     amount so collected (other than any amount described in 
     clause (iv)) to the family to the extent necessary to satisfy 
     any support arrearages with respect to the family that 
     accrued before the family received assistance from the State.
       ``(bb) Reimbursement of governments for assistance provided 
     to the family.--After the application of clause (i)(II)(aa) 
     and division (aa) with respect to the amount so collected, 
     the State shall retain the State share of the amount so 
     collected, and pay to the Federal Government the Federal 
     share (as defined in subsection (c)(2)) of the amount so 
     collected, but only to the extent necessary to reimburse of 
     the amounts paid to the family as assistance by the State.
       ``(cc) Distribution of the remainder to the family.--To the 
     extent that neither division (aa) nor division (bb) applies 
     to the amount so collected, the State shall distribute the 
     amount to the family.
       ``(iii) Distribution of arrearages that accrued while the 
     family received assistance.--In the case of a family 
     described in this subparagraph, the provisions of paragraph 
     (1) shall apply with respect to the distribution of 
     support arrearages that accrued while the family received 
     assistance.
       ``(iv) Amounts collected pursuant to section 464.--
     Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any 
     amount of support collected pursuant to section 464 shall be 
     retained by the State to the extent necessary to reimburse 
     amounts paid to the family as assistance by the State. The 
     State shall pay to the Federal Government the Federal share 
     of the amounts so retained. To the extent the amount 
     collected pursuant to section 464 exceeds the amount so 
     retained, the State shall distribute the excess to the 
     family.
       ``(v) Ordering rules for distributions.--For purposes of 
     this subparagraph, the State shall treat any support 
     arrearages collected as accruing in the following order:

       ``(I) to the period after the family ceased to receive 
     assistance;
       ``(II) to the period before the family received assistance; 
     and
       ``(III) to the period while the family was receiving 
     assistance.

       ``(3) Families that never received assistance.--In the case 
     of any other family, the State shall distribute the amount so 
     collected to the family.
       ``(4) Study and report.--Not later than October 1, 1998, 
     the Secretary shall report to the Congress the Secretary's 
     findings with respect to--
       ``(A) whether the distribution of post-assistance 
     arrearages to families has been effective in moving people 
     off of welfare and keeping them off of welfare;
       ``(B) whether early implementation of a pre-assistance 
     arrearage program by some States has been effective in moving 
     people off of welfare and keeping them off of welfare;
       ``(C) what the overall impact has been of the amendments 
     made by the Bipartisan Welfare Reform Act of 1996 with 
     respect to child support enforcement in moving people off of 
     welfare and keeping them off of welfare; and
       ``(D) based on the information and data the Secretary has 
     obtained, what changes, if any, should be made in the 
     policies related to the distribution of child support 
     arrearages.
       ``(b) Continuation of Assignments.--Any rights to support 
     obligations, which were assigned to a State as a condition of 
     receiving assistance from the State under part A and which 
     were in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of 
     the Bipartisan Welfare Reform Act of 1996, shall remain 
     assigned after such date.
       ``(c) Definitions.--As used in subsection (a):
       ``(1) Assistance.--The term `assistance from the State' 
     means--
       ``(A) assistance under the State program funded under part 
     A or under the State plan approved under part A of this title 
     (as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of 
     the Bipartisan Welfare Reform Act of 1996); or
       ``(B) benefits under the State plan approved under part E 
     of this title (as in effect on the day before the date of the 
     enactment of the Bipartisan Welfare Reform Act of 1996).
       ``(2) Federal share.--The term `Federal share' means that 
     portion of the amount collected resulting from the 
     application of the Federal medical percentage in effect for 
     the fiscal year in which the amount is collected.
       ``(3) Federal medical assistance percentage.--The term 
     `Federal medical assistance percentage' means--
       ``(A) the Federal medical assistance percentage (as defined 
     in section 1118), in the case of Puerto Rico, the Virgin 
     Islands, Guam, and American Samoa; or
       ``(B) the Federal medical assistance percentage (as defined 
     in section 1905(b)) in the case of any other State.

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       ``(4) State share.--The term `State share' means 100 
     percent minus the Federal share.
       ``(d) Hold Harmless Provision.--If the amounts collected 
     which could be retained by the State in the fiscal year (to 
     the extent necessary to reimburse the State for amounts paid 
     to families as assistance by the State) are less than the 
     State share of the amounts collected in fiscal year 1995 
     (determined in accordance with section 457 as in effect on 
     the day before the date of the enactment of the Bipartisan 
     Welfare Reform Act of 1996), the State share for the fiscal 
     year shall be an amount equal to the State share in fiscal 
     year 1995.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--
       (1) Section 464(a)(1) (42 U.S.C. 664(a)(1)) is amended by 
     striking ``section 457(b)(4) or (d)(3)'' and inserting 
     ``section 457''.
       (2) Section 454 (42 U.S.C. 654) is amended--
       (A) in paragraph (11)--
       (i) by striking ``(11)'' and inserting ``(11)(A)''; and
       (ii) by inserting after the semicolon ``and''; and
       (B) by redesignating paragraph (12) as subparagraph (B) of 
     paragraph (11).
       (c) Effective Dates.--
       (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
     amendments made by this section shall be effective on October 
     1, 1996, or earlier at the State's option.
       (2) Conforming amendments.--The amendments made by 
     subsection (b)(2) shall become effective on the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 303. PRIVACY SAFEGUARDS.

       (a) State Plan Requirement.--Section 454 (42 U.S.C. 654), 
     as amended by section 301(b) of this Act, is amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (24);
       (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (25) and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding after paragraph (25) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(26) will have in effect safeguards, applicable to all 
     confidential information handled by the State agency, that 
     are designed to protect the privacy rights of the parties, 
     including--
       ``(A) safeguards against unauthorized use or disclosure of 
     information relating to proceedings or actions to establish 
     paternity, or to establish or enforce support;
       ``(B) prohibitions against the release of information on 
     the whereabouts of 1 party to another party against whom a 
     protective order with respect to the former party has been 
     entered; and
       ``(C) prohibitions against the release of information on 
     the whereabouts of 1 party to another party if the State has 
     reason to believe that the release of the information may 
     result in physical or emotional harm to the former party.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall become effective on October 1, 1997.

     SEC. 304. RIGHTS TO NOTIFICATION AND HEARINGS.

       (a) In General.--Section 454 (42 U.S.C. 654), as amended by 
     section 302(b)(2) of this Act, is amended by inserting after 
     paragraph (11) the following new paragraph:
       ``(12) provide for the establishment of procedures to 
     require the State to provide individuals who are applying for 
     or receiving services under the State plan, or who are 
     parties to cases in which services are being provided under 
     the State plan--
       ``(A) with notice of all proceedings in which support 
     obligations might be established or modified; and
       ``(B) with a copy of any order establishing or modifying a 
     child support obligation, or (in the case of a petition for 
     modification) a notice of determination that there should be 
     no change in the amount of the child support award, within 14 
     days after issuance of such order or determination;''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall become effective on October 1, 1997.
                  Subtitle B--Locate and Case Tracking

     SEC. 311. STATE CASE REGISTRY.

       Section 454A, as added by section 344(a)(2) of this Act, is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new subsections:
       ``(e) State Case Registry.--
       ``(1) Contents.--The automated system required by this 
     section shall include a registry (which shall be known as the 
     `State case registry') that contains records with respect 
     to--
       ``(A) each case in which services are being provided by the 
     State agency under the State plan approved under this part; 
     and
       ``(B) each support order established or modified in the 
     State on or after October 1, 1998.
       ``(2) Linking of local registries.--The State case registry 
     may be established by linking local case registries of 
     support orders through an automated information network, 
     subject to this section.
       ``(3) Use of standardized data elements.--Such records 
     shall use standardized data elements for both parents (such 
     as names, social security numbers and other uniform 
     identification numbers, dates of birth, and case 
     identification numbers), and contain such other information 
     (such as on-case status) as the Secretary may require.
       ``(4) Payment records.--Each case record in the State case 
     registry with respect to which services are being provided 
     under the State plan approved under this part and with 
     respect to which a support order has been established shall 
     include a record of--
       ``(A) the amount of monthly (or other periodic) support 
     owed under the order, and other amounts (including 
     arrearages, interest or late payment penalties, and fees) due 
     or overdue under the order;
       ``(B) any amount described in subparagraph (A) that has 
     been collected;
       ``(C) the distribution of such collected amounts;
       ``(D) the birth date of any child for whom the order 
     requires the provision of support; and
       ``(E) the amount of any lien imposed with respect to the 
     order pursuant to section 466(a)(4).
       ``(5) Updating and monitoring.--The State agency operating 
     the automated system required by this section shall promptly 
     establish and maintain, and regularly monitor, case records 
     in the State case registry with respect to which services are 
     being provided under the State plan approved under this part, 
     on the basis of--
       ``(A) information on administrative actions and 
     administrative and judicial proceedings and orders relating 
     to paternity and support;
       ``(B) information obtained from comparison with Federal, 
     State, or local sources of information;
       ``(C) information on support collections and distributions; 
     and
       ``(D) any other relevant information.
       ``(f) Information Comparisons and Other Disclosures of 
     Information.--The State shall use the automated system 
     required by this section to extract information from (at such 
     times, and in such standardized format or formats, as may be 
     required by the Secretary), to share and compare information 
     with, and to receive information from, other data bases and 
     information comparison services, in order to obtain (or 
     provide) information necessary to enable the State agency (or 
     the Secretary or other State or Federal agencies) to carry 
     out this part, subject to section 6103 of the Internal 
     Revenue Code of 1986. Such information comparison activities 
     shall include the following:
       ``(1) Federal case registry of child support orders.--
     Furnishing to the Federal Case Registry of Child Support 
     Orders established under section 453(h) (and update as 
     necessary, with information including notice of expiration of 
     orders) the minimum amount of information on child support 
     cases recorded in the State case registry that is necessary 
     to operate the registry (as specified by the Secretary in 
     regulations).
       ``(2) Federal parent locator service.--Exchanging 
     information with the Federal Parent Locator Service for the 
     purposes specified in section 453.
       ``(3) Temporary family assistance and medicaid agencies.--
     Exchanging information with State agencies (of the State and 
     of other States) administering programs funded under part A, 
     programs operated under State plans under title XIX, and 
     other programs designated by the Secretary, as necessary to 
     perform State agency responsibilities under this part and 
     under such programs.
       ``(4) Intrastate and interstate information comparisons.--
     Exchanging information with other agencies of the State, 
     agencies of other States, and interstate information 
     networks, as necessary and appropriate to carry out (or 
     assist other States to carry out) the purposes of this 
     part.''.

     SEC. 312. COLLECTION AND DISBURSEMENT OF SUPPORT PAYMENTS.

       (a) State Plan Requirement.--Section 454 (42 U.S.C. 654), 
     as amended by sections 301(b) and 303(a) of this Act, is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (25);
       (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (26) and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding after paragraph (26) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(27) provide that, on and after October 1, 1998, the 
     State agency will--
       ``(A) operate a State disbursement unit in accordance with 
     section 454B; and
       ``(B) have sufficient State staff (consisting of State 
     employees) and (at State option) contractors reporting 
     directly to the State agency to--
       ``(i) monitor and enforce support collections through the 
     unit in cases being enforced by the State pursuant to section 
     454(4) (including carrying out the automated data processing 
     responsibilities described in section 454A(g)); and
       ``(ii) take the actions described in section 466(c)(1) in 
     appropriate cases.''.
       (b) Establishment of State Disbursement Unit.--Part D of 
     title IV (42 U.S.C. 651-669), as amended by section 344(a)(2) 
     of this Act, is amended by inserting after section 454A the 
     following new section:

     ``SEC. 454B. COLLECTION AND DISBURSEMENT OF SUPPORT PAYMENTS.

       ``(a) State Disbursement Unit.--
       ``(1) In general.--In order for a State to meet the 
     requirements of this section, the State agency must establish 
     and operate a unit (which shall be known as the `State 
     disbursement unit') for the collection and disbursement of 
     payments under support orders--
       ``(A) in all cases being enforced by the State pursuant to 
     section 454(4); and
       ``(B) in all cases not being enforced by the State under 
     this part in which the support order is initially issued in 
     the State on or after January 1, 1994, and in which the wages 
     of the absent parent are subject to withholding pursuant to 
     section 466(a)(8)(B).
       ``(2) Operation.--The State disbursement unit shall be 
     operated--

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       ``(A) directly by the State agency (or 2 or more State 
     agencies under a regional cooperative agreement), or (to the 
     extent appropriate) by a contractor responsible directly to 
     the State agency; and
       ``(B) except in cases described in paragraph (1)(B), in 
     coordination with the automated system established by the 
     State pursuant to section 454A.
       ``(3) Linking of local disbursement units.--The State 
     disbursement unit may be established by linking local 
     disbursement units through an automated information network, 
     subject to this section, if the Secretary agrees that the 
     system will not cost more nor take more time to establish or 
     operate than a centralized system. In addition, employers 
     shall be given 1 location to which income withholding is 
     sent.
       ``(b) Required Procedures.--The State disbursement unit 
     shall use automated procedures, electronic processes, and 
     computer-driven technology to the maximum extent feasible, 
     efficient, and economical, for the collection and 
     disbursement of support payments, including procedures--
       ``(1) for receipt of payments from parents, employers, and 
     other States, and for disbursements to custodial parents and 
     other obligees, the State agency, and the agencies of other 
     States;
       ``(2) for accurate identification of payments;
       ``(3) to ensure prompt disbursement of the custodial 
     parent's share of any payment; and
       ``(4) to furnish to any parent, upon request, timely 
     information on the current status of support payments under 
     an order requiring payments to be made by or to the parent.
       ``(c) Timing of Disbursements.--
       ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
     State disbursement unit shall distribute all amounts payable 
     under section 457(a) within 2 business days after receipt 
     from the employer or other source of periodic income, if 
     sufficient information identifying the payee is provided.
       ``(2) Permissive retention of arrearages.--The State 
     disbursement unit may delay the distribution of collections 
     toward arrearages until the resolution of any timely appeal 
     with respect to such arrearages.
       ``(d) Business Day Defined.--As used in this section, the 
     term `business day' means a day on which State offices are 
     open for regular business.''.
       (c) Use of Automated System.--Section 454A, as added by 
     section 344(a)(2) and as amended by section 311 of this Act, 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(g) Collection and Distribution of Support Payments.--
       ``(1) In general.--The State shall use the automated system 
     required by this section, to the maximum extent feasible, to 
     assist and facilitate the collection and disbursement of 
     support payments through the State disbursement unit operated 
     under section 454B, through the performance of functions, 
     including, at a minimum--
       ``(A) transmission of orders and notices to employers (and 
     other debtors) for the withholding of wages and other 
     income--
       ``(i) within 2 business days after receipt from a court, 
     another State, an employer, the Federal Parent Locator 
     Service, or another source recognized by the State of notice 
     of, and the income source subject to, such withholding; and
       ``(ii) using uniform formats prescribed by the Secretary;
       ``(B) ongoing monitoring to promptly identify failures to 
     make timely payment of support; and
       ``(C) automatic use of enforcement procedures (including 
     procedures authorized pursuant to section 466(c)) if payments 
     are not timely made.
       ``(2) Business day defined.--As used in paragraph (1), the 
     term `business day' means a day on which State offices are 
     open for regular business.''.
       (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall become effective on October 1, 1998.

     SEC. 313. STATE DIRECTORY OF NEW HIRES.

       (a) State Plan Requirement.--Section 454 (42 U.S.C. 654), 
     as amended by sections 301(b), 303(a) and 312(a) of this Act, 
     is amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (26);
       (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (27) and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding after paragraph (27) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(28) provide that, on and after October 1, 1997, the 
     State will operate a State Directory of New Hires in 
     accordance with section 453A.''.
       (b) State Directory of New Hires.--Part D of title IV (42 
     U.S.C. 651-669) is amended by inserting after section 453 the 
     following new section:

     ``SEC. 453A. STATE DIRECTORY OF NEW HIRES.

       ``(a) Establishment.--
       ``(1) In general.--
       ``(A) Requirement for States that have no directory.--
     Except as provided in subparagraph (B), not later than 
     October 1, 1997, each State shall establish an automated 
     directory (to be known as the `State Directory of New Hires') 
     which shall contain information supplied in accordance with 
     subsection (b) by employers on each newly hired employee.
       ``(B) States with new hire reporting in existence.--A State 
     which has a new hire reporting law in existence on the date 
     of the enactment of this section may continue to operate 
     under the State law, but the State must meet the requirements 
     of this section (other than subsection (f)) not later than 
     October 1, 1997.
       ``(2) Definitions.--As used in this section:
       ``(A) Employee.--The term `employee'--
       ``(i) means an individual who is an employee within the 
     meaning of chapter 24 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; 
     and
       ``(ii) does not include an employee of a Federal or State 
     agency performing intelligence or counterintelligence 
     functions, if the head of such agency has determined that 
     reporting pursuant to paragraph (1) with respect to the 
     employee could endanger the safety of the employee or 
     compromise an ongoing investigation or intelligence mission.
       ``(B) Employer.--
       ``(i) In general.--The term `employer' has the meaning 
     given such term in section 3401(d) of the Internal Revenue 
     Code of 1996 and includes any governmental entity and any 
     labor organization.
       ``(ii) Labor organization.--The term `labor organization' 
     shall have the meaning given such term in section 2(5) of the 
     National Labor Relations Act, and includes any entity (also 
     known as a `hiring hall') which is used by the organization 
     and an employer to carry out requirements described in 
     section 8(f)(3) of such Act of an agreement between the 
     organization and the employer.
       ``(b) Employer Information.--
       ``(1) Reporting requirement.--
       ``(A) In general.--Except as provided in subparagraphs (B) 
     and (C), each employer shall furnish to the Directory of New 
     Hires of the State in which a newly hired employee works, a 
     report that contains the name, address, and social security 
     number of the employee, and the name and address of, and 
     identifying number assigned under section 6109 of the 
     Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to, the employer.
       ``(B) Multistate employers.--An employer that has employees 
     who are employed in 2 or more States and that transmits 
     reports magnetically or electronically may comply with 
     subparagraph (A) by designating 1 State in which such 
     employer has employees to which the employer will transmit 
     the report described in subparagraph (A), and transmitting 
     such report to such State. Any employer that transmits 
     reports pursuant to this subparagraph shall notify the 
     Secretary in writing as to which State such employer 
     designates for the purpose of sending reports.
       ``(C) Federal government employers.--Any department, 
     agency, or instrumentality of the United States shall comply 
     with subparagraph (A) by transmitting the report described in 
     subparagraph (A) to the National Directory of New Hires 
     established pursuant to section 453.
       ``(2) Timing of report.--Each State may provide the time 
     within which the report required by paragraph (1) shall be 
     made with respect to an employee, but such report shall be 
     made--
       ``(A) not later than 20 days after the date the employer 
     hires the employee; or
       ``(B) in the case of an employer transmitting reports 
     magnetically or electronically, by 2 monthly transmissions 
     (if necessary) not less than 12 days nor more than 16 days 
     apart.
       ``(c) Reporting Format and Method.--Each report required by 
     subsection (b) shall be made on a W-4 form or, at the option 
     of the employer, an equivalent form, and may be transmitted 
     by 1st class mail, magnetically, or electronically.
       ``(d) Civil Money Penalties on Noncomplying Employers.--The 
     State shall have the option to set a State civil money 
     penalty which shall be less than--
       ``(1) $25; or
       ``(2) $500 if, under State law, the failure is the result 
     of a conspiracy between the employer and the employee to not 
     supply the required report or to supply a false or incomplete 
     report.
       ``(e) Entry of Employer Information.--Information shall be 
     entered into the data base maintained by the State Directory 
     of New Hires within 5 business days of receipt from an 
     employer pursuant to subsection (b).
       ``(f) Information Comparisons.--
       ``(1) In general.--Not later than May 1, 1998, an agency 
     designated by the State shall, directly or by contract, 
     conduct automated comparisons of the social security numbers 
     reported by employers pursuant to subsection (b) and the 
     social security numbers appearing in the records of the State 
     case registry for cases being enforced under the State plan.
       ``(2) Notice of match.--When an information comparison 
     conducted under paragraph (1) reveals a match with respect to 
     the social security number of an individual required to 
     provide support under a support order, the State Directory of 
     New Hires shall provide the agency administering the State 
     plan approved under this part of the appropriate State with 
     the name, address, and social security number of the employee 
     to whom the social security number is assigned, and the name 
     of, and identifying number assigned under section 6109 of the 
     Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to the employer.
       ``(g) Transmission of Information.--
       ``(1) Transmission of wage withholding notices to 
     employers.--Within 2 business days after the date information 
     regarding a newly hired employee is entered into the State 
     Directory of New Hires, the State agency enforcing the 
     employee's child support obligation shall transmit a notice 
     to the employer of the employee directing the employer to 
     withhold from the wages of the employee an amount equal to 
     the monthly (or

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     other periodic) child support obligation (including any past 
     due support obligation) of the employee, unless the 
     employee's wages are not subject to withholding pursuant to 
     section 466(b)(3).
       ``(2) Transmissions to the national directory of new 
     hires.--
       ``(A) New hire information.--Within 3 business days after 
     the date information regarding a newly hired employee is 
     entered into the State Directory of New Hires, the State 
     Directory of New Hires shall furnish the information to the 
     National Directory of New Hires.
       ``(B) Wage and unemployment compensation information.--The 
     State Directory of New Hires shall, on a quarterly basis, 
     furnish to the National Directory of New Hires extracts of 
     the reports required under section 303(a)(6) to be made to 
     the Secretary of Labor concerning the wages and unemployment 
     compensation paid to individuals, by such dates, in such 
     format, and containing such information as the Secretary of 
     Health and Human Services shall specify in regulations.
       ``(3) Business day defined.--As used in this subsection, 
     the term `business day' means a day on which State offices 
     are open for regular business.
       ``(h) Other Uses of New Hire Information.--
       ``(1) Location of child support obligors.--The agency 
     administering the State plan approved under this part shall 
     use information received pursuant to subsection (f)(2) to 
     locate individuals for purposes of establishing paternity and 
     establishing, modifying, and enforcing child support 
     obligations.
       ``(2) Verification of eligibility for certain programs.--A 
     State agency responsible for administering a program 
     specified in section 1137(b) shall have access to information 
     reported by employers pursuant to subsection (b) of this 
     section for purposes of verifying eligibility for the 
     program.
       ``(3) Administration of employment security and workers' 
     compensation.--State agencies operating employment security 
     and workers' compensation programs shall have access to 
     information reported by employers pursuant to subsection (b) 
     for the purposes of administering such programs.''.
       (c) Quarterly Wage Reporting.--Section 1137(a)(3) (42 
     U.S.C. 1320b-7(a)(3)) is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(including State and local governmental 
     entities and labor organizations (as defined in section 
     453A(a)(2)(B)(iii))'' after ``employers''; and
       (2) by inserting ``, and except that no report shall be 
     filed with respect to an employee of a State or local agency 
     performing intelligence or counterintelligence functions, if 
     the head of such agency has determined that filing such a 
     report could endanger the safety of the employee or 
     compromise an ongoing investigation or intelligence mission'' 
     after ``paragraph (2)''.

     SEC. 314. AMENDMENTS CONCERNING INCOME WITHHOLDING.

       (a) Mandatory Income Withholding.--
       (1) In general.--Section 466(a)(1) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)(1)) is 
     amended to read as follows:
       ``(1)(A) Procedures described in subsection (b) for the 
     withholding from income of amounts payable as support in 
     cases subject to enforcement under the State plan.
       ``(B) Procedures under which the wages of a person with a 
     support obligation imposed by a support order issued (or 
     modified) in the State before October 1, 1996, if not 
     otherwise subject to withholding under subsection (b), shall 
     become subject to withholding as provided in subsection (b) 
     if arrearages occur, without the need for a judicial or 
     administrative hearing.''.
       (2) Conforming amendments.--
       (A) Section 466(b) (42 U.S.C. 666(b)) is amended in the 
     matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking ``subsection 
     (a)(1)'' and inserting ``subsection (a)(1)(A)''.
       (B) Section 466(b)(4) (42 U.S.C. 666(b)(4)) is amended to 
     read as follows:
       ``(4)(A) Such withholding must be carried out in full 
     compliance with all procedural due process requirements of 
     the State, and the State must send notice to each 
     noncustodial parent to whom paragraph (1) applies--
       ``(i) that the withholding has commenced; and
       ``(ii) of the procedures to follow if the noncustodial 
     parent desires to contest such withholding on the grounds 
     that the withholding or the amount withheld is improper due 
     to a mistake of fact.
       ``(B) The notice under subparagraph (A) of this paragraph 
     shall include the information provided to the employer under 
     paragraph (6)(A).''.
       (C) Section 466(b)(5) (42 U.S.C. 666(b)(5)) is amended by 
     striking all that follows ``administered by'' and inserting 
     ``the State through the State disbursement unit established 
     pursuant to section 454B, in accordance with the requirements 
     of section 454B.''.
       (D) Section 466(b)(6)(A) (42 U.S.C. 666(b)(6)(A)) is 
     amended--
       (i) in clause (i), by striking ``to the appropriate 
     agency'' and all that follows and inserting ``to the State 
     disbursement unit within 2 business days after the date the 
     amount would (but for this subsection) have been paid or 
     credited to the employee, for distribution in accordance with 
     this part. The employer shall comply with the procedural 
     rules relating to income withholding of the State in which 
     the employee works, regardless of the State where the notice 
     originates.''.
       (ii) in clause (ii), by inserting ``be in a standard format 
     prescribed by the Secretary, and'' after ``shall''; and
       (iii) by adding at the end the following new clause:
       ``(iii) As used in this subparagraph, the term `business 
     day' means a day on which State offices are open for regular 
     business.''.
       (E) Section 466(b)(6)(D) (42 U.S.C. 666(b)(6)(D)) is 
     amended by striking ``any employer'' and all that follows and 
     inserting ``any employer who--
       ``(i) discharges from employment, refuses to employ, or 
     takes disciplinary action against any noncustodial parent 
     subject to wage withholding required by this subsection 
     because of the existence of such withholding and the 
     obligations or additional obligations which it imposes upon 
     the employer; or
       ``(ii) fails to withhold support from wages, or to pay such 
     amounts to the State disbursement unit in accordance with 
     this subsection.''.
       (F) Section 466(b) (42 U.S.C. 666(b)) is amended by adding 
     at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(11) Procedures under which the agency administering the 
     State plan approved under this part may execute a withholding 
     order without advance notice to the obligor, including 
     issuing the withholding order through electronic means.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 466(c) (42 U.S.C. 
     666(c)) is repealed.

     SEC. 315. LOCATOR INFORMATION FROM INTERSTATE NETWORKS.

       Section 466(a) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)) is amended by adding at 
     the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(12) Locator information from interstate networks.--
     Procedures to ensure that all Federal and State agencies 
     conducting activities under this part have access to any 
     system used by the State to locate an individual for purposes 
     relating to motor vehicles or law enforcement.''.

     SEC. 316. EXPANSION OF THE FEDERAL PARENT LOCATOR SERVICE.

       (a) Expanded Authority To Locate Individuals and Assets.--
     Section 453 (42 U.S.C. 653) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking all that follows 
     ``subsection (c))'' and inserting ``, for the purpose of 
     establishing parentage, establishing, setting the amount of, 
     modifying, or enforcing child support obligations, or 
     enforcing child custody or visitation orders--
       ``(1) information on, or facilitating the discovery of, the 
     location of any individual--
       ``(A) who is under an obligation to pay child support or 
     provide child custody or visitation rights;
       ``(B) against whom such an obligation is sought;
       ``(C) to whom such an obligation is owed,
     including the individual's social security number (or 
     numbers), most recent address, and the name, address, and 
     employer identification number of the individual's employer;
       ``(2) information on the individual's wages (or other 
     income) from, and benefits of, employment (including rights 
     to or enrollment in group health care coverage); and
       ``(3) information on the type, status, location, and amount 
     of any assets of, or debts owed by or to, any such 
     individual.''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking 
     ``social security'' and all that follows through ``absent 
     parent'' and inserting ``information described in subsection 
     (a)''; and
       (B) in the flush paragraph at the end, by adding the 
     following: ``No information shall be disclosed to any person 
     if the State has notified the Secretary that the State has 
     reasonable evidence of domestic violence or child abuse and 
     the disclosure of such information could be harmful to the 
     custodial parent or the child of such parent. Information 
     received or transmitted pursuant to this section shall be 
     subject to the safeguard provisions contained in section 
     454(26).''.
       (b) Authorized Person for Information Regarding Visitation 
     Rights.--Section 453(c) (42 U.S.C. 653(c)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``support'' and inserting 
     ``support or to seek to enforce orders providing child 
     custody or visitation rights''; and
       (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``, or any agent of such 
     court; and'' and inserting ``or to issue an order against a 
     resident parent for child custody or visitation rights, or 
     any agent of such court;''.
       (c) Reimbursement for Information From Federal Agencies.--
     Section 453(e)(2) (42 U.S.C. 653(e)(2)) is amended in the 4th 
     sentence by inserting ``in an amount which the Secretary 
     determines to be reasonable payment for the information 
     exchange (which amount shall not include payment for the 
     costs of obtaining, compiling, or maintaining the 
     information)'' before the period.
       (d) Reimbursement for Reports by State Agencies.--Section 
     453 (42 U.S.C. 653) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new subsection:
       ``(g) Reimbursement for Reports by State Agencies.--The 
     Secretary may reimburse Federal and State agencies for the 
     costs incurred by such entities in furnishing information 
     requested by the Secretary under this section in an amount 
     which the Secretary determines to be reasonable payment for 
     the information exchange (which amount shall not include 
     payment for the costs of obtaining, compiling, or maintaining 
     the information).''.
       (e) Conforming Amendments.--
       (1) Sections 452(a)(9), 453(a), 453(b), 463(a), 463(e), and 
     463(f) (42 U.S.C. 652(a)(9), 653(a), 653(b), 663(a), 663(e), 
     and 663(f)) are each

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     amended by inserting ``Federal'' before ``Parent'' each place 
     such term appears.
       (2) Section 453 (42 U.S.C. 653) is amended in the heading 
     by adding ``federal'' before ``parent''.
       (f) New Components.--Section 453 (42 U.S.C. 653), as 
     amended by subsection (d) of this section, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subsections:
       ``(h) Federal Case Registry of Child Support Orders.--
       ``(1) In general.--Not later than October 1, 1998, in order 
     to assist States in administering programs under State plans 
     approved under this part and programs funded under part A, 
     and for the other purposes specified in this section, the 
     Secretary shall establish and maintain in the Federal Parent 
     Locator Service an automated registry (which shall be known 
     as the `Federal Case Registry of Child Support Orders'), 
     which shall contain abstracts of support orders and other 
     information described in paragraph (2) with respect to each 
     case in each State case registry maintained pursuant to 
     section 454A(e), as furnished (and regularly updated), 
     pursuant to section 454A(f), by State agencies administering 
     programs under this part.
       ``(2) Case information.--The information referred to in 
     paragraph (1) with respect to a case shall be such 
     information as the Secretary may specify in regulations 
     (including the names, social security numbers or other 
     uniform identification numbers, and State case identification 
     numbers) to identify the individuals who owe or are owed 
     support (or with respect to or on behalf of whom support 
     obligations are sought to be established), and the State or 
     States which have the case.
       ``(i) National Directory of New Hires.--
       ``(1) In general.--In order to assist States in 
     administering programs under State plans approved under this 
     part and programs funded under part A, and for the other 
     purposes specified in this section, the Secretary shall, not 
     later than October 1, 1996, establish and maintain in the 
     Federal Parent Locator Service an automated directory to be 
     known as the National Directory of New Hires, which shall 
     contain the information supplied pursuant to section 
     453A(g)(2).
       ``(2) Entry of data.--Information shall be entered into the 
     data base maintained by the National Directory of New Hires 
     within 2 business days of receipt pursuant to section 
     453A(g)(2).
       ``(3) Administration of federal tax laws.--The Secretary of 
     the Treasury shall have access to the information in the 
     National Directory of New Hires for purposes of administering 
     section 32 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or the 
     advance payment of the earned income tax credit under section 
     3507 of such Code, and verifying a claim with respect to 
     employment in a tax return.
       ``(4) List of multistate employers.--The Secretary shall 
     maintain within the National Directory of New Hires a list of 
     multistate employers that report information regarding newly 
     hired employees pursuant to section 453A(b)(1)(B), and the 
     State which each such employer has designated to receive such 
     information.
       ``(j) Information Comparisons and Other Disclosures.--
       ``(1) Verification by social security administration.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall transmit information 
     on individuals and employers maintained under this section to 
     the Social Security Administration to the extent necessary 
     for verification in accordance with subparagraph (B).
       ``(B) Verification by ssa.--The Social Security 
     Administration shall verify the accuracy of, correct, or 
     supply to the extent possible, and report to the Secretary, 
     the following information supplied by the Secretary pursuant 
     to subparagraph (A):
       ``(i) The name, social security number, and birth date of 
     each such individual.
       ``(ii) The employer identification number of each such 
     employer.
       ``(2) Information comparisons.--For the purpose of locating 
     individuals in a paternity establishment case or a case 
     involving the establishment, modification, or enforcement of 
     a support order, the Secretary shall--
       ``(A) compare information in the National Directory of New 
     Hires against information in the support case abstracts in 
     the Federal Case Registry of Child Support Orders not less 
     often than every 2 business days; and
       ``(B) within 2 such days after such a comparison reveals a 
     match with respect to an individual, report the information 
     to the State agency responsible for the case.
       ``(3) Information comparisons and disclosures of 
     information in all registries for title iv program 
     purposes.--To the extent and with the frequency that the 
     Secretary determines to be effective in assisting States to 
     carry out their responsibilities under programs operated 
     under this part and programs funded under part A, the 
     Secretary shall--
       ``(A) compare the information in each component of the 
     Federal Parent Locator Service maintained under this section 
     against the information in each other such component (other 
     than the comparison required by paragraph (2)), and report 
     instances in which such a comparison reveals a match with 
     respect to an individual to State agencies operating such 
     programs; and
       ``(B) disclose information in such registries to such State 
     agencies.
       ``(4) Provision of new hire information to the social 
     security administration.--The National Directory of New Hires 
     shall provide the Commissioner of Social Security with all 
     information in the National Directory, which shall be used to 
     determine the accuracy of payments under the supplemental 
     security income program under title XVI and in connection 
     with benefits under title II.
       ``(5) Research.--The Secretary may provide access to 
     information reported by employers pursuant to section 453A(b) 
     for research purposes found by the Secretary to be likely to 
     contribute to achieving the purposes of part A or this part, 
     but without personal identifiers.
       ``(k) Fees.--
       ``(1) For ssa verification.--The Secretary shall reimburse 
     the Commissioner of Social Security, at a rate negotiated 
     between the Secretary and the Commissioner, for the costs 
     incurred by the Commissioner in performing the verification 
     services described in subsection (j).
       ``(2) For information from state directories of new 
     hires.--The Secretary shall reimburse costs incurred by State 
     directories of new hires in furnishing information as 
     required by subsection (j)(3), at rates which the Secretary 
     determines to be reasonable (which rates shall not include 
     payment for the costs of obtaining, compiling, or maintaining 
     such information).
       ``(3) For information furnished to state and federal 
     agencies.--A State or Federal agency that receives 
     information from the Secretary pursuant to this section shall 
     reimburse the Secretary for costs incurred by the Secretary 
     in furnishing the information, at rates which the Secretary 
     determines to be reasonable (which rates shall include 
     payment for the costs of obtaining, verifying, maintaining, 
     and comparing the information).
       ``(l) Restriction on Disclosure and Use.--Information in 
     the Federal Parent Locator Service, and information resulting 
     from comparisons using such information, shall not be used or 
     disclosed except as expressly provided in this section, 
     subject to section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
       ``(m) Information Integrity and Security.--The Secretary 
     shall establish and implement safeguards with respect to the 
     entities established under this section designed to--
       ``(1) ensure the accuracy and completeness of information 
     in the Federal Parent Locator Service; and
       ``(2) restrict access to confidential information in the 
     Federal Parent Locator Service to authorized persons, and 
     restrict use of such information to authorized purposes.
       ``(n) Federal Government Reporting.--Each department, 
     agency, and instrumentality of the United States shall on a 
     quarterly basis report to the Federal Parent Locator Service 
     the name and social security number of each employee and the 
     wages paid to the employee during the previous quarter, 
     except that such a report shall not be filed with respect to 
     an employee of a department, agency, or instrumentality 
     performing intelligence or counterintelligence functions, if 
     the head of such department, agency, or instrumentality has 
     determined that filing such a report could endanger the 
     safety of the employee or compromise an ongoing investigation 
     or intelligence mission.''.
       (g) Conforming Amendments.--
       (1) To part d of title iv of the social security act.--
       (A) Section 454(8)(B) (42 U.S.C. 654(8)(B)) is amended to 
     read as follows:
       ``(B) the Federal Parent Locator Service established under 
     section 453;''.
       (B) Section 454(13) (42 U.S.C.654(13)) is amended by 
     inserting ``and provide that information requests by parents 
     who are residents of other States be treated with the same 
     priority as requests by parents who are residents of the 
     State submitting the plan'' before the semicolon.
       (2) To federal unemployment tax act.--Section 3304(a)(16) 
     of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended--
       (A) by striking ``Secretary of Health, Education, and 
     Welfare'' each place such term appears and inserting 
     ``Secretary of Health and Human Services'';
       (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``such information'' 
     and all that follows and inserting ``information furnished 
     under subparagraph (A) or (B) is used only for the purposes 
     authorized under such subparagraph;'';
       (C) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (A);
       (D) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C); 
     and
       (E) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following new 
     subparagraph:
       ``(B) wage and unemployment compensation information 
     contained in the records of such agency shall be furnished to 
     the Secretary of Health and Human Services (in accordance 
     with regulations promulgated by such Secretary) as necessary 
     for the purposes of the National Directory of New Hires 
     established under section 453(i) of the Social Security Act, 
     and''.
       (3) To state grant program under title iii of the social 
     security act.--Subsection (h) of section 303 (42 U.S.C. 503) 
     is amended to read as follows:
       ``(h)(1) The State agency charged with the administration 
     of the State law shall, on a reimbursable basis--
       ``(A) disclose quarterly, to the Secretary of Health and 
     Human Services, wage and claim information, as required 
     pursuant to section 453(i)(1), contained in the records of 
     such agency;
       ``(B) ensure that information provided pursuant to 
     subparagraph (A) meets such standards relating to correctness 
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     as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with the 
     concurrence of the Secretary of Labor, may find necessary; 
     and
       ``(C) establish such safeguards as the Secretary of Labor 
     determines are necessary to insure that information disclosed 
     under subparagraph (A) is used only for purposes of section 
     453(i)(1) in carrying out the child support enforcement 
     program under title IV.
       ``(2) Whenever the Secretary of Labor, after reasonable 
     notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency 
     charged with the administration of the State law, finds that 
     there is a failure to comply substantially with the 
     requirements of paragraph (1), the Secretary of Labor shall 
     notify such State agency that further payments will not be 
     made to the State until the Secretary of Labor is satisfied 
     that there is no longer any such failure. Until the Secretary 
     of Labor is so satisfied, the Secretary shall make no future 
     certification to the Secretary of the Treasury with respect 
     to the State.
       ``(3) For purposes of this subsection--
       ``(A) the term `wage information' means information 
     regarding wages paid to an individual, the social security 
     account number of such individual, and the name, address, 
     State, and the Federal employer identification number of the 
     employer paying such wages to such individual; and
       ``(B) the term `claim information' means information 
     regarding whether an individual is receiving, has received, 
     or has made application for, unemployment compensation, the 
     amount of any such compensation being received (or to be 
     received by such individual), and the individual's current 
     (or most recent) home address.''.
       (4) Disclosure of certain information to agents of child 
     support enforcement agencies.--
       (A) In general.--Paragraph (6) of section 6103(l) of the 
     Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to disclosure of 
     return information to Federal, State, and local child support 
     enforcement agencies) is amended by redesignating 
     subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C) and by inserting after 
     subparagraph (A) the following new subparagraph:
       ``(B) Disclosure to certain agents.--The following 
     information disclosed to any child support enforcement agency 
     under subparagraph (A) with respect to any individual with 
     respect to whom child support obligations are sought to be 
     established or enforced may be disclosed by such agency to 
     any agent of such agency which is under contract with such 
     agency to carry out the purposes described in subparagraph 
     (C):
       ``(i) The address and social security account number (or 
     numbers) of such individual.
       ``(ii) The amount of any reduction under section 6402(c) 
     (relating to offset of past-due support against overpayments) 
     in any overpayment otherwise payable to such individual.''
       (B) Conforming amendments.--
       (i) Paragraph (3) of section 6103(a) of such Code is 
     amended by striking ``(l)(12)'' and inserting ``paragraph (6) 
     or (12) of subsection (l)''.
       (ii) Subparagraph (C) of section 6103(l)(6) of such Code, 
     as redesignated by subsection (a), is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(C) Restriction on disclosure.--Information may be 
     disclosed under this paragraph only for purposes of, and to 
     the extent necessary in, establishing and collecting child 
     support obligations from, and locating, individuals owing 
     such obligations.''
       (iii) The material following subparagraph (F) of section 
     6103(p)(4) of such Code is amended by striking ``subsection 
     (l)(12)(B)'' and inserting ``paragraph (6)(A) or (12)(B) of 
     subsection (l)''.

     SEC. 317. COLLECTION AND USE OF SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS FOR 
                   USE IN CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT.

       (a) State Law Requirement.--Section 466(a) (42 U.S.C. 
     666(a)), as amended by section 315 of this Act, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(13) Recording of social security numbers in certain 
     family matters.--Procedures requiring that the social 
     security number of--
       ``(A) any applicant for a professional license, commercial 
     driver's license, occupational license, or marriage license 
     be recorded on the application;
       ``(B) any individual who is subject to a divorce decree, 
     support order, or paternity determination or acknowledgment 
     be placed in the records relating to the matter; and
       ``(C) any individual who has died be placed in the records 
     relating to the death and be recorded on the death 
     certificate.
     For purposes of subparagraph (A), if a State allows the use 
     of a number other than the social security number, the State 
     shall so advise any applicants.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 205(c)(2)(C) (42 U.S.C. 
     405(c)(2)(C)), as amended by section 321(a)(9) of the Social 
     Security Independence and Program Improvements Act of 1994, 
     is amended--
       (1) in clause (i), by striking ``may require'' and 
     inserting ``shall require'';
       (2) in clause (ii), by inserting after the 1st sentence the 
     following: ``In the administration of any law involving the 
     issuance of a marriage certificate or license, each State 
     shall require each party named in the certificate or license 
     to furnish to the State (or political subdivision thereof), 
     or any State agency having administrative responsibility for 
     the law involved, the social security number of the party.'';
       (3) in clause (ii), by inserting ``or marriage 
     certificate'' after ``Such numbers shall not be recorded on 
     the birth certificate''.
       (4) in clause (vi), by striking ``may'' and inserting 
     ``shall''; and
       (5) by adding at the end the following new clauses:
       ``(x) An agency of a State (or a political subdivision 
     thereof) charged with the administration of any law 
     concerning the issuance or renewal of a license, certificate, 
     permit, or other authorization to engage in a profession, an 
     occupation, or a commercial activity shall require all 
     applicants for issuance or renewal of the license, 
     certificate, permit, or other authorization to provide the 
     applicant's social security number to the agency for the 
     purpose of administering such laws, and for the purpose of 
     responding to requests for information from an agency 
     operating pursuant to part D of title IV.
       ``(xi) All divorce decrees, support orders, and paternity 
     determinations issued, and all paternity acknowledgments 
     made, in each State shall include the social security number 
     of each party to the decree, order, determination, or 
     acknowledgment in the records relating to the matter, for the 
     purpose of responding to requests for information from an 
     agency operating pursuant to part D of title IV.''.
         Subtitle C--Streamlining and Uniformity of Procedures

     SEC. 321. ADOPTION OF UNIFORM STATE LAWS.

       Section 466 (42 U.S.C. 666) is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new subsection:
       ``(f) Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.--
       ``(1) Enactment and use.--In order to satisfy section 
     454(20)(A), on and after January 1, 1998, each State must 
     have in effect the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, as 
     approved by the American Bar Association on February 9, 1993, 
     together with any amendments officially adopted before 
     January 1, 1998, by the National Conference of Commissioners 
     on Uniform State Laws.
       ``(2) Employers to follow procedural rules of state where 
     employee works.--The State law enacted pursuant to paragraph 
     (1) shall provide that an employer that receives an income 
     withholding order or notice pursuant to section 501 of the 
     Uniform Interstate Family Support Act follow the procedural 
     rules that apply with respect to such order or notice under 
     the laws of the State in which the obligor works.''.

     SEC. 322. IMPROVEMENTS TO FULL FAITH AND CREDIT FOR CHILD 
                   SUPPORT ORDERS.

       Section 1738B of title 28, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ``subsection (e)'' 
     and inserting ``subsections (e), (f), and (i)'';
       (2) in subsection (b), by inserting after the 2d 
     undesignated paragraph the following:
       `` `child's home State' means the State in which a child 
     lived with a parent or a person acting as parent for at least 
     6 consecutive months immediately preceding the time of filing 
     of a petition or comparable pleading for support and, if a 
     child is less than 6 months old, the State in which the child 
     lived from birth with any of them. A period of temporary 
     absence of any of them is counted as part of the 6-month 
     period.'';
       (3) in subsection (c), by inserting ``by a court of a 
     State'' before ``is made'';
       (4) in subsection (c)(1), by inserting ``and subsections 
     (e), (f), and (g)'' after ``located'';
       (5) in subsection (d)--
       (A) by inserting ``individual'' before ``contestant''; and
       (B) by striking ``subsection (e)'' and inserting 
     ``subsections (e) and (f)'';
       (6) in subsection (e), by striking ``make a modification of 
     a child support order with respect to a child that is made'' 
     and inserting ``modify a child support order issued'';
       (7) in subsection (e)(1), by inserting ``pursuant to 
     subsection (i)'' before the semicolon;
       (8) in subsection (e)(2)--
       (A) by inserting ``individual'' before ``contestant'' each 
     place such term appears; and
       (B) by striking ``to that court's making the modification 
     and assuming'' and inserting ``with the State of continuing, 
     exclusive jurisdiction for a court of another State to modify 
     the order and assume'';
       (9) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as subsections 
     (g) and (h), respectively;
       (10) by inserting after subsection (e) the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(f) Recognition of Child Support Orders.--If 1 or more 
     child support orders have been issued in this or another 
     State with regard to an obligor and a child, a court shall 
     apply the following rules in determining which order to 
     recognize for purposes of continuing, exclusive jurisdiction 
     and enforcement:
       ``(1) If only 1 court has issued a child support order, the 
     order of that court must be recognized.
       ``(2) If 2 or more courts have issued child support orders 
     for the same obligor and child, and only 1 of the courts 
     would have continuing, exclusive jurisdiction under this 
     section, the order of that court must be recognized.
       ``(3) If 2 or more courts have issued child support orders 
     for the same obligor and child, and more than 1 of the courts 
     would have continuing, exclusive jurisdiction under this 
     section, an order issued by a court in the current home State 
     of the child must be recognized, but if an order has not been 
     issued in the current home State of the child, the order most 
     recently issued must be recognized.

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       ``(4) If 2 or more courts have issued child support orders 
     for the same obligor and child, and none of the courts would 
     have continuing, exclusive jurisdiction under this section, a 
     court may issue a child support order, which must be 
     recognized.
       ``(5) The court that has issued an order recognized under 
     this subsection is the court having continuing, exclusive 
     jurisdiction.'';
       (11) in subsection (g) (as so redesignated)--
       (A) by striking ``Prior'' and inserting ``Modified''; and
       (B) by striking ``subsection (e)'' and inserting 
     ``subsections (e) and (f)'';
       (12) in subsection (h) (as so redesignated)--
       (A) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``including the duration 
     of current payments and other obligations of support'' before 
     the comma; and
       (B) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``arrears under'' after 
     ``enforce''; and
       (13) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(i) Registration for Modification.--If there is no 
     individual contestant or child residing in the issuing State, 
     the party or support enforcement agency seeking to modify, or 
     to modify and enforce, a child support order issued in 
     another State shall register that order in a State with 
     jurisdiction over the nonmovant for the purpose of 
     modification.''.

     SEC. 323. ADMINISTRATIVE ENFORCEMENT IN INTERSTATE CASES.

       Section 466(a) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)), as amended by sections 
     315 and 317(a) of this Act, is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new paragraph:
       ``(14) Administrative enforcement in interstate cases.--
     Procedures under which--
       ``(A)(i) the State shall respond within 5 business days to 
     a request made by another State to enforce a support order; 
     and
       ``(ii) the term `business day' means a day on which State 
     offices are open for regular business;
       ``(B) the State may, by electronic or other means, transmit 
     to another State a request for assistance in a case involving 
     the enforcement of a support order, which request--
       ``(i) shall include such information as will enable the 
     State to which the request is transmitted to compare the 
     information about the case to the information in the data 
     bases of the State; and
       ``(ii) shall constitute a certification by the requesting 
     State--

       ``(I) of the amount of support under the order the payment 
     of which is in arrears; and
       ``(II) that the requesting State has complied with all 
     procedural due process requirements applicable to the case;

       ``(C) if the State provides assistance to another State 
     pursuant to this paragraph with respect to a case, neither 
     State shall consider the case to be transferred to the 
     caseload of such other State; and
       ``(D) the State shall maintain records of--
       ``(i) the number of such requests for assistance received 
     by the State;
       ``(ii) the number of cases for which the State collected 
     support in response to such a request; and
       ``(iii) the amount of such collected support.''.

     SEC. 324. USE OF FORMS IN INTERSTATE ENFORCEMENT.

       (a) Promulgation.--Section 452(a) (42 U.S.C. 652(a)) is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (9);
       (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (10) and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(11) not later than June 30, 1996, after consulting with 
     the State directors of programs under this part, promulgate 
     forms to be used by States in interstate cases for--
       ``(A) collection of child support through income 
     withholding;
       ``(B) imposition of liens; and
       ``(C) administrative subpoenas.''.
       (b) Use by States.--Section 454(9) (42 U.S.C. 654(9)) is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (C);
       (2) by inserting ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (D); 
     and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(E) no later than October 1, 1996, in using the forms 
     promulgated pursuant to section 452(a)(11) for income 
     withholding, imposition of liens, and issuance of 
     administrative subpoenas in interstate child support 
     cases;''.

     SEC. 325. STATE LAWS PROVIDING EXPEDITED PROCEDURES.

       (a) State Law Requirements.--Section 466 (42 U.S.C. 666), 
     as amended by section 314 of this Act, is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking the first sentence 
     and inserting the following: ``Expedited administrative and 
     judicial procedures (including the procedures specified in 
     subsection (c)) for establishing paternity and for 
     establishing, modifying, and enforcing support 
     obligations.''; and
       (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(c) Expedited Procedures.--The procedures specified in 
     this subsection are the following:
       ``(1) Administrative action by state agency.--Procedures 
     which give the State agency the authority to take the 
     following actions relating to establishment or enforcement of 
     support orders, without the necessity of obtaining an order 
     from any other judicial or administrative tribunal, and to 
     recognize and enforce the authority of State agencies of 
     other States) to take the following actions:
       ``(A) Genetic testing.--To order genetic testing for the 
     purpose of paternity establishment as provided in section 
     466(a)(5).
       ``(B) Financial or other information.--To subpoena any 
     financial or other information needed to establish, modify, 
     or enforce a support order, and to impose penalties for 
     failure to respond to such a subpoena.
       ``(C) Response to state agency request.--To require all 
     entities in the State (including for-profit, nonprofit, and 
     governmental employers) to provide promptly, in response to a 
     request by the State agency of that or any other State 
     administering a program under this part, information on the 
     employment, compensation, and benefits of any individual 
     employed by such entity as an employee or contractor, and to 
     sanction failure to respond to any such request.
       ``(D) Access to certain records.--To obtain access, subject 
     to safeguards on privacy and information security, to the 
     following records (including automated access, in the case of 
     records maintained in automated data bases):
       ``(i) Records of other State and local government agencies, 
     including--

       ``(I) vital statistics (including records of marriage, 
     birth, and divorce);
       ``(II) State and local tax and revenue records (including 
     information on residence address, employer, income and 
     assets);
       ``(III) records concerning real and titled personal 
     property;
       ``(IV) records of occupational and professional licenses, 
     and records concerning the ownership and control of 
     corporations, partnerships, and other business entities;
       ``(V) employment security records;
       ``(VI) records of agencies administering public assistance 
     programs;
       ``(VII) records of the motor vehicle department; and
       ``(VIII) corrections records.

       ``(ii) Certain records held by private entities, 
     including--

       ``(I) customer records of public utilities and cable 
     television companies; and
       ``(II) information (including information on assets and 
     liabilities) on individuals who owe or are owed support (or 
     against or with respect to whom a support obligation is 
     sought) held by financial institutions (subject to 
     limitations on liability of such entities arising from 
     affording such access), as provided pursuant to agreements 
     described in subsection (a)(18).

       ``(E) Change in payee.--In cases in which support is 
     subject to an assignment in order to comply with a 
     requirement imposed pursuant to part A or section 1912, or to 
     a requirement to pay through the State disbursement unit 
     established pursuant to section 454B, upon providing notice 
     to obligor and obligee, to direct the obligor or other payor 
     to change the payee to the appropriate government entity.
       ``(F) Income withholding.--To order income withholding in 
     accordance with subsections (a)(1) and (b) of section 466.
       ``(G) Securing assets.--In cases in which there is a 
     support arrearage, to secure assets to satisfy the arrearage 
     by--
       ``(i) intercepting or seizing periodic or lump-sum payments 
     from--

       ``(I) a State or local agency, including unemployment 
     compensation, workers' compensation, and other benefits; and
       ``(II) judgments, settlements, and lotteries;

       ``(ii) attaching and seizing assets of the obligor held in 
     financial institutions;
       ``(iii) attaching public and private retirement funds; and
       ``(iv) imposing liens in accordance with subsection (a)(4) 
     and, in appropriate cases, to force sale of property and 
     distribution of proceeds.
       ``(H) Increase monthly payments.--For the purpose of 
     securing overdue support, to increase the amount of monthly 
     support payments to include amounts for arrearages, subject 
     to such conditions or limitations as the State may provide.

     Such procedures shall be subject to due process safeguards, 
     including (as appropriate) requirements for notice, 
     opportunity to contest the action, and opportunity for an 
     appeal on the record to an independent administrative or 
     judicial tribunal.
       ``(2) Substantive and procedural rules.--The expedited 
     procedures required under subsection (a)(2) shall include the 
     following rules and authority, applicable with respect to all 
     proceedings to establish paternity or to establish, modify, 
     or enforce support orders:
       ``(A) Locator information; presumptions concerning 
     notice.--Procedures under which--
       ``(i) each party to any paternity or child support 
     proceeding is required (subject to privacy safeguards) to 
     file with the tribunal and the State case registry upon entry 
     of an order, and to update as appropriate, information on 
     location and identity of the party, including social security 
     number, residential and mailing addresses, telephone number, 
     driver's license number, and name, address, and name and 
     telephone number of employer; and
       ``(ii) in any subsequent child support enforcement action 
     between the parties, upon sufficient showing that diligent 
     effort has been made to ascertain the location of such a 
     party, the tribunal may deem State due process requirements 
     for notice and service

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     of process to be met with respect to the party, upon delivery 
     of written notice to the most recent residential or employer 
     address filed with the tribunal pursuant to clause (i).
       ``(B) Statewide jurisdiction.--Procedures under which--
       ``(i) the State agency and any administrative or judicial 
     tribunal with authority to hear child support and paternity 
     cases exerts statewide jurisdiction over the parties; and
       ``(ii) in a State in which orders are issued by courts or 
     administrative tribunals, a case may be transferred between 
     local jurisdictions in the State without need for for any 
     additional filing by the petitioner, or service of process 
     upon the respondent, to retain jurisdiction over the parties.
       ``(3) Coordination with erisa.--Notwithstanding subsection 
     (d) of section 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security 
     Act of 1974 (relating to effect on other laws), nothing in 
     this subsection shall be construed to alter, amend, modify, 
     invalidate, impair, or supersede subsections (a), (b), and 
     (c) of such section 514 as it applies with respect to any 
     procedure referred to in paragraph (1) and any expedited 
     procedure referred to in paragraph (2), except to the extent 
     that such procedure would be consistent with the requirements 
     of section 206(d)(3) of such Act (relating to qualified 
     domestic relations orders) or the requirements of section 
     609(a) of such Act (relating to qualified medical child 
     support orders) if the reference in such section 206(d)(3) to 
     a domestic relations order and the reference in such section 
     609(a) to a medical child support order were a reference to a 
     support order referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) relating 
     to the same matters, respectively.''.
       (b) Automation of State Agency Functions.--Section 454A, as 
     added by section 344(a)(2) and as amended by sections 311 and 
     312(c) of this Act, is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new subsection:
       ``(h) Expedited Administrative Procedures.--The automated 
     system required by this section shall be used, to the maximum 
     extent feasible, to implement the expedited administrative 
     procedures required by section 466(c).''.
                  Subtitle D--Paternity Establishment

     SEC. 331. STATE LAWS CONCERNING PATERNITY ESTABLISHMENT.

       (a) State Laws Required.--Section 466(a)(5) (42 U.S.C. 
     666(a)(5)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(5) Procedures concerning paternity establishment.--
       ``(A) Establishment process available from birth until age 
     18.--
       ``(i) Procedures which permit the establishment of the 
     paternity of a child at any time before the child attains 18 
     years of age.
       ``(ii) As of August 16, 1984, clause (i) shall also apply 
     to a child for whom paternity has not been established or for 
     whom a paternity action was brought but dismissed because a 
     statute of limitations of less than 18 years was then in 
     effect in the State.
       ``(B) Procedures concerning genetic testing.--
       ``(i) Genetic testing required in certain contested 
     cases.--Procedures under which the State is required, in a 
     contested paternity case (unless otherwise barred by State 
     law) to require the child and all other parties (other than 
     individuals found under section 454(29) to have good cause 
     for refusing to cooperate) to submit to genetic tests upon 
     the request of any such party, if the request is supported by 
     a sworn statement by the party--

       ``(I) alleging paternity, and setting forth facts 
     establishing a reasonable possibility of the requisite sexual 
     contact between the parties; or
       ``(II) denying paternity, and setting forth facts 
     establishing a reasonable possibility of the nonexistence of 
     sexual contact between the parties.

       ``(ii) Other requirements.--Procedures which require the 
     State agency, in any case in which the agency orders genetic 
     testing--

       ``(I) to pay costs of such tests, subject to recoupment (if 
     the State so elects) from the alleged father if paternity is 
     established; and
       ``(II) to obtain additional testing in any case if an 
     original test result is contested, upon request and advance 
     payment by the contestant.

       ``(C) Voluntary paternity acknowledgment.--
       ``(i) Simple civil process.--Procedures for a simple civil 
     process for voluntarily acknowledging paternity under which 
     the State must provide that, before a mother and a putative 
     father can sign an acknowledgment of paternity, the mother 
     and the putative father must be given notice, orally and in 
     writing, of the alternatives to, the legal consequences of, 
     and the rights (including, if 1 parent is a minor, any rights 
     afforded due to minority status) and responsibilities that 
     arise from, signing the acknowledgment.
       ``(ii) Hospital-based program.--Such procedures must 
     include a hospital-based program for the voluntary 
     acknowledgment of paternity focusing on the period 
     immediately before or after the birth of a child, subject to 
     such good cause exceptions, taking into account the best 
     interests of the child, as the State may establish.
       ``(iii) Paternity establishment services.--

       ``(I) State-offered services.--Such procedures must require 
     the State agency responsible for maintaining birth records to 
     offer voluntary paternity establishment services.
       ``(II) Regulations.--

       ``(aa) Services offered by hospitals and birth record 
     agencies.--The Secretary shall prescribe regulations 
     governing voluntary paternity establishment services offered 
     by hospitals and birth record agencies.
       ``(bb) Services offered by other entities.--The Secretary 
     shall prescribe regulations specifying the types of other 
     entities that may offer voluntary paternity establishment 
     services, and governing the provision of such services, which 
     shall include a requirement that such an entity must use the 
     same notice provisions used by, use the same materials used 
     by, provide the personnel providing such services with the 
     same training provided by, and evaluate the provision of such 
     services in the same manner as the provision of such services 
     is evaluated by, voluntary paternity establishment programs 
     of hospitals and birth record agencies.
       ``(iv) Use of paternity acknowledgment affidavit.--Such 
     procedures must require the State to develop and use an 
     affidavit for the voluntary acknowledgment of paternity which 
     includes the minimum requirements of the affidavit developed 
     by the Secretary under section 452(a)(7) for the voluntary 
     acknowledgment of paternity, and to give full faith and 
     credit to such an affidavit signed in any other State 
     according to its procedures.
       ``(D) Status of signed paternity acknowledgment.--
       ``(i) Inclusion in birth records.--Procedures under which 
     the name of the father shall be included on the record of 
     birth of the child of unmarried parents only if--

       ``(I) the father and mother have signed a voluntary 
     acknowledgment of paternity; or
       ``(II) a court or an administrative agency of competent 
     jurisdiction has issued an adjudication of paternity.

     Nothing in this clause shall preclude a State agency from 
     obtaining an admission of paternity from the father for 
     submission in a judicial or administrative proceeding, or 
     prohibit the issuance of an order in a judicial or 
     administrative proceeding which bases a legal finding of 
     paternity on an admission of paternity by the father and any 
     other additional showing required by State law.
       ``(ii) Legal finding of paternity.--Procedures under which 
     a signed voluntary acknowledgment of paternity is considered 
     a legal finding of paternity, subject to the right of any 
     signatory to rescind the acknowledgment within the earlier 
     of--

       ``(I) 60 days; or

       ``(II) the date of an administrative or judicial proceeding 
     relating to the child (including a proceeding to establish a 
     support order) in which the signatory is a party.

       ``(iii) Contest.--Procedures under which, after the 60-day 
     period referred to in clause (ii), a signed voluntary 
     acknowledgment of paternity may be challenged in court only 
     on the basis of fraud, duress, or material mistake of fact, 
     with the burden of proof upon the challenger, and under which 
     the legal responsibilities (including child support 
     obligations) of any signatory arising from the acknowledgment 
     may not be suspended during the challenge, except for good 
     cause shown.
       ``(E) Bar on acknowledgment ratification proceedings.--
     Procedures under which judicial or administrative proceedings 
     are not required or permitted to ratify an unchallenged 
     acknowledgment of paternity.
       ``(F) Admissibility of genetic testing results.--
     Procedures--
       ``(i) requiring the admission into evidence, for purposes 
     of establishing paternity, of the results of any genetic test 
     that is--

       ``(I) of a type generally acknowledged as reliable by 
     accreditation bodies designated by the Secretary; and
       ``(II) performed by a laboratory approved by such an 
     accreditation body;

       ``(ii) requiring an objection to genetic testing results to 
     be made in writing not later than a specified number of days 
     before any hearing at which the results may be introduced 
     into evidence (or, at State option, not later than a 
     specified number of days after receipt of the results); and
       ``(iii) making the test results admissible as evidence of 
     paternity without the need for foundation testimony or other 
     proof of authenticity or accuracy, unless objection is made.
       ``(G) Presumption of paternity in certain cases.--
     Procedures which create a rebuttable or, at the option of the 
     State, conclusive presumption of paternity upon genetic 
     testing results indicating a threshold probability that the 
     alleged father is the father of the child.
       ``(H) Default orders.--Procedures requiring a default order 
     to be entered in a paternity case upon a showing of service 
     of process on the defendant and any additional showing 
     required by State law.
       ``(I) No right to jury trial.--Procedures providing that 
     the parties to an action to establish paternity are not 
     entitled to a trial by jury.
       ``(J) Temporary support order based on probable paternity 
     in contested cases.--Procedures which require that a 
     temporary order be issued, upon motion by a party, requiring 
     the provision of child support pending an administrative or 
     judicial determination of parentage, if there is clear and 
     convincing evidence of paternity (on the basis of genetic 
     tests or other evidence).
       ``(K) Proof of certain support and paternity establishment 
     costs.--Procedures under which bills for pregnancy, 
     childbirth, and genetic testing are admissible as evidence 
     without requiring third-party foundation testimony, and shall 
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     facie evidence of amounts incurred for such services or for 
     testing on behalf of the child.
       ``(L) Standing of putative fathers.--Procedures ensuring 
     that the putative father has a reasonable opportunity to 
     initiate a paternity action.
       ``(M) Filing of acknowledgments and adjudications in state 
     registry of birth records.--Procedures under which voluntary 
     acknowledgments and adjudications of paternity by judicial or 
     administrative processes are filed with the State registry of 
     birth records for comparison with information in the State 
     case registry.''.
       (b) National Paternity Acknowledgment Affidavit.--Section 
     452(a)(7) (42 U.S.C. 652(a)(7)) is amended by inserting ``, 
     and develop an affidavit to be used for the voluntary 
     acknowledgment of paternity which shall include the social 
     security number of each parent and, after consultation with 
     the States, other common elements as determined by such 
     designee'' before the semicolon.
       (c) Conforming Amendment.--Section 468 (42 U.S.C. 668) is 
     amended by striking ``a simple civil process for voluntarily 
     acknowledging paternity and''.

     SEC. 332. OUTREACH FOR VOLUNTARY PATERNITY ESTABLISHMENT.

       Section 454(23) (42 U.S.C. 654(23)) is amended by inserting 
     ``and will publicize the availability and encourage the use 
     of procedures for voluntary establishment of paternity and 
     child support by means the State deems appropriate'' before 
     the semicolon.

     SEC. 333. COOPERATION BY APPLICANTS FOR AND RECIPIENTS OF 
                   TEMPORARY FAMILY ASSISTANCE.

       Section 454 (42 U.S.C. 654), as amended by sections 301(b), 
     303(a), 312(a), and 313(a) of this Act, is amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (27);
       (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (28) and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by inserting after paragraph (28) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(29) provide that the State agency responsible for 
     administering the State plan--
       ``(A) shall make the determination (and redetermination at 
     appropriate intervals) as to whether an individual who has 
     applied for or is receiving assistance under the State 
     program funded under part A or the State program under title 
     XIX is cooperating in good faith with the State in 
     establishing the paternity of, or in establishing, 
     modifying, or enforcing a support order for, any child of 
     the individual by providing the State agency with the name 
     of, and such other information as the State agency may 
     require with respect to, the noncustodial parent of the 
     child, subject to such good cause exceptions, taking into 
     account the best interests of the child, as the State may 
     establish through the State agency, or at the option of 
     the State, through the State agencies administering the 
     State programs funded under part A and title XIX;
       ``(B) shall require the individual to supply additional 
     necessary information and appear at interviews, hearings, and 
     legal proceedings;
       ``(C) shall require the individual and the child to submit 
     to genetic tests pursuant to judicial or administrative 
     order;
       ``(D) may request that the individual sign a voluntary 
     acknowledgment of paternity, after notice of the rights and 
     consequences of such an acknowledgment, but may not require 
     the individual to sign an acknowledgment or otherwise 
     relinquish the right to genetic tests as a condition of 
     cooperation and eligibility for assistance under the State 
     program funded under part A or the State program under title 
     XIX; and
       ``(E) shall promptly notify the individual and the State 
     agency administering the State program funded under part A 
     and the State agency administering the State program under 
     title XIX of each such determination, and if noncooperation 
     is determined, the basis therefore.''.
             Subtitle E--Program Administration and Funding

     SEC. 341. PERFORMANCE-BASED INCENTIVES AND PENALTIES.

       (a) Development of New System.--The Secretary of Health and 
     Human Services, in consultation with State directors of 
     programs under part D of title IV of the Social Security Act, 
     shall develop a new incentive system to replace, in a revenue 
     neutral manner, the system under section 458 of such Act. The 
     new system shall provide additional payments to any State 
     based on such State's performance under such a program. Not 
     later than June 1, 1996, the Secretary shall report on the 
     new system to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate.
       (b) Conforming Amendments to Present System.--Section 458 
     (42 U.S.C. 658) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``aid to families with 
     dependent children under a State plan approved under part A 
     of this title'' and inserting ``assistance under a program 
     funded under part A'';
       (2) in subsection (b)(1)(A), by striking ``section 
     402(a)(26)'' and inserting ``section 408(a)(4)'';
       (3) in subsections (b) and (c)--
       (A) by striking ``AFDC collections'' each place it appears 
     and inserting ``title IV-A collections'', and
       (B) by striking ``non-AFDC collections'' each place it 
     appears and inserting ``non-title IV-A collections''; and
       (4) in subsection (c), by striking ``combined AFDC/non-AFDC 
     administrative costs'' both places it appears and inserting 
     ``combined title IV-A/non-title IV-A administrative costs''.
       (c) Calculation of IV-D Paternity Establishment 
     Percentage.--
       (1) Section 452(g)(1)(A) (42 U.S.C. 652(g)(1)(A)) is 
     amended by striking ``75'' and inserting ``90''.
       (2) Section 452(g)(1) (42 U.S.C. 652(g)(1)) is amended by 
     redesignating subparagraphs (B) through (E) as subparagraphs 
     (C) through (F), respectively, and by inserting after 
     subparagraph (A) the following new subparagraph:
       ``(B) for a State with a paternity establishment percentage 
     of not less than 75 percent but less than 90 percent for such 
     fiscal year, the paternity establishment percentage of the 
     State for the immediately preceding fiscal year plus 2 
     percentage points;''.
       (3) Section 452(g)(2)(A) (42 U.S.C. 652(g)(2)(A)) is 
     amended in the matter preceding clause (i)--
       (A) by striking ``paternity establishment percentage'' and 
     inserting ``IV-D paternity establishment percentage''; and
       (B) by striking ``(or all States, as the case may be)''.
       (4) Section 452(g)(2) (42 U.S.C. 652(g)(2)) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new sentence: ``In meeting 
     the 90 percent paternity establishment requirement, a State 
     may calculate either the paternity establishment rate of 
     cases in the program funded under this part or the paternity 
     establishment rate of all out-of-wedlock births in the 
     State.''.
       (5) Section 452(g)(3) (42 U.S.C. 652(g)(3)) is amended--
       (A) by striking subparagraph (A) and redesignating 
     subparagraphs (B) and (C) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), 
     respectively;
       (B) in subparagraph (A) (as so redesignated), by striking 
     ``the percentage of children born out-of-wedlock in a State'' 
     and inserting ``the percentage of children in a State who are 
     born out of wedlock or for whom support has not been 
     established''; and
       (C) in subparagraph (B) (as so redesignated) by inserting 
     ``and securing support'' before the period.
       (d) Effective Dates.--
       (1) Incentive adjustments.--
       (A) In general.--The system developed under subsection (a) 
     and the amendments made by subsection (b) shall become 
     effective on October 1, 1997, except to the extent provided 
     in subparagraph (B).
       (B) Application of section 458.--Section 458 of the Social 
     Security Act, as in effect on the day before the date of the 
     enactment of this section, shall be effective for purposes of 
     incentive payments to States for fiscal years before fiscal 
     year 1999.
       (2) Penalty reductions.--The amendments made by subsection 
     (c) shall become effective with respect to calendar quarters 
     beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 342. FEDERAL AND STATE REVIEWS AND AUDITS.

       (a) State Agency Activities.--Section 454 (42 U.S.C. 654) 
     is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (14), by striking ``(14)'' and inserting 
     ``(14)(A)'';
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (15) as subparagraph (B) of 
     paragraph (14); and
       (3) by inserting after paragraph (14) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(15) provide for--
       ``(A) a process for annual reviews of and reports to the 
     Secretary on the State program operated under the State plan 
     approved under this part, including such information as may 
     be necessary to measure State compliance with Federal 
     requirements for expedited procedures, using such standards 
     and procedures as are required by the Secretary, under which 
     the State agency will determine the extent to which the 
     program is operated in compliance with this part; and
       ``(B) a process of extracting from the automated data 
     processing system required by paragraph (16) and transmitting 
     to the Secretary data and calculations concerning the levels 
     of accomplishment (and rates of improvement) with respect to 
     applicable performance indicators (including IV-D paternity 
     establishment percentages to the extent necessary for 
     purposes of sections 452(g) and 458.''.
       (b) Federal Activities.--Section 452(a)(4) (42 U.S.C. 
     652(a)(4)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(4)(A) review data and calculations transmitted by State 
     agencies pursuant to section 454(15)(B) on State program 
     accomplishments with respect to performance indicators for 
     purposes of subsection (g) of this section and section 
     458;
       ``(B) review annual reports submitted pursuant to section 
     454(15)(A) and, as appropriate, provide to the State 
     comments, recommendations for additional or alternative 
     corrective actions, and technical assistance; and
       ``(C) conduct audits, in accordance with the Government 
     auditing standards of the Comptroller General of the United 
     States--
       ``(i) at least once every 3 years (or more frequently, in 
     the case of a State which fails to meet the requirements of 
     this part concerning performance standards and reliability of 
     program data) to assess the completeness, reliability, and 
     security of the data, and the accuracy of the reporting 
     systems, used in calculating performance indicators under 
     subsection (g) of this section and section 458;

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       ``(ii) of the adequacy of financial management of the State 
     program operated under the State plan approved under this 
     part, including assessments of--
       ``(I) whether Federal and other funds made available to 
     carry out the State program are being appropriately expended, 
     and are properly and fully accounted for; and
       ``(II) whether collections and disbursements of support 
     payments are carried out correctly and are fully accounted 
     for; and
       ``(iii) for such other purposes as the Secretary may find 
     necessary;''.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall be effective with respect to calendar quarters 
     beginning 12 months or more after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act.

     SEC. 343. REQUIRED REPORTING PROCEDURES.

       (a) Establishment.--Section 452(a)(5) (42 U.S.C. 652(a)(5)) 
     is amended by inserting ``, and establish procedures to be 
     followed by States for collecting and reporting information 
     required to be provided under this part, and establish 
     uniform definitions (including those necessary to enable the 
     measurement of State compliance with the requirements of this 
     part relating to expedited processes) to be applied in 
     following such procedures'' before the semicolon.
       (b) State Plan Requirement.--Section 454 (42 U.S.C. 654), 
     as amended by sections 301(b), 303(a), 312(a), 313(a), and 
     333 of this Act, is amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (28);
       (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (29) and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding after paragraph (29) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(30) provide that the State shall use the definitions 
     established under section 452(a)(5) in collecting and 
     reporting information as required under this part.''.

     SEC. 344. AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) Revised Requirements.--
       (1) In general.--Section 454(16) (42 U.S.C. 654(16)) is 
     amended--
       (A) by striking ``, at the option of the State,'';
       (B) by inserting ``and operation by the State agency'' 
     after ``for the establishment'';
       (C) by inserting ``meeting the requirements of section 
     454A'' after ``information retrieval system'';
       (D) by striking ``in the State and localities thereof, so 
     as (A)'' and inserting ``so as'';
       (E) by striking ``(i)''; and
       (F) by striking ``(including'' and all that follows and 
     inserting a semicolon.
       (2) Automated data processing.--Part D of title IV (42 
     U.S.C. 651-669) is amended by inserting after section 454 the 
     following new section:

     ``SEC. 454A. AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING.

       ``(a) In General.--In order for a State to meet the 
     requirements of this section, the State agency administering 
     the State program under this part shall have in operation a 
     single statewide automated data processing and information 
     retrieval system which has the capability to perform the 
     tasks specified in this section with the frequency and in the 
     manner required by or under this part.
       ``(b) Program Management.--The automated system required by 
     this section shall perform such functions as the Secretary 
     may specify relating to management of the State program under 
     this part, including--
       ``(1) controlling and accounting for use of Federal, State, 
     and local funds in carrying out the program; and
       ``(2) maintaining the data necessary to meet Federal 
     reporting requirements under this part on a timely basis.
       ``(c) Calculation of Performance Indicators.--In order to 
     enable the Secretary to determine the incentive payments and 
     penalty adjustments required by sections 452(g) and 458, the 
     State agency shall--
       ``(1) use the automated system--
       ``(A) to maintain the requisite data on State performance 
     with respect to paternity establishment and child support 
     enforcement in the State; and
       ``(B) to calculate the IV-D paternity establishment 
     percentage for the State for each fiscal year; and
       ``(2) have in place systems controls to ensure the 
     completeness and reliability of, and ready access to, the 
     data described in paragraph (1)(A), and the accuracy of the 
     calculations described in paragraph (1)(B).
       ``(d) Information Integrity and Security.--The State agency 
     shall have in effect safeguards on the integrity, accuracy, 
     and completeness of, access to, and use of data in the 
     automated system required by this section, which shall 
     include the following (in addition to such other safeguards 
     as the Secretary may specify in regulations):
       ``(1) Policies restricting access.--Written policies 
     concerning access to data by State agency personnel, and 
     sharing of data with other persons, which--
       ``(A) permit access to and use of data only to the extent 
     necessary to carry out the State program under this part; and
       ``(B) specify the data which may be used for particular 
     program purposes, and the personnel permitted access to such 
     data.
       ``(2) Systems controls.--Systems controls (such as 
     passwords or blocking of fields) to ensure strict adherence 
     to the policies described in paragraph (1).
       ``(3) Monitoring of access.--Routine monitoring of access 
     to and use of the automated system, through methods such as 
     audit trails and feedback mechanisms, to guard against and 
     promptly identify unauthorized access or use.
       ``(4) Training and information.--Procedures to ensure that 
     all personnel (including State and local agency staff and 
     contractors) who may have access to or be required to use 
     confidential program data are informed of applicable 
     requirements and penalties (including those in section 6103 
     of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986), and are adequately 
     trained in security procedures.
       ``(5) Penalties.--Administrative penalties (up to and 
     including dismissal from employment) for unauthorized access 
     to, or disclosure or use of, confidential data.''.
       (3) Regulations.--The Secretary of Health and Human 
     Services shall prescribe final regulations for implementation 
     of section 454A of the Social Security Act not later than 2 
     years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (4) Implementation timetable.--Section 454(24) (42 U.S.C. 
     654(24)), as amended by section 303(a)(1) of this Act, is 
     amended to read as follows:
       ``(24) provide that the State will have in effect an 
     automated data processing and information retrieval system--
       ``(A) by October 1, 1997, which meets all requirements of 
     this part which were enacted on or before the date of 
     enactment of the Family Support Act of 1988, and
       ``(B) by October 1, 1999, which meets all requirements of 
     this part enacted on or before the date of the enactment of 
     the Bipartisan Welfare Reform Act of 1996, except that such 
     deadline shall be extended by 1 day for each day (if any) by 
     which the Secretary fails to meet the deadline imposed by 
     section 344(a)(3) of the Bipartisan Welfare Reform Act of 
     1996;''.
       (b) Special Federal Matching Rate for Development Costs of 
     Automated Systems.--
       (1) In general.--Section 455(a) (42 U.S.C. 655(a)) is 
     amended--
       (A) in paragraph (1)(B)--
       (i) by striking ``90 percent'' and inserting ``the percent 
     specified in paragraph (3)'';
       (ii) by striking ``so much of''; and
       (iii) by striking ``which the Secretary'' and all that 
     follows and inserting ``, and''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(3)(A) The Secretary shall pay to each State, for each 
     quarter in fiscal years 1996 and 1997, 90 percent of so much 
     of the State expenditures described in paragraph (1)(B) as 
     the Secretary finds are for a system meeting the requirements 
     specified in section 454(16) (as in effect on September 30, 
     1995) but limited to the amount approved for States in the 
     advance planning documents of such States submitted on or 
     before May 1, 1995.
       ``(B)(i) The Secretary shall pay to each State, for each 
     quarter in fiscal years 1996 through 2001, the percentage 
     specified in clause (ii) of so much of the State expenditures 
     described in paragraph (1)(B) as the Secretary finds are for 
     a system meeting the requirements of sections 454(16) and 
     454A.
       ``(ii) The percentage specified in this clause is 80 
     percent.''.
       (2) Temporary limitation on payments under special federal 
     matching rate.--
       (A) In general.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
     may not pay more than $400,000,000 in the aggregate under 
     section 455(a)(3)(B) of the Social Security Act for fiscal 
     years 1996 through 2001.
       (B) Allocation of limitation among states.--The total 
     amount payable to a State under section 455(a)(3)(B) of such 
     Act for fiscal years 1996 through 2001 shall not exceed the 
     limitation determined for the State by the Secretary of 
     Health and Human Services in regulations.
       (C) Allocation formula.--The regulations referred to in 
     subparagraph (B) shall prescribe a formula for allocating the 
     amount specified in subparagraph (A) among States with plans 
     approved under part D of title IV of the Social Security Act, 
     which shall take into account--
       (i) the relative size of State caseloads under such part; 
     and
       (ii) the level of automation needed to meet the automated 
     data processing requirements of such part.
       (c) Conforming Amendment.--Section 123(c) of the Family 
     Support Act of 1988 (102 Stat. 2352; Public Law 100-485) is 
     repealed.

     SEC. 345. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.

       (a) For Training of Federal and State Staff, Research and 
     Demonstration Programs, and Special Projects of Regional or 
     National Significance.--Section 452 (42 U.S.C. 652) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(j) Out of any money in the Treasury of the United States 
     not otherwise appropriated, there is hereby appropriated to 
     the Secretary for each fiscal year an amount equal to 1 
     percent of the total amount paid to the Federal Government 
     pursuant to section 457(a) during the immediately preceding 
     fiscal year (as determined on the basis of the most recent 
     reliable data available to the Secretary as of the end of the 
     3rd calendar quarter following the end of such preceding 
     fiscal year), to cover costs incurred by the Secretary for--
       ``(1) information dissemination and technical assistance to 
     States, training of State and Federal staff, staffing 
     studies, and related activities needed to improve programs 
     under this part (including technical assistance concerning 
     State automated systems required by this part); and
       ``(2) research, demonstration, and special projects of 
     regional or national significance relating to the operation 
     of State programs under this part.


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     The amount appropriated under this subsection shall remain 
     available until expended.''.
       (b) Operation of Federal Parent Locator Service.--Section 
     453 (42 U.S.C. 653), as amended by section 316 of this Act, 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(o) Recovery of Costs.--Out of any money in the Treasury 
     of the United States not otherwise appropriated, there is 
     hereby appropriated to the Secretary for each fiscal year an 
     amount equal to 2 percent of the total amount paid to the 
     Federal Government pursuant to section 457(a) during the 
     immediately preceding fiscal year (as determined on the basis 
     of the most recent reliable data available to the Secretary 
     as of the end of the 3rd calendar quarter following the end 
     of such preceding fiscal year), to cover costs incurred by 
     the Secretary for operation of the Federal Parent Locator 
     Service under this section, to the extent such costs are not 
     recovered through user fees.''.

     SEC. 346. REPORTS AND DATA COLLECTION BY THE SECRETARY.

       (a) Annual Report to Congress.--
       (1) Section 452(a)(10)(A) (42 U.S.C. 652(a)(10)(A)) is 
     amended--
       (A) by striking ``this part;'' and inserting ``this part, 
     including--''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following new clauses:
       ``(i) the total amount of child support payments collected 
     as a result of services furnished during the fiscal year to 
     individuals receiving services under this part;
       ``(ii) the cost to the States and to the Federal Government 
     of so furnishing the services; and
       ``(iii) the number of cases involving families--

       ``(I) who became ineligible for assistance under State 
     programs funded under part A during a month in the fiscal 
     year; and
       ``(II) with respect to whom a child support payment was 
     received in the month;''.

       (2) Section 452(a)(10)(C) (42 U.S.C. 652(a)(10)(C)) is 
     amended--
       (A) in the matter preceding clause (i)--
       (i) by striking ``with the data required under each clause 
     being separately stated for cases'' and inserting 
     ``separately stated for (1) case'';
       (ii) by striking ``cases where the child was formerly 
     receiving'' and inserting ``or formerly received'';
       (iii) by inserting ``or 1912'' after ``471(a)(17)''; and
       (iv) by inserting ``(2)'' before ``all other'';
       (B) in each of clauses (i) and (ii), by striking ``, and 
     the total amount of such obligations'';
       (C) in clause (iii), by striking ``described in'' and all 
     that follows and inserting ``in which support was collected 
     during the fiscal year;'';
       (D) by striking clause (iv); and
       (E) by redesignating clause (v) as clause (vii), and 
     inserting after clause (iii) the following new clauses:
       ``(iv) the total amount of support collected during such 
     fiscal year and distributed as current support;
       ``(v) the total amount of support collected during such 
     fiscal year and distributed as arrearages;
       ``(vi) the total amount of support due and unpaid for all 
     fiscal years; and''.
       (3) Section 452(a)(10)(G) (42 U.S.C. 652(a)(10)(G)) is 
     amended by striking ``on the use of Federal courts and''.
       (4) Section 452(a)(10) (42 U.S.C. 652(a)(10)) is amended--
       (A) in subparagraph (H), by striking ``and'';
       (B) in subparagraph (I), by striking the period and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (C) by inserting after subparagraph (I) the following new 
     subparagraph:
       ``(J) compliance, by State, with the standards established 
     pursuant to subsections (h) and (i).''.
       (5) Section 452(a)(10) (42 U.S.C. 652(a)(10)) is amended by 
     striking all that follows subparagraph (J), as added by 
     paragraph (4).
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
     shall be effective with respect to fiscal year 1996 and 
     succeeding fiscal years.
      Subtitle F--Establishment and Modification of Support Orders

     SEC. 351. SIMPLIFIED PROCESS FOR REVIEW AND ADJUSTMENT OF 
                   CHILD SUPPORT ORDERS.

       Section 466(a)(10) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)(10)) is amended to 
     read as follows:
       ``(10) Review and adjustment of support orders upon 
     request.--Procedures under which the State shall review and 
     adjust each support order being enforced under this part upon 
     the request of either parent or the State if there is an 
     assignment. Such procedures shall provide the following:
       ``(A) In general.--
       ``(i) 3-year cycle.--Except as provided in subparagraphs 
     (B) and (C), the State shall review and, as appropriate, 
     adjust the support order every 3 years, taking into account 
     the best interests of the child involved.
       ``(ii) Methods of adjustment.--The State may elect to 
     review and, if appropriate, adjust an order pursuant to 
     clause (i) by--

       ``(I) reviewing and, if appropriate, adjusting the order in 
     accordance with the guidelines established pursuant to 
     section 467(a) if the amount of the child support award under 
     the order differs from the amount that would be awarded in 
     accordance with the guidelines; or
       ``(II) applying a cost-of-living adjustment to the order in 
     accordance with a formula developed by the State and permit 
     either party to contest the adjustment, within 30 days after 
     the date of the notice of the adjustment, by making a request 
     for review and, if appropriate, adjustment of the order in 
     accordance with the child support guidelines established 
     pursuant to section 467(a).

       ``(iii) No proof of change in circumstances necessary.--Any 
     adjustment under this subparagraph (A) shall be made without 
     a requirement for proof or showing of a change in 
     circumstances.
       ``(B) Automated method.--The State may use automated 
     methods (including automated comparisons with wage or State 
     income tax data) to identify orders eligible for review, 
     conduct the review, identify orders eligible for adjustment, 
     and apply the appropriate adjustment to the orders eligible 
     for adjustment under the threshold established by the State.
       ``(C) Request upon substantial change in circumstances.--
     The State shall, at the request of either parent subject to 
     such an order or of any State child support enforcement 
     agency, review and, if appropriate, adjust the order in 
     accordance with the guidelines established pursuant to 
     section 467(a) based upon a substantial change in the 
     circumstances of either parent.
       ``(D) Notice of right to review.--The State shall provide 
     notice not less than once every 3 years to the parents 
     subject to such an order informing them of their right to 
     request the State to review and, if appropriate, adjust the 
     order pursuant to this paragraph. The notice may be included 
     in the order.''.

     SEC. 352. FURNISHING CONSUMER REPORTS FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES 
                   RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT.

       Section 604 of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 
     1681b) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     paragraphs:
       ``(4) In response to a request by the head of a State or 
     local child support enforcement agency (or a State or local 
     government official authorized by the head of such an 
     agency), if the person making the request certifies to the 
     consumer reporting agency that--
       ``(A) the consumer report is needed for the purpose of 
     establishing an individual's capacity to make child support 
     payments or determining the appropriate level of such 
     payments;
       ``(B) the paternity of the consumer for the child to which 
     the obligation relates has been established or acknowledged 
     by the consumer in accordance with State laws under which the 
     obligation arises (if required by those laws);
       ``(C) the person has provided at least 10 days' prior 
     notice to the consumer whose report is requested, by 
     certified or registered mail to the last known address of the 
     consumer, that the report will be requested; and
       ``(D) the consumer report will be kept confidential, will 
     be used solely for a purpose described in subparagraph (A), 
     and will not be used in connection with any other civil, 
     administrative, or criminal proceeding, or for any other 
     purpose.
       ``(5) To an agency administering a State plan under section 
     454 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 654) for use to set 
     an initial or modified child support award.''.

     SEC. 353. NONLIABILITY FOR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS PROVIDING 
                   FINANCIAL RECORDS TO STATE CHILD SUPPORT 
                   ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN CHILD SUPPORT CASES.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     Federal or State law, a financial institution shall not be 
     liable under any Federal or State law to any person for 
     disclosing any financial record of an individual to a State 
     child support enforcement agency attempting to establish, 
     modify, or enforce a child support obligation of such 
     individual.
       (b) Prohibition of Disclosure of Financial Record Obtained 
     by State Child Support Enforcement Agency.--A State child 
     support enforcement agency which obtains a financial record 
     of an individual from a financial institution pursuant to 
     subsection (a) may disclose such financial record only for 
     the purpose of, and to the extent necessary in, establishing, 
     modifying, or enforcing a child support obligation of such 
     individual.
       (c) Civil Damages for Unauthorized Disclosure.--
       (1) Disclosure by state officer or employee.--If any person 
     knowingly, or by reason of negligence, discloses a financial 
     record of an individual in violation of subsection (b), such 
     individual may bring a civil action for damages against such 
     person in a district court of the United States.
       (2) No liability for good faith but erroneous 
     interpretation.--No liability shall arise under this 
     subsection with respect to any disclosure which results from 
     a good faith, but erroneous, interpretation of subsection 
     (b).
       (3) Damages.--In any action brought under paragraph (1), 
     upon a finding of liability on the part of the defendant, the 
     defendant shall be liable to the plaintiff in an amount equal 
     to the sum of--
       (A) the greater of--
       (i) $1,000 for each act of unauthorized disclosure of a 
     financial record with respect to which such defendant is 
     found liable; or
       (ii) the sum of--

       (I) the actual damages sustained by the plaintiff as a 
     result of such unauthorized disclosure; plus

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       (II) in the case of a willful disclosure or a disclosure 
     which is the result of gross negligence, punitive damages; 
     plus

       (B) the costs (including attorney's fees) of the action.
       (d) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
       (1) Financial institution.--The term ``financial 
     institution'' means--
       (A) a depository institution, as defined in section 3(c) of 
     the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1813(c));
       (B) an institution-affiliated party, as defined in section 
     3(u) of such Act (12 U.S.C. 1813(v));
       (C) any Federal credit union or State credit union, as 
     defined in section 101 of the Federal Credit Union Act (12 
     U.S.C. 1752), including an institution-affiliated party of 
     such a credit union, as defined in section 206(r) of such Act 
     (12 U.S.C. 1786(r)); and
       (D) any benefit association, insurance company, safe 
     deposit company, money-market mutual fund, or similar entity 
     authorized to do business in the State.
       (2) Financial record.--The term ``financial record'' has 
     the meaning given such term in section 1101 of the Right to 
     Financial Privacy Act of 1978 (12 U.S.C. 3401).
       (3) State child support enforcement agency.--The term 
     ``State child support enforcement agency'' means a State 
     agency which administers a State program for establishing and 
     enforcing child support obligations.
               Subtitle G--Enforcement of Support Orders

     SEC. 361. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE COLLECTION OF ARREARAGES.

       (a) Collection of Fees.--Section 6305(a) of the Internal 
     Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to collection of certain 
     liability) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (3);
       (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (4) and 
     inserting ``, and'';
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(5) no additional fee may be assessed for adjustments to 
     an amount previously certified pursuant to such section 
     452(b) with respect to the same obligor.''; and
       (4) by striking ``Secretary of Health, Education, and 
     Welfare'' each place it appears and inserting ``Secretary of 
     Health and Human Services''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall become effective October 1, 1997.

     SEC. 362. AUTHORITY TO COLLECT SUPPORT FROM FEDERAL 
                   EMPLOYEES.

       (a) Consolidation and Streamlining of Authorities.--Section 
     459 (42 U.S.C. 659) is amended to read as follows:

     ``SEC. 459. CONSENT BY THE UNITED STATES TO INCOME 
                   WITHHOLDING, GARNISHMENT, AND SIMILAR 
                   PROCEEDINGS FOR ENFORCEMENT OF CHILD SUPPORT 
                   AND ALIMONY OBLIGATIONS.

       ``(a) Consent to Support Enforcement.--Notwithstanding any 
     other provision of law (including section 207 of this Act and 
     section 5301 of title 38, United States Code), effective 
     January 1, 1975, moneys (the entitlement to which is based 
     upon remuneration for employment) due from, or payable by, 
     the United States or the District of Columbia (including any 
     agency, subdivision, or instrumentality thereof) to any 
     individual, including members of the Armed Forces of the 
     United States, shall be subject, in like manner and to the 
     same extent as if the United States or the District of 
     Columbia were a private person, to withholding in accordance 
     with State law enacted pursuant to subsections (a)(1) and (b) 
     of section 466 and regulations of the Secretary under such 
     subsections, and to any other legal process brought, by a 
     State agency administering a program under a State plan 
     approved under this part or by an individual obligee, to 
     enforce the legal obligation of the individual to provide 
     child support or alimony.
       ``(b) Consent to Requirements Applicable to Private 
     Person.--With respect to notice to withhold income pursuant 
     to subsection (a)(1) or (b) of section 466, or any other 
     order or process to enforce support obligations against an 
     individual (if the order or process contains or is 
     accompanied by sufficient data to permit prompt 
     identification of the individual and the moneys involved), 
     each governmental entity specified in subsection (a) shall be 
     subject to the same requirements as would apply if the entity 
     were a private person, except as otherwise provided in this 
     section.
       ``(c) Designation of Agent; Response to Notice or Process--
       ``(1) Designation of agent.--The head of each agency 
     subject to this section shall--
       ``(A) designate an agent or agents to receive orders and 
     accept service of process in matters relating to child 
     support or alimony; and
       ``(B) annually publish in the Federal Register the 
     designation of the agent or agents, identified by title or 
     position, mailing address, and telephone number.
       ``(2) Response to notice or process.--If an agent 
     designated pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection 
     receives notice pursuant to State procedures in effect 
     pursuant to subsection (a)(1) or (b) of section 466, or is 
     effectively served with any order, process, or interrogatory, 
     with respect to an individual's child support or alimony 
     payment obligations, the agent shall--
       ``(A) as soon as possible (but not later than 15 days) 
     thereafter, send written notice of the notice or service 
     (together with a copy of the notice or service) to the 
     individual at the duty station or last-known home address of 
     the individual;
       ``(B) within 30 days (or such longer period as may be 
     prescribed by applicable State law) after receipt of a notice 
     pursuant to such State procedures, comply with all applicable 
     provisions of section 466; and
       ``(C) within 30 days (or such longer period as may be 
     prescribed by applicable State law) after effective service 
     of any other such order, process, or interrogatory, respond 
     to the order, process, or interrogatory.
       ``(d) Priority of Claims.--If a governmental entity 
     specified in subsection (a) receives notice or is served with 
     process, as provided in this section, concerning amounts owed 
     by an individual to more than 1 person--
       ``(1) support collection under section 466(b) must be given 
     priority over any other process, as provided in section 
     466(b)(7);
       ``(2) allocation of moneys due or payable to an individual 
     among claimants under section 466(b) shall be governed by 
     section 466(b) and the regulations prescribed under such 
     section; and
       ``(3) such moneys as remain after compliance with 
     paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be available to satisfy any 
     other such processes on a first-come, first-served basis, 
     with any such process being satisfied out of such moneys as 
     remain after the satisfaction of all such processes which 
     have been previously served.
       ``(e) No Requirement to Vary Pay Cycles.--A governmental 
     entity that is affected by legal process served for the 
     enforcement of an individual's child support or alimony 
     payment obligations shall not be required to vary its normal 
     pay and disbursement cycle in order to comply with the legal 
     process.
       ``(f) Relief From Liability.--
       ``(1) Neither the United States, nor the government of the 
     District of Columbia, nor any disbursing officer shall be 
     liable with respect to any payment made from moneys due or 
     payable from the United States to any individual pursuant to 
     legal process regular on its face, if the payment is made in 
     accordance with this section and the regulations issued to 
     carry out this section.
       ``(2) No Federal employee whose duties include taking 
     actions necessary to comply with the requirements of 
     subsection (a) with regard to any individual shall be subject 
     under any law to any disciplinary action or civil or criminal 
     liability or penalty for, or on account of, any disclosure of 
     information made by the employee in connection with the 
     carrying out of such actions.
       ``(g) Regulations.--Authority to promulgate regulations for 
     the implementation of this section shall, insofar as this 
     section applies to moneys due from (or payable by)--
       ``(1) the United States (other than the legislative or 
     judicial branches of the Federal Government) or the 
     government of the District of Columbia, be vested in the 
     President (or the designee of the President);
       ``(2) the legislative branch of the Federal Government, be 
     vested jointly in the President pro tempore of the Senate and 
     the Speaker of the House of Representatives (or their 
     designees), and
       ``(3) the judicial branch of the Federal Government, be 
     vested in the Chief Justice of the United States (or the 
     designee of the Chief Justice).
       ``(h) Moneys Subject to Process.--
       ``(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), moneys paid or 
     payable to an individual which are considered to be based 
     upon remuneration for employment, for purposes of this 
     section--
       ``(A) consist of--
       ``(i) compensation paid or payable for personal services of 
     the individual, whether the compensation is denominated as 
     wages, salary, commission, bonus, pay, allowances, or 
     otherwise (including severance pay, sick pay, and incentive 
     pay);
       ``(ii) periodic benefits (including a periodic benefit as 
     defined in section 228(h)(3)) or other payments--

       ``(I) under the insurance system established by title II;
       ``(II) under any other system or fund established by the 
     United States which provides for the payment of pensions, 
     retirement or retired pay, annuities, dependents' or 
     survivors' benefits, or similar amounts payable on account of 
     personal services performed by the individual or any other 
     individual;
       ``(III) as compensation for death under any Federal 
     program;
       ``(IV) under any Federal program established to provide 
     `black lung' benefits; or
       ``(V) by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs as compensation 
     for a service-connected disability paid by the Secretary to a 
     former member of the Armed Forces who is in receipt of 
     retired or retainer pay if the former member has waived a 
     portion of the retired or retainer pay in order to receive 
     such compensation; and

       ``(iii) worker's compensation benefits paid under Federal 
     or State law but
       ``(B) do not include any payment--
       ``(i) by way of reimbursement or otherwise, to defray 
     expenses incurred by the individual in carrying out duties 
     associated with the employment of the individual; or
       ``(ii) as allowances for members of the uniformed services 
     payable pursuant to chapter 7 of title 37, United States 
     Code, as prescribed by the Secretaries concerned (defined by 
     section 101(5) of such title) as necessary for the efficient 
     performance of duty.
       ``(2) Certain amounts excluded.--In determining the amount 
     of any moneys due from,

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     or payable by, the United States to any individual, there 
     shall be excluded amounts which--
       ``(A) are owed by the individual to the United States;
       ``(B) are required by law to be, and are, deducted from the 
     remuneration or other payment involved, including Federal 
     employment taxes, and fines and forfeitures ordered by court-
     martial;
       ``(C) are properly withheld for Federal, State, or local 
     income tax purposes, if the withholding of the amounts is 
     authorized or required by law and if amounts withheld are not 
     greater than would be the case if the individual claimed all 
     dependents to which he was entitled (the withholding of 
     additional amounts pursuant to section 3402(i) of the 
     Internal Revenue Code of 1986 may be permitted only when the 
     individual presents evidence of a tax obligation which 
     supports the additional withholding);
       ``(D) are deducted as health insurance premiums;
       ``(E) are deducted as normal retirement contributions (not 
     including amounts deducted for supplementary coverage); or
       ``(F) are deducted as normal life insurance premiums from 
     salary or other remuneration for employment (not including 
     amounts deducted for supplementary coverage).
       ``(i) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
       ``(1) United states.--The term `United States' includes any 
     department, agency, or instrumentality of the legislative, 
     judicial, or executive branch of the Federal Government, the 
     United States Postal Service, the Postal Rate Commission, any 
     Federal corporation created by an Act of Congress that is 
     wholly owned by the Federal Government, and the 
     governments of the territories and possessions of the 
     United States.
       ``(2) Child support.--The term `child support', when used 
     in reference to the legal obligations of an individual to 
     provide such support, means amounts required to be paid under 
     a judgment, decree, or order, whether temporary, final, or 
     subject to modification, issued by a court or an 
     administrative agency of competent jurisdiction, for the 
     support and maintenance of a child, including a child who has 
     attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing 
     State, or a child and the parent with whom the child is 
     living, which provides for monetary support, health care, 
     arrearages or reimbursement, and which may include other 
     related costs and fees, interest and penalties, income 
     withholding, attorney's fees, and other relief.
       ``(3) Alimony.--
       ``(A) In general.--The term `alimony', when used in 
     reference to the legal obligations of an individual to 
     provide the same, means periodic payments of funds for the 
     support and maintenance of the spouse (or former spouse) of 
     the individual, and (subject to and in accordance with State 
     law) includes separate maintenance, alimony pendente lite, 
     maintenance, and spousal support, and includes attorney's 
     fees, interest, and court costs when and to the extent that 
     the same are expressly made recoverable as such pursuant to a 
     decree, order, or judgment issued in accordance with 
     applicable State law by a court of competent jurisdiction.
       ``(B) Exceptions.--Such term does not include--
       ``(i) any child support; or
       ``(ii) any payment or transfer of property or its value by 
     an individual to the spouse or a former spouse of the 
     individual in compliance with any community property 
     settlement, equitable distribution of property, or other 
     division of property between spouses or former spouses.
       ``(4) Private person.--The term `private person' means a 
     person who does not have sovereign or other special immunity 
     or privilege which causes the person not to be subject to 
     legal process.
       ``(5) Legal process.--The term `legal process' means any 
     writ, order, summons, or other similar process in the nature 
     of garnishment--
       ``(A) which is issued by--
       ``(i) a court or an administrative agency of competent 
     jurisdiction in any State, territory, or possession of the 
     United States;
       ``(ii) a court or an administrative agency of competent 
     jurisdiction in any foreign country with which the United 
     States has entered into an agreement which requires the 
     United States to honor the process; or
       ``(iii) an authorized official pursuant to an order of such 
     a court or an administrative agency of competent jurisdiction 
     or pursuant to State or local law; and
       ``(B) which is directed to, and the purpose of which is to 
     compel, a governmental entity which holds moneys which are 
     otherwise payable to an individual to make a payment from the 
     moneys to another party in order to satisfy a legal 
     obligation of the individual to provide child support or make 
     alimony payments.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--
       (1) To part d of title iv.--Sections 461 and 462 (42 U.S.C. 
     661 and 662) are repealed.
       (2) To title 5, united states code.--Section 5520a of title 
     5, United States Code, is amended, in subsections (h)(2) and 
     (i), by striking ``sections 459, 461, and 462 of the Social 
     Security Act (42 U.S.C. 659, 661, and 662)'' and inserting 
     ``section 459 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 659)''.
       (c) Military Retired and Retainer Pay.--
       (1) Definition of court.--Section 1408(a)(1) of title 10, 
     United States Code, is amended--
       (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (B);
       (B) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (C) 
     and inserting ``; and''; and
       (C) by adding after subparagraph (C) the following: new 
     subparagraph:
       ``(D) any administrative or judicial tribunal of a State 
     competent to enter orders for support or maintenance 
     (including a State agency administering a program under a 
     State plan approved under part D of title IV of the Social 
     Security Act), and, for purposes of this subparagraph, the 
     term `State' includes the District of Columbia, the 
     Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and 
     American Samoa.''.
       (2) Definition of court order.--Section 1408(a)(2) of such 
     title is amended--
       (A) by inserting ``or a support order, as defined in 
     section 453(p) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
     653(p)),'' before ``which--'';
       (B) in subparagraph (B)(i), by striking ``(as defined in 
     section 462(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
     662(b)))'' and inserting ``(as defined in section 459(i)(2) 
     of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 662(i)(2)))''; and
       (C) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking ``(as defined in 
     section 462(c) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
     662(c)))'' and inserting ``(as defined in section 459(i)(3) 
     of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 662(i)(3)))''.
       (3) Public payee.--Section 1408(d) of such title is 
     amended--
       (A) in the heading, by inserting ``(or for Benefit of)'' 
     before ``Spouse or''; and
       (B) in paragraph (1), in the 1st sentence, by inserting 
     ``(or for the benefit of such spouse or former spouse to a 
     State disbursement unit established pursuant to section 454B 
     of the Social Security Act or other public payee designated 
     by a State, in accordance with part D of title IV of the 
     Social Security Act, as directed by court order, or as 
     otherwise directed in accordance with such part D)'' before 
     ``in an amount sufficient''.
       (4) Relationship to part d of title iv.--Section 1408 of 
     such title is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(j) Relationship to Other Laws.--In any case involving an 
     order providing for payment of child support (as defined in 
     section 459(i)(2) of the Social Security Act) by a member who 
     has never been married to the other parent of the child, the 
     provisions of this section shall not apply, and the case 
     shall be subject to the provisions of section 459 of such 
     Act.''.
       (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall become effective 6 months after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 363. ENFORCEMENT OF CHILD SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS OF MEMBERS 
                   OF THE ARMED FORCES.

       (a) Availability of Locator Information.--
       (1) Maintenance of address information.--The Secretary of 
     Defense shall establish a centralized personnel locator 
     service that includes the address of each member of the Armed 
     Forces under the jurisdiction of the Secretary. Upon request 
     of the Secretary of Transportation, addresses for members of 
     the Coast Guard shall be included in the centralized 
     personnel locator service.
       (2) Type of address.--
       (A) Residential address.--Except as provided in 
     subparagraph (B), the address for a member of the Armed 
     Forces shown in the locator service shall be the residential 
     address of that member.
       (B) Duty address.--The address for a member of the Armed 
     Forces shown in the locator service shall be the duty address 
     of that member in the case of a member--
       (i) who is permanently assigned overseas, to a vessel, or 
     to a routinely deployable unit; or
       (ii) with respect to whom the Secretary concerned makes a 
     determination that the member's residential address should 
     not be disclosed due to national security or safety concerns.
       (3) Updating of locator information.--Within 30 days after 
     a member listed in the locator service establishes a new 
     residential address (or a new duty address, in the case of a 
     member covered by paragraph (2)(B)), the Secretary concerned 
     shall update the locator service to indicate the new address 
     of the member.
       (4) Availability of information.--The Secretary of Defense 
     shall make information regarding the address of a member of 
     the Armed Forces listed in the locator service available, on 
     request, to the Federal Parent Locator Service established 
     under section 453 of the Social Security Act.
       (b) Facilitating Granting of Leave for Attendance at 
     Hearings.--
       (1) Regulations.--The Secretary of each military 
     department, and the Secretary of Transportation with respect 
     to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in 
     the Navy, shall prescribe regulations to facilitate the 
     granting of leave to a member of the Armed Forces under the 
     jurisdiction of that Secretary in a case in which--
       (A) the leave is needed for the member to attend a hearing 
     described in paragraph (2);
       (B) the member is not serving in or with a unit deployed in 
     a contingency operation (as defined in section 101 of title 
     10, United States Code); and
       (C) the exigencies of military service (as determined by 
     the Secretary concerned) do not otherwise require that such 
     leave not be granted.
       (2) Covered hearings.--Paragraph (1) applies to a hearing 
     that is conducted by a court or pursuant to an administrative 
     process established under State law, in connection with a 
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       (A) to determine whether a member of the Armed Forces is a 
     natural parent of a child; or
       (B) to determine an obligation of a member of the Armed 
     Forces to provide child support.
       (3) Definitions.--For purposes of this subsection--
       (A) The term ``court'' has the meaning given that term in 
     section 1408(a) of title 10, United States Code.
       (B) The term ``child support'' has the meaning given such 
     term in section 459(i) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
     659(i)).
       (c) Payment of Military Retired Pay in Compliance With 
     Child Support Orders.--
       (1) Date of certification of court order.--Section 1408 of 
     title 10, United States Code, as amended by section 362(c)(4) 
     of this Act, is amended--
       (A) by redesignating subsections (i) and (j) as subsections 
     (j) and (k), respectively; and
       (B) by inserting after subsection (h) the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(i) Certification Date.--It is not necessary that the 
     date of a certification of the authenticity or completeness 
     of a copy of a court order for child support received by the 
     Secretary concerned for the purposes of this section be 
     recent in relation to the date of receipt by the 
     Secretary.''.
       (2) Payments consistent with assignments of rights to 
     states.--Section 1408(d)(1) of such title is amended by 
     inserting after the 1st sentence the following new sentence: 
     ``In the case of a spouse or former spouse who, pursuant to 
     section 408(a)(4) of the Social Security Act, assigns to a 
     State the rights of the spouse or former spouse to receive 
     support, the Secretary concerned may make the child support 
     payments referred to in the preceding sentence to that State 
     in amounts consistent with that assignment of rights.''.
       (3) Arrearages owed by members of the uniformed services.--
     Section 1408(d) of such title is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new paragraph:
       ``(6) In the case of a court order for which effective 
     service is made on the Secretary concerned on or after the 
     date of the enactment of this paragraph and which provides 
     for payments from the disposable retired pay of a member to 
     satisfy the amount of child support set forth in the order, 
     the authority provided in paragraph (1) to make payments from 
     the disposable retired pay of a member to satisfy the amount 
     of child support set forth in a court order shall apply to 
     payment of any amount of child support arrearages set forth 
     in that order as well as to amounts of child support that 
     currently become due.''.
       (4) Payroll deductions.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
     begin payroll deductions within 30 days after receiving 
     notice of withholding, or for the 1st pay period that begins 
     after such 30-day period.

     SEC. 364. VOIDING OF FRAUDULENT TRANSFERS.

       Section 466 (42 U.S.C. 666), as amended by section 321 of 
     this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(g) Laws Voiding Fraudulent Transfers.--In order to 
     satisfy section 454(20)(A), each State must have in effect--
       ``(1)(A) the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act of 1981;
       ``(B) the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act of 1984; or
       ``(C) another law, specifying indicia of fraud which create 
     a prima facie case that a debtor transferred income or 
     property to avoid payment to a child support creditor, which 
     the Secretary finds affords comparable rights to child 
     support creditors; and
       ``(2) procedures under which, in any case in which the 
     State knows of a transfer by a child support debtor with 
     respect to which such a prima facie case is established, the 
     State must--
       ``(A) seek to void such transfer; or
       ``(B) obtain a settlement in the best interests of the 
     child support creditor.''.

     SEC. 365. WORK REQUIREMENT FOR PERSONS OWING PAST-DUE CHILD 
                   SUPPORT.

       (a) In General.--Section 466(a) of the Social Security Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 666(a)), as amended by sections 315, 317(a), and 
     323 of this Act, is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new paragraph:
       ``(15) Procedures to ensure that persons owing past-due 
     support work or have a plan for payment of such support.--
       ``(A) In general.--Procedures under which the State has the 
     authority, in any case in which an individual owes past-due 
     support with respect to a child receiving assistance under a 
     State program funded under part A, to seek a court order that 
     requires the individual to--
       ``(i) pay such support in accordance with a plan approved 
     by the court, or, at the option of the State, a plan approved 
     by the State agency administering the State program under 
     this part; or
       ``(ii) if the individual is subject to such a plan and is 
     not incapacitated, participate in such work activities (as 
     defined in section 407(d)) as the court, or, at the option of 
     the State, the State agency administering the State program 
     under this part, deems appropriate.
       ``(B) Past-due support defined.--For purposes of 
     subparagraph (A), the term `past-due support' means the 
     amount of a delinquency, determined under a court order, or 
     an order of an administrative process established under State 
     law, for support and maintenance of a child, or of a child 
     and the parent with whom the child is living.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--The flush paragraph at the end 
     of section 466(a) (42 U.S.C.666(a)) is amended by striking 
     ``and (7)'' and inserting ``(7), and (15)''.

     SEC. 366. DEFINITION OF SUPPORT ORDER.

       Section 453 (42 U.S.C. 653) as amended by sections 316 and 
     345(b) of this Act, is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new subsection:
       ``(p) Support Order Defined.--As used in this part, the 
     term `support order' means a judgment, decree, or order, 
     whether temporary, final, or subject to modification, issued 
     by a court or an administrative agency of competent 
     jurisdiction, for the support and maintenance of a child, 
     including a child who has attained the age of majority under 
     the law of the issuing State, or a child and the parent with 
     whom the child is living, which provides for monetary 
     support, health care, arrearages, or reimbursement, and which 
     may include related costs and fees, interest and penalties, 
     income withholding, attorneys' fees, and other relief.''.

     SEC. 367. REPORTING ARREARAGES TO CREDIT BUREAUS.

       Section 466(a)(7) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)(7)) is amended to read 
     as follows:
       ``(7) Reporting arrearages to credit bureaus.--
       ``(A) In general.--Procedures (subject to safeguards 
     pursuant to subparagraph (B)) requiring the State to report 
     periodically to consumer reporting agencies (as defined in 
     section 603(f) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 
     1681a(f)) the name of any noncustodial parent who is 
     delinquent in the payment of support, and the amount of 
     overdue support owed by such parent.
       ``(B) Safeguards.--Procedures ensuring that, in carrying 
     out subparagraph (A), information with respect to a 
     noncustodial parent is reported--
       ``(i) only after such parent has been afforded all due 
     process required under State law, including notice and a 
     reasonable opportunity to contest the accuracy of such 
     information; and
       ``(ii) only to an entity that has furnished evidence 
     satisfactory to the State that the entity is a consumer 
     reporting agency (as so defined).''.

     SEC. 368. LIENS.

       Section 466(a)(4) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)(4)) is amended to read 
     as follows:
       ``(4) Liens.--Procedures under which--
       ``(A) liens arise by operation of law against real and 
     personal property for amounts of overdue support owed by a 
     noncustodial parent who resides or owns property in the 
     State; and
       ``(B) the State accords full faith and credit to liens 
     described in subparagraph (A) arising in another State, 
     without registration of the underlying order.''.

     SEC. 369. STATE LAW AUTHORIZING SUSPENSION OF LICENSES.

       Section 466(a) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)), as amended by sections 
     315, 317(a), 323, and 365 of this Act, is amended by adding 
     at the end the following:
       ``(16) Authority to withhold or suspend licenses.--
     Procedures under which the State has (and uses in appropriate 
     cases) authority to withhold or suspend, or to restrict the 
     use of driver's licenses, professional and occupational 
     licenses, and recreational licenses of individuals owing 
     overdue support or failing, after receiving appropriate 
     notice, to comply with subpoenas or warrants relating to 
     paternity or child support proceedings.''.

     SEC. 370. DENIAL OF PASSPORTS FOR NONPAYMENT OF CHILD 
                   SUPPORT.

       (a) HHS Certification Procedure.--
       (1) Secretarial responsibility.--Section 452 (42 U.S.C. 
     652), as amended by section 345 of this Act, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(k)(1) If the Secretary receives a certification by a 
     State agency in accordance with the requirements of section 
     454(31) that an individual owes arrearages of child support 
     in an amount exceeding $5,000, the Secretary shall transmit 
     such certification to the Secretary of State for action (with 
     respect to denial, revocation, or limitation of passports) 
     pursuant to section 370(b) of the Bipartisan Welfare Reform 
     Act of 1996.
       ``(2) The Secretary shall not be liable to an individual 
     for any action with respect to a certification by a State 
     agency under this section.''.
       (2) State case agency responsibility.--Section 454 (42 
     U.S.C. 654), as amended by sections 301(b), 303(a), 312(b), 
     313(a), 333, and 343(b) of this Act, is amended--
       (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (29);
       (B) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (30) and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (C) by adding after paragraph (30) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(31) provide that the State agency will have in effect a 
     procedure for certifying to the Secretary, for purposes of 
     the procedure under section 452(k), determinations that 
     individuals owe arrearages of child support in an amount 
     exceeding $5,000, under which procedure--
       ``(A) each individual concerned is afforded notice of such 
     determination and the consequences thereof, and an 
     opportunity to contest the determination; and
       ``(B) the certification by the State agency is furnished to 
     the Secretary in such format, and accompanied by such 
     supporting documentation, as the Secretary may require.''.
       (b) State Department Procedure for Denial of Passports.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of State shall, upon 
     certification by the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
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     under section 452(k) of the Social Security Act, refuse to 
     issue a passport to such individual, and may revoke, 
     restrict, or limit a passport issued previously to such 
     individual.
       (2) Limit on liability.--The Secretary of State shall not 
     be liable to an individual for any action with respect to a 
     certification by a State agency under this section.
       (c) Effective Date.--This section and the amendments made 
     by this section shall become effective October 1, 1996.

     SEC. 371. INTERNATIONAL CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT.

       (a) Authority for International Agreements.--Part D of 
     title IV, as amended by section 362(a) of this Act, is 
     amended by adding after section 459 the following new 
     section:

     ``SEC. 459A. INTERNATIONAL CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT.

       ``(a) Authority for Declarations.--
       ``(1) Declaration.--The Secretary of State, with the 
     concurrence of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, is 
     authorized to declare any foreign country (or a political 
     subdivision thereof) to be a foreign reciprocating country if 
     the foreign country has established, or undertakes to 
     establish, procedures for the establishment and enforcement 
     of duties of support owed to obligees who are residents of 
     the United States, and such procedures are substantially in 
     conformity with the standards prescribed under subsection 
     (b).
       ``(2) Revocation.--A declaration with respect to a foreign 
     country made pursuant to paragraph (1) may be revoked if the 
     Secretaries of State and Health and Human Services determine 
     that--
       ``(A) the procedures established by the foreign nation 
     regarding the establishment and enforcement of duties of 
     support have been so changed, or the foreign nation's 
     implementation of such procedures is so unsatisfactory, that 
     such procedures do not meet the criteria for such a 
     declaration; or
       ``(B) continued operation of the declaration is not 
     consistent with the purposes of this part.
       ``(3) Form of declaration.--A declaration under paragraph 
     (1) may be made in the form of an international agreement, in 
     connection with an international agreement or corresponding 
     foreign declaration, or on a unilateral basis.
       ``(b) Standards for Foreign Support Enforcement 
     Procedures.--
       ``(1) Mandatory elements.--Child support enforcement 
     procedures of a foreign country which may be the subject of a 
     declaration pursuant to subsection (a)(1) shall include the 
     following elements:
       ``(A) The foreign country (or political subdivision 
     thereof) has in effect procedures, available to residents of 
     the United States--
       ``(i) for establishment of paternity, and for establishment 
     of orders of support for children and custodial parents; and
       ``(ii) for enforcement of orders to provide support to 
     children and custodial parents, including procedures for 
     collection and appropriate distribution of support payments 
     under such orders.
       ``(B) The procedures described in subparagraph (A), 
     including legal and administrative assistance, are provided 
     to residents of the United States at no cost.
       ``(C) An agency of the foreign country is designated as a 
     Central Authority responsible for--
       ``(i) facilitating child support enforcement in cases 
     involving residents of the foreign nation and residents of 
     the United States; and
       ``(ii) ensuring compliance with the standards established 
     pursuant to this subsection.
       ``(2) Additional elements.--The Secretary of Health and 
     Human Services and the Secretary of State, in consultation 
     with the States, may establish such additional standards as 
     may be considered necessary to further the purposes of this 
     section.
       ``(c) Designation of United States Central Authority.--It 
     shall be the responsibility of the Secretary of Health and 
     Human Services to facilitate child support enforcement in 
     cases involving residents of the United States and residents 
     of foreign nations that are the subject of a declaration 
     under this section, by activities including--
       ``(1) development of uniform forms and procedures for use 
     in such cases;
       ``(2) notification of foreign reciprocating countries of 
     the State of residence of individuals sought for support 
     enforcement purposes, on the basis of information provided by 
     the Federal Parent Locator Service; and
       ``(3) such other oversight, assistance, and coordination 
     activities as the Secretary may find necessary and 
     appropriate.
       ``(d) Effect on Other Laws.--States may enter into 
     reciprocal arrangements for the establishment and enforcement 
     of child support obligations with foreign countries that are 
     not the subject of a declaration pursuant to subsection (a), 
     to the extent consistent with Federal law.''.
       (b) State Plan Requirement.--Section 454 (42 U.S.C. 654), 
     as amended by sections 301(b), 303(a), 312(b), 313(a), 333, 
     343(b), and 370(a)(2) of this Act, is amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (30);
       (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (31) and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding after paragraph (31) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(32)(A) provide that any request for services under this 
     part by a foreign reciprocating country or a foreign country 
     with which the State has an arrangement described in section 
     459A(d)(2) shall be treated as a request by a State;
       ``(B) provide, at State option, notwithstanding paragraph 
     (4) or any other provision of this part, for services under 
     the plan for enforcement of a spousal support order not 
     described in paragraph (4)(B) entered by such a country (or 
     subdivision); and
       ``(C) provide that no applications will be required from, 
     and no costs will be assessed for such services against, the 
     foreign reciprocating country or foreign obligee (but costs 
     may at State option be assessed against the obligor).''.

     SEC. 372. FINANCIAL INSTITUTION DATA MATCHES.

       Section 466(a) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)), as amended by sections 
     315, 317(a), 323, 365, and 369 of this Act, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(17) Financial institution data matches.--
       ``(A) In general.--Procedures under which the State agency 
     shall enter into agreements with financial institutions doing 
     business in the State--
       ``(i) to develop and operate, in coordination with such 
     financial institutions, a data match system, using automated 
     data exchanges to the maximum extent feasible, in which each 
     such financial institution is required to provide for each 
     calendar quarter the name, record address, social security 
     number or other taxpayer identification number, and other 
     identifying information for each noncustodial parent who 
     maintains an account at such institution and who owes past-
     due support, as identified by the State by name and social 
     security number or other taxpayer identification number; and
       ``(ii) in response to a notice of lien or levy, encumber or 
     surrender, as the case may be, assets held by such 
     institution on behalf of any noncustodial parent who is 
     subject to a child support lien pursuant to paragraph (4).
       ``(B) Reasonable fees.--The State agency may pay a 
     reasonable fee to a financial institution for conducting the 
     data match provided for in subparagraph (A)(i), not to exceed 
     the actual costs incurred by such financial institution.
       ``(C) Liability.--A financial institution shall not be 
     liable under any Federal or State law to any person--
       ``(i) for any disclosure of information to the State agency 
     under subparagraph (A)(i);
       ``(ii) for encumbering or surrendering any assets held by 
     such financial institution in response to a notice of lien or 
     levy issued by the State agency as provided for in 
     subparagraph (A)(ii); or
       ``(iii) for any other action taken in good faith to comply 
     with the requirements of subparagraph (A).
       ``(D) Definitions.--For purposes of this paragraph--
       ``(i) Financial institution.--The term `financial 
     institution' means any Federal or State commercial savings 
     bank, including savings association or cooperative bank, 
     Federal- or State-chartered credit union, benefit 
     association, insurance company, safe deposit company, money-
     market mutual fund, or any similar entity authorized to do 
     business in the State; and
       ``(ii) Account.--The term `account' means a demand deposit 
     account, checking or negotiable withdrawal order account, 
     savings account, time deposit account, or money-market mutual 
     fund account.''.

     SEC. 373. ENFORCEMENT OF ORDERS AGAINST PATERNAL OR MATERNAL 
                   GRANDPARENTS IN CASES OF MINOR PARENTS.

       Section 466(a) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)), as amended by sections 
     315, 317(a), 323, 365, 369, and 372 of this Act, is amended 
     by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(18) Enforcement of orders against paternal or maternal 
     grandparents.--Procedures under which, at the State's option, 
     any child support order enforced under this part with respect 
     to a child of minor parents, if the custodial parents of such 
     child is receiving assistance under the State program under 
     part A, shall be enforceable, jointly and severally, against 
     the parents of the noncustodial parents of such child.''.

     SEC. 374. NONDISCHARGEABILITY IN BANKRUPTCY OF CERTAIN DEBTS 
                   FOR THE SUPPORT OF A CHILD.

       (a) Amendment to Title 11 of the United States Code.--
     Section 523(a) of title 11, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (16) by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``; or'',
       (2) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(17) to a State or municipality for assistance provided 
     by such State or municipality under a State program funded 
     under section 403 of the Social Security Act to the extent 
     that such assistance is provided for the support of a child 
     of the debtor.'', and
       (3) in paragraph (5), by inserting `` or section 408'' 
     after ``section 402(a)(26).
       (b) Amendment to the Social Security Act.--Section 456(b) 
     of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 656(b)) is amended to 
     read as follows:
       ``(b) Nondischargeability.--A debt (as defined in section 
     101 of title 11 of the United States Code) to a State (as 
     defined in such section) or municipality (as defined in such 
     section) for assistance provided by such State or 
     municipality under a State program funded under section 403 
     is not dischargeable under section 727, 1141, 1228(a), 
     1228(b), or 1328(b) of title 11 of the United States Code to 
     the extent that such assistance is provided for the support 
     of a child of the debtor (as defined in such section).''.

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       (c) Application of Amendments.--The amendments made by this 
     section shall apply only with respect to cases commenced 
     under title 11 of the United States Code after the effective 
     date of this section.
                      Subtitle H--Medical Support

     SEC. 376. CORRECTION TO ERISA DEFINITION OF MEDICAL CHILD 
                   SUPPORT ORDER.

       (a) In General.--Section 609(a)(2)(B) of the Employee 
     Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 
     1169(a)(2)(B)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``issued by a court of competent 
     jurisdiction'';
       (2) by striking the period at the end of clause (ii) and 
     inserting a comma; and
       (3) by adding, after and below clause (ii), the following:

     ``if such judgment, decree, or order (I) is issued by a court 
     of competent jurisdiction or (II) is issued through an 
     administrative process established under State law and has 
     the force and effect of law under applicable State law.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--
       (1) In general.--The amendments made by this section shall 
     take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (2) Plan amendments not required until january 1, 1997.--
     Any amendment to a plan required to be made by an amendment 
     made by this section shall not be required to be made before 
     the 1st plan year beginning on or after January 1, 1997, if--
       (A) during the period after the date before the date of the 
     enactment of this Act and before such 1st plan year, the plan 
     is operated in accordance with the requirements of the 
     amendments made by this section; and
       (B) such plan amendment applies retroactively to the period 
     after the date before the date of the enactment of this Act 
     and before such 1st plan year.

     A plan shall not be treated as failing to be operated in 
     accordance with the provisions of the plan merely because it 
     operates in accordance with this paragraph.

     SEC. 377. ENFORCEMENT OF ORDERS FOR HEALTH CARE COVERAGE.

       Section 466(a) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)), as amended by sections 
     315, 317(a), 323, 365, 369, 372, and 373 of this Act, is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(19) Health care coverage.--Procedures under which all 
     child support orders enforced pursuant to this part shall 
     include a provision for the health care coverage of the 
     child, and in the case in which a noncustodial parent 
     provides such coverage and changes employment, and the new 
     employer provides health care coverage, the State agency 
     shall transfer notice of the provision to the employer, which 
     notice shall operate to enroll the child in the noncustodial 
     parent's health plan, unless the noncustodial parent contests 
     the notice.''.
     Subtitle I--Enhancing Responsibility and Opportunity for Non-
                          Residential Parents

     SEC. 381. GRANTS TO STATES FOR ACCESS AND VISITATION 
                   PROGRAMS.

       Part D of title IV (42 U.S.C. 651-669) is amended by adding 
     at the end the following:

     ``SEC. 469A. GRANTS TO STATES FOR ACCESS AND VISITATION 
                   PROGRAMS.

       ``(a) In General.--The Administration for Children and 
     Families shall make grants under this section to enable 
     States to establish and administer programs to support and 
     facilitate noncustodial parents' access to and visitation of 
     their children, by means of activities including mediation 
     (both voluntary and mandatory), counseling, education, 
     development of parenting plans, visitation enforcement 
     (including monitoring, supervision and neutral drop-off and 
     pickup), and development of guidelines for visitation and 
     alternative custody arrangements.
       ``(b) Amount of Grant.--The amount of the grant to be made 
     to a State under this section for a fiscal year shall be an 
     amount equal to the lesser of--
       ``(1) 90 percent of State expenditures during the fiscal 
     year for activities described in subsection (a); or
       ``(2) the allotment of the State under subsection (c) for 
     the fiscal year.
       ``(c) Allotments to States.--
       ``(1) In general.--The allotment of a State for a fiscal 
     year is the amount that bears the same ratio to the amount 
     appropriated for grants under this section for the fiscal 
     year as the number of children in the State living with only 
     1 biological parent bears to the total number of such 
     children in all States.
       ``(2) Minimum allotment.--The Administration for Children 
     and Families shall adjust allotments to States under 
     paragraph (1) as necessary to ensure that no State is 
     allotted less than--
       ``(A) $50,000 for fiscal year 1996 or 1997; or
       ``(B) $100,000 for any succeeding fiscal year.
       ``(d) No Supplantation of State Expenditures for Similar 
     Activities.--A State to which a grant is made under this 
     section may not use the grant to supplant expenditures by the 
     State for activities specified in subsection (a), but shall 
     use the grant to supplement such expenditures at a level at 
     least equal to the level of such expenditures for fiscal year 
     1995.
       ``(e) State Administration.--Each State to which a grant is 
     made under this section--
       ``(1) may administer State programs funded with the grant, 
     directly or through grants to or contracts with courts, local 
     public agencies, or non-profit private entities;
       ``(2) shall not be required to operate such programs on a 
     statewide basis; and
       ``(3) shall monitor, evaluate, and report on such programs 
     in accordance with regulations prescribed by the 
     Secretary.''.
                    Subtitle J--Effect of Enactment

     SEC. 391. EFFECTIVE DATES.

       (a) In General.--Except as otherwise specifically provided 
     (but subject to subsections (b) and (c))--
       (1) the provisions of this title requiring the enactment or 
     amendment of State laws under section 466 of the Social 
     Security Act, or revision of State plans under section 454 of 
     such Act, shall be effective with respect to periods 
     beginning on and after October 1, 1996; and
       (2) all other provisions of this title shall become 
     effective upon the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (b) Grace Period for State Law Changes.--The provisions of 
     this title shall become effective with respect to a State on 
     the later of--
       (1) the date specified in this title, or
       (2) the effective date of laws enacted by the legislature 
     of such State implementing such provisions,

     but in no event later than the 1st day of the 1st calendar 
     quarter beginning after the close of the 1st regular session 
     of the State legislature that begins after the date of the 
     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 such session shall be deemed to be a separate 
     regular session of the State legislature.
       (c) Grace Period for State Constitutional Amendment.--A 
     State shall not be found out of compliance with any 
     requirement enacted by this title if the State is unable to 
     so comply without amending the State constitution until the 
     earlier of--
       (1) 1 year after the effective date of the necessary State 
     constitutional amendment; or
       (2) 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
      TITLE IV--RESTRICTING WELFARE AND PUBLIC BENEFITS FOR ALIENS

     SEC. 400. STATEMENTS OF NATIONAL POLICY CONCERNING WELFARE 
                   AND IMMIGRATION.

       The Congress makes the following statements concerning 
     national policy with respect to welfare and immigration:
       (1) Self-sufficiency has been a basic principle of United 
     States immigration law since this country's earliest 
     immigration statutes.
       (2) It continues to be the immigration policy of the United 
     States that--
       (A) aliens within the nation's borders not depend on public 
     resources to meet their needs, but rather rely on their own 
     capabilities and the resources of their families, their 
     sponsors, and private organizations, and
       (B) the availability of public benefits not constitute an 
     incentive for immigration to the United States.
       (3) Despite the principle of self-sufficiency, aliens have 
     been applying for and receiving public benefits from Federal, 
     State, and local governments at increasing rates.
       (4) Current eligibility rules for public assistance and 
     unenforceable financial support agreements have proved wholly 
     incapable of assuring that individual aliens not burden the 
     public benefits system.
       (5) It is a compelling government interest to enact new 
     rules for eligibility and sponsorship agreements in order to 
     assure that aliens be self-reliant in accordance with 
     national immigration policy.
       (6) It is a compelling government interest to remove the 
     incentive for illegal immigration provided by the 
     availability of public benefits.
       (7) With respect to the State authority to make 
     determinations concerning the eligibility of qualified aliens 
     for public benefits in this title, a State that chooses to 
     follow the Federal classification in determining the 
     eligibility of such aliens for public assistance shall be 
     considered to have chosen the least restrictive means 
     available for achieving the compelling governmental 
     interest of assuring that aliens be self-reliant in 
     accordance with national immigration policy.
              Subtitle A--Eligibility for Federal Benefits

     SEC. 401. ALIENS WHO ARE NOT QUALIFIED ALIENS INELIGIBLE FOR 
                   FEDERAL PUBLIC BENEFITS.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
     and except as provided in subsection (b), an alien who is not 
     a qualified alien (as defined in section 431) is not eligible 
     for any Federal public benefit (as defined in subsection 
     (c)).
       (b) Exceptions.--
       (1) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to the 
     following Federal public benefits:
       (A) Emergency medical services under title XIX or XXI of 
     the Social Security Act.
       (B) Short-term, non-cash, in-kind emergency disaster 
     relief.
       (C)(i) Public health assistance for immunizations.
       (ii) Public health assistance for testing and treatment of 
     a serious communicable disease if the Secretary of Health and 
     Human Services determines that it is necessary to prevent the 
     spread of such disease.
       (D) Programs, services, or assistance (such as soup 
     kitchens, crisis counseling and intervention, and short-term 
     shelter) specified by the Attorney General, in the Attorney 
     General's sole and unreviewable discretion after consultation 
     with appropriate Federal agencies and departments, which (i) 
     deliver in-kind services at the community level, including 
     through public or private nonprofit agencies; (ii) do not 
     condition the provision of assistance, the amount of 
     assistance provided, or the cost of assistance provided on

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     the individual recipient's income or resources; and (iii) are 
     necessary for the protection of life or safety.
       (E) Programs for housing or community development 
     assistance or financial assistance administered by the 
     Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, any program under 
     title V of the Housing Act of 1949, or any assistance under 
     section 306C of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development 
     Act, to the extent that the alien is receiving such a benefit 
     on the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (F) Assistance or benefits under the National School Lunch 
     Act or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966.
       (2) Subsection (a) shall not apply to any benefit payable 
     under title II of the Social Security Act to an alien who is 
     lawfully present in the United States as determined by the 
     Attorney General, to any benefit if nonpayment of such 
     benefit would contravene an international agreement described 
     in section 233 of the Social Security Act, to any benefit if 
     nonpayment would be contrary to section 202(t) of the Social 
     Security Act, or to any benefit payable under title II of the 
     Social Security Act to which entitlement is based on an 
     application filed in or before the month in which this Act 
     becomes law.
       (3) Subsection (a) shall not apply--
       (A) for up to 48 months if the alien can demonstrate that 
     (i) the alien has been battered or subject to extreme cruelty 
     in the United States by a spouse or parent, or by a member of 
     the spouse or parent's family residing in the same household 
     as the alien and the spouse or parent consented or acquiesced 
     to such battery or cruelty, or (ii) the alien's child has 
     been battered or subject to extreme cruelty in the United 
     States by a spouse or parent of the alien (without the active 
     participation of the alien in the battery or extreme 
     cruelty), or by a member of the spouse or parent's family 
     residing in the same household as the alien when the spouse 
     or parent consented or acquiesced to and the alien did not 
     actively participate in such battery or cruelty, and (iii) 
     the need for the public benefits applied for has a 
     substantial connection to the battery or cruelty described in 
     subclause (I) or (II); and
       (B) for more than 48 months if the alien can demonstrate 
     that any battery or cruelty under subparagraph (A) is 
     ongoing, has led to the issuance of an order of a judge or an 
     administrative law judge or a prior determination of the 
     Service, and that the need for such benefits has a 
     substantial connection to such battery or cruelty.
       (c) Federal Public Benefit Defined.--
       (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), for purposes of 
     this title the term ``Federal public benefit'' means--
       (A) any grant, contract, loan, professional license, or 
     commercial license provided by an agency of the United States 
     or by appropriated funds of the United States; and
       (B) any retirement, welfare, health, disability, public or 
     assisted housing, post-secondary education, food assistance, 
     unemployment benefit, or any other similar benefit for which 
     payments or assistance are provided to an individual, 
     household, or family eligibility unit by an agency of the 
     United States or by appropriated funds of the United States.
       (2) Such term shall not apply--
       (A) to any contract, professional license, or commercial 
     license for a nonimmigrant whose visa for entry is related to 
     such employment in the United States; or
       (B) with respect to benefits for an alien who as a work 
     authorized nonimmigrant or as an alien lawfully admitted for 
     permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act 
     qualified for such benefits and for whom the United States 
     under reciprocal treaty agreements is required to pay 
     benefits, as determined by the Attorney General, after 
     consultation with the Secretary of State.

     SEC. 402. LIMITED ELIGIBILITY OF CERTAIN QUALIFIED ALIENS FOR 
                   CERTAIN FEDERAL PROGRAMS.

       (a) Limited Eligibility for Specified Federal Programs.--
       (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
     and except as provided in paragraph (2), an alien who is a 
     qualified alien (as defined in section 431) is not eligible 
     for any specified Federal program (as defined in paragraph 
     (3)).
       (2) Exceptions.--
       (A) Time-limited exception for refugees and asylees.--
     Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an alien until 5 years after 
     the date--
       (i) an alien is admitted to the United States as a refugee 
     under section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality Act;
       (ii) an alien is granted asylum under section 208 of such 
     Act; or
       (iii) an alien's deportation is withheld under section 
     243(h) of such Act.
       (B) Certain permanent resident aliens.--Paragraph (1) shall 
     not apply to an alien who--
       (i) is lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent 
     residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act; and
       (ii)(I) has worked 20 qualifying quarters of coverage as 
     defined under title II of the Social Security Act or can be 
     credited with such qualifying quarters as provided under 
     section 435, and (II) did not receive any Federal means-
     tested public benefit (as defined in section 403(c)) during 
     any such quarter.
       (C) Veteran and active duty exception.--Paragraph (1) shall 
     not apply to an alien who is lawfully residing in any State 
     and is--
       (i) a veteran (as defined in section 101 of title 38, 
     United States Code) with a discharge characterized as an 
     honorable discharge and not on account of alienage,
       (ii) on active duty (other than active duty for training) 
     in the Armed Forces of the United States, or
       (iii) the spouse or unmarried dependent child of an 
     individual described in clause (i) or (ii).
       (D) Transition for aliens currently receiving benefits.--
       (i) SSI.--

       (I) In general.--With respect to the specified Federal 
     program described in paragraph (3)(A), during the period 
     beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending 
     on the date which is 1 year after such date of enactment, the 
     Commissioner of Social Security shall redetermine the 
     eligibility of any individual who is receiving benefits under 
     such program as of the date of the enactment of this Act and 
     whose eligibility for such benefits may terminate by reason 
     of the provisions of this subsection.
       (II) Redetermination criteria.-- With respect to any 
     redetermination under subclause (I), the Commissioner of 
     Social Security shall apply the eligibility criteria for new 
     applicants for benefits under such program.
       (III) Grandfather provision.--The provisions of this 
     subsection and the redetermination under subclause (I), shall 
     only apply with respect to the benefits of an individual 
     described in subclause (I) for months beginning on or after 
     the date of the redetermination with respect to such 
     individual.
       (IV) Notice.--Not later than January 1, 1997, the 
     Commissioner of Social Security shall notify an individual 
     described in subclause (I) of the provisions of this clause.

       (ii) Food stamps.--

       (I) In general.--With respect to the specified Federal 
     program described in paragraph (3)(B), during the period 
     beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on 
     the date which is 1 year after the date of enactment, the 
     State agency shall, at the time of the recertification, 
     recertify the eligibility of any individual who is receiving 
     benefits under such program as of the date of enactment of 
     this Act and whose eligibility for such benefits may 
     terminate by reason of the provisions of this subsection.
       (II) Recertification criteria.--With respect to any 
     recertification under subclause (I), the State agency shall 
     apply the eligibility criteria for applicants for benefits 
     under such program.
       (III) Grandfather provision.--The provisions of this 
     subsection and the recertification under subclause (I) shall 
     only apply with respect to the eligibility of an alien for a 
     program for months beginning on or after the date of 
     recertification, if on the date of enactment of this Act the 
     alien is lawfully residing in any State and is receiving 
     benefits under such program on such date of enactment.

       (E) FICA exception.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an 
     alien if there has been paid with respect to the self-
     employment income or employment of the alien, or of a parent 
     or spouse of the alien, taxes under chapter 2 or chapter 21 
     of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 in each of 20 different 
     calendar quarters.
       (F) Exception for battered women and children.--Paragraph 
     (1) shall not apply--
       (i) for up to 48 months if the alien can demonstrate that 
     (I) the alien has been battered or subject to extreme cruelty 
     in the United States by a spouse or parent, or by a member of 
     the spouse or parent's family residing in the same household 
     as the alien and the spouse or parent consented or acquiesced 
     to such battery or cruelty, or (II) the alien's child has 
     been battered or subject to extreme cruelty in the United 
     States by a spouse or parent of the alien (without the active 
     participation of the alien in the battery or extreme 
     cruelty), or by a member of the spouse or parent's family 
     residing in the same household as the alien when the spouse 
     or parent consented or acquiesced to and the alien did not 
     actively participate in such battery or cruelty, and (III) 
     the need for the public benefits applied for has a 
     substantial connection to the battery or cruelty described in 
     this clause; and
       (ii) for more than 48 months if the alien can demonstrate 
     that any battery or cruelty under clause (i) is ongoing, has 
     led to the issuance of an order of a judge or an 
     administrative law judge or a prior determination of the 
     Service, and that need for such benefits has a substantial 
     connection to such battery or cruelty.
       (G) SSI disability exception.--Paragraph (1) shall not 
     apply to an alien who has not attained 18 years of age and is 
     eligible by reason of disability for supplemental security 
     income benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act.
       (H) Food stamp exception for children.--Paragraph (1) shall 
     not apply to the eligibility of an alien who has not attained 
     18 years of age for the food stamp program under paragraph 
     (3)(B).
       (3) Specified federal program defined.--For purposes of 
     this title, the term ``specified Federal program'' means any 
     of the following:
       (A) SSI.--The supplemental security income program under 
     title XVI of the Social Security Act.
       (B) Food stamps.--The food stamp program as defined in 
     section 3(h) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977.
       (b) Limited Eligibility for Designated Federal Programs.--
       (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
     and except as provided

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     in section 403 and paragraph (2), a State is authorized to 
     determine the eligibility of an alien who is a qualified 
     alien (as defined in section 431) for any designated Federal 
     program (as defined in paragraph (3)).
       (2) Exceptions.--Qualified aliens under this paragraph 
     shall be eligible for any designated Federal program.
       (A) Time-limited exception for refugees and asylees.--
       (i) An alien who is admitted to the United States as a 
     refugee under section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality 
     Act until 5 years after the date of an alien's entry into the 
     United States.
       (ii) An alien who is granted asylum under section 208 of 
     such Act until 5 years after the date of such grant of 
     asylum.
       (iii) An alien whose deportation is being withheld under 
     section 243(h) of such Act until 5 years after such 
     withholding.
       (B) Certain permanent resident aliens.--An alien who--
       (i) is lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent 
     residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act; and
       (ii)(I) has worked 20 qualifying quarters of coverage as 
     defined under title II of the Social Security Act or can be 
     credited with such qualifying quarters as provided under 
     section 435, and (II) did not receive any Federal means-
     tested public benefit (as defined in section 403(c)) during 
     any such quarter.
       (C) Veteran and active duty exception.--An alien who is 
     lawfully residing in any State and is--
       (i) a veteran (as defined in section 101 of title 38, 
     United States Code) with a discharge characterized as an 
     honorable discharge and not on account of alienage,
       (ii) on active duty (other than active duty for training) 
     in the Armed Forces of the United States, or
       (iii) the spouse or unmarried dependent child of an 
     individual described in clause (i) or (ii).
       (D) Transition for those currently receiving benefits.--An 
     alien who on the date of the enactment of this Act is 
     lawfully residing in any State and is receiving benefits 
     under such program on the date of the enactment of this Act 
     shall continue to be eligible to receive such benefits until 
     January 1, 1997.
       (E) FICA exception.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply to an 
     alien if there has been paid with respect to the self-
     employment income or employment of the alien, or of a parent 
     or spouse of the alien, taxes under chapter 2 or chapter 21 
     of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 in each of 20 different 
     calendar quarters.
       (F) Time-limited exception for battered women and 
     children.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply--
       (i) for up to 48 months if the alien can demonstrate that 
     (I) the alien has been battered or subject to extreme cruelty 
     in the United States by a spouse or parent, or by a member of 
     the spouse or parent's family residing in the same household 
     as the alien and the spouse or parent consented or acquiesced 
     to such battery or cruelty, or (II) the alien's child has 
     been battered or subject to extreme cruelty in the United 
     States by a spouse or parent of the alien (without the active 
     participation of the alien in the battery or extreme 
     cruelty), or by a member of the spouse or parent's family 
     residing in the same household as the alien when the spouse 
     or parent consented or acquiesced to and the alien did not 
     actively participate in such battery or cruelty, and (III) 
     the need for the public benefits applied for has a 
     substantial connection to the battery or cruelty described in 
     subclause (I) or (II); and
       (ii) for more than 48 months if the alien can demonstrate 
     that any battery or cruelty under clause (i) is ongoing, has 
     led to the issuance of an order of a judge or an 
     administrative law judge or a prior determination of the 
     Service, and that the need for such benefits has a 
     substantial connection to such battery or cruelty.
       (G) SSI disability exception.--Paragraph (1) shall not 
     apply to an alien who has not attained 18 years of age and is 
     eligible by reason of disability for supplemental security 
     income benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act.
       (3) Designated federal program defined.--For purposes of 
     this title, the term ``designated Federal program'' means any 
     of the following:
       (A) Temporary assistance for needy families.--The program 
     of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy 
     families under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act.
       (B) Social services block grant.--The program of block 
     grants to States for social services under title XX of the 
     Social Security Act.

     SEC. 403. FIVE-YEAR LIMITED ELIGIBILITY OF QUALIFIED ALIENS 
                   FOR FEDERAL MEANS-TESTED PUBLIC BENEFIT.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
     and except as provided in subsection (b), an alien who is a 
     qualified alien (as defined in section 431) and who enters 
     the United States on or after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act is not eligible for any Federal means-tested public 
     benefit (as defined in subsection (c)) for a period of five 
     years beginning on the date of the alien's entry into the 
     United States with a status within the meaning of the term 
     ``qualified alien''.
       (b) Exceptions.--The limitation under subsection (a) shall 
     not apply to the following aliens:
       (1) Exception for refugees and asylees.--
       (A) An alien who is admitted to the United States as a 
     refugee under section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality 
     Act.
       (B) An alien who is granted asylum under section 208 of 
     such Act.
       (C) An alien whose deportation is being withheld under 
     section 243(h) of such Act.
       (2) Veteran and active duty exception.--An alien who is 
     lawfully residing in any State and is--
       (A) a veteran (as defined in section 101 of title 38, 
     United States Code) with a discharge characterized as an 
     honorable discharge and not on account of alienage,
       (B) on active duty (other than active duty for training) in 
     the Armed Forces of the United States, or
       (C) the spouse or unmarried dependent child of an 
     individual described in subparagraph (A) or (B).
       (3) FICA exception.--An alien if there has been paid with 
     respect to the self-employment income or employment of the 
     alien, or of a parent or spouse of the alien, taxes under 
     chapter 2 or chapter 21 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     in each of 20 different calendar quarters.
       (4) Exception for battered women and children.--An alien--
       (A) for up to 48 months if the alien can demonstrate that 
     (i) the alien has been battered or subject to extreme cruelty 
     in the United States by a spouse or parent, or by a member of 
     the spouse or parent's family residing in the same household 
     as the alien and the spouse or parent consented or acquiesced 
     to such battery or cruelty, or (ii) the alien's child has 
     been battered or subject to extreme cruelty in the United 
     States by a spouse or parent of the alien (without the active 
     participation of the alien in the battery or extreme 
     cruelty), or by a member of the spouse or parent's family 
     residing in the same household as the alien when the spouse 
     or parent consented or acquiesced to and the alien did not 
     actively participate in such battery or cruelty, and (iii) 
     the need for the public benefits applied for has a 
     substantial connection to the battery or cruelty described in 
     clause (i) or (ii); and
       (B) for more than 48 months if the alien can demonstrate 
     that any battery or cruelty under subparagraph (A) is 
     ongoing, has led to the issuance of an order of a judge or an 
     administrative law judge or a prior determination of the 
     Service, and that need for such benefits has a substantial 
     connection to such battery or cruelty.
       (5) SSI disability exception.--An alien who has not 
     attained 18 years of age and is eligible by reason of 
     disability for supplemental security income benefits under 
     title XVI of the Social Security Act.
       (6) Food stamp exception for children.--An alien who has 
     not attained 18 years of age only for purposes of eligibility 
     for the food stamp program as defined in section 3(h) of the 
     Food Stamp Act of 1977.
       (c) Federal Means-Tested Public Benefit Defined.--
       (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), for purposes of 
     this title, the term ``Federal means-tested public benefit'' 
     means a public benefit (including cash, medical, housing, and 
     food assistance and social services) of the Federal 
     Government in which the eligibility of an individual, 
     household, or family eligibility unit for benefits, or the 
     amount of such benefits, or both are determined on the basis 
     of income, resources, or financial need of the individual, 
     household, or unit.
       (2) Such term does not include the following:
       (A) Emergency medical services under title XIX or XXI of 
     the Social Security Act.
       (B) Short-term, non-cash, in-kind emergency disaster 
     relief.
       (C) Assistance or benefits under the National School Lunch 
     Act.
       (D) Assistance or benefits under the Child Nutrition Act of 
     1966.
       (E)(i) Public health assistance for immunizations.
       (ii) Public health assistance for testing and treatment of 
     a serious communicable disease if the Secretary of Health and 
     Human Services determines that it is necessary to prevent the 
     spread of such disease.
       (F) Payments for foster care and adoption assistance under 
     part B of title IV of the Social Security Act for a child who 
     would, in the absence of subsection (a), be eligible to have 
     such payments made on the child's behalf under such part, but 
     only if the foster or adoptive parent or parents of such 
     child are not described under subsection (a).
       (G) Programs, services, or assistance (such as soup 
     kitchens, crisis counseling and intervention, and short-term 
     shelter) specified by the Attorney General, in the Attorney 
     General's sole and unreviewable discretion after consultation 
     with appropriate Federal agencies and departments, which (i) 
     deliver in-kind services at the community level, including 
     through public or private nonprofit agencies; (ii) do not 
     condition the provision of assistance, the amount of 
     assistance provided, or the cost of assistance provided on 
     the individual recipient's income or resources; and (iii) are 
     necessary for the protection of life or safety.
       (H) Programs of student assistance under titles IV, V, IX, 
     and X of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
       (I) Means-tested programs under the Elementary and 
     Secondary Education Act of 1965.
       (J) The program of medical assistance under title XIX and 
     title XXI of the Social Security Act.

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     SEC. 404. NOTIFICATION AND INFORMATION REPORTING.

       (a) Notification.--Each Federal agency that administers a 
     program to which section 401, 402, or 403 applies shall, 
     directly or through the States, post information and provide 
     general notification to the public and to program recipients 
     of the changes regarding eligibility for any such program 
     pursuant to this title.
       (b) Information Reporting Under Title IV of the Social 
     Security Act.--Part A of title IV of the Social Security Act 
     is amended by inserting the following new section after 
     section 411:

     ``SEC. 411A. STATE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE CERTAIN INFORMATION.

       ``Each State to which a grant is made under section 403 of 
     the Social Security Act shall, at least 4 times annually and 
     upon request of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 
     furnish the Immigration and Naturalization Service with the 
     name and address of, and other identifying information on, 
     any individual who the State knows is unlawfully in the 
     United States.''.
       (c) SSI.--Section 1631(e) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1383(e)) 
     is amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraphs (6) and (7) inserted by 
     sections 206(d)(2) and 206(f)(1) of the Social Security 
     Independence and Programs Improvement Act of 1994 (Public Law 
     103-296; 108 Stat. 1514, 1515) as paragraphs (7) and (8), 
     respectively; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(9) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Commissioner shall, at least 4 times annually and upon 
     request of the Immigration and Naturalization Service 
     (hereafter in this paragraph referred to as the `Service'), 
     furnish the Service with the name and address of, and other 
     identifying information on, any individual who the 
     Commissioner knows is unlawfully in the United States, and 
     shall ensure that each agreement entered into under section 
     1616(a) with a State provides that the State shall furnish 
     such information at such times with respect to any individual 
     who the State knows is unlawfully in the United States.''.
       (d) Information Reporting for Housing Programs.--Title I of 
     the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et 
     seq.), as amended by this Act, is further amended by adding 
     at the end the following new section:

     ``SEC. 28. PROVISION OF INFORMATION TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND 
                   OTHER AGENCIES.

       ``Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary 
     shall, at least 4 times annually and upon request of the 
     Immigration and Naturalization Service (hereafter in this 
     section referred to as the `Service'), furnish the Service 
     with the name and address of, and other identifying 
     information on, any individual who the Secretary knows is 
     unlawfully in the United States, and shall ensure that each 
     contract for assistance entered into under section 6 or 8 of 
     this Act with a public housing agency provides that the 
     public housing agency shall furnish such information at such 
     times with respect to any individual who the public housing 
     agency knows is unlawfully in the United States.''.
  Subtitle B--Eligibility for State and Local Public Benefits Programs

     SEC. 411. ALIENS WHO ARE NOT QUALIFIED ALIENS OR 
                   NONIMMIGRANTS INELIGIBLE FOR STATE AND LOCAL 
                   PUBLIC BENEFITS.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
     and except as provided in subsections (b) and (d), an alien 
     who is not described under a paragraph of this subsection is 
     not eligible for any State or local public benefit (as 
     defined in subsection (c)):
       (1) A qualified alien (as defined in section 431).
       (2) A nonimmigrant under the Immigration and Nationality 
     Act.
       (3) An alien who is paroled into the United States under 
     section 212(d)(5) of such Act for less than one year.
       (4) An alien--
       (A) for up to 48 months if the alien can demonstrate that 
     (i) the alien has been battered or subject to extreme cruelty 
     in the United States by a spouse or parent, or by a member of 
     the spouse or parent's family residing in the same household 
     as the alien and the spouse or parent consented or acquiesced 
     to such battery or cruelty, or (ii) the alien's child has 
     been battered or subject to extreme cruelty in the United 
     States by a spouse or parent of the alien (without the active 
     participation of the alien in the battery or extreme 
     cruelty), or by a member of the spouse or parent's family 
     residing in the same household as the alien when the spouse 
     or parent consented or acquiesced to and the alien did not 
     actively participate in such battery or cruelty, and (iii) 
     the need for the public benefits applied for has a 
     substantial connection to the battery or cruelty described in 
     clause (i) or (ii), and
       (B) for more than 48 months if the alien can demonstrate 
     that any battery or cruelty under subparagraph (A) is 
     ongoing, has led to the issuance of an order of a judge or an 
     administrative law judge or a prior determination of the 
     Service, and that the need for such benefits has a 
     substantial connection to such battery or cruelty.
       (b) Exceptions.--Subsection (a) shall not apply with 
     respect to the following State or local public benefits:
       (1) Emergency medical services under title XIX or XXI of 
     the Social Security Act.
       (2) Short-term, noncash, in-kind emergency disaster relief.
       (3)(A) Public health assistance for immunizations.
       (B) Public health assistance for testing and treatment of a 
     serious communicable disease if the Secretary of Health and 
     Human Services determines that it is necessary to prevent the 
     spread of such disease.
       (4) Programs, services, or assistance (such as soup 
     kitchens, crisis counseling and intervention, and short-term 
     shelter) specified by the Attorney General, in the Attorney 
     General's sole and unreviewable discretion after consultation 
     with appropriate Federal agencies and departments, which (A) 
     deliver in-kind services at the community level, including 
     through public or private nonprofit agencies; (B) do not 
     condition the provision of assistance, the amount of 
     assistance provided, or the cost of assistance provided on 
     the individual recipient's income or resources; and (C) are 
     necessary for the protection of life or safety.
       (c) State or Local Public Benefit Defined.--
       (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), for purposes of 
     this subtitle the term ``State or local public benefit'' 
     means--
       (A) any grant, contract, loan, professional license, or 
     commercial license provided by an agency of a State or local 
     government or by appropriated funds of a State or local 
     government; and
       (B) any retirement, welfare, health, disability, public or 
     assisted housing, post-secondary education, food assistance, 
     unemployment benefit, or any other similar benefit for which 
     payments or assistance are provided to an individual, 
     household, or family eligibility unit by an agency of a State 
     or local government or by appropriated funds of a State or 
     local government.
       (2) Such term shall not apply--
       (A) to any contract, professional license, or commercial 
     license for a nonimmigrant whose visa for entry is related to 
     such employment in the United States; or
       (B) with respect to benefits for an alien who as a work 
     authorized nonimmigrant or as an alien lawfully admitted for 
     permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act 
     qualified for such benefits and for whom the United States 
     under reciprocal treaty agreements is required to pay 
     benefits, as determined by the Secretary of State, after 
     consultation with the Attorney General.
       (d) State Authority To Provide For Eligibility of Illegal 
     Aliens for State and Local Public Benefits.--A State may 
     provide that an alien who is not lawfully present in the 
     United States is eligible for any State or local public 
     benefit for which such alien would otherwise be ineligible 
     under subsection (a) only through the enactment of a State 
     law after the date of the enactment of this Act which 
     affirmatively provides for such eligibility.

     SEC. 412. STATE AUTHORITY TO LIMIT ELIGIBILITY OF QUALIFIED 
                   ALIENS FOR STATE PUBLIC BENEFITS.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
     and except as provided in subsection (b), a State is 
     authorized to determine the eligibility for any State public 
     benefits (as defined in subsection (c) of an alien who is a 
     qualified alien (as defined in section 431), a nonimmigrant 
     under the Immigration and Nationality Act, or an alien who is 
     paroled into the United States under section 212(d)(5) of 
     such Act for less than one year.
       (b) Exceptions.--Qualified aliens under this subsection 
     shall be eligible for any State public benefits.
       (1) Time-limited exception for refugees and asylees.--
       (A) An alien who is admitted to the United States as a 
     refugee under section 207 of the Immigration and Nationality 
     Act until 5 years after the date of an alien's entry into the 
     United States.
       (B) An alien who is granted asylum under section 208 of 
     such Act until 5 years after the date of such grant of 
     asylum.
       (C) An alien whose deportation is being withheld under 
     section 243(h) of such Act until 5 years after such 
     withholding.
       (2) Certain permanent resident aliens.--An alien who--
       (A) is lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent 
     residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act; and
       (B)(i) has worked 20 qualifying quarters of coverage as 
     defined under title II of the Social Security Act or can be 
     credited with such qualifying quarters as provided under 
     section 435, and (ii) did not receive any Federal means-
     tested public benefit (as defined in section 403(c)) during 
     any such quarter.
       (3) Veteran and active duty exception.--An alien who is 
     lawfully residing in any State and is--
       (A) a veteran (as defined in section 101 of title 38, 
     United States Code) with a discharge characterized as an 
     honorable discharge and not on account of alienage,
       (B) on active duty (other than active duty for training) in 
     the Armed Forces of the United States, or
       (C) the spouse or unmarried dependent child of an 
     individual described in subparagraph (A) or (B).
       (4) Transition for those currently receiving benefits.--An 
     alien who on the date of the enactment of this Act is 
     lawfully residing in any State and is receiving benefits on 
     the date of the enactment of this Act shall continue to be 
     eligible to receive such benefits until January 1, 1997.
       (5) Exception for battered women and children.--An alien--

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       (A) for up to 48 months if the alien can demonstrate that 
     (i) the alien has been battered or subject to extreme cruelty 
     in the United States by a spouse or parent, or by a member of 
     the spouse or parent's family residing in the same household 
     as the alien and the spouse or parent consented or acquiesced 
     to such battery or cruelty, or (ii) the alien's child has 
     been battered or subject to extreme cruelty in the United 
     States by a spouse or parent of the alien (without the active 
     participation of the alien in the battery or extreme 
     cruelty), or by a member of the spouse or parent's family 
     residing in the same household as the alien when the spouse 
     or parent consented or acquiesced to and the alien did not 
     actively participate in such battery or cruelty, and (iii) 
     the need for the public benefits applied for has a 
     substantial connection to the battery or cruelty described in 
     clause (i) or (ii); and
       (B) for more than 48 months if the alien can demonstrate 
     that any battery or cruelty under subparagraph (A) is 
     ongoing, has led to the issuance of an order of a judge or an 
     administrative law judge or a prior determination of the 
     Service, and that the need for such benefits has a 
     substantial connection to such battery or cruelty.
       (c) State Public Benefits Defined.--The term ``State public 
     benefits'' means any means-tested public benefit of a State 
     or political subdivision of a State under which the State or 
     political subdivision specifies the standards for 
     eligibility, and does not include any Federal public benefit.
      Subtitle C--Attribution of Income and Affidavits of Support

     SEC. 421. FEDERAL ATTRIBUTION OF SPONSOR'S INCOME AND 
                   RESOURCES TO ALIEN FOR PURPOSES OF MEDICAID 
                   ELIGIBILITY.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, in determining the eligibility and the amount of 
     benefits of an alien (other than an alien who has not 
     attained 18 years of age or an alien who is pregnant) for the 
     program of medical assistance under title XIX and title XXI 
     of the Social Security Act, the income and resources of the 
     alien shall be deemed to include the following:
       (1) The income and resources of any person who executed an 
     affidavit of support pursuant to section 213A of the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act (as added by section 423) on 
     behalf of such alien.
       (2) The income and resources of the spouse (if any) of the 
     person.
       (b) Application.--Subsection (a) shall apply with respect 
     to an alien (other than an alien who has not attained 18 
     years of age or an alien who is pregnant) until such time as 
     the alien--
       (1) achieves United States citizenship through 
     naturalization pursuant to chapter 2 of title III of the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act; or
       (2)(A) has worked 20 qualifying quarters of coverage as 
     defined under title II of the Social Security Act or can be 
     credited with such qualifying quarters as provided under 
     section 435, and (B) did not receive any Federal means-tested 
     public benefit (as defined in section 403(c)) during any such 
     quarter.
       (c) Review of Income and Resources of Alien Upon 
     Reapplication.--Whenever an alien (other than an alien who 
     has not attained 18 years of age or an alien who is pregnant) 
     is required to reapply for benefits under any Federal means-
     tested public benefits program, the applicable agency shall 
     review the income and resources attributed to the alien under 
     subsection (a).

     SEC. 422. AUTHORITY FOR STATES TO PROVIDE FOR ATTRIBUTION OF 
                   SPONSOR'S INCOME AND RESOURCES TO THE ALIEN 
                   WITH RESPECT TO STATE PROGRAMS.

       (a) Optional Application to State Programs.--Except as 
     provided in subsection (b), in determining the eligibility 
     and the amount of benefits of an alien for any State public 
     benefits (as defined in section 412(c)), the State or 
     political subdivision that offers the benefits is authorized 
     to provide that the income and resources of the alien shall 
     be deemed to include--
       (1) the income and resources of any individual who executed 
     an affidavit of support pursuant to section 213A of the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act (as added by section 423) on 
     behalf of such alien, and
       (2) the income and resources of the spouse (if any) of the 
     individual.
       (b) Exceptions.--Subsection (a) shall not apply with 
     respect to the following State public benefits:
       (1) Emergency medical services.
       (2) Short-term, noncash, in-kind emergency disaster relief.
       (3) Programs comparable to assistance or benefits under the 
     National School Lunch Act.
       (4) Programs comparable to assistance or benefits under the 
     Child Nutrition Act of 1966.
       (5)(A) Public health assistance for immunizations.
       (B) Public health assistance for testing and treatment of a 
     serious communicable disease if the appropriate chief State 
     health official determines that it is necessary to prevent 
     the spread of such disease.
       (6) Payments for foster care and adoption assistance.
       (7) Programs, services, or assistance (such as soup 
     kitchens, crisis counseling and intervention, and short-term 
     shelter) specified by the Attorney General of a State, 
     after consultation with appropriate agencies and 
     departments, which (A) deliver in-kind services at the 
     community level, including through public or private 
     nonprofit agencies; (B) do not condition the provision of 
     assistance, the amount of assistance provided, or the cost 
     of assistance provided on the individual recipient's 
     income or resources; and (C) are necessary for the 
     protection of life or safety.

     SEC. 423. REQUIREMENTS FOR SPONSOR'S AFFIDAVIT OF SUPPORT.

       (a) In General.--Title II of the Immigration and 
     Nationality Act is amended by inserting after section 213 the 
     following new section:


           ``requirements for sponsor's affidavit of support

       ``Sec. 213A. (a) Enforceability.--(1) No affidavit of 
     support may be accepted by the Attorney General or by any 
     consular officer to establish that an alien is not excludable 
     as a public charge under section 212(a)(4) unless such 
     affidavit is executed as a contract--
       ``(A) which is legally enforceable against the sponsor by 
     the sponsored alien, the Federal Government, and by any State 
     (or any political subdivision of such State) which provides 
     any means-tested public benefits program, but not later than 
     10 years after the alien last receives any such benefit;
       ``(B) in which the sponsor agrees to financially support 
     the alien, so that the alien will not become a public charge; 
     and
       ``(C) in which the sponsor agrees to submit to the 
     jurisdiction of any Federal or State court for the purpose of 
     actions brought under subsection (e)(2).
       ``(2) A contract under paragraph (1) shall be enforceable 
     with respect to benefits provided to the alien until such 
     time as the alien achieves United States citizenship through 
     naturalization pursuant to chapter 2 of title III.
       ``(b) Forms.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     enactment of this section, the Attorney General, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of 
     Health and Human Services, shall formulate an affidavit of 
     support consistent with the provisions of this section.
       ``(c) Remedies.--Remedies available to enforce an affidavit 
     of support under this section include any or all of the 
     remedies described in sections 3201, 3203, 3204, or 3205 of 
     title 28, United States Code, as well as an order for 
     specific performance and payment of legal fees and other 
     costs of collection, and include corresponding remedies 
     available under State law. A Federal agency may seek to 
     collect amounts owed under this section in accordance with 
     the provisions of subchapter II of chapter 37 of title 31, 
     United States Code.
       ``(d) Notification of Change of Address.--
       ``(1) In general.--The sponsor shall notify the Attorney 
     General and the State in which the sponsored alien is 
     currently resident within 30 days of any change of address of 
     the sponsor during the period specified in subsection (a)(2).
       ``(2) Penalty.--Any person subject to the requirement of 
     paragraph (1) who fails to satisfy such requirement shall be 
     subject to a civil penalty of--
       ``(A) not less than $250 or more than $2,000, or
       ``(B) if such failure occurs with knowledge that the alien 
     has received any means-tested public benefit, not less than 
     $2,000 or more than $5,000.
       ``(e) Reimbursement of Government Expenses.--(1)(A) Upon 
     notification that a sponsored alien has received any benefit 
     under any means-tested public benefits program, the 
     appropriate Federal, State, or local official shall request 
     reimbursement by the sponsor in the amount of such 
     assistance.
       ``(B) The Attorney General, in consultation with the 
     Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall prescribe such 
     regulations as may be necessary to carry out subparagraph 
     (A).
       ``(2) If within 45 days after requesting reimbursement, the 
     appropriate Federal, State, or local agency has not received 
     a response from the sponsor indicating a willingness to 
     commence payments, an action may be brought against the 
     sponsor pursuant to the affidavit of support.
       ``(3) If the sponsor fails to abide by the repayment terms 
     established by such agency, the agency may, within 60 days of 
     such failure, bring an action against the sponsor pursuant to 
     the affidavit of support.
       ``(4) No cause of action may be brought under this 
     subsection later than 10 years after the alien last received 
     any benefit under any means-tested public benefits program.
       ``(5) If, pursuant to the terms of this subsection, a 
     Federal, State, or local agency requests reimbursement from 
     the sponsor in the amount of assistance provided, or brings 
     an action against the sponsor pursuant to the affidavit of 
     support, the appropriate agency may appoint or hire an 
     individual or other person to act on behalf of such agency 
     acting under the authority of law for purposes of collecting 
     any moneys owed. Nothing in this subsection shall preclude 
     any appropriate Federal, State, or local agency from directly 
     requesting reimbursement from a sponsor for the amount of 
     assistance provided, or from bringing an action against a 
     sponsor pursuant to an affidavit of support.
       ``(f) Definitions.--For the purposes of this section--
       ``(1) Sponsor.--The term `sponsor' means an individual 
     who--

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       ``(A) is a citizen or national of the United States or an 
     alien who is lawfully admitted to the United States for 
     permanent residence;
       ``(B) has attained the age of 18 years;
       ``(C) is domiciled in any of the 50 States or the District 
     of Columbia; and
       ``(D) is the person petitioning for the admission of the 
     alien under section 204.
       ``(2) Means-tested public benefits program.--The term 
     `means-tested public benefits program' means a program of 
     public benefits (including cash, medical, housing, and food 
     assistance and social services) of the Federal Government or 
     of a State or political subdivision of a State in which the 
     eligibility of an individual, household, or family 
     eligibility unit for benefits under the program, or the 
     amount of such benefits, or both are determined on the basis 
     of income, resources, or financial need of the individual, 
     household, or unit.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents of such Act 
     is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
     213 the following:

``Sec. 213A. Requirements for sponsor's affidavit of support.''.

       (c) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) of section 213A of the 
     Immigration and Nationality Act, as inserted by subsection 
     (a) of this section, shall apply to affidavits of support 
     executed on or after a date specified by the Attorney 
     General, which date shall not be earlier than 60 days (and 
     not later than 90 days) after the date the Attorney General 
     formulates the form for such affidavits under subsection (b) 
     of such section.
       (d) Benefits Not Subject to Reimbursement.--Requirements 
     for reimbursement by a sponsor for benefits provided to a 
     sponsored alien pursuant to an affidavit of support under 
     section 213A of the Immigration and Nationality Act shall not 
     apply with respect to the following:
       (1) Emergency medical services under title XIX or XXI of 
     the Social Security Act.
       (2) Short-term, noncash, in-kind emergency disaster relief.
       (3) Assistance or benefits under the National School Lunch 
     Act.
       (4) Assistance or benefits under the Child Nutrition Act of 
     1966.
       (5)(A) Public health assistance for immunizations.
       (B) Public health assistance for testing and treatment of a 
     serious communicable disease if the Secretary of Health and 
     Human Services determines that it is necessary to prevent the 
     spread of such disease.
       (6) Payments for foster care and adoption assistance under 
     part B of title IV of the Social Security Act for a child, 
     but only if the foster or adoptive parent or parents of such 
     child are not otherwise ineligible pursuant to section 403 
     of this Act.
       (7) Programs, services, or assistance (such as soup 
     kitchens, crisis counseling and intervention, and short-term 
     shelter) specified by the Attorney General, in the Attorney 
     General's sole and unreviewable discretion after consultation 
     with appropriate Federal agencies and departments, which (A) 
     deliver in-kind services at the community level, including 
     through public or private nonprofit agencies; (B) do not 
     condition the provision of assistance, the amount of 
     assistance provided, or the cost of assistance provided on 
     the individual recipient's income or resources; and (C) are 
     necessary for the protection of life or safety.
       (8) Programs of student assistance under titles IV, V, IX, 
     and X of the Higher Education Act of 1965.

     SEC. 424. COSIGNATURE OF ALIEN STUDENT LOANS.

       Section 484(b) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
     U.S.C. 1091(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(6) Notwithstanding sections 427(a)(2)(A), 428B(a), 
     428C(b)(4)(A), and 464(c)(1)(E), or any other provision of 
     this title, a student who is an alien lawfully admitted for 
     permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act 
     shall not be eligible for a loan under this title unless the 
     loan is endorsed and cosigned by the alien's sponsor under 
     section 213A of the Immigration and Nationality Act or by 
     another creditworthy individual who is a United States 
     citizen.''.
                     Subtitle D--General Provisions

     SEC. 431. DEFINITIONS.

       (a) In General.--Except as otherwise provided in this 
     title, the terms used in this title have the same meaning 
     given such terms in section 101(a) of the Immigration and 
     Nationality Act.
       (b) Qualified Alien.--For purposes of this title, the term 
     ``qualified alien'' means an alien who, at the time the alien 
     applies for, receives, or attempts to receive a Federal 
     public benefit, is--
       (1) an alien who is lawfully admitted for permanent 
     residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act,
       (2) an alien who is granted asylum under section 208 of 
     such Act,
       (3) a refugee who is admitted to the United States under 
     section 207 of such Act,
       (4) an alien who is paroled into the United States under 
     section 212(d)(5) of such Act for a period of at least 1 
     year,
       (5) an alien whose deportation is being withheld under 
     section 243(h) of such Act, or
       (6) an alien who is granted conditional entry pursuant to 
     section 203(a)(7) of such Act as in effect prior to April 1, 
     1980.

     SEC. 432. VERIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR FEDERAL PUBLIC 
                   BENEFITS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 18 months after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General of the United 
     States, after consultation with the Secretary of Health and 
     Human Services, shall promulgate regulations requiring 
     verification that a person applying for a Federal public 
     benefit (as defined in section 401(c)), to which the 
     limitation under section 401 applies, is a qualified alien 
     and is eligible to receive such benefit. Such regulations 
     shall, to the extent feasible, require that information 
     requested and exchanged be similar in form and manner to 
     information requested and exchanged under section 1137 of the 
     Social Security Act.
       (b) State Compliance.--Not later than 24 months after the 
     date the regulations described in subsection (a) are adopted, 
     a State that administers a program that provides a Federal 
     public benefit shall have in effect a verification system 
     that complies with the regulations.
       (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized 
     to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out 
     the purpose of this section.

     SEC. 433. STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION.

       (a) Limitation.--
       (1) Nothing in this title may be construed as an 
     entitlement or a determination of an individual's eligibility 
     or fulfillment of the requisite requirements for any Federal, 
     State, or local governmental program, assistance, or 
     benefits. For purposes of this title, eligibility relates 
     only to the general issue of eligibility or ineligibility on 
     the basis of alienage.
       (2) Nothing in this title may be construed as addressing 
     alien eligibility for a basic public education as determined 
     by the Supreme Court of the United States under Plyler v. Doe 
     (457 U.S. 202)(1982).
       (b) Not Applicable to Foreign Assistance.--This title does 
     not apply to any Federal, State, or local governmental 
     program, assistance, or benefits provided to an alien under 
     any program of foreign assistance as determined by the 
     Secretary of State in consultation with the Attorney General.
       (c) Severability.--If any provision of this title or the 
     application of such provision to any person or circumstance 
     is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this title 
     and the application of the provisions of such to any person 
     or circumstance shall not be affected thereby.

     SEC. 434. COMMUNICATION BETWEEN STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT 
                   AGENCIES AND THE IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION 
                   SERVICE.

       Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or 
     local law, no State or local government entity may be 
     prohibited, or in any way restricted, from sending to or 
     receiving from the Immigration and Naturalization Service 
     information regarding the immigration status, lawful or 
     unlawful, of an alien in the United States.

     SEC. 435. QUALIFYING QUARTERS.

       For purposes of this title, in determining the number of 
     qualifying quarters of coverage under title II of the Social 
     Security Act an alien shall be credited with--
       (1) all of the qualifying quarters of coverage as defined 
     under title II of the Social Security Act worked by a parent 
     of such alien while the alien was under age 18 if the parent 
     did not receive any Federal means-tested public benefit (as 
     defined in section 403(c)) during any such quarter, and
       (2) all of the qualifying quarters worked by a spouse of 
     such alien during their marriage if the spouse did not 
     receive any Federal means-tested public benefit (as defined 
     in section 403(c)) during any such quarter and the alien 
     remains married to such spouse or such spouse is deceased.

     SEC. 436. TITLE INAPPLICABLE TO PROGRAMS SPECIFIED BY 
                   ATTORNEY GENERAL.

        Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, this 
     title or any provision of this title shall not apply to 
     programs, services, or assistance (such as soup kitchens, 
     crisis counseling and intervention, and short term shelter) 
     specified by the Attorney General, in the Attorney General's 
     sole and unreviewable discretion after consultation with 
     appropriate Federal agencies and departments, which (1) 
     deliver services at the community level, including through 
     public or private nonprofit agencies; (2) do not condition 
     the provision of assistance, the amount of assistance 
     provided, or the cost of assistance provided on the 
     individual recipient's income or resources; and (3) are 
     necessary for the protection of life, safety or the public 
     health.

     SEC. 437. TITLE INAPPLICABLE TO PROGRAMS OF NONPROFIT 
                   CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS.

       Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, this 
     title or any provision of this title shall not apply to 
     programs, services, or assistance of a nonprofit charitable 
     organization, regardless of whether such programs, services, 
     or assistance are funded, in whole or in part, by the Federal 
     Government or the government of any State or political 
     subdivision of a State.
                   Subtitle E--Conforming Amendments

     SEC. 441. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATING TO ASSISTED HOUSING.

       (a) Limitations on Assistance.--Section 214 of the Housing 
     and Community Development Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 1436a) is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``Secretary of Housing and Urban 
     Development'' each place it appears and inserting 
     ``applicable Secretary'';

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       (2) in subsection (b), by inserting after ``National 
     Housing Act,'' the following: ``the direct loan program under 
     section 502 of the Housing Act of 1949 or section 
     502(c)(5)(D), 504, 521(a)(2)(A), or 542 of such Act, subtitle 
     A of title III of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
     Housing Act,'';
       (3) in paragraphs (2) through (6) of subsection (d), by 
     striking ``Secretary'' each place it appears and inserting 
     ``applicable Secretary'';
       (4) in subsection (d), in the matter following paragraph 
     (6), by striking ``the term `Secretary' '' and inserting 
     ``the term `applicable Secretary' ''; and
       (5) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(h) For purposes of this section, the term `applicable 
     Secretary' means--
       ``(1) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, with 
     respect to financial assistance administered by such 
     Secretary and financial assistance under subtitle A of title 
     III of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act; 
     and
       ``(2) the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to 
     financial assistance administered by such Secretary.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 501(h) of the Housing 
     Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1471(h)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``(1)'';
       (2) by striking ``by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
     Development''; and
       (3) by striking paragraph (2).
          TITLE V--REDUCTIONS IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT POSITIONS

     SEC. 501. REDUCTIONS.

       (a) Definitions.--As used in this section:
       (1) Appropriate effective date.--The term ``appropriate 
     effective date'', used with respect to a Department referred 
     to in this section, means the date on which all provisions of 
     this Act (other than title II) that the Department is 
     required to carry out, and amendments and repeals made by 
     such Act to provisions of Federal law that the Department is 
     required to carry out, are effective.
       (2) Covered activity.--The term ``covered activity'', used 
     with respect to a Department referred to in this section, 
     means an activity that the Department is required to carry 
     out under--
       (A) a provision of this Act (other than title II); or
       (B) a provision of Federal law that is amended or repealed 
     by this Act (other than title II).
       (b) Reports.--
       (1) Contents.--Not later than December 31, 1995, each 
     Secretary referred to in paragraph (2) shall prepare and 
     submit to the relevant committees described in paragraph (3) 
     a report containing--
       (A) the determinations described in subsection (c);
       (B) appropriate documentation in support of such 
     determinations; and
       (C) a description of the methodology used in making such 
     determinations.
       (2) Secretary.--The Secretaries referred to in this 
     paragraph are--
       (A) the Secretary of Agriculture;
       (B) the Secretary of Education;
       (C) the Secretary of Labor;
       (D) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and
       (E) the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
       (3) Relevant committees.--The relevant Committees described 
     in this paragraph are the following:
       (A) With respect to each Secretary described in paragraph 
     (2), the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight of the 
     House of Representatives and the Committee on Governmental 
     Affairs of the Senate.
       (B) With respect to the Secretary of Agriculture, the 
     Committee on Agriculture and the Committee on Economic and 
     Educational Opportunities of the House of Representatives and 
     the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the 
     Senate.
       (C) With respect to the Secretary of Education, the 
     Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities of the 
     House of Representatives and the Committee on Labor and Human 
     Resources of the Senate.
       (D) With respect to the Secretary of Labor, the Committee 
     on Economic and Educational Opportunities of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Labor and Human 
     Resources of the Senate.
       (E) With respect to the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
     Development, the Committee on Banking and Financial Services 
     of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Banking, 
     Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate.
       (F) With respect to the Secretary of Health and Human 
     Services, the Committee on Economic and Educational 
     Opportunities of the House of Representatives, the Committee 
     on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate, the Committee on 
     Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, and the 
     Committee on Finance of the Senate.
       (4) Report on changes.--Not later than December 31, 1996, 
     and each December 31 thereafter, each Secretary referred to 
     in paragraph (2) shall prepare and submit to the relevant 
     Committees described in paragraph (3), a report concerning 
     any changes with respect to the determinations made under 
     subsection (c) for the year in which the report is being 
     submitted.
       (c) Determinations.--Not later than October 1, 1996, each 
     Secretary referred to in subsection (b)(2) shall determine--
       (1) the number of full-time equivalent positions required 
     by the Department headed by such Secretary to carry out the 
     covered activities of the Department, as of the day before 
     the date of enactment of this Act;
       (2) the number of such positions required by the Department 
     to carry out the activities, as of the appropriate effective 
     date for the Department; and
       (3) the difference obtained by subtracting the number 
     referred to in paragraph (2) from the number referred to in 
     paragraph (1).
       (d) Actions.--Each Secretary referred to in subsection 
     (b)(2) shall take such actions as may be necessary, including 
     reduction in force actions, consistent with sections 3502 and 
     3595 of title 5, United States Code, to reduce the number of 
     positions of personnel of the Department--
       (1) not later than 30 days after the appropriate effective 
     date for the Department involved, by at least 50 percent of 
     the difference referred to in subsection (c)(3); and
       (2) not later than 13 months after such appropriate 
     effective date, by at least the remainder of such difference 
     (after the application of paragraph (1)).
       (e) Consistency.--
       (1) Education.--The Secretary of Education shall carry out 
     this section in a manner that enables the Secretary to meet 
     the requirements of this section.
       (2) Labor.--The Secretary of Labor shall carry out this 
     section in a manner that enables the Secretary to meet the 
     requirements of this section.
       (3) Health and human services.--The Secretary of Health and 
     Human Services shall carry out this section in a manner that 
     enables the Secretary to meet the requirements of this 
     section and sections 502 and 503.
       (f) Calculation.--In determining, under subsection (c), the 
     number of full-time equivalent positions required by a 
     Department to carry out a covered activity, a Secretary 
     referred to in subsection (b)(2) shall include the number of 
     such positions occupied by personnel carrying out program 
     functions or other functions (including budgetary, 
     legislative, administrative, planning, evaluation, and legal 
     functions) related to the activity.
       (g) General Accounting Office Report.--Not later than July 
     1, 1996, the Comptroller General of the United States shall 
     prepare and submit to the committees described in subsection 
     (b)(3), a report concerning the determinations made by each 
     Secretary under subsection (c). Such report shall contain an 
     analysis of the determinations made by each Secretary under 
     subsection (c) and a determination as to whether further 
     reductions in full-time equivalent positions are appropriate.

     SEC. 502. REDUCTIONS IN FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
     shall reduce the Federal workforce within the Department of 
     Health and Human Services by an amount equal to the sum of--
       (1) 75 percent of the full-time equivalent positions at 
     such Department that relate to any direct spending program, 
     or any program funded through discretionary spending, that 
     has been converted into a block grant program under this Act 
     and the amendments made by this Act; and
       (2) an amount equal to 75 percent of that portion of the 
     total full-time equivalent departmental management positions 
     at such Department that bears the same relationship to the 
     amount appropriated for the programs referred to in paragraph 
     (1) as such amount relates to the total amount appropriated 
     for use by such Department.
       (b) Reductions in the Department of Health and Human 
     Services.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
     the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall take such 
     actions as may be necessary, including reductions in force 
     actions, consistent with sections 3502 and 3595 of title 5, 
     United States Code, to reduce the full-time equivalent 
     positions within the Department of Health and Human 
     Services--
       (1) by 245 full-time equivalent positions related to the 
     program converted into a block grant under the amendment made 
     by section 103; and
       (2) by 60 full-time equivalent managerial positions in the 
     Department.

     SEC. 503. REDUCING PERSONNEL IN WASHINGTON, D.C. AREA.

       In making reductions in full-time equivalent positions, the 
     Secretary of Health and Human Services is encouraged to 
     reduce personnel in the Washington, D.C., area office (agency 
     headquarters) before reducing field personnel.
                   TITLE VI--REFORM OF PUBLIC HOUSING

     SEC. 601. FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH OTHER WELFARE AND PUBLIC 
                   ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

       Title I of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
     1437 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following 
     new section:

     ``SEC. 27. FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH OTHER WELFARE AND PUBLIC 
                   ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

       ``(a) In General.--If the benefits of a family are reduced 
     under a Federal, State, or local law relating to welfare or a 
     public assistance program for the failure of any member of 
     the family to perform an action required under the law or 
     program, the family may not, for the duration of the 
     reduction, receive any increased assistance under this Act as 
     the result of a decrease in the income of the family to the 
     extent that the decrease in income is the result of the 
     benefits reduction.

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       ``(b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply in any 
     case in which the benefits of a family are reduced because 
     the welfare or public assistance program to which the 
     Federal, State, or local law relates limits the period during 
     which benefits may be provided under the program.''.

     SEC. 602. FRAUD UNDER MEANS-TESTED WELFARE AND PUBLIC 
                   ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

       (a) In General.--If an individual's benefits under a 
     Federal, State, or local law relating to a means-tested 
     welfare or a public assistance program are reduced because of 
     an act of fraud by the individual under the law or program, 
     the individual may not, for the duration of the reduction, 
     receive an increased benefit under any other means-tested 
     welfare or public assistance program for which Federal funds 
     are appropriated as a result of a decrease in the income of 
     the individual (determined under the applicable program) 
     attributable to such reduction.
       (b) Welfare or Public Assistance Programs for Which Federal 
     Funds Are Appropriated.--For purposes of subsection (a), the 
     term ``means-tested welfare or public assistance program for 
     which Federal funds are appropriated'' includes the food 
     stamp program under the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 
     et seq.), any program of public or assisted housing under 
     title I of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
     1437 et seq.), and State programs funded under part A of 
     title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.).

     SEC. 603. ANNUAL ADJUSTMENT FACTORS FOR OPERATING COSTS ONLY; 
                   RESTRAINT ON RENT INCREASES.

       (a) Annual Adjustment Factors for Operating Costs Only.--
     Section 8(c)(2)(A) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
     (42 U.S.C. 1437f(c)(2)(A)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``(2)(A)'' and inserting ``(2)(A)(i)'';
       (2) by striking the second sentence and all that follows 
     through the end of the subparagraph; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new clause:
       ``(ii) Each assistance contract under this section shall 
     provide that--
       ``(I) if the maximum monthly rent for a unit in a new 
     construction or substantial rehabilitation project to be 
     adjusted using an annual adjustment factor exceeds 100 
     percent of the fair market rent for an existing dwelling unit 
     in the market area, the Secretary shall adjust the rent using 
     an operating costs factor that increases the rent to reflect 
     increases in operating costs in the market area; and
       ``(II) if the owner of a unit in a project described in 
     subclause (I) demonstrates that the adjusted rent determined 
     under subclause (I) would not exceed the rent for an 
     unassisted unit of similar quality, type, and age in the same 
     market area, as determined by the Secretary, the Secretary 
     shall use the otherwise applicable annual adjustment 
     factor.''.
       (b) Restraint on Section 8 Rent Increases.--Section 
     8(c)(2)(A) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
     U.S.C. 1437f(c)(2)(A)), as amended by subsection (a), is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new clause:
       ``(iii)(I) Subject to subclause (II), with respect to any 
     unit assisted under this section that is occupied by the same 
     family at the time of the most recent annual rental 
     adjustment, if the assistance contract provides for the 
     adjustment of the maximum monthly rent by applying an annual 
     adjustment factor, and if the rent for the unit is otherwise 
     eligible for an adjustment based on the full amount of the 
     annual adjustment factor, 0.01 shall be subtracted from the 
     amount of the annual adjustment factor, except that the 
     annual adjustment factor shall not be reduced to less than 
     1.0.
       ``(II) With respect to any unit described in subclause (I) 
     that is assisted under the certificate program, the adjusted 
     rent shall not exceed the rent for a comparable unassisted 
     unit of similar quality, type, and age in the market area in 
     which the unit is located.''.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall become effective on October 1, 1996.

     SEC. 604. EFFECTIVE DATE.

       This title and the amendment made by this title shall 
     become effective on the date of enactment of this Act.
                         TITLE VII--CHILD CARE

     SEC. 701. SHORT TITLE AND REFERENCES.

       (a) Short Title.--This title may be cited as the ``Child 
     Care and Development Block Grant Amendments of 1995''.
       (b) References.--Except as otherwise expressly provided, 
     whenever in this title an amendment or repeal is expressed in 
     terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other 
     provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a 
     section or other provision of the Child Care and Development 
     Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858 et seq.).

     SEC. 702. GOALS.

       (a) Goals.--Section 658A (42 U.S.C. 9801 note) is amended--
       (1) in the section heading by inserting ``and goals'' after 
     ``title'';
       (2) by inserting ``(a) Short Title.--'' before ``This''; 
     and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(b) Goals.--The goals of this subchapter are--
       ``(1) to allow each State maximum flexibility in developing 
     child care programs and policies that best suit the needs of 
     children and parents within such State;
       ``(2) to promote parental choice to empower working parents 
     to make their own decisions on the child care that best suits 
     their family's needs;
       ``(3) to encourage States to provide consumer education 
     information to help parents make informed choices about child 
     care;
       ``(4) to assist States to provide child care to parents 
     trying to achieve independence from public assistance; and
       ``(5) to assist States in implementing the health, safety, 
     licensing, and registration standards established in State 
     regulations.''.

     SEC. 803. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS AND ENTITLEMENT 
                   AUTHORITY.

       (a) In General.--Section 658B (42 U.S.C. 9858) is amended 
     to read as follows:

     ``SEC. 658B. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       ``There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this 
     subchapter $1,000,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996 
     through 2002.''.
       (b) Social Security Act.--Part A of title IV of the Social 
     Security Act (as amended by section 103 of this Act) is 
     amended by redesignating section 417 as section 418 and 
     inserting after section 416 the following:

     ``SEC. 417. FUNDING FOR CHILD CARE.

       ``(a) General Child Care Entitlement.--
       ``(1) General entitlement.--Subject to the amount 
     appropriated under paragraph (3), each State shall, for the 
     purpose of providing child care assistance, be entitled to 
     payments under a grant under this subsection for a fiscal 
     year in an amount equal to the greatest of--
       ``(A) the sum of--
       ``(i) the total amount required to be paid to the State 
     under former section 403 for fiscal year 1994 with respect to 
     amounts expended for child care under section 402(g) of this 
     Act (as such section was in effect before October 1, 1995); 
     and
       ``(ii) such total amount with respect to amounts expended 
     for child care under section 403(i) of this Act (as so in 
     effect); or
       ``(B) the sum described in subparagraph (A) for fiscal year 
     1995; or
       ``(C) the average of the total amounts required to be paid 
     to the State for fiscal years 1992 through 1994 under the 
     sections referred to in subparagraph (A).
       ``(2) Remainder.--
       ``(A) Grants.--The Secretary shall use any amounts 
     appropriated for a fiscal year under paragraph (3), and 
     remaining after the reservation described in paragraph (5) 
     and after grants are awarded under paragraph (1), to make 
     grants to States under this paragraph.
       ``(B) Amount.--Subject to subparagraph (C), the amount of a 
     grant awarded to a State for a fiscal year under this 
     paragraph shall be based on the formula used for determining 
     the amount of Federal payments to the State under section 
     403(n) (as such section was in effect before October 1, 
     1995).
       ``(C) Matching requirement.--The Secretary shall pay to 
     each eligible State in a fiscal year an amount, under a grant 
     under subparagraph (A), equal to the Federal medical 
     assistance percentage for such State for fiscal year 1995 (as 
     defined in section 1905(b)) of so much of the expenditures by 
     the State for child care in such year as exceed the State 
     set-aside for such State under subsection (a)(1) for such 
     year and the amount of State expenditures in fiscal year 1995 
     that equal the non-Federal share for the programs described 
     in subparagraphs (A), (B) and (C) of paragraph (1).
       ``(3) Appropriation.--There are authorized to be 
     appropriated, and there are appropriated, to carry out this 
     section--
       ``(A) $1,967,000,000 for fiscal year 1997;
       ``(B) $2,067,000,000 for fiscal year 1998;
       ``(C) $2,167,000,000 for fiscal year 1999;
       ``(D) $2,367,000,000 for fiscal year 2000;
       ``(E) $2,567,000,000 for fiscal year 2001; and
       ``(F) $2,767,000,000 for fiscal year 2002.
       ``(4) Redistribution.--With respect to any fiscal year, if 
     the Secretary determines that amounts under any grant awarded 
     to a State under this subsection for such fiscal year will 
     not be used by such State for carrying out the purpose for 
     which the grant is made, the Secretary shall make such 
     amounts available for carrying out such purpose to 1 or more 
     other States which apply for such funds to the extent the 
     Secretary determines that such other States will be able to 
     use such additional amounts for carrying out such purpose. 
     Such available amounts shall be redistributed to a State 
     pursuant to section 402(i) (as such section was in effect 
     before October 1, 1995) by substituting `the number of 
     children residing in all States applying for such funds' for 
     `the number of children residing in the United States in the 
     second preceding fiscal year'. Any amount made available to a 
     State from an appropriation for a fiscal year in accordance 
     with the preceding sentence shall, for purposes of this part, 
     be regarded as part of such State's payment (as determined 
     under this subsection) for such year.
       ``(5) Indian tribes.--The Secretary shall reserve not more 
     than 1 percent of the aggregate amount appropriated to carry 
     out this section in each fiscal year for payments to Indian 
     tribes and tribal organizations.
       ``(b) Use of Funds.--
       ``(1) In general.--Amounts received by a State under this 
     section shall only be used to provide child care assistance.
       ``(2) Use for certain populations.--A State shall ensure 
     that not less than 70 percent of the total amount of funds 
     received by the State in a fiscal year under this section are 
     used to provide child care assistance to families who are 
     receiving assistance under a State program under this part, 
     families who

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     are attempting through work activities to transition off of 
     such assistance program, and families who are at risk of 
     becoming dependent on such assistance program.
       ``(c) Application of Child Care and Development Block Grant 
     Act of 1990.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     amounts provided to a State under this section shall be 
     transferred to the lead agency under the Child Care and 
     Development Block Grant Act of 1990, integrated by the State 
     into the programs established by the State under such Act, 
     and be subject to requirements and limitations of such Act.
       ``(d) Definition.--As used in this section, the term 
     `State' means each of the 50 States or the District of 
     Columbia.''.

     SEC. 704. LEAD AGENCY.

       Section 658D(b) (42 U.S.C. 9858b(b)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``State'' the first 
     place that such appears and inserting ``governmental or 
     nongovernmental''; and
       (B) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ``with sufficient 
     time and Statewide distribution of the notice of such 
     hearing,'' after ``hearing in the State''; and
       (2) in paragraph (2), by striking the second sentence.

     SEC. 705. APPLICATION AND PLAN.

       Section 658E (42 U.S.C. 9858c) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)--
       (A) by striking ``implemented--'' and all that follows 
     through ``(2)'' and inserting ``implemented''; and
       (B) by striking ``for subsequent State plans'';
       (2) in subsection (c)--
       (A) in paragraph (2)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A)--

       (I) in clause (i) by striking ``, other than through 
     assistance provided under paragraph (3)(C),''; and
       (II) by striking ``except'' and all that follows through 
     ``1992'', and inserting ``and provide a detailed description 
     of the procedures the State will implement to carry out the 
     requirements of this subparagraph'';

       (ii) in subparagraph (B)--

       (I) by striking ``Provide assurances'' and inserting 
     ``Certify''; and
       (II) by inserting before the period at the end ``and 
     provide a detailed description of such procedures'';

       (iii) in subparagraph (C)--

       (I) by striking ``Provide assurances'' and inserting 
     ``Certify''; and
       (II) by inserting before the period at the end ``and 
     provide a detailed description of how such record is 
     maintained and is made available'';

       (iv) by amending subparagraph (D) to read as follows:
       ``(D) Consumer education information.--Certify that the 
     State will collect and disseminate to parents of eligible 
     children and the general public, consumer education 
     information that will promote informed child care choices.'';
       (v) in subparagraph (E), to read as follows:
       ``(E) Compliance with state licensing requirements.--
       ``(i) In general.--Certify that the State has in effect 
     licensing requirements applicable to child care services 
     provided within the State, and provide a detailed description 
     of such requirements and of how such requirements are 
     effectively enforced. Nothing in the preceding sentence shall 
     be construed to require that licensing requirements be 
     applied to specific types of providers of child care 
     services.
       ``(ii) Indian tribes and tribal organizations.--In lieu of 
     any licensing and regulatory requirements applicable under 
     State and local law, the Secretary, in consultation with 
     Indian tribes and tribal organizations, shall develop minimum 
     child care standards (that appropriately reflect tribal needs 
     and available resources) that shall be applicable to Indian 
     tribes and tribal organizations receiving assistance under 
     this subchapter.'';
       (vi) by striking ``Provide assurances'' and inserting 
     ``Certify''; and
       (vii) by striking subparagraphs (H), (I), and (J) and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(G) Meeting the needs of certain populations.--
     Demonstrate the manner in which the State will meet the 
     specific child care needs of families who are receiving 
     assistance under a State program under part A of title IV of 
     the Social Security Act, families who are attempting through 
     work activities to transition off of such assistance program, 
     and families who are at risk of becoming dependent on such 
     assistance program.
       ``(H) Preserving parental choice.--Certify that the State 
     will not implement any policy or practice which has the 
     effect of significantly restricting parental choice by--
       ``(i) expressly or effectively excluding any category of 
     care or type of provider within a category of care;
       ``(ii) limiting parental access to or choices from among 
     various categories of care or types of providers; or
       ``(iii) excluding a significant number of providers in any 
     category of care.
       ``(I) Informing parents of options.--Provides assurances 
     that parents will be informed regarding their options under 
     this section, including the option to receive a child care 
     certificate or voucher.'';
       (B) in paragraph (3)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``(B) and (C)'' and 
     inserting ``(B) through (D)'';
       (ii) in subparagraph (B)--

       (I) by striking ``.--Subject to the reservation contained 
     in subparagraph (C), the'' and inserting ``and related 
     activities.--The'';
       (II) in clause (i) by striking ``; and'' at the end and 
     inserting a period;
       (III) by striking ``for--'' and all that follows through 
     ``section 658E(c)(2)(A)'' and inserting ``for child care 
     services on sliding fee scale basis, activities that improve 
     the quality or availability of such services, and any other 
     activity that the State deems appropriate to realize any of 
     the goals specified in paragraphs (2) through (5) of section 
     658A(b)''; and
       (IV) by striking clause (ii);

       (iii) by amending subparagraph (C) to read as follows:
       ``(C) Limitation on administrative costs.--Not more than 5 
     percent of the aggregate amount of funds available to the 
     State to carry out this subchapter by a State in each fiscal 
     year may be expended for administrative costs incurred by 
     such State to carry out all of its functions and duties under 
     this subchapter. As used in the preceding sentence, the term 
     `administrative costs' shall not include the costs of 
     providing direct services.''; and
       (iv) by adding at the end thereof the following:
       ``(D) Assistance for certain families.--A State shall 
     ensure that a substantial portion of the amounts available 
     (after the State has complied with the requirement of section 
     417(b)(2) of the Social Security Act with respect to each of 
     the fiscal years 1997 through 2002) to the State to carry out 
     activities this subchapter in each fiscal year is used to 
     provide assistance to low-income working families other than 
     families described in paragraph (2)(F).''; and
       (C) in paragraph (4)(A)--
       (i) by striking ``provide assurances'' and inserting 
     ``certify'';
       (ii) in the first sentence by inserting ``and shall provide 
     a summary of the facts relied on by the State to determine 
     that such rates are sufficient to ensure such access'' before 
     the period; and
       (iii) by striking the last sentence.

     SEC. 706. LIMITATION ON STATE ALLOTMENTS.

       Section 658F(b) (42 U.S.C. 9858d(b)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``No'' and inserting 
     ``Except as provided for in section 658O(c)(6), no''; and
       (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``referred to in section 
     658E(c)(2)(F)''.

     SEC. 707. ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF CHILD CARE.

       Section 658G (42 U.S.C. 9858e) is amended to read as 
     follows:

     ``SEC. 658G. ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF CHILD CARE.

       ``A State that receives funds to carry out this subchapter 
     for a fiscal year, shall use not less than 4 percent of the 
     amount of such funds for activities that are designed to 
     provide comprehensive consumer education to parents and the 
     public, activities that increase parental choice, and 
     activities designed to improve the quality and availability 
     of child care (such as resource and referral services).''.

     SEC. 708. REPEAL OF EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND BEFORE- 
                   AND AFTER-SCHOOL CARE REQUIREMENT.

       Section 658H (42 U.S.C. 9858f) is repealed.

     SEC. 709. ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT.

       Section 658I(b) (42 U.S.C. 9858g(b)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``, and shall have'' and 
     all that follows through ``(2)''; and
       (2) in the matter following clause (ii) of paragraph 
     (2)(A), by striking ``finding and that'' and all that follows 
     through the period and inserting ``finding and shall require 
     that the State reimburse the Secretary for any funds that 
     were improperly expended for purposes prohibited or not 
     authorized by this subchapter, that the Secretary deduct from 
     the administrative portion of the State allotment for the 
     following fiscal year an amount that is less than or equal to 
     any improperly expended funds, or a combination of such 
     options.''.

     SEC. 710. PAYMENTS.

       Section 658J(c) (42 U.S.C. 9858h(c)) is amended by striking 
     ``expended'' and inserting ``obligated''.

     SEC. 711. ANNUAL REPORT AND AUDITS.

       Section 658K (42 U.S.C. 9858i) is amended--
       (1) in the section heading by striking ``annual report'' 
     and inserting ``reports'';
       (2) in subsection (a), to read as follows:
       ``(a) Reports.--
       ``(1) Collection of information by states.--
       ``(A) In general.--A State that receives funds to carry out 
     this subchapter shall collect the information described in 
     subparagraph (B) on a monthly basis.
       ``(B) Required information.--The information required under 
     this subparagraph shall include, with respect to a family 
     unit receiving assistance under this subchapter information 
     concerning--
       ``(i) family income;
       ``(ii) county of residence;
       ``(iii) the gender, race, and age of children receiving 
     such assistance;
       ``(iv) whether the family includes only 1 parent;
       ``(v) the sources of family income, including the amount 
     obtained from (and separately identified)--

       ``(I) employment, including self-employment;
       ``(II) cash or other assistance under part A of title IV of 
     the Social Security Act;
       ``(III) housing assistance;

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       ``(IV) assistance under the Food Stamp Act of 1977; and
       ``(V) other assistance programs;

       ``(vi) the number of months the family has received 
     benefits;
       ``(vii) the type of child care in which the child was 
     enrolled (such as family child care, home care, or center-
     based child care);
       ``(viii) whether the child care provider involved was a 
     relative;
       ``(ix) the cost of child care for such families; and
       ``(x) the average hours per week of such care;

     during the period for which such information is required to 
     be submitted.
       ``(C) Submission to secretary.--A State described in 
     subparagraph (A) shall, on a quarterly basis, submit the 
     information required to be collected under subparagraph (B) 
     to the Secretary.
       ``(D) Sampling.--The Secretary may disapprove the 
     information collected by a State under this paragraph if the 
     State uses sampling methods to collect such information.
       ``(2) Biannual reports.--Not later than December 31, 1997, 
     and every 6 months thereafter, a State described in paragraph 
     (1)(A) shall prepare and submit to the Secretary a report 
     that includes aggregate data concerning--
       ``(A) the number of child care providers that received 
     funding under this subchapter as separately identified based 
     on the types of providers listed in section 658P(5);
       ``(B) the monthly cost of child care services, and the 
     portion of such cost that is paid for with assistance 
     provided under this subchapter, listed by the type of child 
     care services provided;
       ``(C) the number of payments made by the State through 
     vouchers, contracts, cash, and disregards under public 
     benefit programs, listed by the type of child care services 
     provided;
       ``(D) the manner in which consumer education information 
     was provided to parents and the number of parents to whom 
     such information was provided; and
       ``(E) the total number (without duplication) of children 
     and families served under this subchapter;

     during the period for which such report is required to be 
     submitted.''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in paragraph (1) by striking ``a application'' and 
     inserting ``an application'';
       (B) in paragraph (2) by striking ``any agency administering 
     activities that receive'' and inserting ``the State that 
     receives''; and
       (C) in paragraph (4) by striking ``entitles'' and inserting 
     ``entitled''.

     SEC. 712. REPORT BY THE SECRETARY.

       Section 658L (42 U.S.C. 9858j) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``1993'' and inserting ``1997'';
       (2) by striking ``annually'' and inserting ``biennially''; 
     and
       (3) by striking ``Education and Labor'' and inserting 
     ``Economic and Educational Opportunities''.

     SEC. 713. ALLOTMENTS.

       Section 658O (42 U.S.C. 9858m) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) in paragraph (1)
       (i) by striking ``Possessions'' and inserting 
     ``possessions'';
       (ii) by inserting ``and'' after ``States,''; and
       (iii) by striking ``, and the Trust Territory of the 
     Pacific Islands''; and
       (B) in paragraph (2), by striking ``3 percent'' and 
     inserting ``1 percent'';
       (2) in subsection (c)--
       (A) in paragraph (5) by striking ``our'' and inserting 
     ``out''; and
       (B) by adding at the end thereof the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(6) Construction or renovation of facilities.--
       ``(A) Request for use of funds.--An Indian tribe or tribal 
     organization may submit to the Secretary a request to use 
     amounts provided under this subsection for construction or 
     renovation purposes.
       ``(B) Determination.--With respect to a request submitted 
     under subparagraph (A), and except as provided in 
     subparagraph (C), upon a determination by the Secretary that 
     adequate facilities are not otherwise available to an Indian 
     tribe or tribal organization to enable such tribe or 
     organization to carry out child care programs in accordance 
     with this subchapter, and that the lack of such facilities 
     will inhibit the operation of such programs in the future, 
     the Secretary may permit the tribe or organization to use 
     assistance provided under this subsection to make payments 
     for the construction or renovation of facilities that will be 
     used to carry out such programs.
       ``(C) Limitation.--The Secretary may not permit an Indian 
     tribe or tribal organization to use amounts provided under 
     this subsection for construction or renovation if such use 
     will result in a decrease in the level of child care services 
     provided by the tribe or organization as compared to the 
     level of such services provided by the tribe or organization 
     in the fiscal year preceding the year for which the 
     determination under subparagraph (A) is being made.
       ``(D) Uniform procedures.--The Secretary shall develop and 
     implement uniform procedures for the solicitation and 
     consideration of requests under this paragraph.''; and
       (3) in subsection (e), by adding at the end thereof the 
     following new paragraph:
       ``(4) Indian tribes or tribal organizations.--Any portion 
     of a grant or contract made to an Indian tribe or tribal 
     organization under subsection (c) that the Secretary 
     determines is not being used in a manner consistent with the 
     provision of this subchapter in the period for which the 
     grant or contract is made available, shall be allotted by the 
     Secretary to other tribes or organizations that have 
     submitted applications under subsection (c) in accordance 
     with their respective needs.''.

     SEC. 714. DEFINITIONS.

       Section 658P (42 U.S.C. 9858n) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (2), in the first sentence by inserting 
     ``or as a deposit for child care services if such a deposit 
     is required of other children being cared for by the 
     provider'' after ``child care services''; and
       (2) by striking paragraph (3);
       (3) in paragraph (4)(B), by striking ``75 percent'' and 
     inserting ``85 percent'';
       (4) in paragraph (5)(B)--
       (A) by inserting ``great grandchild, sibling (if such 
     provider lives in a separate residence),'' after 
     ``grandchild,'';
       (B) by striking ``is registered and''; and
       (C) by striking ``State'' and inserting ``applicable''.
       (5) by striking paragraph (10);
       (6) in paragraph (13)--
       (A) by inserting ``or'' after ``Samoa,''; and
       (B) by striking ``, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific 
     Islands'';
       (7) in paragraph (14)--
       (A) by striking ``The term'' and inserting the following:
       ``(A) In general.--The term''; and
       (B) by adding at the end thereof the following new 
     subparagraph:
       ``(B) Other organizations.--Such term includes a Native 
     Hawaiian Organization, as defined in section 4009(4) of the 
     Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and 
     Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988 (20 U.S.C. 
     4909(4)) and a private nonprofit organization established for 
     the purpose of serving youth who are Indians or Native 
     Hawaiians.''.

     SEC. 715. REPEALS.

       (a) Child Development Associate Scholarship Assistance Act 
     of 1985.--Title VI of the Human Services Reauthorization Act 
     of 1986 (42 U.S.C. 10901-10905) is repealed.
       (b) State Dependent Care Development Grants Act.--
     Subchapter E of chapter 8 of subtitle A of title VI of the 
     Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 9871-
     9877) is repealed.
       (c) Programs of National Significance.--Title X of the 
     Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by 
     Public Law 103-382 (108 Stat. 3809 et seq.), is amended--
       (1) in section 10413(a) by striking paragraph (4),
       (2) in section 10963(b)(2) by striking subparagraph (G), 
     and
       (3) in section 10974(a)(6) by striking subparagraph (G).
       (d) Native Hawaiian Family-Based Education Centers.--
     Section 9205 of the Native Hawaiian Education Act (Public Law 
     103-382; 108 Stat. 3794) is repealed.

     SEC. 716. EFFECTIVE DATE.

       (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), this 
     title and the amendments made by this title shall take effect 
     on October 1, 1996.
       (b) Exception.--The amendment made by section 803(a) shall 
     take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.
                  TITLE VIII--CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS
                 Subtitle A--National School Lunch Act

     SEC. 801. VALUE OF FOOD ASSISTANCE.

       (a) In General.--Section 6(e)(1) of the National School 
     Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1755(e)(1)) is amended by striking 
     subparagraph (B) and inserting the following:
       ``(B) Adjustments.--
       ``(i) In general.--The value of food assistance for each 
     meal shall be adjusted each July 1 by the annual percentage 
     change in a 3-month average value of the Price Index for 
     Foods Used in Schools and Institutions for March, April, and 
     May each year.
       ``(ii) Adjustments.--Except as otherwise provided in this 
     subparagraph, in the case of each school year, the Secretary 
     shall--

       ``(I) base the adjustment made under clause (i) on the 
     amount of the unrounded adjustment for the preceding school 
     year;
       ``(II) adjust the resulting amount in accordance with 
     clause (i); and
       ``(III) round the result to the nearest lower cent 
     increment.

       ``(iii) Adjustment for 24-month period beginning july 1, 
     1996.--In the case of the 24-month period beginning July 1, 
     1996, the value of food assistance shall be the same as the 
     value of food assistance in effect on June 30, 1996.
       ``(iv) Adjustment for school year beginning july 1, 1998.--
     In the case of the school year beginning July 1, 1998, the 
     Secretary shall--

       ``(I) base the adjustment made under clause (i) on the 
     amount of the unrounded adjustment for the value of food 
     assistance for the school year beginning July 1, 1995;
       ``(II) adjust the resulting amount to reflect the annual 
     percentage change in a 3-month average value of the Price 
     Index for Foods Used in Schools and Institutions for March, 
     April, and May for the most recent 12-month period for which 
     the data are available; and
       ``(III) round the result to the nearest lower cent 
     increment.''.

       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall become effective on July 1, 1996.

     SEC. 802. COMMODITY ASSISTANCE.

       (a) In General.--Section 6(g) of the National School Lunch 
     Act (42 U.S.C. 1755(g)) is

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     amended by striking ``12 percent'' and inserting ``8 
     percent''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall become effective on July 1, 1996.

     SEC. 803. STATE DISBURSEMENT TO SCHOOLS.

       (a) In General.--Section 8 of the National School Lunch Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 1757) is amended--
       (1) in the third sentence, by striking ``Nothing'' and all 
     that follows through ``educational agency to'' and inserting 
     ``The State educational agency may'';
       (2) by striking the fourth, fifth, and eighth sentences;
       (3) by redesignating the first through sixth sentences, as 
     amended by paragraph (1), as subsections (a) through (f), 
     respectively;
       (4) in subsection (b), as redesignated by paragraph (3), by 
     striking ``the preceding sentence'' and inserting 
     ``subsection (a)''; and
       (5) in subsection (d), as redesignated by paragraph (3), by 
     striking ``Such food costs'' and inserting ``Use of funds 
     paid to States''.
       (b) Definition of Child.--Section 12(d) of the Act (42 
     U.S.C. 1760(d)) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following:
       ``(9) `child' includes an individual, regardless of age, 
     who--
       ``(A) is determined by a State educational agency, in 
     accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary, to 
     have 1 or more mental or physical disabilities; and
       ``(B) is attending any institution, as defined in section 
     17(a), or any nonresidential public or nonprofit private 
     school of high school grade or under, for the purpose of 
     participating in a school program established for individuals 
     with mental or physical disabilities.

     No institution that is not otherwise eligible to participate 
     in the program under section 17 shall be considered eligible 
     because of this paragraph.''.

     SEC. 804. NUTRITIONAL AND OTHER PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) Nutritional Standards.--Section 9(a) of the National 
     School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758(a)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (2)--
       (A) by striking ``(2)(A) Lunches'' and inserting ``(2) 
     Lunches'';
       (B) by striking subparagraph (B); and
       (C) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) as subparagraphs 
     (A) and (B), respectively;
       (2) by striking paragraph (3); and
       (3) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (3).
       (b) Eligibility Guidelines.--Section 9(b) of the Act is 
     amended--
       (1) in paragraph (2)--
       (A) by striking subparagraph (A); and
       (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as 
     subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively;
       (2) in paragraph (5), by striking the third sentence; and
       (3) in paragraph (6), by striking ``paragraph (2)(C)'' and 
     inserting ``paragraph (2)(B)''.
       (c) Utilization of Agricultural Commodities.--Section 9(c) 
     of the Act is amended by striking the second, fourth, and 
     sixth sentences.
       (d) Conforming Amendment.--The last sentence of section 
     9(d)(1) of the Act is amended by striking ``subsection 
     (b)(2)(C)'' and inserting ``subsection (b)(2)(B)''.
       (e) Nutritional Information.--Section 9(f) of the Act is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (1);
       (2) by striking ``(2)'';
       (3) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through (D) as 
     paragraphs (1) through (4), respectively;
       (4) by striking paragraph (1), as redesignated by paragraph 
     (3), and inserting the following:
       ``(1) Nutritional requirements.--Except as provided in 
     paragraph (2), not later than the first day of the 1996-1997 
     school year, schools that are participating in the school 
     lunch or school breakfast program shall serve lunches and 
     breakfasts under the program that--
       ``(A) are consistent with the goals of the most recent 
     Dietary Guidelines for Americans published under section 301 
     of the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act 
     of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5341); and
       ``(B) provide, on the average over each week, at least--
       ``(i) with respect to school lunches, \1/3\ of the daily 
     recommended dietary allowance established by the Food and 
     Nutrition Board of the National Research Council of the 
     National Academy of Sciences; and
       ``(ii) with respect to school breakfasts, \1/4\ of the 
     daily recommended dietary allowance established by the Food 
     and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council of the 
     National Academy of Sciences.'';
       (5) in paragraph (3), as redesignated by paragraph (3)--
       (A) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) as subparagraphs 
     (A) and (B), respectively; and
       (B) in subparagraph (A), as so redesignated, by 
     redesignating subclauses (I) and (II) as clauses (i) and 
     (ii), respectively; and
       (6) in paragraph (4), as redesignated by paragraph (3), by 
     striking the first sentence and inserting the following: 
     ``Schools may use any reasonable approach to meet the 
     requirements of this paragraph, including any approach 
     described in paragraph (3).''.
       (f) Use of Resources.--Section 9 of the Act is amended by 
     striking subsection (h).

     SEC. 805. FREE AND REDUCED PRICE POLICY STATEMENT.

       Section 9(b)(2) of the National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 
     1758(b)(2)), as amended by section 802(b)(1), is further 
     amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(C) Free and reduced price policy statement.--After the 
     initial submission, a school shall not be required to submit 
     a free and reduced price policy statement to a State 
     educational agency under this Act unless there is a 
     substantive change in the free and reduced price policy of 
     the school. A routine change in the policy of a school, such 
     as an annual adjustment of the income eligibility guidelines 
     for free and reduced price meals, shall not be sufficient 
     cause for requiring the school to submit a policy 
     statement.''.

     SEC. 806. SPECIAL ASSISTANCE.

       (a) Reimbursement Rates for Lunches, Breakfasts, and 
     Supplements.--
       (1) In general.--Section 11(a)(3)(B) of the National School 
     Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1759a(a)(3)(B)) is amended--
       (A) by designating the second and third sentences as 
     subparagraphs (C) and (D), respectively; and
       (B) by striking subparagraph (D) (as so designated) and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(D) Rounding.--Except as otherwise provided in this 
     paragraph, in the case of each school year, the Secretary 
     shall--
       ``(i) base the adjustment made under this paragraph on the 
     amount of the unrounded adjustment for the preceding school 
     year;
       ``(ii) adjust the resulting amount in accordance with 
     subparagraphs (B) and (C); and
       ``(iii) round the result to the nearest lower cent 
     increment.
       ``(E) Adjustment for 12-month period beginning july 1, 
     1996.--In the case of the 12-month period beginning July 1, 
     1996, the national average payment rates for paid lunches, 
     paid breakfasts, and paid supplements shall be the same as 
     the national average payment rate for paid lunches, paid 
     breakfasts, and paid supplements, respectively, for the 
     school year beginning July 1, 1995, rounded to the nearest 
     lower cent increment.
       ``(F) Adjustment for school year beginning july 1, 1997.--
     In the case of the school year beginning July 1, 1997, the 
     Secretary shall--
       ``(i) base the adjustments made under this paragraph for--

       ``(I) paid lunches and paid breakfasts on the amount of the 
     unrounded adjustment for paid lunches for the school year 
     beginning July 1, 1996; and
       ``(II) paid supplements on the amount of the unrounded 
     adjustment for paid supplements for the school year beginning 
     July 1, 1996;

       ``(ii) adjust each resulting amount in accordance with 
     subparagraph (C); and
       ``(iii) round each result to the nearest lower cent 
     increment.''.
       (2) Effective date.--The amendments made by paragraph (1) 
     shall become effective on July 1, 1996.
       (b) Financing Based on Need.--Section 11(b) of the Act is 
     amended--
       (1) in the second sentence, by striking ``, within'' and 
     all that follows through ``all States,''; and
       (2) by striking the third sentence.
       (c) Applicability of Other Provisions.--Section 11 of the 
     Act is amended--
       (1) by striking subsection (d);
       (2) in subsection (e)(2)--
       (A) by striking ``The'' and inserting ``On request of the 
     Secretary, the''; and
       (B) by striking ``each month''; and
       (3) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f), as so 
     amended, as subsections (d) and (e), respectively.

     SEC. 807. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS.

       (a) Accounts and Records.--Section 12(a) of the National 
     School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1760(a)) is amended by striking 
     ``at all times be available'' and inserting ``be available at 
     any reasonable time''.
       (b) Restriction on Requirements.--Section 12(c) of the Act 
     is amended by striking ``neither the Secretary nor the State 
     shall'' and inserting ``the Secretary shall not''.
       (c) Definitions.--Section 12(d) of the Act, as amended by 
     section 801(b), is further amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``the Trust Territory of 
     the Pacific Islands'' and inserting ``the Commonwealth of the 
     Northern Mariana Islands'';
       (2) by striking paragraphs (3) and (4); and
       (3) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), and (5) through 
     (9) as paragraphs (6), (7), (3), (4), (2), (5), and (1), 
     respectively, and rearranging the paragraphs so as to appear 
     in numerical order.
       (d) Adjustments to National Average Payment Rates.--Section 
     12(f) of the Act is amended by striking ``the Trust Territory 
     of the Pacific Islands,''.
       (e) Expedited Rulemaking.--Section 12(k) of the Act is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking paragraphs (1), (2), and (5); and
       (2) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs 
     (1) and (2), respectively.
       (f) Waiver.--Section 12(l) of the Act is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)(A)(i), by inserting after ``program'' 
     the following: ``and would not have the effect of 
     transferring funds or commodities from the support of meals 
     for children with incomes below the income criteria for free 
     or reduced price meals, as provided in section 9(b)'';
       (2) in paragraph (2)--
       (A) by striking ``(A)'';
       (B) in clause (iii), by adding ``and'' at the end;
       (C) in clause (iv), by striking the semicolon at the end 
     and inserting a period;

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       (D) by striking clauses (v) through (vii);
       (E) by striking subparagraph (B); and
       (F) by redesignating clauses (i) through (iv), as so 
     amended, as subparagraphs (A) through (D), respectively;
       (3) in paragraph (3)--
       (A) by striking ``(A)''; and
       (B) by striking subparagraphs (B) through (D);
       (4) in paragraph (4)--
       (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking 
     ``of any requirement relating'' and inserting ``that 
     increases Federal costs or that relates'';
       (B) by striking subparagraphs (B), (D), (F), (H), (J), (K), 
     and (L);
       (C) by redesignating subparagraphs (C), (E), (G), (I), (M), 
     and (N) as subparagraphs (B) through (G), respectively; and
       (D) in subparagraph (F), as redesignated by subparagraph 
     (C), by striking ``and'' at the end and inserting ``or''; and
       (5) in paragraph (6)--
       (A) by striking ``(A)(i)'' and all that follows through 
     ``(B)''; and
       (B) by redesignating clauses (i) through (iv) as 
     subparagraphs (A) through (D), respectively.
       (g) Food and Nutrition Projects.--Section 12 of the Act is 
     amended by striking subsection (m).

     SEC. 808. SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN.

       (a) Establishment of Program.--Section 13(a) of the 
     National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1761(a)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) in the first sentence, by striking ``initiate, 
     maintain, and expand'' and insert ``initiate and maintain''; 
     and
       (B) in subparagraph (E) of the second sentence, by striking 
     ``the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,''; and
       (2) in paragraph (7)(A), by striking ``Except as provided 
     in subparagraph (C), private'' and inserting ``Private''.
       (b) Service Institutions.--Section 13(b) of the Act is 
     amended by striking ``(b)(1)'' and all that follows through 
     the end of paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
       ``(b) Service Institutions.--
       ``(1) Payments.--
       ``(A) In general.--Except as otherwise provided in this 
     paragraph, payments to service institutions shall equal the 
     full cost of food service operations (which cost shall 
     include the costs of obtaining, preparing, and serving food, 
     but shall not include administrative costs).
       ``(B) Maximum amounts.--Subject to subparagraph (C), 
     payments to any institution under subparagraph (A) shall not 
     exceed--
       ``(i) $2.00 for each lunch and supper served;
       ``(ii) $1.20 for each breakfast served; and
       ``(iii) 50 cents for each meal supplement served.
       ``(C) Adjustments.--Amounts specified in subparagraph (B) 
     shall be adjusted each January 1 to the nearest lower cent 
     increment in accordance with the changes for the 12-month 
     period ending the preceding November 30 in the series for 
     food away from home of the Consumer Price Index for All Urban 
     Consumers published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the 
     Department of Labor. Each adjustment shall be based on the 
     unrounded adjustment for the prior 12-month period.''.
       (c) Administration of Service Institutions.--Section 
     13(b)(2) of the Act is amended--
       (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``four meals'' and 
     inserting ``3 meals, or 2 meals and 1 supplement,''; and
       (2) by striking the second sentence.
       (d) Reimbursements.--Section 13(c)(2) of the Act is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking subparagraph (A);
       (2) in subparagraph (B)--
       (A) in the first sentence--
       (i) by striking ``, and such higher education 
     institutions,''; and
       (ii) by striking ``without application'' and inserting 
     ``upon showing residence in areas in which poor economic 
     conditions exist or on the basis of income eligibility 
     statements for children enrolled in the program''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following: ``The higher 
     education institutions referred to in the preceding sentence 
     shall be eligible to participate in the program under this 
     paragraph without application.'';
       (3) in subparagraph (C)(ii), by striking ``severe need''; 
     and
       (4) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) through (E), as so 
     amended, as subparagraphs (A) through (D), respectively.
       (e) Advance Program Payments.--Section 13(e)(1) of the Act 
     is amended--
       (1) by striking ``institution: Provided, That (A) the'' and 
     inserting ``institution. The'';
       (2) by inserting ``(excluding a school)'' after ``any 
     service institution''; and
       (3) by striking ``responsibilities, and (B) no'' and 
     inserting ``responsibilities. No''.
       (f) Food Requirements.--Section 13(f) of the Act is 
     amended--
       (1) by redesignating the first through seventh sentences as 
     paragraphs (1) through (7), respectively;
       (2) by striking paragraph (3), as redesignated by paragraph 
     (1);
       (3) in paragraph (4), as redesignated by paragraph (1), by 
     striking ``the first sentence'' and inserting ``paragraph 
     (1)'';
       (4) in paragraph (6), as redesignated by paragraph (1), by 
     striking ``that bacteria levels'' and all that follows 
     through the period at the end and inserting ``conformance 
     with standards set by local health authorities.''; and
       (5) by redesignating paragraphs (4) through (7), as 
     redesignated by paragraph (1), as paragraphs (3) through (6), 
     respectively.
       (g) Permitting Offer Versus Serve.--Section 13(f) of the 
     Act, as amended by subsection (f), is further amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(7) Offer versus serve.--A school food authority 
     participating as a service institution may permit a child 
     attending a site on school premises operated directly by the 
     authority to refuse not more than 1 item of a meal that the 
     child does not intend to consume. A refusal of an offered 
     food item shall not affect the amount of payments made under 
     this section to a school for the meal.''.
       (h) Health Department Inspections.--Section 13(k) of the 
     Act is amended by striking paragraph (3).
       (i) Food Service Management Companies.--Section 13(l) of 
     the Act is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (4);
       (2) in paragraph (5), by striking the first sentence; and
       (3) by redesignating paragraph (5), as so amended, as 
     paragraph (4).
       (j) Records.--The second sentence of section 13(m) of the 
     Act is amended by striking ``at all times be available'' and 
     inserting ``be available at any reasonable time''.
       (k) Removing Mandatory Notice to Institutions.--Section 
     13(n)(2) of the Act is amended by striking ``, and its plans 
     and schedule for informing service institutions of the 
     availability of the program''.
       (l) Plan.--Section 13(n) of the Act is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``including the State's 
     methods of assessing need'';
       (2) by striking paragraph (3);
       (3) in paragraph (4), by striking ``and schedule''; and
       (4) by redesignating paragraphs (4) through (7), as so 
     amended, as paragraphs (3) through (6), respectively.
       (m) Monitoring and Training.--Section 13(q) of the Act is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking paragraphs (2) and (4);
       (2) in paragraph (3), by striking ``paragraphs (1) and (2) 
     of this subsection'' and inserting ``paragraph (1)''; and
       (3) by redesignating paragraph (3), as so amended, as 
     paragraph (2).
       (n) Expired Program.--Section 13 of the Act is amended--
       (1) by striking subsection (p); and
       (2) by redesignating subsections (q) and (r), as so 
     amended, as subsections (p) and (q), respectively.
       (o) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (b) 
     shall become effective on January 1, 1996.

     SEC. 809. COMMODITY DISTRIBUTION.

       (a) Cereal and Shortening in Commodity Donations.--Section 
     14(b) of the National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1762a(b)) 
     is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (1); and
       (2) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs 
     (1) and (2), respectively.
       (b) Impact Study and Purchasing Procedures.--Section 14(d) 
     of the Act is amended by striking the second and third 
     sentences.
       (c) Cash Compensation for Pilot Project Schools.--Section 
     14(g) of the Act is amended by striking paragraph (3).
       (d) State Advisory Council.--Section 14 is amended--
       (1) by striking subsection (e); and
       (2) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g), as so 
     amended, as subsections (e) and (f), respectively.

     SEC. 810. CHILD CARE FOOD PROGRAM.

       (a) Establishment of Program.--Section 17 of the National 
     School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1766) is amended--
       (1) in the section heading, by striking ``and adult''; and
       (2) in the first sentence of subsection (a), by striking 
     ``initiate, maintain, and expand'' and inserting ``initiate 
     and maintain''.
       (b) Institutions Providing Child Care.--Section 17(a) of 
     the Act (42 U.S.C. 1766(a)) is amended--
       (1) in the second sentence--
       (A) by inserting ``the Child Care and Development Block 
     Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858 et seq.) or'' after ``from 
     amounts granted to the States under''; and
       (B) by striking ``(but only if'' and all that follows and 
     inserting a period; and
       (2) in the fourth sentence, by striking ``Reimbursement'' 
     and inserting ``Notwithstanding the type of institution 
     providing the meal or supplement, reimbursement''.
       (c) Payments to Sponsor Employees.--Paragraph (2) of the 
     last sentence of section 17(a) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1766(a)) 
     is amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (B);
       (2) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (C) 
     and inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(D) in the case of a family or group day care home 
     sponsoring organization that employs more than 1 employee, 
     the organization does not base payments to an employee of the 
     organization on the number of family or group day care homes 
     recruited.''.
       (d) Technical Assistance.--The last sentence of section 
     17(d)(1) of the Act is amended by striking ``, and shall 
     provide technical assistance'' and all that follows through 
     ``its application''.
       (e) Improved Targeting of Day Care Home Reimbursements.--
       (1) Restructured day care home reimbursements.--Section 
     17(f)(3) of the Act is amended by striking ``(3)(A) 
     Institutions'' and all that follows through the end of 
     subparagraph (A) and inserting the following:

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       ``(3) Reimbursement of family or group day care home 
     sponsoring organizations.--
       ``(A) Reimbursement factor.--
       ``(i) In general.--An institution that participates in the 
     program under this section as a family or group day care home 
     sponsoring organization shall be provided, for payment to a 
     home sponsored by the organization, reimbursement factors in 
     accordance with this subparagraph for the cost of obtaining 
     and preparing food and prescribed labor costs involved in 
     providing meals under this section.
       ``(ii) Tier i family or group day care homes.--

       ``(I) Definition.--In this paragraph, the term `tier I 
     family or group day care home' means--

       ``(aa) a family or group day care home that is located in a 
     geographic area, as defined by the Secretary based on census 
     data, in which at least 50 percent of the children residing 
     in the area are members of households whose incomes meet the 
     income eligibility guidelines for free or reduced price meals 
     under section 9;
       ``(bb) a family or group day care home that is located in 
     an area served by a school enrolling elementary students in 
     which at least 50 percent of the total number of children 
     enrolled are certified eligible to receive free or reduced 
     price school meals under this Act or the Child Nutrition Act 
     of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et seq.); or
       ``(cc) a family or group day care home that is operated by 
     a provider whose household meets the income eligibility 
     guidelines for free or reduced price meals under section 9 
     and whose income is verified by the sponsoring or 
     organization of the home under regulations established by the 
     Secretary.

       ``(II) Reimbursement.--Except as provided in subclause 
     (III), a tier I family or group day care home shall be 
     provided reimbursement factors under this clause without a 
     requirement for documentation of the costs described in 
     clause (i), except that reimbursement shall not be provided 
     under this subclause for meals or supplements served to the 
     children of a person acting as a family or group day care 
     home provider unless the children meet the income eligibility 
     guidelines for free or reduced price meals under section 9.
       ``(III) Factors.--Except as provided in subclause (IV), the 
     reimbursement factors applied to a home referred to in 
     subclause (II) shall be the factors in effect on the date of 
     enactment of this subclause.
       ``(IV) Adjustments.--The reimbursement factors under this 
     subparagraph shall be adjusted on August 1, 1996, July 1, 
     1997, and each July 1 thereafter, to reflect changes in the 
     Consumer Price Index for food at home for the most recent 12-
     month period for which the data are available. The 
     reimbursement factors under this subparagraph shall be 
     rounded to the nearest lower cent increment and based on the 
     unrounded adjustment in effect on June 30 of the preceding 
     school year.

       ``(iii) Tier ii family or group day care homes.--

       ``(I) In general.--

       ``(aa) Factors.--Except as provided in subclause (II), with 
     respect to meals or supplements served under this clause by a 
     family or group day care home that does not meet the criteria 
     set forth in clause (ii)(I), the reimbursement factors shall 
     be $1.00 for lunches and suppers, 30 cents for breakfasts, 
     and 15 cents for supplements.
       ``(bb) Adjustments.--The factors shall be adjusted on July 
     1, 1997, and each July 1 thereafter, to reflect changes in 
     the Consumer Price Index for food at home for the most recent 
     12-month period for which the data are available. The 
     reimbursement factors under this item shall be rounded down 
     to the nearest lower cent increment and based on the 
     unrounded adjustment for the preceding 12-month period.
       ``(cc) Reimbursement.--A family or group day care home 
     shall be provided reimbursement factors under this subclause 
     without a requirement for documentation of the costs 
     described in clause (i), except that reimbursement shall not 
     be provided under this subclause for meals or supplements 
     served to the children of a person acting as a family or 
     group day care home provider unless the children meet the 
     income eligibility guidelines for free or reduced price meals 
     under section 9.

       ``(II) Other factors.--A family or group day care home that 
     does not meet the criteria set forth in clause (ii)(I) may 
     elect to be provided reimbursement factors determined in 
     accordance with the following requirements:

       ``(aa) Children eligible for free or reduced price meals.--
     In the case of meals or supplements served under this 
     subsection to children who are members of households whose 
     incomes meet the income eligibility guidelines for free or 
     reduced price meals under section 9, the family or group day 
     care home shall be provided reimbursement factors set by the 
     Secretary in accordance with clause (ii)(III).
       ``(bb) Ineligible children.--In the case of meals or 
     supplements served under this subsection to children who are 
     members of households whose incomes do not meet the income 
     eligibility guidelines, the family or group day care home 
     shall be provided reimbursement factors in accordance with 
     subclause (I).

       ``(III) Information and determinations.--

       ``(aa) In general.--If a family or group day care home 
     elects to claim the factors described in subclause (II), the 
     family or group day care home sponsoring organization serving 
     the home shall collect the necessary income information, as 
     determined by the Secretary, from any parent or other 
     caretaker to make the determinations specified in subclause 
     (II) and shall make the determinations in accordance with 
     rules prescribed by the Secretary.
       ``(bb) Categorical eligibility.--In making a determination 
     under item (aa), a family or group day care home sponsoring 
     organization may consider a child participating in or 
     subsidized under, or a child with a parent participating in 
     or subsidized under, a federally or State supported child 
     care or other benefit program with an income eligibility 
     limit that does not exceed the eligibility standard for free 
     or reduced price meals under section 9 to be a child who is a 
     member of a household whose income meets the income 
     eligibility guidelines under section 9.
       ``(cc) Factors for children only.--A family or group day 
     care home may elect to receive the reimbursement factors 
     prescribed under clause (ii)(III) solely for the children 
     participating in a program referred to in item (bb) if the 
     home elects not to have income statements collected from 
     parents or other caretakers.

       ``(IV) Simplified meal counting and reporting procedures.--
     The Secretary shall prescribe simplified meal counting and 
     reporting procedures for use by a family or group day care 
     home that elects to claim the factors under subclause (II) 
     and by a family or group day care home sponsoring 
     organization that sponsors the home. The procedures the 
     Secretary prescribes may include 1 or more of the following:

       ``(aa) Setting an annual percentage for each home of the 
     number of meals served that are to be reimbursed in 
     accordance with the reimbursement factors prescribed under 
     clause (ii)(III) and an annual percentage of the number of 
     meals served that are to be reimbursed in accordance with the 
     reimbursement factors prescribed under subclause (I), based 
     on the family income of children enrolled in the home in a 
     specified month or other period.
       ``(bb) Placing a home into 1 of 2 or more reimbursement 
     categories annually based on the percentage of children in 
     the home whose households have incomes that meet the income 
     eligibility guidelines under section 9, with each such 
     reimbursement category carrying a set of reimbursement 
     factors such as the factors prescribed under clause (ii)(III) 
     or subclause (I) or factors established within the range of 
     factors prescribed under clause (ii)(III) and subclause (I).
       ``(cc) Such other simplified procedures as the Secretary 
     may prescribe.

       ``(V) Minimum verification requirements.--The Secretary may 
     establish any necessary minimum verification requirements.''.

       (2) Grants to states to provide assistance to family or 
     group day care homes.--Section 17(f)(3) of the Act is amended 
     by adding at the end the following:
       ``(D) Grants to states to provide assistance to family or 
     group day care homes.--
       ``(i) In general.--

       ``(I) Reservation.--From amounts made available to carry 
     out this section, the Secretary shall reserve $5,000,000 of 
     the amount made available for fiscal year 1996.
       ``(II) Purpose.--The Secretary shall use the funds made 
     available under subclause (I) to provide grants to States for 
     the purpose of providing--

       ``(aa) assistance, including grants, to family and day care 
     home sponsoring organizations and other appropriate 
     organizations, in securing and providing training, materials, 
     automated data processing assistance, and other assistance 
     for the staff of the sponsoring organizations; and
       ``(bb) training and other assistance to family and group 
     day care homes in the implementation of the amendment to 
     subparagraph (A) made by section 808(d)(1) of the Personal 
     Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996.
       ``(ii) Allocation.--The Secretary shall allocate from the 
     funds reserved under clause (i)(I)--

       ``(I) $30,000 in base funding to each State; and
       ``(II) any remaining amount among the States, based on the 
     number of family day care homes participating in the program 
     in a State during fiscal year 1994 as a percentage of the 
     number of all family day care homes participating in the 
     program during fiscal year 1994.
       ``(iii) Retention of funds.--Of the amount of funds made 
     available to a State for fiscal year 1996 under clause (i), 
     the State may retain not to exceed 30 percent of the amount 
     to carry out this subparagraph.
       ``(iv) Additional payments.--Any payments received under 
     this subparagraph shall be in addition to payments that a 
     State receives under subparagraph (A).''.
       (3) Provision of data.--Section 17(f)(3) of the Act, as 
     amended by paragraph (2), is further amended by adding at the 
     end the following:
       ``(E) Provision of data to family or group day care home 
     sponsoring organizations.--
       ``(i) Census data.--The Secretary shall provide to each 
     State agency administering a child care food program under 
     this section data from the most recent decennial census 
     survey or other appropriate census survey for which the data 
     are available showing which areas in the State meet the 
     requirements of subparagraph (A)(ii)(I)(aa). The

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     State agency shall provide the data to family or group day 
     care home sponsoring organizations located in the State.
       ``(ii) School data.--

       ``(I) In general.--A State agency administering the school 
     lunch program under this Act or the school breakfast program 
     under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1771 et 
     seq.) shall provide to approved family or group day care home 
     sponsoring organizations a list of schools serving elementary 
     school children in the State in which not less than \1/2\ of 
     the children enrolled are certified to receive free or 
     reduced price meals. The State agency shall collect the data 
     necessary to create the list annually and provide the list on 
     a timely basis to any approved family or group day care home 
     sponsoring organization that requests the list.
       ``(II) Use of data from preceding school year.--In 
     determining for a fiscal year or other annual period whether 
     a home qualifies as a tier I family or group day care home 
     under subparagraph (A)(ii)(I), the State agency administering 
     the program under this section, and a family or group day 
     care home sponsoring organization, shall use the most current 
     available data at the time of the determination.

       ``(iii) Duration of determination.--For purposes of this 
     section, a determination that a family or group day care home 
     is located in an area that qualifies the home as a tier I 
     family or group day care home (as the term is defined in 
     subparagraph (A)(ii)(I)), shall be in effect for 3 years 
     (unless the determination is made on the basis of census 
     data, in which case the determination shall remain in effect 
     until more recent census data are available) unless the State 
     agency determines that the area in which the home is located 
     no longer qualifies the home as a tier I family or group day 
     care home.''.
       (4) Conforming amendments.--Section 17(c) of the Act is 
     amended by inserting ``except as provided in subsection 
     (f)(3),'' after ``For purposes of this section,'' each place 
     it appears in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3).
       (f) Reimbursement.--Section 17(f) of the Act is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (3)--
       (A) in subparagraph (B), by striking the third and fourth 
     sentences; and
       (B) in subparagraph (C)--
       (i) in clause (i)--

       (I) by striking ``(i)'';
       (II) in the first sentence, by striking ``and expansion 
     funds'' and all that follows through ``rural areas'';
       (III) by striking the second sentence; and
       (IV) by striking ``and expansion funds'' each place it 
     appears; and

       (ii) by striking clause (ii); and
       (2) by striking paragraph (4).
       (g) Nutritional Requirements.--Section 17(g)(1) of the Act 
     is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking the second sentence; 
     and
       (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking the second sentence.
       (h) Elimination of State Paperwork and Outreach Burden.--
     Section 17 of the Act is amended by striking subsection (k) 
     and inserting the following:
       ``(k) Training and Technical Assistance.--A State 
     participating in the program established under this section 
     shall provide sufficient training, technical assistance, and 
     monitoring to facilitate effective operation of the program. 
     The Secretary shall assist the State in developing plans to 
     fulfill the requirements of this subsection.''.
       (i) Records.--The second sentence of section 17(m) of the 
     Act is amended by striking ``at all times'' and inserting 
     ``at any reasonable time''.
       (j) Modification of Adult Care Food Program.--Section 17(o) 
     of the Act is amended--
       (1) in the first sentence of paragraph (1)--
       (A) by striking ``adult day care centers'' and inserting 
     ``day care centers for chronically impaired disabled 
     persons''; and
       (B) by striking ``to persons 60 years of age or older or''; 
     and
       (2) in paragraph (2)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A)--
       (i) by striking ``adult day care center'' and inserting 
     ``day care center for chronically impaired disabled 
     persons''; and
       (ii) in clause (i)--

       (I) by striking ``adult'';
       (II) by striking ``adults'' and inserting ``persons''; and
       (III) by striking ``or persons 60 years of age or older''; 
     and

       (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``adult day care 
     services'' and inserting ``day care services for chronically 
     impaired disabled persons''.
       (k) Unneeded Provision.--Section 17 of the Act is amended 
     by striking subsection (q).
       (l) Conforming Amendments.--
       (1) Section 17B(f) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1766b(f)) is 
     amended--
       (A) in the subsection heading, by striking ``and Adult''; 
     and
       (B) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and adult''.
       (2) Section 18(e)(3)(B) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 
     1769(e)(3)(B)) is amended by striking ``and adult''.
       (3) Section 25(b)(1)(C) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 
     1769f(b)(1)(C)) is amended by striking ``and adult''.
       (4) Section 3(1) of the Healthy Meals for Healthy Americans 
     Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-448) is amended by striking ``and 
     adult''.
       (m) Effective Date.--
       (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
     amendments made by this section shall become effective on the 
     date of enactment of this Act.
       (2) Improved targeting of day care home reimbursements.--
     The amendments made by paragraphs (1), (3), and (4) of 
     subsection (f) shall become effective on August 1, 1996.
       (3) Regulations.--
       (A) Interim regulations.--Not later than February 1, 1996, 
     the Secretary shall issue interim regulations to implement--
       (i) the amendments made by paragraphs (1), (3), and (4) of 
     subsection (f); and
       (ii) section 17(f)(3)(C) of the National School Lunch Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 1766(f)(3)(C)).
       (B) Final regulations.--Not later than August 1, 1996, the 
     Secretary shall issue final regulations to implement the 
     provisions of law referred to in subparagraph (A).
       (n) Study of Impact of Amendments on Program Participation 
     and Family Day Care Licensing.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of Agriculture, in 
     conjunction with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, 
     shall study the impact of the amendments made by this section 
     on--
       (A) the number of family day care homes participating in 
     the child care food program established under section 17 of 
     the National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1766);
       (B) the number of day care home sponsoring organizations 
     participating in the program;
       (C) the number of day care homes that are licensed, 
     certified, registered, or approved by each State in 
     accordance with regulations issued by the Secretary;
       (D) the rate of growth of the numbers referred to in 
     subparagraphs (A) through (C);
       (E) the nutritional adequacy and quality of meals served in 
     family day care homes that--
       (i) received reimbursement under the program prior to the 
     amendments made by this section but do not receive 
     reimbursement after the amendments made by this section; or
       (ii) received full reimbursement under the program prior to 
     the amendments made by this section but do not receive full 
     reimbursement after the amendments made by this section; and
       (F) the proportion of low-income children participating in 
     the program prior to the amendments made by this section and 
     the proportion of low-income children participating in the 
     program after the amendments made by this section.
       (2) Required data.--Each State agency participating in the 
     child care food program under section 17 of the National 
     School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1766) shall submit to the 
     Secretary data on--
       (A) the number of family day care homes participating in 
     the program on July 31, 1996, and July 31, 1997;
       (B) the number of family day care homes licensed, 
     certified, registered, or approved for service on July 31, 
     1996, and July 31, 1997; and
       (C) such other data as the Secretary may require to carry 
     out this subsection.
       (3) Submission of report.--Not later than 2 years after the 
     effective date of this section, the Secretary shall submit 
     the study required under this subsection to the Committee on 
     Economic and Educational Opportunities of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
     and Forestry of the Senate.

     SEC. 811. PILOT PROJECTS.

       (a) Universal Free Pilot.--Section 18(d) of the National 
     School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769(d)) is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (3); and
       (2) by redesignating paragraphs (4) and (5) as paragraphs 
     (3) and (4), respectively.
       (b) Demo Project Outside School Hours.--Section 18(e) of 
     the Act is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A)--
       (i) by striking ``(A)''; and
       (ii) by striking ``shall'' and inserting ``may''; and
       (B) by striking subparagraph (B); and
       (2) by striking paragraph (5) and inserting the following:
       ``(5) Authorization of appropriations.--There are 
     authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subsection 
     such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal years 1997 and 
     1998.''.
       (c) Eliminating Projects.--Section 18 of the Act is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking subsections (a) and (g) through (i); and
       (2) by redesignating subsections (b) through (f), as so 
     amended, as subsections (a) through (e), respectively.
       (d) Conforming Amendment.--Section 17B(d)(1)(A) of the Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 1766b(d)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ``18(c)'' 
     and inserting ``18(b)''.

     SEC. 812. REDUCTION OF PAPERWORK.

       Section 19 of the National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 
     1769a) is repealed.

     SEC. 813. INFORMATION ON INCOME ELIGIBILITY.

       Section 23 of the National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 
     1769d) is repealed.

     SEC. 814. NUTRITION GUIDANCE FOR CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS.

       Section 24 of the National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 
     1769e) is repealed.

     SEC. 815. INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE.

       Section 26 of the National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 
     1769g) is repealed.
                Subtitle B--Child Nutrition Act of 1966

     SEC. 821. SPECIAL MILK PROGRAM.

       (a) Definition.--Section 3(a)(3) of the Child Nutrition Act 
     of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1772(a)(3)) is

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     amended by striking ``the Trust Territory of the Pacific 
     Islands'' and inserting ``the Commonwealth of the Northern 
     Mariana Islands''.
       (b) Adjustments to Reimbursements.--
       (1) In general.--Section 3(a) of the Act is amended by 
     striking paragraph (8) and inserting the following:
       ``(8) Adjustments.--
       ``(A) In general.--Except as otherwise provided in this 
     paragraph, in the case of each school year, the Secretary 
     shall--
       ``(i) base the adjustment made under paragraph (7) on the 
     amount of the unrounded adjustment for the preceding school 
     year;
       ``(ii) adjust the resulting amount in accordance with 
     paragraph (7); and
       ``(iii) round the result to the nearest lower cent 
     increment.
       ``(B) Adjustment for 12-month period beginning july 1, 
     1996.--In the case of the 12-month period beginning July 1, 
     1996, the minimum rate shall be the same as the minimum rate 
     in effect on June 30, 1996, rounded to the nearest lower cent 
     increment.
       ``(C) Adjustment for school year beginning july 1, 1997.--
     In the case of the school year beginning July 1, 1997, the 
     Secretary shall--
       ``(i) base the adjustment made under paragraph (7) on the 
     amount of the unrounded adjustment for the minimum rate for 
     the school year beginning July 1, 1996;
       ``(ii) adjust the resulting amount to reflect changes in 
     the Producer Price Index for Fresh Processed Milk published 
     by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor 
     for the most recent 12-month period for which the data are 
     available; and
       ``(iii) round the result to the nearest lower cent 
     increment.''.
       (2) Effective date.--The amendment made by paragraph (1) 
     shall become effective on July 1, 1996.

     SEC. 822. REIMBURSEMENT RATES FOR FREE AND REDUCED PRICE 
                   BREAKFASTS.

       (a) In General.--Section 4(b) of the Child Nutrition Act of 
     1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773(b)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)(B)--
       (A) in the first sentence, by striking ``section 11(a)'' 
     and inserting ``subparagraphs (B) through (D) of section 
     11(a)(3)''; and
       (B) in the second sentence, by striking ``, adjusted to the 
     nearest one-fourth cent'' and inserting ``(as adjusted 
     pursuant to subparagraphs (B) through (D) of section 11(a)(3) 
     of the National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1759a(a)(3)))''; 
     and
       (2) in paragraph (2)(B)(ii)--
       (A) by striking ``nearest one-fourth cent'' and inserting 
     ``nearest lower cent increment for the applicable school 
     year''; and
       (B) by inserting before the period at the end the 
     following: ``, and the adjustment required by this clause 
     shall be based on the unrounded adjustment for the preceding 
     school year''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
     shall become effective on July 1, 1996.

     SEC. 823. FREE AND REDUCED PRICE POLICY STATEMENT.

       Section 4(b)(1) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 
     U.S.C. 1773(b)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following:
       ``(E) Free and reduced price policy statement.--After the 
     initial submission, a school shall not be required to submit 
     a free and reduced price policy statement to a State 
     educational agency under this Act unless there is a 
     substantive change in the free and reduced price policy of 
     the school. A routine change in the policy of a school, such 
     as an annual adjustment of the income eligibility guidelines 
     for free and reduced price meals, shall not be sufficient 
     cause for requiring the school to submit a policy 
     statement.''.

     SEC. 824. SCHOOL BREAKFAST PROGRAM AUTHORIZATION.

       (a) Training and Technical Assistance in Food 
     Preparation.--Section 4(e)(1) of the Child Nutrition Act of 
     1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773(e)(1)) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``(A)''; and
       (2) by striking subparagraph (B).
       (b) Expansion of Program; Startup and Expansion Costs.--
       (1) In general.--Section 4 of the Act is amended by 
     striking subsections (f) and (g).
       (2) Effective date.--The amendments made by paragraph (1) 
     shall become effective on October 1, 1996.

     SEC. 825. STATE ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.

       (a) Use of Funds for Commodity Distribution Administration; 
     Studies.--Section 7 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 
     U.S.C. 1776) is amended--
       (1) by striking subsections (e) and (h); and
       (2) by redesignating subsections (f), (g), and (i) as 
     subsections (e), (f), and (g), respectively.
       (b) Approval of Changes.--Section 7(e) of the Act, as so 
     redesignated, is amended--
       (1) by striking ``each year an annual plan'' and inserting 
     ``the initial fiscal year a plan''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following: ``After submitting 
     the initial plan, a State shall only be required to submit to 
     the Secretary for approval a substantive change in the 
     plan.''.

     SEC. 826. REGULATIONS.

       Section 10 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
     1779) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``(1)''; and
       (B) by striking paragraphs (2) through (4); and
       (2) in subsection (c)--
       (A) by striking ``may'' and inserting ``shall'';
       (B) by inserting ``, except the program authorized under 
     section 17,'' after ``under this Act''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following: ``Such regulations 
     shall prohibit the transfer of funds that are used to support 
     meals served to children with incomes below the income 
     eligibility criteria for free or reduced price meals, as 
     provided in section 9(b) of the National School Lunch Act.''.

     SEC. 827. PROHIBITIONS.

       Section 11(a) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
     1780(a)) is amended by striking ``neither the Secretary nor 
     the State shall'' and inserting ``the Secretary shall not''.

     SEC. 828. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS AND DEFINITIONS.

       Section 15 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
     1784) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``the Trust Territory of 
     the Pacific Islands'' and inserting ``the Commonwealth of the 
     Northern Mariana Islands''; and
       (2) in the first sentence of paragraph (3)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``and'' at the end; 
     and
       (B) by striking ``, and (C)'' and all that follows through 
     ``Governor of Puerto Rico''.

     SEC. 829. ACCOUNTS AND RECORDS.

       The second sentence of section 16(a) of the Child Nutrition 
     Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1785(a)) is amended by striking ``at 
     all times be available'' and inserting ``be available at any 
     reasonable time''.

     SEC. 830. SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR WOMEN, 
                   INFANTS, AND CHILDREN.

       (a) Definitions.--Section 17(b) of the Child Nutrition Act 
     of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786(b)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (15)(B)(iii), by inserting ``of not more 
     than 90 days'' after ``accommodation''; and
       (2) in paragraph (16)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A), by adding ``and'' at the end; and
       (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``; and'' and 
     inserting a period; and
       (C) by striking subparagraph (C).
       (b) Secretary's Promotion of WIC.--Section 17(c) of the Act 
     is amended by striking paragraph (5).
       (c) Eligible Participants.--Section 17(d) of the Act is 
     amended by striking paragraph (4).
       (d) Nutrition Education and Drug Abuse Education.--Section 
     17(e) of the Act is amended--
       (1) in the first sentence of paragraph (1), by striking 
     ``shall ensure'' and all that follows through ``is provided'' 
     and inserting ``shall provide nutrition education and may 
     provide drug abuse education'';
       (2) in paragraph (2), by striking the third sentence;
       (3) by striking paragraph (4) and inserting the following:
       ``(4) Information.--The State agency may provide a local 
     agency with materials describing other programs for which 
     participants in the program may be eligible.'';
       (4) in paragraph (5), by striking ``The State'' and all 
     that follows through ``local agency shall'' and inserting ``A 
     local agency may''; and
       (5) by striking paragraph (6).
       (e) State Plan.--Section 17(f) of the Act is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A)--
       (i) by striking ``annually to the Secretary, by a date 
     specified by the Secretary, a'' and inserting ``to the 
     Secretary, by a date specified by the Secretary, an 
     initial''; and
       (ii) by adding at the end the following: ``After submitting 
     the initial plan, a State shall only be required to submit to 
     the Secretary for approval a substantive change in the 
     plan.'';
       (B) in subparagraph (C)--
       (i) by striking clause (iii) and inserting the following:
       ``(iii) a plan to coordinate operations under the program 
     with other services or programs that may benefit participants 
     in, and applicants for, the program;'';
       (ii) in clause (vi), by inserting after ``in the State'' 
     the following: ``(including a plan to improve access to the 
     program for participants and prospective applicants who are 
     employed, or who reside in rural areas)'';
       (iii) by striking clauses (vii), (ix), (x), and (xii);
       (iv) in clause (xiii), by striking ``may require'' and 
     inserting ``may reasonably require''; and
       (v) by redesignating clauses (viii), (xi), and (xiii), as 
     so amended, as clauses (vii), (viii), and (ix), respectively;
       (C) by striking subparagraph (D); and
       (D) by redesignating subparagraph (E) as subparagraph (D);
       (2) by striking paragraphs (2), (6), (8), (20), (22), and 
     (24);
       (3) in the second sentence of paragraph (5), by striking 
     ``at all times be available'' and inserting ``be available at 
     any reasonable time'';
       (4) in paragraph (9)(B), by striking the second sentence;
       (5) in the first sentence of paragraph (11), by striking 
     ``, including standards that will ensure sufficient State 
     agency staff'';
       (6) in paragraph (12), by striking the third sentence;
       (7) in paragraph (14), by striking ``shall'' and inserting 
     ``may'';

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       (8) in paragraph (17), by striking ``and to accommodate'' 
     and all that follows through ``facilities'';
       (9) in paragraph (19), by striking ``shall'' and inserting 
     ``may''; and
       (10) by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), (5), (7), (9) 
     through (19), (21), and (23), as so amended, as paragraphs 
     (2), (3), (4), (5), (6) through (16), (17), and (18), 
     respectively.
       (f) Information.--Section 17(g) of the Act is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (5), by striking ``the report required 
     under subsection (d)(4)'' and inserting ``reports on program 
     participant characteristics''; and
       (2) by striking paragraph (6).
       (g) Procurement of Infant Formula.--
       (1) In general.--Section 17(h) of the Act is amended--
       (A) in paragraph (4)(E), by striking ``and, on'' and all 
     that follows through ``(d)(4)'';
       (B) in paragraph (8)--
       (i) by striking subparagraphs (A), (C), and (M);
       (ii) in subparagraph (G)--

       (I) in clause (i), by striking ``(i)''; and
       (II) by striking clauses (ii) through (ix);

       (iii) in subparagraph (I), by striking ``Secretary--'' and 
     all that follows through ``(v) may'' and inserting 
     ``Secretary may'';
       (iv) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (D) through (L) 
     as subparagraphs (A) and (B) through (J), respectively;
       (v) in subparagraph (A)(i), as so redesignated, by striking 
     ``subparagraphs (C), (D), and (E)(iii), in carrying out 
     subparagraph (A),'' and inserting ``subparagraphs (B) and 
     (C)(iii),'';
       (vi) in subparagraph (B)(i), as so redesignated, by 
     striking ``subparagraph (B)'' each place it appears and 
     inserting ``subparagraph (A)''; and
       (vii) in subparagraph (C)(iii), as so redesignated, by 
     striking ``subparagraph (B)'' and inserting ``subparagraph 
     (A)''; and
       (C) in paragraph (10)(A), by striking ``shall'' and 
     inserting ``may''.
       (2) Application.--The amendments made by paragraph (1) 
     shall not apply to a contract for the procurement of infant 
     formula under section 17(h)(8) of the Act that is in effect 
     on the effective date of this subsection.
       (h) National Advisory Council on Maternal, Infant, and 
     Fetal Nutrition.--Section 17(k)(3) of the Act is amended by 
     striking ``Secretary shall designate'' and inserting 
     ``Council shall elect''.
       (i) Completed Study; Community College Demonstration; 
     Grants for Information and Data System.--Section 17 of the 
     Act is amended by striking subsections (n), (o), and (p).
       (j) Disqualification of Vendors Who Are Disqualified Under 
     the Food Stamp Program.--Section 17 of the Act, as so 
     amended, is further amended by adding at the end the 
     following:
       ``(n) Disqualification of Vendors Who Are Disqualified 
     Under the Food Stamp Program.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall issue regulations 
     providing criteria for the disqualification under this 
     section of an approved vendor that is disqualified from 
     accepting benefits under the food stamp program established 
     under the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.).
       ``(2) Terms.--A disqualification under paragraph (1)--
       ``(A) shall be for the same period as the disqualification 
     from the program referred to in paragraph (1);
       ``(B) may begin at a later date than the disqualification 
     from the program referred to in paragraph (1); and
       ``(C) shall not be subject to judicial or administrative 
     review.''.

     SEC. 831. CASH GRANTS FOR NUTRITION EDUCATION.

       Section 18 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
     1787) is repealed.

     SEC. 832. NUTRITION EDUCATION AND TRAINING.

       (a) Findings.--Section 19 of the Child Nutrition Act of 
     1966 (42 U.S.C. 1788) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``that--'' and all that 
     follows through the period at the end and inserting ``that 
     effective dissemination of scientifically valid information 
     to children participating or eligible to participate in the 
     school lunch and related child nutrition programs should be 
     encouraged.''; and
       (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``encourage'' and all 
     that follows through ``establishing'' and inserting 
     ``establish''.
       (b) Use of Funds.--Section 19(f) of the Act is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) by striking subparagraph (B); and
       (B) in subparagraph (A)--
       (i) by striking ``(A)'';
       (ii) by striking clauses (ix) through (xix);
       (iii) by redesignating clauses (i) through (viii) and (xx) 
     as subparagraphs (A) through (H) and (I), respectively; and
       (iv) in subparagraph (H), as so redesignated, by inserting 
     ``and'' at the end;
       (2) by striking paragraphs (2) and (4); and
       (3) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2).
       (c) Accounts, Records, and Reports.--The second sentence of 
     section 19(g)(1) of the Act is amended by striking ``at all 
     times be available'' and inserting ``be available at any 
     reasonable time''.
       (d) State Coordinators for Nutrition; State Plan.--Section 
     19(h) of the Act is amended--
       (1) in the second sentence of paragraph (1)--
       (A) by striking ``as provided in paragraph (2) of this 
     subsection''; and
       (B) by striking ``as provided in paragraph (3) of this 
     subsection'';
       (2) in paragraph (2), by striking the second and third 
     sentences; and
       (3) by striking paragraph (3).
       (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 19(i) of the 
     Act is amended--
       (1) in the first sentence of paragraph (2)(A), by striking 
     ``and each succeeding fiscal year'';
       (2) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs 
     (4) and (5), respectively; and
       (3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
       ``(3) Fiscal years 1997 through 2002.--
       ``(A) In general.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
     to carry out this section $10,000,000 for each of fiscal 
     years 1997 through 2002.
       ``(B) Grants.--
       ``(i) In general.--Grants to each State from the amounts 
     made available under subparagraph (A) shall be based on a 
     rate of 50 cents for each child enrolled in schools or 
     institutions within the State, except that no State shall 
     receive an amount less than $75,000 per fiscal year.
       ``(ii) Insufficient funds.--If the amount made available 
     for any fiscal year is insufficient to pay the amount to 
     which each State is entitled under clause (i), the amount of 
     each grant shall be ratably reduced.''.
       (f) Assessment.--Section 19 of the Act is amended by 
     striking subsection (j).
       (g) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (e) 
     shall become effective on October 1, 1996.

     SEC. 833. BREASTFEEDING PROMOTION PROGRAM.

       Section 21 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
     1790) is repealed.
           TITLE IX--FOOD STAMP PROGRAM AND RELATED PROGRAMS

     SEC. 901. DEFINITION OF CERTIFICATION PERIOD.

       Section 3(c) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2012(c)) is amended by striking ``Except as provided'' and 
     all that follows and inserting the following: ``The 
     certification period shall not exceed 12 months, except that 
     the certification period may be up to 24 months if all adult 
     household members are elderly or disabled. A State agency 
     shall have at least 1 contact with each certified household 
     every 12 months.''.

     SEC. 902. EXPANDED DEFINITION OF ``COUPON''.

       Section 3(d) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2012(d)) is amended by striking ``or type of certificate'' 
     and inserting ``type of certificate, authorization cards, 
     cash or checks issued in lieu of coupons or access devices, 
     including, but not limited to, electronic benefit transfer 
     cards and personal identification numbers''.

     SEC. 903. TREATMENT OF CHILDREN LIVING AT HOME.

       The second sentence of section 3(i) of the Food Stamp Act 
     of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2012(i)) is amended by striking ``(who are 
     not themselves parents living with their children or married 
     and living with their spouses)''.

     SEC. 904. ADJUSTMENT OF THRIFTY FOOD PLAN.

       The second sentence of section 3(o) of the Food Stamp Act 
     of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2012(o)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``shall (1) make'' and inserting the 
     following:
     ``shall--
       ``(1) make'';
       (2) by striking ``scale, (2) make'' and inserting the 
     following:
     ``scale;
       ``(2) make'';
       (3) by striking ``Alaska, (3) make'' and inserting the 
     following:
     ``Alaska;
       ``(3) make''; and
       (4) by striking ``Columbia, (4) through'' and all that 
     follows through the end of the subsection and inserting the 
     following:
     ``Columbia; and
       ``(4) on October 1, 1996, and each October 1 thereafter, 
     adjust the cost of the diet to reflect the cost of the diet, 
     in the preceding June, and round the result to the nearest 
     lower dollar increment for each household size, except that 
     on October 1, 1996, the Secretary may not reduce the cost of 
     the diet in effect on September 30, 1996.''.

     SEC. 905. DEFINITION OF HOMELESS INDIVIDUAL.

       Section 3(s)(2)(C) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2012(s)(2)(C)) is amended by inserting ``for not more than 90 
     days'' after ``temporary accommodation''.

     SEC. 906. INCOME EXCLUSIONS.

       (a) Exclusion of Certain JTPA Income.--Section 5 of the 
     Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2014) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (d)--
       (A) by striking ``and (16)'' and inserting ``(16)''; and
       (B) by inserting before the period at the end the 
     following: ``, and (17) income received under the Job 
     Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) by a 
     household member who is less than 19 years of age''; and
       (2) in subsection (l), by striking ``under section 
     204(b)(1)(C)'' and all that follows and inserting ``shall be 
     considered earned income for purposes of the food stamp 
     program.''.
       (b) Exclusion of Life Insurance Policies.--Section 5(g) of 
     the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2014(g)) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(6) The Secretary shall exclude from financial resources 
     the cash value of any life

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     insurance policy owned by a member of a household.''.
       (c) In-Tandem Exclusions From Income.--Section 5 of the 
     Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2014) is amended by adding 
     at the end the following:
       ``(n) Whenever a Federal statute enacted after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act excludes funds from income for 
     purposes of determining eligibility, benefit levels, or both 
     under State plans approved under part A of title IV of the 
     Social Security Act, then such funds shall be excluded from 
     income for purposes of determining eligibility, benefit 
     levels, or both, respectively, under the food stamp program 
     of households all of whose members receive benefits under a 
     State plan approved under part A of title IV of the Social 
     Security Act.''.

     SEC. 907. DEDUCTIONS FROM INCOME.

       Section 5(e) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2014(e)) is amended--
       (1) in the 1st sentence--
       (A) by striking ``$85'' and inserting ``$134'';
       (B) by striking ``$145, $120, $170, and $75, respectively'' 
     and inserting the following:
     ``$229, $189, $269, and $118, respectively, for fiscal year 
     1996; and a standard deduction of $120 a month for each 
     household, except that households in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, 
     and the Virgin Islands of the United States shall be allowed 
     a standard deduction of $200, $165, $234, and $103, 
     respectively, for fiscal years thereafter, adjusted in 
     accordance with this subsection'';
       (2) in the 2nd sentence by striking ``Such'' and all that 
     follows through ``each October 1 thereafter,'' and inserting 
     ``On October 1, 2001, and on each October 1 thereafter, such 
     standard deductions shall be adjusted'';
       (3) by striking the 14th sentence; and
       (4) by inserting after the 9th sentence the following:
     ``A State agency may make use of a standard utility allowance 
     mandatory for all households with qualifying utility costs if 
     the State agency has developed 1 or more standards that 
     include the cost of heating and cooling and 1 or more 
     standards that do not include the cost of heating and 
     cooling, and if the Secretary finds that the standards will 
     not result in an increased cost to the Secretary. A State 
     agency that has not made the use of a standard utility 
     allowance mandatory shall allow a household to switch, at the 
     end of a certification period, between the standard utility 
     allowance and a deduction based on the actual utility costs 
     of the household.''.

     SEC. 908. VEHICLE ALLOWANCE.

       Section 5(g)(2) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2014(g)(2)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(2) Included assets.--
       ``(A) In general.--Subject to the other provisions of this 
     paragraph, the Secretary shall, in prescribing inclusions in, 
     and exclusions from, financial resources, follow the 
     regulations in force as of June 1, 1982 (other than those 
     relating to licensed vehicles and inaccessible resources).
       ``(B) Additional included assets.--The Secretary shall 
     include in financial resources--
       ``(i) any boat, snowmobile, or airplane used for 
     recreational purposes;
       ``(ii) any vacation home;
       ``(iii) any mobile home used primarily for vacation 
     purposes;
       ``(iv) subject to subparagraph (C), any licensed vehicle 
     that is used for household transportation or to obtain or 
     continue employment to the extent that the fair market value 
     of the vehicle exceeds a level set by the Secretary, which 
     shall be $4,600 beginning October 1, 1995, and adjusted on 
     each October 1 thereafter to reflect changes in the new car 
     component of the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers 
     published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the 12-month 
     period ending on June 30 preceding the date of such 
     adjustment and rounded to the nearest $50; and
       ``(v) any savings or retirement account (including an 
     individual account), regardless of whether there is a penalty 
     for early withdrawal.
       ``(C) Excluded vehicles.--A vehicle (and any other 
     property, real or personal, to the extent the property is 
     directly related to the maintenance or use of the vehicle) 
     shall not be included in financial resources under this 
     paragraph if the vehicle is--
       ``(i) used to produce earned income;
       ``(ii) necessary for the transportation of a physically 
     disabled household member; or
       ``(iii) depended on by a household to carry fuel for 
     heating or water for home use and provides the primary source 
     of fuel or water, respectively, for the household.''.

     SEC. 909. VENDOR PAYMENTS FOR TRANSITIONAL HOUSING COUNTED AS 
                   INCOME.

       Section 5(k)(2) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2014(k)(2)) is amended--
       (1) by striking subparagraph (F); and
       (2) by redesignating subparagraphs (G) and (H) as 
     subparagraphs (F) and (G), respectively.

     SEC. 910. INCREASED PENALTIES FOR VIOLATING FOOD STAMP 
                   PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.

       Section 6(b)(1) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2015(b)(1)) is amended--
       (1) in clause (i)--
       (A) by striking ``six months'' and inserting ``1 year''; 
     and
       (B) by adding ``and'' at the end; and
       (2) striking clauses (ii) and (iii) and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(ii) permanently upon--
       ``(I) the second occasion of any such determination; or
       ``(II) the first occasion of a finding by a Federal, State, 
     or local court of the trading of a controlled substance (as 
     defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 
     U.S.C. 802)), firearms, ammunition, or explosives for 
     coupons.''.

     SEC. 911. DISQUALIFICATION OF CONVICTED INDIVIDUALS.

       Section 6(b)(1)(ii) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2015(b)(1)(iii)), as amended by section 910, is amended--
       (1) in subclause (I), by striking ``or'' at the end;
       (2) in subclause (II), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting ``; or''; and
       (3) by inserting after subclause (II) the following:
       ``(IV) a conviction of an offense under subsection (b) or 
     (c) of section 15 involving an item covered by subsection (b) 
     or (c) of section 15 having a value of $500 or more.''.

     SEC. 912. DISQUALIFICATION.

       (a) In General.--Section 6(d) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 
     (7 U.S.C. 2015(d)) is amended by striking ``(d)(1) Unless 
     otherwise exempted by the provisions'' and all that follows 
     through paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
       ``(d) Conditions of Participation.--
       ``(1) Work requirements.--
       ``(A) In general.--No physically and mentally fit 
     individual over the age of 15 and under the age of 60 shall 
     be eligible to participate in the food stamp program if the 
     individual--
       ``(i) refuses, at the time of application and every 12 
     months thereafter, to register for employment in a manner 
     prescribed by the Secretary;
       ``(ii) refuses without good cause to participate in an 
     employment and training program under paragraph (4), to the 
     extent required by the State agency;
       ``(iii) refuses without good cause to accept an offer of 
     employment, at a site or plant not subject to a strike or 
     lockout at the time of the refusal, at a wage not less than 
     the higher of--

       ``(I) the applicable Federal or State minimum wage; or
       ``(II) 80 percent of the wage that would have governed had 
     the minimum hourly rate under section 6(a)(1) of the Fair 
     Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)) been 
     applicable to the offer of employment;

       ``(iv) refuses without good cause to provide a State agency 
     with sufficient information to allow the State agency to 
     determine the employment status or the job availability of 
     the individual;
       ``(v) voluntarily and without good cause--

       ``(I) quits a job; or
       ``(II) reduces work effort and, after the reduction, the 
     individual is working less than 30 hours per week; or

       ``(vi) fails to comply with section 20.
       ``(B) Household ineligibility.--If an individual who is the 
     head of a household becomes ineligible to participate in the 
     food stamp program under subparagraph (A), the household 
     shall, at the option of the State agency, become ineligible 
     to participate in the food stamp program for a period, 
     determined by the State agency, that does not exceed the 
     lesser of--
       ``(i) the duration of the ineligibility of the individual 
     determined under subparagraph (C); or
       ``(ii) 180 days.
       ``(C) Duration of ineligibility.--
       ``(i) First violation.--The first time that an individual 
     becomes ineligible to participate in the food stamp program 
     under subparagraph (A), the individual shall remain 
     ineligible until the later of--

       ``(I) the date the individual becomes eligible under 
     subparagraph (A);
       ``(II) the date that is 1 month after the date the 
     individual became ineligible; or
       ``(III) a date determined by the State agency that is not 
     later than 3 months after the date the individual became 
     ineligible.

       ``(ii) Second violation.--The second time that an 
     individual becomes ineligible to participate in the food 
     stamp program under subparagraph (A), the individual shall 
     remain ineligible until the later of--

       ``(I) the date the individual becomes eligible under 
     subparagraph (A);
       ``(II) the date that is 3 months after the date the 
     individual became ineligible; or
       ``(III) a date determined by the State agency that is not 
     later than 6 months after the date the individual became 
     ineligible.

       ``(iii) Third or subsequent violation.--The third or 
     subsequent time that an individual becomes ineligible to 
     participate in the food stamp program under subparagraph (A), 
     the individual shall remain ineligible until the later of--

       ``(I) the date the individual becomes eligible under 
     subparagraph (A);
       ``(II) the date that is 6 months after the date the 
     individual became ineligible;
       ``(III) a date determined by the State agency; or
       ``(IV) at the option of the State agency, permanently.

       ``(D) Administration.--
       ``(i) Good cause.--The Secretary shall determine the 
     meaning of good cause for the purpose of this paragraph.
       ``(ii) Voluntary quit.--The Secretary shall determine the 
     meaning of voluntarily quitting and reducing work effort for 
     the purpose of this paragraph.
       ``(iii) Determination by state agency.--

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       ``(I) In general.--Subject to subclause (II) and clauses 
     (i) and (ii), a State agency shall determine--

       ``(aa) the meaning of any term in subparagraph (A);
       ``(bb) the procedures for determining whether an individual 
     is in compliance with a requirement under subparagraph (A); 
     and
       ``(cc) whether an individual is in compliance with a 
     requirement under subparagraph (A).

       ``(II) Not less restrictive.--A State agency may not 
     determine a meaning, procedure, or determination under 
     subclause (I) to be less restrictive than a comparable 
     meaning, procedure, or determination under a State program 
     funded under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.).

       ``(iv) Strike against the government.--For the purpose of 
     subparagraph (A)(v), an employee of the Federal Government, a 
     State, or a political subdivision of a State, who is 
     dismissed for participating in a strike against the Federal 
     Government, the State, or the political subdivision of the 
     State shall be considered to have voluntarily quit without 
     good cause.
       ``(v) Selecting a head of household.--

       ``(I) In general.--For the purpose of this paragraph, the 
     State agency shall allow the household to select any adult 
     parent of a child in the household as the head of the 
     household if all adult household members making application 
     under the food stamp program agree to the selection.
       ``(II) Time for making designation.--A household may 
     designate the head of the household under subclause (I) each 
     time the household is certified for participation in the food 
     stamp program, but may not change the designation during a 
     certification period unless there is a change in the 
     composition of the household.

       ``(vi) Change in head of household.--If the head of a 
     household leaves the household during a period in which the 
     household is ineligible to participate in the food stamp 
     program under subparagraph (B)--

       ``(I) the household shall, if otherwise eligible, become 
     eligible to participate in the food stamp program; and
       ``(II) if the head of the household becomes the head of 
     another household, the household that becomes headed by the 
     individual shall become ineligible to participate in the food 
     stamp program for the remaining period of ineligibility.''.

       (b) Conforming Amendment.--
       (1) The second sentence of section 17(b)(2) of the Food 
     Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2026(b)(2)) is amended by 
     striking ``6(d)(1)(i)'' and inserting ``6(d)(1)(A)(i)''.
       (2) Section 20(f) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2029(f)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(f) Disqualification.--An individual or a household may 
     become ineligible under section 6(d)(1) to participate in the 
     food stamp program for failing to comply with this 
     section.''.

     SEC. 913. CARETAKER EXEMPTION.

       Section 6(d)(2)(B) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2015(d)(2)(B)) is amended to read as follows: ``(B) a parent 
     or other member of a household with responsibility for the 
     care of (i) a dependent child under the age of 6 or any lower 
     age designated by the State agency that is not under the age 
     of 1, or (ii) an incapacitated person;''.

     SEC. 914. EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING.

       (a) In General.--Section 6(d)(4) of the Food Stamp Act of 
     1977 (7 U.S.C. 2015(d)(4)) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (D)--
       (A) in clause (i), by striking ``to which the application'' 
     and all that follows through ``30 days or less'';
       (B) in clause (ii), by striking ``but with respect'' and 
     all that follows through ``child care''; and
       (C) in clause (iii), by striking ``, on the basis of'' and 
     all that follows through ``clause (ii)'' and inserting ``the 
     exemption continues to be valid'';
       (2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the third sentence; 
     AND
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(O) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     paragraph, the amount of Federal funds a State agency uses in 
     any fiscal year after fiscal year 1996 to carry out this 
     paragraph with respect to individuals who receive benefits 
     under a State plan approved under part A of title IV of the 
     Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) shall not exceed 
     the amount of Federal funds the State agency used in fiscal 
     year 1995 to carry out this paragraph with respect to 
     individuals who received benefits under such plan.''.
       (b) Funding.--Section 16(h) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 
     (7 U.S.C. 2025(h)) is amended by striking ``(h)(1)(A) The 
     Secretary'' and all that follows through the end of paragraph 
     (1) and inserting the following:
       ``(h) Funding of Employment and Training Programs.--
       ``(1) In general.--
       ``(A) Amounts.--To carry out employment and training 
     programs, the Secretary shall reserve for allocation to State 
     agencies from funds made available for each fiscal year under 
     section 18(a)(1) the amount of $150,000,000 for each of the 
     fiscal years 1996 through 2002.
       ``(B) Allocation.--The Secretary shall allocate the amounts 
     reserved under subparagraph (A) among the State agencies 
     using a reasonable formula (as determined by the Secretary) 
     that gives consideration to the population in each State 
     affected by section 6(o).
       ``(C) Reallocation.--
       ``(i) Notification.--A State agency shall promptly notify 
     the Secretary if the State agency determines that the State 
     agency will not expend all of the funds allocated to the 
     State agency under subparagraph (B).
       ``(ii) Reallocation.--On notification under clause (i), the 
     Secretary shall reallocate the funds that the State agency 
     will not expend as the Secretary considers appropriate and 
     equitable.
       ``(D) Minimum allocation.--Notwithstanding subparagraphs 
     (A) through (C), the Secretary shall ensure that each State 
     agency operating an employment and training program shall 
     receive not less than $50,000 in each fiscal year.''.
       (d) Reports.--Section 16(h) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 
     (7 U.S.C. 2025(h)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (5)--
       (A) by striking ``(5)(A) The Secretary'' and inserting 
     ``(5) The Secretary''; and
       (B) by striking subparagraph (B); and
       (2) by striking paragraph (6).

     SEC. 915. COMPARABLE TREATMENT FOR DISQUALIFICATION.

       (a) In General.--Section 6 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 
     U.S.C. 2015) is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(i) Comparable Treatment for Disqualification.--
       ``(1) In general.--If a disqualification is imposed on a 
     member of a household for a failure of the member to perform 
     an action required under a Federal, State, or local law 
     relating to a means-tested public assistance program, the 
     State agency may impose the same disqualification on the 
     member of the household under the food stamp program.
       ``(2) Rules and procedures.--If a disqualification is 
     imposed under paragraph (1) for a failure of an individual to 
     perform an action required under part A of title IV of the 
     Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), the State agency 
     may use the rules and procedures that apply under part A of 
     title IV of such Act to impose the same disqualification 
     under the food stamp program.
       ``(3) Application after disqualification period.--A member 
     of a household disqualified under paragraph (1) may, after 
     the disqualification period has expired, apply for benefits 
     under this Act and shall be treated as a new applicant, 
     except that a prior disqualification under subsection (d) 
     shall be considered in determining eligibility.''.
       (b) State Plan Provisions.--Section 11(e) of the Food Stamp 
     Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2020(e)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (24), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (2) in paragraph (25), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting a semicolon; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(26) the guidelines the State agency uses in carrying out 
     section 6(i); and''.
       (c) Conforming Amendment.--Section 6(d)(2)(A) of the Food 
     Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2015(d)(2)(A)) is amended by 
     striking ``that is comparable to a requirement of paragraph 
     (1)''.

     SEC. 916. DISQUALIFICATION FOR RECEIPT OF MULTIPLE FOOD STAMP 
                   BENEFITS.

       Section 6 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2015), as 
     amended by section 915, is amended by adding at the end the 
     following:
       ``(j) Disqualification for Receipt of Multiple Food Stamp 
     Benefits.--An individual shall be ineligible to participate 
     in the food stamp program as a member of any household for a 
     10-year period if the individual is found by a State agency 
     to have made, or is convicted in a Federal or State court of 
     having made, a fraudulent statement or representation with 
     respect to the identity or place of residence of the 
     individual in order to receive multiple benefits 
     simultaneously under the food stamp program.''.

     SEC. 917. DISQUALIFICATION OF FLEEING FELONS.

       Section 6 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2015), as 
     amended by sections 915 and 916, is amended by adding at the 
     end the following:
       ``(k) Disqualification of Fleeing Felons.--No member of a 
     household who is otherwise eligible to participate in the 
     food stamp program shall be eligible to participate in the 
     program as a member of that or any other household during any 
     period during which the individual is--
       ``(1) fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody or 
     confinement after conviction, under the law of the place from 
     which the individual is fleeing, for a crime, or attempt to 
     commit a crime, that is a felony under the law of the place 
     from which the individual is fleeing or that, in the case of 
     New Jersey, is a high misdemeanor under the law of New 
     Jersey; or
       ``(2) violating a condition of probation or parole imposed 
     under a Federal or State law.''.

     SEC. 918. COOPERATION WITH CHILD SUPPORT AGENCIES.

       Section 6 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2015), as 
     amended by sections 915, 916, and 917, is amended by adding 
     at the end the following:
       ``(l) Custodial Parent's Cooperation With Child Support 
     Agencies.--
       ``(1) In general.--At the option of a State agency, subject 
     to paragraphs (2) and (3), no natural or adoptive parent or 
     other individual (collectively referred to in this subsection 
     as `the individual') who is living with and exercising 
     parental control over a child under the age of 18 who has an 
     absent parent shall be eligible to participate in the food 
     stamp program unless the individual cooperates with the State 
     agency administering

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     the program established under part D of title IV of the 
     Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 651 et seq.)--
       ``(A) in establishing the paternity of the child (if the 
     child is born out of wedlock); and
       ``(B) in obtaining support for--
       ``(i) the child; or
       ``(ii) the individual and the child.
       ``(2) Good cause for noncooperation.--Paragraph (1) shall 
     not apply to the individual if good cause is found for 
     refusing to cooperate, as determined by the State agency in 
     accordance with standards prescribed by the Secretary in 
     consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services. 
     The standards shall take into consideration circumstances 
     under which cooperation may be against the best interests of 
     the child.
       ``(3) Fees.--Paragraph (1) shall not require the payment of 
     a fee or other cost for services provided under part D of 
     title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 651 et seq.).
       ``(m) Noncustodial Parent's Cooperation With Child Support 
     Agencies.--
       ``(1) In general.--At the option of a State agency, subject 
     to paragraphs (2) and (3), a putative or identified 
     noncustodial parent of a child under the age of 18 (referred 
     to in this subsection as `the individual') shall not be 
     eligible to participate in the food stamp program if the 
     individual refuses to cooperate with the State agency 
     administering the program established under part D of title 
     IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 651 et seq.)--
       ``(A) in establishing the paternity of the child (if the 
     child is born out of wedlock); and
       ``(B) in providing support for the child.
       ``(2) Refusal to cooperate.--
       ``(A) Guidelines.--The Secretary, in consultation with the 
     Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall develop 
     guidelines on what constitutes a refusal to cooperate under 
     paragraph (1).
       ``(B) Procedures.--The State agency shall develop 
     procedures, using guidelines developed under subparagraph 
     (A), for determining whether an individual is refusing to 
     cooperate under paragraph (1).
       ``(3) Fees.--Paragraph (1) shall not require the payment of 
     a fee or other cost for services provided under part D of 
     title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 651 et seq.).
       ``(4) Privacy.--The State agency shall provide safeguards 
     to restrict the use of information collected by a State 
     agency administering the program established under part D of 
     title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 651 et seq.) 
     to purposes for which the information is collected.''.

     SEC. 919. DISQUALIFICATION RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT ARREARS.

       Section 6 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2015), as 
     amended by sections 915, 916, 917 and 918, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(o) Disqualification for Child Support Arrears.--
       ``(1) In general.--At the option of a State agency, except 
     as provided in paragraph (2), no individual shall be eligible 
     to participate in the food stamp program as a member of any 
     household during any month that the individual is delinquent 
     in any payment due under a court order for the support of a 
     child of the individual.
       ``(2) Exceptions.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply if--
       ``(A) a court is allowing the individual to delay payment; 
     or
       ``(B) the individual is complying with a payment plan 
     approved by a court or the State agency designated under part 
     D of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 651 et 
     seq.) to provide support for the child of the individual.''.

     SEC. 920. WORK REQUIREMENT FOR ABLE-BODIED RECIPIENTS.

       (a) In General.--Section 6 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 
     U.S.C. 2015), as amended by sections 915, 916, 917, 918, and 
     919, is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(p) Work Requirement.--
       ``(1) Definition of work program.--In this subsection, the 
     term `work program' means--
       ``(A) a program under the Job Training Partnership Act (29 
     U.S.C. 1501 et seq.);
       ``(B) a program under section 236 of the Trade Act of 1974 
     (19 U.S.C. 2296); or
       ``(C) a program of employment or training operated or 
     supervised by a State or local government, as determined 
     appropriate by the Secretary.
       ``(2) Work requirement.--No individual shall be eligible to 
     participate in the food stamp program as a member of any 
     household if, during the preceding 12 months, the individual 
     received food stamp benefits for not less than 6 months 
     during which the individual did not--
       ``(A) work 20 hours or more per week, averaged monthly;
       ``(B) participate in a workfare program under section 20 or 
     a comparable State or local workfare program;
       ``(C) participate in and comply with the requirements of an 
     approved employment and training program under subsection 
     (d)(4); or
       ``(D) participate in and comply with the requirements of a 
     work program for 20 hours or more per week.
       ``(3) Exception.--Paragraph (2) shall not apply to an 
     individual if the individual is--
       ``(A) under 18 or over 50 years of age;
       ``(B) medically certified as physically or mentally unfit 
     for employment;
       ``(C) a parent or other member of a household with a 
     dependent child under 18 years of age; or
       ``(D) otherwise exempt under subsection (d)(2).
       ``(4) Waiver.--
       ``(A) In general.--The Secretary may waive the 
     applicability of paragraph (2) to any group of individuals in 
     the State if the Secretary makes a determination that the 
     area in which the individuals reside--
       ``(i) has an unemployment rate of over 8 percent; or
       ``(ii) does not have a sufficient number of jobs to provide 
     employment for the individuals.
       ``(B) Report.--The Secretary shall report the basis for a 
     waiver under subparagraph (A) to the Committee on Agriculture 
     of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
     Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate.''.
       (b) Work and Training Programs.--Section 6(d)(4) of the 
     Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2015(d)(4)) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(O) Required participation in work and training 
     programs.--A State agency shall provide an opportunity to 
     participate in the employment and training program under this 
     paragraph to any individual who would otherwise become 
     subject to disqualification under subsection (p).
       ``(P) Coordinating work requirements.--
       ``(i) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     this paragraph, a State agency that meets the participation 
     requirements of clause (ii) may operate the employment and 
     training program of the State for individuals who are members 
     of households receiving allotments under this Act as part of 
     a program operated by the State under part F of title IV of 
     the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 681 et seq.), subject to 
     the requirements of such Act.
       ``(ii) Participation requirements.--A State agency may 
     exercise the option under clause (i) if the State agency 
     provides an opportunity to participate in an approved 
     employment and training program to an individual who is--

       ``(I) subject to subsection (p);
       ``(II) not employed at least an average of 20 hours per 
     week;
       ``(III) not participating in a workfare program under 
     section 20 (or a comparable State or local program); and
       ``(IV) not subject to a waiver under subsection (i)(4).''.

     SEC. 921. ENCOURAGE ELECTRONIC BENEFIT TRANSFER SYSTEMS.

       (a) In General.--Section 7(i) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 
     (7 U.S.C. 2016(i)) is amended--
       (1) by amending paragraph (1) to read as follows:
       ``(1) Electronic benefit transfers.--
       ``(A) Implementation.--Each State agency shall implement an 
     electronic benefit transfer system in which household 
     benefits determined under section 8(a) or 24 are issued from 
     and stored in a central databank before October 1, 2002, 
     unless the Secretary provides a waiver for a State agency 
     that faces unusual barriers to implementing an electronic 
     benefit transfer system.
       ``(B) Timely implementation.--State agencies are encouraged 
     to implement an electronic benefit transfer system under 
     subparagraph (A) as soon as practicable.
       ``(C) State flexibility.--Subject to paragraph (2), a State 
     agency may procure and implement an electronic benefit 
     transfer system under the terms, conditions, and design that 
     the State agency considers appropriate.
       ``(D) Operation.--An electronic benefit transfer system 
     should take into account generally accepted standard 
     operating rules based on--
       ``(i) commercial electronic funds transfer technology;
       ``(ii) the need to permit interstate operation and law 
     enforcement monitoring; and
       ``(iii) the need to permit monitoring and investigations by 
     authorized law enforcement agencies.'';
       (2) in paragraph (2)--
       (A) by striking ``effective no later than April 1, 1992,'';
       (B) in subparagraph (A)--
       (i) by striking ``, in any 1 year,''; and
       (ii) by striking ``on-line'';
       (F) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(I) procurement standards.''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(7) Replacement of benefits.--Regulations issued by the 
     Secretary regarding the replacement of benefits and liability 
     for replacement of benefits under an electronic benefit 
     transfer system shall be similar to the regulations in effect 
     for a paper food stamp issuance system.''.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that a 
     State that operates an electronic benefit transfer system 
     under the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) 
     should operate the system in a manner that is compatible with 
     electronic benefit transfer systems operated by other States.

     SEC. 922. VALUE OF MINIMUM ALLOTMENT.

       The proviso in section 8(a) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 
     (7 U.S.C. 2017(a)) is amended by striking ``, and shall be 
     adjusted'' and all that follows through ``$5''.

     SEC. 923. BENEFITS ON RECERTIFICATION.

       Section 8(c)(2)(B) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2017(c)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ``of more than one 
     month''.

     SEC. 924. OPTIONAL COMBINED ALLOTMENT FOR EXPEDITED 
                   HOUSEHOLDS.

       Section 8(c)(3) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2017(c)(3)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(3) Optional combined allotment for expedited 
     households.--A State agency

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     may provide to an eligible household applying after the 15th 
     day of a month, in lieu of the initial allotment of the 
     household and the regular allotment of the household for the 
     following month, an allotment that is equal to the total 
     amount of the initial allotment and the first regular 
     allotment. The allotment shall be provided in accordance with 
     section 11(e)(3) in the case of a household that is not 
     entitled to expedited service and in accordance with 
     paragraphs (3) and (9) of section 11(e) in the case of a 
     household that is entitled to expedited service.''.

     SEC. 925. FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH OTHER MEANS-TESTED PUBLIC 
                   ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.

       Section 8(d) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2017(d)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(d) Reduction of Public Assistance Benefits.--
       ``(1) In general.--If the benefits of a household are 
     reduced under a Federal, State, or local law relating to a 
     means-tested public assistance program for the failure of a 
     member of the household to perform an action required under 
     the law or program, for the duration of the reduction--
       ``(A) the household may not receive an increased allotment 
     as the result of a decrease in the income of the household to 
     the extent that the decrease is the result of the reduction; 
     and
       ``(B) the State agency may reduce the allotment of the 
     household by not more than 25 percent.
       ``(2) Rules and procedures.--If the allotment of a 
     household is reduced under this subsection for a failure to 
     perform an action required under part A of title IV of the 
     Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), the State agency 
     may use the rules and procedures that apply under part A of 
     title IV of such Act to reduce the allotment under the food 
     stamp program.''.

     SEC. 926. ALLOTMENTS FOR HOUSEHOLDS RESIDING IN CENTERS.

       Section 8 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2017) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(f) Allotments for Households Residing in Centers.--
       ``(1) In general.--In the case of an individual who resides 
     in a center for the purpose of a drug or alcoholic treatment 
     program described in the last sentence of section 3(i), a 
     State agency may provide an allotment for the individual to--
       ``(A) the center as an authorized representative of the 
     individual for a period that is less than 1 month; and
       ``(B) the individual, if the individual leaves the center.
       ``(2) Direct payment.--A State agency may require an 
     individual referred to in paragraph (1) to designate the 
     center in which the individual resides as the authorized 
     representative of the individual for the purpose of receiving 
     an allotment.''.

     SEC. 927. AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH AUTHORIZATION PERIODS.

       Section 9(a)(1) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2018(a)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

     ``The Secretary is authorized to issue regulations 
     establishing specific time periods during which authorization 
     to accept and redeem coupons under the food stamp program 
     shall be valid.''.

     SEC. 928. SPECIFIC PERIOD FOR PROHIBITING PARTICIPATION OF 
                   STORES BASED ON LACK OF BUSINESS INTEGRITY.

       Section 9(a)(1) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2018(a)(1)), as amended by section 927, is amended by adding 
     at the end the following:

     ``The Secretary is authorized to issue regulations 
     establishing specific time periods during which a retail food 
     store or wholesale food concern that has an application for 
     approval to accept and redeem coupons denied or that has such 
     an approval withdrawn on the basis of business integrity and 
     reputation cannot submit a new application for approval. Such 
     periods shall reflect the severity of business integrity 
     infractions that are the basis of such denials or 
     withdrawals.''.

     SEC. 929. INFORMATION FOR VERIFYING ELIGIBILITY FOR 
                   AUTHORIZATION.

       Section 9(c) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2018(c)) is amended--
       (1) in the 1st sentence by inserting ``, which may include 
     relevant income and sales tax filing documents,'' after 
     ``submit information'' ; and
       (2) by inserting after the 1st sentence the following:

     ``The regulations may require retail food stores and 
     wholesale food concerns to provide written authorization for 
     the Secretary to verify all relevant tax filings with 
     appropriate agencies and to obtain corroborating 
     documentation from other sources in order that the accuracy 
     of information provided by such stores and concerns may be 
     verified.''.

     SEC. 930. WAITING PERIOD FOR STORES THAT INITIALLY FAIL TO 
                   MEET AUTHORIZATION CRITERIA.

       Section 9(d) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2018(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

     ``Regulations issued pursuant to this Act shall prohibit a 
     retail food store or wholesale food concern that has an 
     application for approval to accept and redeem coupons denied 
     because it does not meet criteria for approval established by 
     the Secretary in regulations from submitting a new 
     application for six months from the date of such denial.''.

     SEC. 931. OPERATION OF FOOD STAMP OFFICES.

       Section 11(e)(2) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2020(e)(2)) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(2)(A) that the State agency shall establish procedures 
     governing the operation of food stamp offices that the State 
     agency determines best serve households in the State, 
     including households with special needs, such as households 
     with elderly or disabled members, households in rural areas 
     with low-income members, homeless individuals, households 
     residing on reservations, and households in areas in which a 
     substantial number of members of low-income households speak 
     a language other than English.
       ``(B) In carrying out subparagraph (A), a State agency--
       ``(i) shall provide timely, accurate, and fair service to 
     applicants for, and participants in, the food stamp program;
       ``(ii) shall develop an application containing the 
     information necessary to comply with this Act;
       ``(iii) shall permit an applicant household to apply to 
     participate in the program on the same day that the household 
     first contacts a food stamp office in person during office 
     hours;
       ``(iv) shall consider an application that contains the 
     name, address, and signature of the applicant to be filed on 
     the date the applicant submits the application;
       ``(v) shall require that an adult representative of each 
     applicant household certify in writing, under penalty of 
     perjury, that--
       ``(I) the information contained in the application is true; 
     and
       ``(II) all members of the household are citizens or are 
     aliens eligible to receive food stamps under section 6(f);
       ``(vi) shall provide a method of certifying and issuing 
     coupons to eligible homeless individuals, to ensure that 
     participation in the food stamp program is limited to 
     eligible households; and
       ``(vii) may establish operating procedures that vary for 
     local food stamp offices to reflect regional and local 
     differences within the State.
       ``(C) Nothing in this Act shall prohibit the use of 
     signatures provided and maintained electronically, storage of 
     records using automated retrieval systems only, or any other 
     feature of a State agency's application system that does not 
     rely exclusively on the collection and retention of paper 
     applications or other records.
       ``(D) The signature of any adult under this paragraph shall 
     be considered sufficient to comply with any provision of 
     Federal law requiring a household member to sign an 
     application or statement.'';
       (2) in the last sentence of subsection (i) by striking 
     ``No'' and inserting ``Other than in a case of 
     disqualification as a penalty for failure to comply with a 
     public assistance program rule or regulation, no''.

     SEC. 932. MANDATORY CLAIMS COLLECTION METHODS.

       (a) Administration.--Section 11(e)(8) of the Food Stamp Act 
     of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2020(e)(8)) is amended by inserting ``or 
     refunds of Federal taxes as authorized pursuant to section 
     3720A of title 31 of the United States Code'' before the 
     semicolon at the end.
       (b) Collection of Claims.--Section 13(d) of the Food Stamp 
     Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2022(d)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``may'' and inserting ``shall''; and
       (2) by inserting ``or refunds of Federal taxes as 
     authorized pursuant to section 3720A of title 31 of the 
     United States Code'' before the period at the end.
       (c) Related Amendments.--Section 6103(1) of the Internal 
     Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. 6103(1)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``officers and employees'' in paragraph 
     (10)(A) and inserting ``officers, employees or agents, 
     including State agencies''; and
       (2) by striking ``officers and employees'' in paragraph 
     (10)(B) and inserting ``officers, employees or agents, 
     including State agencies''.

     SEC. 933. EXCHANGE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT INFORMATION.

       Section 11(e)(8) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2020(e)(8)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``that (A) such'' and inserting the 
     following:
     ``that--
       ``(A) the'';
       (2) by striking ``law, (B) notwithstanding'' and inserting 
     the following:
     ``law;
       ``(B) notwithstanding'';
       (3) by striking ``Act, and (C) such'' and inserting the 
     following:
       ``Act;
       ``(C) the''; and
       (4) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(D) notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     address, social security number, and, if available, 
     photograph of any member of a household shall be made 
     available, on request, to any Federal, State, or local law 
     enforcement officer if the officer furnishes the State agency 
     with the name of the member and notifies the agency that--
       ``(i) the member--

       ``(I) is fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody or 
     confinement after conviction, for a crime (or attempt to 
     commit a crime) that, under the law of the place the member 
     is fleeing, is a felony (or, in the case of New Jersey, a 
     high misdemeanor), or is violating a condition of probation 
     or parole imposed under Federal or State law; or
       ``(II) has information that is necessary for the officer to 
     conduct an official duty related to subclause (I);

       ``(ii) locating or apprehending the member is an official 
     duty; and

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       ``(iii) the request is being made in the proper exercise of 
     an official duty; and
       ``(E) the safeguards shall not prevent compliance with 
     paragraph (16);''.

     SEC. 934. EXPEDITED COUPON SERVICE.

       Section 11(e)(9) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2020(e)(9)) is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A)--
       (A) by striking ``five days'' and inserting ``7 days''; and
       (B) by inserting ``and'' at the end;
       (2) by striking subparagraph (B);
       (3) in subparagraph (D) by striking ``, (B), or (C)'' and 
     inserting ``or (B)''; and
       (4) by redesignating subparagraphs (C) and (D) as 
     subparagraphs (B) and (C), respectively.

     SEC. 935. WITHDRAWING FAIR HEARING REQUESTS.

       Section 11(e)(10) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2020(e)(10)) is amended by inserting before the semicolon at 
     the end a period and the following: ``At the option of a 
     State, at any time prior to a fair hearing determination 
     under this paragraph, a household may withdraw, orally or in 
     writing, a request by the household for the fair hearing. If 
     the withdrawal request is an oral request, the State agency 
     shall provide a written notice to the household confirming 
     the withdrawal request and providing the household with an 
     opportunity to request a hearing''.

     SEC. 936. INCOME, ELIGIBILITY, AND IMMIGRATION STATUS 
                   VERIFICATION SYSTEMS.

       Section 11(e)(19) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2020(e)(19)) is amended by striking ``that information is'' 
     and inserting ``at the option of the State agency, that 
     information may be''.

     SEC. 937. BASES FOR SUSPENSIONS AND DISQUALIFICATIONS.

       Section 12(a) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2021(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

     ``Regulations issued pursuant to this Act shall provide 
     criteria for the finding of violations and the suspension or 
     disqualification of a retail food store or wholesale food 
     concern on the basis of evidence which may include, but is 
     not limited to, facts established through on-site 
     investigations, inconsistent redemption data, or evidence 
     obtained through transaction reports under electronic benefit 
     transfer systems.''.

     SEC. 938. AUTHORITY TO SUSPEND STORES VIOLATING PROGRAM 
                   REQUIREMENTS PENDING ADMINISTRATIVE AND 
                   JUDICIAL REVIEW.

       (a) Suspension Authority.--Section 12(a) of the Food Stamp 
     Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2021(a)), as amended by section 937, is 
     amended by adding at the end the following:

     ``Such regulations may establish criteria under which the 
     authorization of a retail food store or wholesale food 
     concern to accept and redeem coupons may be suspended at the 
     time such store or concern is initially found to have 
     committed violations of program requirements. Such suspension 
     may coincide with the period of a review as provided in 
     section 14. The Secretary shall not be liable for the value 
     of any sales lost during any suspension or disqualification 
     period.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 14(a) of the Food Stamp 
     Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2023(a)) is amended--
       (1) in the 1st sentence by inserting ``suspended,'' before 
     ``disqualified or subjected'';
       (2) in the 5th sentence by inserting before the period at 
     the end the following:

     ``, except that in the case of the suspension of a retail 
     food store or wholesale food concern pursuant to section 
     12(a), such suspension shall remain in effect pending any 
     administrative or judicial review of the proposed 
     disqualification action, and the period of suspension shall 
     be deemed a part of any period of disqualification which is 
     imposed.''; and
       (3) by striking the last sentence.

     SEC. 939. DISQUALIFICATION OF RETAILERS WHO ARE DISQUALIFIED 
                   FROM THE WIC PROGRAM.

       Section 12 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2021) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(g) The Secretary shall issue regulations providing 
     criteria for the disqualification of approved retail food 
     stores and wholesale food concerns that are otherwise 
     disqualified from accepting benefits under the Special 
     Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and 
     Children (WIC) authorized under section 17 of the Child 
     Nutrition Act of 1966. Such disqualification--
       ``(1) shall be for the same period as the disqualification 
     from the WIC Program;
       ``(2) may begin at a later date; and
       ``(3) notwithstanding section 14 of this Act, shall not be 
     subject to administrative or judicial review.''.

     SEC. 940. PERMANENT DEBARMENT OF RETAILERS WHO INTENTIONALLY 
                   SUBMIT FALSIFIED APPLICATIONS.

       Section 12 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2021), 
     as amended by section 939, is amended by adding at the end 
     the following:
       ``(h) The Secretary shall issue regulations providing for 
     the permanent disqualification of a retail food store or 
     wholesale food concern that is determined to have knowingly 
     submitted an application for approval to accept and redeem 
     coupons which contains false information about one or more 
     substantive matters which were the basis for providing 
     approval. Any disqualification imposed under this subsection 
     shall be subject to administrative and judicial review 
     pursuant to section 14, but such disqualification shall 
     remain in effect pending such review.''.

     SEC. 941. EXPANDED CIVIL AND CRIMINAL FORFEITURE FOR 
                   VIOLATIONS OF THE FOOD STAMP ACT.

       (a) Forfeiture of Items Exchanged in Food Stamp 
     Trafficking.--Section 15(g) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 
     U.S.C. 2024(g)) is amended by striking ``or intended to be 
     furnished''.
       (b) Civil and Criminal Forfeiture.--Section 15 of the Food 
     Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2024)) is amended by adding at 
     the end the following:
       ``(h)(1) Civil Forfeiture for Food Stamp Benefit 
     Violations.--
       ``(A) Any food stamp benefits and any property, real or 
     personal--
       ``(i) constituting, derived from, or traceable to any 
     proceeds obtained directly or indirectly from, or
       ``(ii) used, or intended to be used, to commit, or to 
     facilitate,

     the commission of a violation of subsection (b) or subsection 
     (c) involving food stamp benefits having an aggregate value 
     of not less than $5,000, shall be subject to forfeiture to 
     the United States.
       ``(B) The provisions of chapter 46 of title 18, United 
     States Code, relating to civil forfeitures shall extend to a 
     seizure or forfeiture under this subsection, insofar as 
     applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions of this 
     subsection.
       ``(2) Criminal Forfeiture for Food Stamp Benefit 
     Violations.--
       ``(A)(i) Any person convicted of violating subsection (b) 
     or subsection (c) involving food stamp benefits having an 
     aggregate value of not less than $5,000, shall forfeit to the 
     United States, irrespective of any State law--
       ``(I) any food stamp benefits and any property 
     constituting, or derived from, or traceable to any proceeds 
     such person obtained directly or indirectly as a result of 
     such violation; and
       ``(II) any food stamp benefits and any of such person's 
     property used, or intended to be used, in any manner or part, 
     to commit, or to facilitate the commission of such violation.
       ``(ii) In imposing sentence on such person, the court shall 
     order that the person forfeit to the United States all 
     property described in this subsection.
       ``(B) All food stamp benefits and any property subject to 
     forfeiture under this subsection, any seizure and disposition 
     thereof, and any administrative or judicial proceeding 
     relating thereto, shall be governed by subsections (b), (c), 
     (e), and (g) through (p) of section 413 of the Comprehensive 
     Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (21 U.S.C. 
     853), insofar as applicable and not inconsistent with the 
     provisions of this subsection.
       ``(3) Applicability.--This subsection shall not apply to 
     property specified in subsection (g) of this section.
       ``(4) Rules.--The Secretary may prescribe such rules and 
     regulations as may be necessary to carry out this 
     subsection.''.

     SEC. 942. EXPANDED AUTHORITY FOR SHARING INFORMATION PROVIDED 
                   BY RETAILERS.

       (a) Amendment to Social Security Act.--Section 
     205(c)(2)(C)(iii) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
     405(c)(2)(C)(iii)), as amended by section 316(a) of the 
     Social Security Administrative Reform Act of 1994 (Public Law 
     103-296; 108 Stat. 1464), is amended--
       (1) by inserting in the 1st sentence of subclause (II) 
     after ``instrumentality of the United States'' the following: 
     ``, or State government officers and employees with law 
     enforcement or investigative responsibilities, or State 
     agencies that have the responsibility for administering the 
     Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and 
     Children (WIC)'';
       (2) by inserting in the last sentence of subclause (II) 
     immediately after ``other Federal'' the words ``or State''; 
     and
       (3) by inserting ``or a State'' in subclause (III) 
     immediately after ``United States''.
       (b) Amendment to Internal Revenue Code of 1986.--Section 
     6109(f)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 
     6109(f)(2)) (as added by section 316(b) of the Social 
     Security Administrative Reform Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-
     296; 108 Stat. 1464)) is amended--
       (1) by inserting in subparagraph (A) after 
     ``instrumentality of the United States'' the following: ``, 
     or State government officers and employees with law 
     enforcement or investigative responsibilities, or State 
     agencies that have the responsibility for administering the 
     Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and 
     Children (WIC)'';
       (2) in the last sentence of subparagraph (A) by inserting 
     ``or State'' after ``other Federal''; and
       (3) in subparagraph (B) by inserting ``or a State'' after 
     ``United States''.

     SEC. 943. LIMITATION OF FEDERAL MATCH.

       Section 16(a)(4) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2025(a)(4)) is amended by inserting after the comma at the 
     end the following: ``but not including recruitment 
     activities,''.

     SEC. 944. COLLECTION OF OVERISSUANCES.

       Section 16(a) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2025(a)) is amended by striking ``25 percent during the 
     period beginning October 1, 1990'' and all that follows 
     through ``error of a State agency'' and inserting the 
     following: ``25 percent of the overissuances collected by the 
     State agency under section 13, except those overissuances 
     arising from an error of the State agency''.

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     SEC. 945. STANDARDS FOR ADMINISTRATION.

       (a) In General.--Section 16 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 
     (7 U.S.C. 2025) is amended by striking subsection (b).
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--
       (1) The 1st sentence of section 11(g) of the Food Stamp Act 
     of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2020(g)) is amended by striking ``the 
     Secretary's standards for the efficient and effective 
     administration of the program established under section 
     16(b)(1) or''.
       (2) Section 16(c)(1)(B) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 
     U.S.C. 2025(c)(1)(B)) is amended by striking ``pursuant to 
     subsection (b)''.

     SEC. 946. RESPONSE TO WAIVERS.

       Section 17(b)(1) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2026(b)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(C) Response to waivers.--
       ``(i) Response.--Not later than 60 days after the date of 
     receiving a request for a waiver under subparagraph (A), the 
     Secretary shall provide a response that--
       ``(I) approves the waiver request;
       ``(II) denies the waiver request and explains any 
     modification needed for approval of the waiver request;
       ``(III) denies the waiver request and explains the grounds 
     for the denial; or
       ``(IV) requests clarification of the waiver request.
       ``(ii) Failure to respond.--If the Secretary does not 
     provide a response in accordance with clause (i), the waiver 
     shall be considered approved, unless the approval is 
     specifically prohibited by this Act.
       ``(iii) Notice of denial.--On denial of a waiver request 
     under clause (i)(III), the Secretary shall provide a copy of 
     the waiver request and a description of the reasons for the 
     denial to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
     and Forestry of the Senate.''.

     SEC. 947. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       The 1st sentence of section 18(a)(1) of the Food Stamp Act 
     of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2027(a)(1)) is amended by striking ``1991 
     through 1997'' and inserting ``1996 through 2002''.

     SEC. 948. AUTHORIZE STATES TO OPERATE SIMPLIFIED FOOD STAMP 
                   PROGRAMS.

       (a) Authority for Program.--The Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 
     U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following:

     ``SEC. 24. SIMPLIFIED FOOD STAMP PROGRAM.

       ``(a) Definition.--In this section, the term `Federal 
     costs' does not include any Federal costs incurred under 
     section 17.
       ``(b) State Option.--Subject to subsection (d), a State may 
     elect to carry out a simplified food stamp program for 
     households described in subsection (c)(1), statewide or in a 
     political subdivision of the State, in accordance with this 
     section.
       ``(c) Program Requirements.--If a State elects to carry out 
     such simplified food stamp program, within the State or a 
     political subdivision of the State--
       ``(1) only households in which all members receive 
     assistance under a State program funded under part A of title 
     IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) shall 
     receive benefits under this section. Such households shall be 
     automatically eligible to participate in such simplified food 
     stamp program; and
       ``(2) subject to subsection (f), benefits under such 
     simplified food stamp program shall be determined under rules 
     and procedures established by the State under--
       ``(A) a State program funded under part A of title IV of 
     the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.);
       ``(B) the food stamp program; or
       ``(C) a combination of a State program funded under part A 
     of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 US..C. 601 et 
     seq.) and the food stamp program.
       ``(d) State Plan.--(1) A State may not operate such 
     simplified food stamp program unless the Secretary approves a 
     State plan for the operation of such simplified food stamp 
     program under paragraph (2).
       ``(2) The Secretary is authorized to approve any State plan 
     to carry out such simplified food stamp program if the 
     Secretary determines that the plan--
       ``(A) simplifies program administration while fulfilling 
     the goals of the food stamp program to permit low-income 
     households to obtain a more nutritious diet;
       ``(B) complies with this section;
       ``(C) would not increase Federal costs for any fiscal year; 
     and
       ``(D) would not substantially alter, as determined by the 
     Secretary, the appropriate distribution of benefits according 
     to household need.
       ``(e) Cost Determination.--(1) During each fiscal year and 
     not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal year, the 
     Secretary shall determine using data provided by the State 
     deemed appropriate by the Secretary whether such simplified 
     food stamp program being carried out by a State is increasing 
     Federal costs under this Act above what the costs would have 
     been for the same population had they been subject to the 
     rules of the food stamp program.
       ``(2) If the Secretary determines that such simplified food 
     stamp program has increased Federal costs under this Act for 
     any fiscal year or any portion of any fiscal year, the 
     Secretary shall notify the State not later than 30 days after 
     the Secretary makes the determination under paragraph (1).
       ``(3)(A) Not later than 90 days after the date of a 
     notification under paragraph (2), the State shall submit a 
     plan for approval by the Secretary for prompt corrective 
     action that is designed to prevent such simplified food stamp 
     program from increasing Federal costs under this Act.
       ``(B) If the State does not submit a plan under 
     subparagraph (A) or carry out a plan approved by the 
     Secretary, the Secretary shall terminate the approval of the 
     State operating such simplified food stamp program and the 
     State shall be ineligible to operate a future Simplified 
     Program.
       ``(f) Rules and Procedures.--(1) In operating such 
     simplified food stamp program, a State or political 
     subdivision of a State may follow the rules and procedures 
     established by the State or political subdivision under a 
     State program funded under part A of title IV of the Social 
     Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) or under the food stamp 
     program.
       ``(2) In operating such simplified food stamp program, a 
     State or political subdivision shall comply with the 
     requirements of--
       ``(A) section 5(e) to the extent that it requires an excess 
     shelter expense deduction;
       ``(B) subsections (a) through (g) of section 7;
       ``(C) section 8(a) (except that the income of a household 
     may be determined under a State program funded under part A 
     of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et 
     seq.));
       ``(D) subsections (b) and (d) of section 8;
       ``(E) subsections (a), (c), (d), and (n) of section 11;
       ``(F) paragraphs (8), (9), (12), (18), (20), (24), and (25) 
     of section 11(e);
       ``(G) section 11(e)(2), to the extent that it requires the 
     State agency to provide an application to households on the 
     1st day they contact a food stamp office in person during 
     office hours to make what may reasonably be interpreted as an 
     oral or written request for food stamp assistance and to 
     allow those households to file such application on the same 
     day;
       ``(H) section 11(e)(3), to the extent that it requires the 
     State agency to complete certification of an eligible 
     household and provide an allotment retroactive to the period 
     of application to an eligible household not later than 30 
     days following the filing of an application;
       ``(I) section 11(e)(10) (or a comparable requirement 
     established by the State under a State program funded under 
     part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 
     et seq.)); and
       ``(J) section 16.
       ``(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, 
     a household may not receive benefits under this section as 
     a result of the eligibility of the household under a State 
     program funded under part A of title IV of the Social 
     Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), unless the Secretary 
     determines that any household with income above 130 
     percent of the poverty guidelines is not eligible for such 
     simplified food stamp program.''.
       (b) Repealer.--Section 8 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 
     U.S.C. 2017) is amended by striking subsection (e).
       (c) Requirements.--Section 11(e) of the Food Stamp Act of 
     1977 (7 U.S.C. 2020(e)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (24) by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (2) in paragraph (25) by striking the period at the end; 
     and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(26) if a State elects to carry out a simplified food 
     stamp program under section 24, the plan of the State agency 
     for operating such simplified food stamp program, including--
       ``(A) the rules and procedures to be followed by the State 
     to determine food stamp benefits; and
       ``(B) a description of the method by which the State will 
     carry out a quality control system under section 16(c).''.
       (d) Repeal of Demonstration Projects.--Section 17 of the 
     Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2026) is amended by--
       (1) by striking subsection (i); and
       (2) redesignating subsections (j) through (l) as 
     subsections (i) through (k), respectively.

     SEC. 949. EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

       (a) Definitions.--Section 201A of the Emergency Food 
     Assistance Act of 1983 (Public Law 98-8; 7 U.S.C. 612c note) 
     is amended to read as follows:

     ``SEC. 201A. DEFINITIONS.

       ``In this Act:
       ``(1) Additional commodities.--The term `additional 
     commodities' means commodities made available under section 
     214 in addition to the commodities made available under 
     sections 202 and 203D.
       ``(2) Average monthly number of unemployed persons.--The 
     term `average monthly number of unemployed persons' means the 
     average monthly number of unemployed persons in each State in 
     the most recent fiscal year for which information concerning 
     the number of unemployed persons is available, as determined 
     by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor.
       ``(3) Eligible recipient agency.--The term `eligible 
     recipient agency' means a public or nonprofit organization--
       ``(A) that administers--
       ``(i) an emergency feeding organization;
       ``(ii) a charitable institution (including a hospital and a 
     retirement home, but excluding a penal institution) to the 
     extent that the institution serves needy persons;
       ``(iii) a summer camp for children, or a child nutrition 
     program providing food service;
       ``(iv) a nutrition project operating under the Older 
     Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.), including a 
     project that operates a congregate nutrition site and a

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     project that provides home-delivered meals; or
       ``(v) a disaster relief program;
       ``(B) that has been designated by the appropriate State 
     agency, or by the Secretary; and
       ``(C) that has been approved by the Secretary for 
     participation in the program established under this Act.
       ``(4) Emergency feeding organization.--The term `emergency 
     feeding organization' means a public or nonprofit 
     organization that administers activities and projects 
     (including the activities and projects of a charitable 
     institution, a food bank, a food pantry, a hunger relief 
     center, a soup kitchen, or a similar public or private 
     nonprofit eligible recipient agency) providing nutrition 
     assistance to relieve situations of emergency and distress 
     through the provision of food to needy persons, including 
     low-income and unemployed persons.
       ``(5) Food bank.--The term `food bank' means a public or 
     charitable institution that maintains an established 
     operation involving the provision of food or edible 
     commodities, or the products of food or edible commodities, 
     to food pantries, soup kitchens, hunger relief centers, or 
     other food or feeding centers that, as an integral part of 
     their normal activities, provide meals or food to feed needy 
     persons on a regular basis.
       ``(6) Food pantry.--The term `food pantry' means a public 
     or private nonprofit organization that distributes food to 
     low-income and unemployed households, including food from 
     sources other than the Department of Agriculture, to relieve 
     situations of emergency and distress.
       ``(7) Poverty line.--The term `poverty line' has the same 
     meaning given the term in section 673(2) of the Community 
     Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)).
       ``(8) Soup kitchen.--The term `soup kitchen' means a public 
     or charitable institution that, as an integral part of the 
     normal activities of the institution, maintains an 
     established feeding operation to provide food to needy 
     homeless persons on a regular basis.
       ``(9) Total value of additional commodities.--The term 
     `total value of additional commodities' means the actual cost 
     of all additional commodities made available under section 
     214 that are paid by the Secretary (including the 
     distribution and processing costs incurred by the Secretary).
       ``(10) Value of additional commodities allocated to each 
     state.--The term `value of additional commodities allocated 
     to each State' means the actual cost of additional 
     commodities made available under section 214 and allocated to 
     each State that are paid by the Secretary (including the 
     distribution and processing costs incurred by the 
     Secretary).''.
       (b) State Plan.--Section 202A of the Emergency Food 
     Assistance Act of 1983 (Public Law 98-8; 7 U.S.C. 612c note) 
     (7 U.S.C. 612c note) is amended to read as follows:

     ``SEC. 202A. STATE PLAN.

       ``(a) In General.--To receive commodities under this Act, a 
     State shall submit a plan of operation and administration 
     every 4 years to the Secretary for approval. The plan may be 
     amended at any time, with the approval of the Secretary.
       ``(b) Requirements.--Each plan shall--
       ``(1) designate the State agency responsible for 
     distributing the commodities received under this Act;
       ``(2) set forth a plan of operation and administration to 
     expeditiously distribute commodities under this Act;
       ``(3) set forth the standards of eligibility for recipient 
     agencies; and
       ``(4) set forth the standards of eligibility for individual 
     or household recipients of commodities, which shall require--
       ``(A) individuals or households to be comprised of needy 
     persons; and
       ``(B) individual or household members to be residing in the 
     geographic location served by the distributing agency at the 
     time of applying for assistance.
       ``(c) State Advisory Board.--The Secretary shall encourage 
     each State receiving commodities under this Act to establish 
     a State advisory board consisting of representatives of all 
     interested entities, both public and private, in the 
     distribution of commodities received under this Act in the 
     State.''.
       (c) Authorization of Appropriations for Administrative 
     Funds.--Section 204(a)(1) of the Emergency Food Assistance 
     Act of 1983 (Public Law 98-8; 7 U.S.C. 612c note) (7 U.S.C. 
     612c note) is amended--
       (1) in the 1st sentence--
       (A) by striking ``1991 through 1995'' and inserting ``1996 
     through 2002''; and
       (B) by striking ``for State and local'' and all that 
     follows through ``under this title'' and inserting ``to 
     pay for the direct and indirect administrative costs of 
     the State related to the processing, transporting, and 
     distributing to eligible recipient agencies of commodities 
     provided by the Secretary under this Act and commodities 
     secured from other sources''; and
       (2) by striking the fourth sentence.
       (d) Technical Amendments.--The Emergency Food Assistance 
     Act of 1983 (Public Law 98-8; 7 U.S.C. 612c note) (7 U.S.C. 
     612c note) is amended--
       (1) in the 1st sentence of section 203B(a), by striking 
     ``203 and 203A of this Act'' and inserting ``203A'';
       (2) in section 204(a), by striking ``title'' each place it 
     appears and inserting ``Act''; and
       (3) by striking section 212.
       (e) Report on EFAP.--Section 1571 of the Food Security Act 
     of 1985 (Public Law 99-198; 7 U.S.C. 612c note) is repealed.

     SEC. 950. FOOD BANK DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.

       Section 3 of the Charitable Assistance and Food Bank Act of 
     1987 (Public Law 100-232; 7 U.S.C. 612c note) is repealed.

     SEC. 951. REPORT ON ENTITLEMENT COMMODITY PROCESSING.

       Section 1773 of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
     Trade Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-624; 7 U.S.C. 612c note) is 
     amended by striking subsection (f).
                         TITLE X--MISCELLANEOUS

     SEC. 1001. EXPENDITURE OF FEDERAL FUNDS IN ACCORDANCE WITH 
                   LAWS AND PROCEDURES APPLICABLE TO EXPENDITURE 
                   OF STATE FUNDS.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, any funds received by a State under the provisions of 
     law specified in subsection (b) shall be expended only in 
     accordance with the laws and procedures applicable to 
     expenditures of the State's own revenues, including 
     appropriation by the State legislature, consistent with the 
     terms and conditions required under such provisions of law.
       (b) Provisions of Law.--The provisions of law specified in 
     this subsection are the following:
       (1) Part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (relating 
     to block grants for temporary assistance for needy families).
       (2) Section 25 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (relating to 
     the optional State food assistance block grant).
       (3) The Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 
     (relating to block grants for child care).

     SEC. 1002. ELIMINATION OF HOUSING ASSISTANCE WITH RESPECT TO 
                   FUGITIVE FELONS AND PROBATION AND PAROLE 
                   VIOLATORS.

       (a) Eligibility for Assistance.--The United States Housing 
     Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) is amended--
       (1) in section 6(l)--
       (A) in paragraph (5), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (B) in paragraph (6), by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (C) by inserting immediately after paragraph (6) the 
     following new paragraph:
       ``(7) provide that it shall be cause for immediate 
     termination of the tenancy of a public housing tenant if such 
     tenant--
       ``(A) is fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody or 
     confinement after conviction, under the laws of the place 
     from which the individual flees, for a crime, or attempt to 
     commit a crime, which is a felony under the laws of the place 
     from which the individual flees, or which, in the case of the 
     State of New Jersey, is a high misdemeanor under the laws of 
     such State; or
       ``(2) is violating a condition of probation or parole 
     imposed under Federal or State law.''; and
       (2) in section 8(d)(1)(B)--
       (A) in clause (iii), by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (B) in clause (iv), by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (C) by adding after clause (iv) the following new clause:
       ``(v) it shall be cause for termination of the tenancy of a 
     tenant if such tenant--

       ``(I) is fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody or 
     confinement after conviction, under the laws of the place 
     from which the individual flees, for a crime, or attempt to 
     commit a crime, which is a felony under the laws of the place 
     from which the individual flees, or which, in the case of the 
     State of New Jersey, is a high misdemeanor under the laws of 
     such State; or
       ``(II) is violating a condition of probation or parole 
     imposed under Federal or State law;''.

       (b) Provision of Information to Law Enforcement Agencies.--
     Title I of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
     1437 et seq.), as amended by section 601 of this Act, is 
     amended by adding at the end the following:

     ``SEC. 28. EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT 
                   AGENCIES.

       ``Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each public 
     housing agency that enters into a contract for assistance 
     under section 6 or 8 of this Act with the Secretary shall 
     furnish any Federal, State, or local law enforcement officer, 
     upon the request of the officer, with the current address, 
     Social Security number, and photograph (if applicable) of any 
     recipient of assistance under this Act, if the officer--
       ``(1) furnishes the public housing agency with the name of 
     the recipient; and
       ``(2) notifies the agency that--
       ``(A) such recipient--
       ``(i) is fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody or 
     confinement after conviction, under the laws of the place 
     from which the individual flees, for a crime, or attempt to 
     commit a crime, which is a felony under the laws of the place 
     from which the individual flees, or which, in the case of the 
     State of New Jersey, is a high misdemeanor under the laws of 
     such State; or
       ``(ii) is violating a condition of probation or parole 
     imposed under Federal or State law; or
       ``(iii) has information that is necessary for the officer 
     to conduct the officer's official duties;

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       ``(B) the location or apprehension of the recipient is 
     within such officer's official duties; and
       ``(C) the request is made in the proper exercise of the 
     officer's official duties.''.

     SEC. 1003. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING ENTERPRISE ZONES.

       (a) Findings.--The Senate finds that:
       (1) Many of the Nation's urban centers are places with high 
     levels of poverty, high rates of welfare dependency, high 
     crime rates, poor schools, and joblessness;
       (2) Federal tax incentives and regulatory reforms can 
     encourage economic growth, job creation and small business 
     formation in many urban centers;
       (3) Encouraging private sector investment in America's 
     economically distressed urban and rural areas is essential to 
     breaking the cycle of poverty and the related ills of crime, 
     drug abuse, illiteracy, welfare dependency, and unemployment;
       (4) The empowerment zones enacted in 1993 should be 
     enhanced by providing incentives to increase entrepreneurial 
     growth, capital formation, job creation, educational 
     opportunities, and home ownership in the designated 
     communities and zones.
       (b) Sense of the Senate.--Therefore, it is the Sense of the 
     Senate that the Congress should adopt enterprise zone 
     legislation in the One Hundred Fourth Congress, and that such 
     enterprise zone legislation provide the following incentives 
     and provisions:
       (1) Federal tax incentives that expand access to capital, 
     increase the formation and expansion of small businesses, and 
     promote commercial revitalization;
       (2) Regulatory reforms that allow localities to petition 
     Federal agencies, subject to the relevant agencies' approval, 
     for waivers or modifications of regulations to improve job 
     creation, small business formation and expansion, community 
     development, or economic revitalization objectives of the 
     enterprise zones;
       (3) Home ownership incentives and grants to encourage 
     resident management of public housing and home ownership of 
     public housing;
       (4) School reform pilot projects in certain designated 
     enterprise zones to provide low-income parents with new and 
     expanded educational options for their children's elementary 
     and secondary schooling.

     SEC. 1004. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING THE INABILITY OF THE 
                   NONCUSTODIAL PARENT TO PAY CHILD SUPPORT.

       It is the sense of the Senate that--
       (a) States should diligently continue their efforts to 
     enforce child support payments by the noncustodial parent to 
     the custodial parent, regardless of the employment status or 
     location of the noncustodial parent; and
       (b) States are encouraged to pursue pilot programs in which 
     the parents of a nonadult, noncustodial parent who refuses to 
     or is unable to pay child support must--
       (1) pay or contribute to the child support owed by the 
     noncustodial parent; or
       (2) otherwise fulfill all financial obligations and meet 
     all conditions imposed on the noncustodial parent, 
     such as participation in a work program or other related 
     activity.

     SEC. 1005. FOOD STAMP ELIGIBILITY.

       Section 6(f) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
     2015(f)) is amended by striking the third sentence and 
     inserting the following:
       ``The State agency shall, at its option, consider either 
     all income and financial resources of the individual rendered 
     ineligible to participate in the food stamp program under 
     this subsection, or such income, less a pro rata share, and 
     the financial resources of the ineligible individual, to 
     determine the eligibility and the value of the allotment of 
     the household of which such individual is a member.''.

     SEC. 1006. ESTABLISHING NATIONAL GOALS TO PREVENT TEENAGE 
                   PREGNANCIES.

       (a) In General.--Not later than January 1, 1997, the 
     Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish and 
     implement a strategy for--
       (1) preventing out-of-wedlock teenage pregnancies, and
       (2) assuring that at least 25 percent of the communities in 
     the United States have teenage pregnancy prevention programs 
     in place.
       (b) Report.--Not later than June 30, 1998, and annually 
     thereafter, the Secretary shall report to the Congress with 
     respect to the progress that has been made in meeting the 
     goals described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a).

     SEC. 1007. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING ENFORCEMENT OF 
                   STATUTORY RAPE LAWS.

       It is the sense of the Senate that States and local 
     jurisdictions should aggressively enforce statutory rape 
     laws.

     SEC. 1008. SANCTIONING FOR TESTING POSITIVE FOR CONTROLLED 
                   SUBSTANCES.

       Notwithstanding any other provision of law, States shall 
     not be prohibited by the Federal Government from sanctioning 
     welfare recipients who test positive for use of controlled 
     substances.

     SEC. 1009. ABSTINENCE EDUCATION.

       Title V of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 701-709) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new section:


                         ``abstinence education

       ``Sec. 510. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated 
     $75,000,000 for the purposes of enabling the Secretary, 
     through grants, contracts, or otherwise to provide for 
     abstinence education, and at the option of the State, where 
     appropriate, mentoring, counseling, and adult supervision to 
     promote abstinence from sexual activity, with a focus on 
     those groups which are most liekly to bear children out of 
     wedlock.
       ``(b) For purposes of this section, the term `abstinence 
     education' means an educational or motivational program 
     which--
       ``(1) has as its exclusive purpose, teaching the social, 
     psychological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining 
     from sexual activity;
       ``(2) teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside 
     marriage as the expected standard for all school age 
     children;
       ``(3) teaches that abstinence from sexual activity is the 
     only certain way to avoid out-of-wedlock pregnancy, sexually 
     transmitted diseases, and other associated health problems;
       ``(4) teaches that a mutually faithful monogamous 
     relationship in context of marriage is the expected standard 
     of human sexual activity;
       ``(5) teaches that sexual activity outside of the context 
     of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and 
     physical effects;
       ``(6) teaches that bearing children out-of-wedlock is 
     likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the 
     child's parents, and society;
       ``(7) teaches young people how to reject sexual advances 
     and how alcohol and drug use increases vulnerability to 
     sexual advances; and
       ``(8) teaches the importance of attaining self-sufficiency 
     before engaging in sexual activity.''.

     SEC. 1010. PROVISIONS TO ENCOURAGE ELECTRONIC BENEFIT 
                   TRANSFER SYSTEMS.

       Section 904 of the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (15 U.S.C. 
     1693b) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``(d) In the event'' and inserting ``(d) 
     Applicability to Service Providers Other Than Certain 
     Financial Institutions.--
       ``(1) In general.--In the event''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) State and local government electronic benefit 
     transfer programs.--
       ``(A) Exemption generally.--The disclosures, protections, 
     responsibilities, and remedies established under this title, 
     and any regulation prescribed or order issued by the Board in 
     accordance with this title, shall not apply to any electronic 
     benefit transfer program established under State or local law 
     or administered by a State or local government.
       ``(B) Exception for direct deposit into recipient's 
     account.--Subparagraph (A) shall not apply with respect to 
     any electronic funds transfer under an electronic benefit 
     transfer program for deposits directly into a consumer 
     account held by the recipient of the benefit.
       ``(C) Rule of construction.--No provision of this paragraph 
     may be construed as--
       ``(i) affecting or altering the protections otherwise 
     applicable with respect to benefits established by Federal, 
     State, or local law; or
       ``(ii) otherwise superseding the application of any State 
     or local law.
       ``(D) Electronic benefit transfer program defined.--For 
     purposes of this paragraph, the term `electronic benefit 
     transfer program'--
       ``(i) means a program under which a government agency 
     distributes needs-tested benefits by establishing accounts to 
     be accessed by recipients electronically, such as through 
     automated teller machines, or point-of-sale terminals; and
       ``(ii) does not include employment-related payments, 
     including salaries and pension, retirement, or unemployment 
     benefits established by Federal, State, or local 
     governments.''.

     SEC. 1011. REDUCTION IN BLOCK GRANTS TO STATES FOR SOCIAL 
                   SERVICES.

       Section 2003(c) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
     1397b(c)) is amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (4); and
       (2) by striking paragraph (5) and inserting the following:
       ``(5) $2,800,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1990 
     through 1996 and for each fiscal year after fiscal year 2002; 
     and
       ``(6) $2,520,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1997 
     through 2002.''.

     SEC. 1012. EFFICIENT USE OF FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION FUNDS.

       The Secretary of Health and Human Services is encouraged to 
     work in coordination with State agencies to ensure that 
     Federal transportation funds that may be used for the benefit 
     of persons receiving public assistance pursuant to this Act 
     and the amendments made by this Act are most efficiently used 
     for such purpose. The Secretary shall work with the 
     individual States to develop criteria and measurements to 
     report back to the Congress, within 3 years after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the following:
       (1) The use of competitive contracting or other market-
     oriented strategies to achieve efficiencies.
       (2) The efficient use of all related transportation funds 
     to support persons receiving assistance pursuant to this Act 
     and the amendments made by this Act.
       (3) The actual value derived from transportation services 
     to achieve such purposes.
       (4) The application of such analyses to other support 
     services to achieve such purposes.

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     SEC. 1013. ENHANCED FEDERAL MATCH FOR CHILD WELFARE 
                   AUTOMATION EXPENSES.

       (a) In General.--Section 474(a)(3)(C) of the Social 
     Security Act (42 U.S.C. 674(a)(3)(C)) is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(C) 50 percent (or, if the quarter is in fiscal year 
     1997, 75 percent) of so much of such expenditures as are for 
     the planning, design, development, or installation of 
     statewide mechanized data collection and information 
     retrieval systems (including 50 percent (or, if the quarter 
     is in fiscal year 1997, 75 percent) of the full amount of 
     expenditures for hardware components for such systems) but 
     only to the extent that such systems--
       ``(i) meet the requirements imposed by regulations;
       ``(ii) to the extent practicable, are capable of 
     interfacing with the State data collection system that 
     collects information relating to child abuse and neglect;
       ``(iii) to the extent practicable, have the capability of 
     interfacing with, and retrieving information from, the State 
     data collection system that collects information relating to 
     the eligibility of individuals under part A (for the purposes 
     of facilitating verification of eligibility of foster 
     children); and
       ``(iv) are determined by the Secretary to be likely to 
     provide more efficient, economical, and effective 
     administration of the programs carried out under a State plan 
     approved under this part;''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall be effective on and after October 1, 1996.
                  Subtitle B--Earned Income Tax Credit

     SEC. 1021. EARNED INCOME CREDIT AND OTHER TAX BENEFITS DENIED 
                   TO INDIVIDUALS FAILING TO PROVIDE TAXPAYER 
                   IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS.

       (a) Earned Income Credit.--
       (1) In general.--Section 32(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue 
     Code of 1986 (relating to individuals eligible to claim the 
     earned income credit) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new subparagraph:
       ``(F) Identification number requirement.--The term 
     `eligible individual' does not include any individual who 
     does not include on the return of tax for the taxable year--
       ``(i) such individual's taxpayer identification number, and
       ``(ii) if the individual is married (within the meaning of 
     section 7703), the taxpayer identification number of such 
     individual's spouse.''
       (2) Special identification number.--Section 32 of such Code 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(l) Identification Numbers.--Solely for purposes of 
     subsections (c)(1)(F) and (c)(3)(D), a taxpayer 
     identification number means a social security number issued 
     to an individual by the Social Security Administration (other 
     than a social security number issued pursuant to subclause 
     (II) (or that portion of subclause (III) that relates to 
     subclause (II)) of section 205(c)(2)(B)(i) of the Social 
     Security Act).''
       (b) Personal Exemption.--
       (1) In general.--Section 151 of such Code (relating to 
     allowance of deductions for personal exemptions) is amended 
     by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(e) Indentifying Information Required.--No exemption 
     shall be allowed under this section with respect to any 
     individual unless the taxpayer identification number of such 
     individual is included on the return claiming the 
     exemption.''
       (2) Conforming amendments.--
       (A) Subsection (e) of section 6109 of such Code is 
     repealed.
       (B) Section 6724(d)(3) of such Code is amended by adding 
     ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (C), by striking 
     subparagraph (D), and by redesignating subparagraph (E) as 
     subparagraph (D).
       (c) Dependent Care Credit.--Subsection (e) of section 21 of 
     such Code (relating to expenses for household and dependent 
     care services necessary for gainful employment) is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(10) Identifying information required with respect to 
     qualifying individuals.--No credit shall be allowed under 
     this section with respect to any qualifying individual unless 
     the taxpayer identification number of such individual is 
     included on the return claiming the credit.''
       (d) Extension of Procedures Applicable to Mathematical or 
     Clerical Errors.--Section 6213(g)(2) of such Code (relating 
     to the definition of mathematical or clerical errors) is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (D), and
       (2) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (E) 
     and inserting a comma, and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs:
       ``(F) an omission of a correct taxpayer identification 
     number required under section 21 (relating to expenses for 
     household and dependent care services necessary for gainful 
     employment), section 32 (relating to the earned income 
     credit) to be included on a return, or section 151 (relating 
     to allowance of deductions for personal exemptions), and
       ``(G) an entry on a return claiming the credit under 
     section 32 with respect to net earnings from self-employment 
     described in section 32(c)(2)(A) to the extent the tax 
     imposed by section 1401 (relating to self-employment tax) on 
     such net earnings has not been paid.''
       (e) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall apply with respect to returns the due date for which 
     (without regard to extensions) is more than 30 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 1022. RULES RELATING TO DENIAL OF EARNED INCOME CREDIT 
                   ON BASIS OF DISQUALIFIED INCOME.

       (a) Reduction in Disqualified Income Threshold.--
       (1) In general.--Section 32(i)(1) of the Internal Revenue 
     Code of 1986 (relating to denial of credit for individuals 
     having excessive investment income) is amended by striking 
     ``$2,350'' and inserting ``$2,200''.
       (2) Adjustment for inflation.--Section 32(j) of such Code 
     is amended to read as follows:
       ``(j) Inflation Adjustments.--
       ``(1) In general.--In the case of any taxable year 
     beginning after the applicable calendar year, each dollar 
     amount referred to in paragraph (2)(B) shall be increased by 
     an amount equal to--
       ``(A) such dollar amount, multiplied by
       ``(B) the cost-of-living adjustment determined under 
     section 1(f)(3) for the calendar year in which the taxable 
     year begins, except that subparagraph (B) thereof shall be 
     applied by reference to the CPI for the calendar year 
     preceding the applicable calendar year rather than the CPI 
     for calendar year 1992.
       ``(2) Definitions, etc.--For purposes of paragraph (1)--
       ``(A) Applicable calendar year.--The term `applicable 
     calendar year' means--
       ``(i) 1994 in the case of the dollar amounts referred to in 
     clause (i) of subparagraph (B), and
       ``(ii) 1996 in the case of the dollar amount referred to in 
     clause (ii) of subparagraph (B).
       ``(B) Dollar amounts.--The dollar amounts referred to in 
     this subparagraph are--
       ``(i) the dollar amounts contained in subsection (b)(2)(A), 
     and
       ``(ii) the dollar amount contained in subsection (i)(1).
       ``(3) Rounding.--
       ``(A) In general.--Except as provided in subparagraph (B), 
     if any dollar amount after being increased under paragraph 
     (1) is not a multiple of $10, such dollar amount shall be 
     rounded to the nearest multiple of $10 (or, if such dollar 
     amount is a multiple of $5, such dollar amount shall be 
     increased to the next higher multiple of $10).
       ``(B) Disqualified income threshold amount.--If the dollar 
     amount referred to in paragraph (2)(B)(ii) after being 
     increased under paragraph (1) is not a multiple of $50, such 
     amount shall be rounded to the next lowest multiple of $50.''
       (b) Definition of Disqualified Income.--Paragraph (2) of 
     section 32(i) of such Code (defining disqualified income) is 
     amended by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (B), 
     by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (C) and 
     inserting a comma, and by adding at the end the following new 
     subparagraphs:
       ``(D) the capital gain net income (as defined in section 
     1222) of the taxpayer for such taxable year, and
       ``(E) the excess (if any) of--
       ``(i) the aggregate income from all passive activities for 
     the taxable year (determined without regard to any amount 
     included in earned income under subsection (c)(2) or 
     described in a preceding subparagraph), over
       ``(ii) the aggregate losses from all passive activities for 
     the taxable year (as so determined).

     For purposes of subparagraph (E), the term `passive activity' 
     has the meaning given such term by section 469.''
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 
     1995.

     SEC. 1023. MODIFICATION OF ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME DEFINITION 
                   FOR EARNED INCOME CREDIT.

       (a) In General.--Subsections (a)(2), (c)(1)(C), and 
     (f)(2)(B) of section 32 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
     are each amended by striking ``adjusted gross income'' and 
     inserting ``modified adjusted gross income''.
       (b) Modified Adjusted Gross Income Defined.--Section 32(c) 
     of such Code (relating to definitions and special rules) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(5) Modified adjusted gross income.--
       ``(A) In general.--The term `modified adjusted gross 
     income' means adjusted gross income--
       ``(i) determined without regard to the amounts described in 
     subparagraph (B), and
       ``(ii) increased by

       ``(I) the amount of interest received or accrued by the 
     taxpayer during the taxable year which is exempt from tax, 
     and
       ``(II) amounts received as a pension or annuity, and any 
     distributions or payments received from an individual 
     retirement plan, by the taxpayer during the taxable year to 
     the extent not included in gross income.

     Clause (ii)(II) shall not include any amount which is not 
     includible in gross income by reason of section 402(c), 
     403(a)(4), 403(b)(8), 408(d) (3), (4), or (5), or 457(e)(10).
       ``(B) Certain amounts disregarded.--An amount is described 
     in this subparagraph if it is--
       ``(i) the amount of losses from sales or exchanges of 
     capital assets in excess of gains from such sales or 
     exchanges to the extent such amount does not exceed the 
     amount under section 1211(b)(1),
       ``(ii) the net loss from estates and trusts,
       ``(iii) the excess (if any) of amounts described in 
     subsection (i)(2)(C)(ii) over the amounts described in 
     subsection (i)(2)(C)(i)

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     (relating to nonbusiness rents and royalties), and
       ``(iv) the net loss from the carrying on of trades or 
     businesses, computed separately with respect to--

       ``(I) trades or businesses (other than farming) conducted 
     as sole proprietorships,
       ``(II) trades or businesses of farming conducted as sole 
     proprietorships, and
       ``(III) other trades or businesses.

     For purposes of clause (iv), there shall not be taken into 
     account items which are attributable to a trade or business 
     which consists of the performance of services by the taxpayer 
     as an employee.''
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 
     1995.

     SEC. 1024. NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY REQUIRED TO BE PROVIDED TO 
                   APPLICANTS AND FORMER RECIPIENTS OF TEMPORARY 
                   ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES, FOOD STAMPS, AND 
                   MEDICAID.

       (a) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.--Section 
     408(a), as added by section 103 of this Act, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(16) Notice of eitc availability.--A State to which a 
     grant is made under section 403 shall provide written notice 
     of the existence and availability of the earned income credit 
     under section 32 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to--
       ``(A) any individual who applies for assistance under the 
     State program funded under this part, upon receipt of the 
     application; and
       ``(B) any individual whose assistance under the State 
     program is terminated, in the notice of termination of such 
     assistance.''.
       (b) Food Stamps.--Section 11(e) of the Food Stamp Act of 
     1977 (7 U.S.C. 2020(e)) is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (24) by striking ``and'' at the end;
       (2) in paragraph (25) by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by inserting after paragraph (25) the following:
       ``(26) that whenever a household applies for food stamp 
     benefits, and whenever such benefits are terminated with 
     respect to a household, the State agency shall provide to 
     each member of such household notice of--
       ``(A) the existence of the earned income tax credit under 
     section 32 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and
       ``(B) the fact that such credit may be applicable to such 
     member.''.
       (c) Medicaid.--Section 1902(a) (42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)) is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (61);
       (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (62) and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(63) provide that the State shall provide notice of the 
     existence and availability of the earned income tax credit 
     under section 32 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to each 
     individual applying for medical assistance under the State 
     plan and to each individual whose eligibility for medical 
     assistance under the State plan is terminated.''.

     SEC. 1025. NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT 
                   AND DEPENDENT CARE TAX CREDIT TO BE INCLUDED ON 
                   W-4 FORM.

       Section 11114 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 
     1990 (26 U.S.C. 21 note), relating to program to increase 
     public awareness, is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new sentence: ``Such means shall include printing a 
     notice of the availability of such credits on the forms used 
     by employees to determine the proper number of withholding 
     exemptions under chapter 24 of the Internal Revenue Code of 
     1986.''.

     SEC. 1026. ADVANCE PAYMENT OF EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT 
                   THROUGH STATE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS.

       (a) In General.--Section 3507 of the Internal Revenue Code 
     of 1986 (relating to the advance payment of the earned income 
     tax credit) is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(g) State Demonstrations.--
       ``(1) In general.--In lieu of receiving earned income 
     advance amounts from an employer under subsection (a), a 
     participating resident shall receive advance earned income 
     payments from a responsible State agency pursuant to a State 
     Advance Payment Program that is designated pursuant to 
     paragraph (2).
       ``(2) Designations.--
       ``(A) In general.--From among the States submitting 
     proposals satisfying the requirements of subsection (g)(3), 
     the Secretary (in consultation with the Secretary of Health 
     and Human Services) may designate not more than 4 State 
     Advance Payment Demonstrations. States selected for the 
     demonstrations may have, in the aggregate, no more than 5 
     percent of the total number of household participating in the 
     program under the Food Stamp program in the immediately 
     preceding fiscal year, Administrative costs of a State in 
     conducting a demonstration under this section may be included 
     for matching under section 403(a) of the Social Security Act 
     and section 16(a) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977.
       ``(B) When designation may be made.--Any designation under 
     this paragraph shall be made no later than December 31, 1995.
       ``(C) Period for which designation is in effect.--
       ``(i) In general.--Designations made under this paragraph 
     shall be effective for advance earned income payments made 
     after December 31, 1995, and before January 1, 1999.
       ``(ii) Special rules.--

       ``(I) Revocation of designations.--The Secretary may revoke 
     the designation under this paragraph if the Secretary 
     determines that the State is not complying substantially with 
     the proposal described in paragraph (3) submitted by the 
     State.
       ``(II) Automatic termination of designations.--Any failure 
     by a State to comply with the reporting requirements 
     described in paragraphs (3)(F) and (3)(G) has the effect of 
     immediately terminating the designation under this paragraph 
     (2) and rendering paragraph (5)(A)(ii) inapplicable to 
     subsequent payments.

       ``(3) Proposals.--No State may be designated under 
     subsection (g)(2) unless the State's proposal for such 
     designation--
       ``(A) identifies the responsible State agency,
       ``(B) describes how and when the advance earned income 
     payments will be made by that agency, including a description 
     of any other State or Federal benefits with which such 
     payments will be coordinated,
       ``(C) describes how the State will obtain the information 
     on which the amount of advance earned income payments made to 
     each participating resident will be determined in accordance 
     with paragraph (4),
       ``(D) describes how State residents who will be eligible to 
     receive advance earned income payments will be selected, 
     notified of the opportunity to receive advance earned income 
     payments from the responsible State agency, and given the 
     opportunity to elect to participate in the program,
       ``(E) describes how the State will verify, in addition to 
     receiving the certifications and statement described in 
     paragraph (7)(D)(iv), the eligibility of participating 
     residents for the earned tax credit,
       ``(F) commits the State to furnishing to each participating 
     resident and to the Secretary by January 31 of each year a 
     written statement showing--
       ``(i) the name and taxpayer identification number of the 
     participating resident, and
       ``(ii) the total amount of advance earned income payments 
     made to the participating resident during the prior calendar 
     year,
       ``(G) commits the State to furnishing to the Secretary by 
     December 1 of each year a written statement showing the name 
     and taxpayer identification number of each participating 
     resident,
       ``(H) commits the State to treat the advanced earned income 
     payments as described in subsection (g)(5) and any repayments 
     of excessive advance earned income payments as described in 
     subsection (g)(6),
       ``(I) commits the State to assess the development and 
     implementation of its State Advance Payment Program, 
     including an agreement to share its findings and lessons with 
     other interested States in a manner to be described by the 
     Secretary, and
       ``(J) is submitted to the Secretary on or before June 30, 
     1995.
       ``(4) Amount and timing of advance earned income 
     payments.--
       ``(A) Amount.--
       ``(i) In general.--The method for determining the amount of 
     advance earned income payments made to each participating 
     resident is to conform to the full extent possible with the 
     provisions of subsection (c).
       ``(ii) Special rule.--A State may, at its election, apply 
     the rules of subsection (c)(2)(B) by substituting `between 60 
     percent and 75 percent of the credit percentage in effect 
     under section 32(b)(1) for an individual with the 
     corresponding number of qualifying children' for `60 
     percent of the credit percentage in effect under section 
     32(b)(1) for such an eligible individual with 1 qualifying 
     child' in clause (i) and `the same percentage (as applied 
     in clause (i))' for `60 percent' in clause (ii).
       ``(B) Timing.--The frequency of advance earned income 
     payments may be made on the basis of the payroll periods of 
     participating residents, on a single statewide schedule, or 
     on any other reasonable basis prescribed by the State in its 
     proposal; however, in no event may advance earned income 
     payments be made to any participating resident less 
     frequently than on a calendar-quarter basis.
       ``(5) Payments to be treated as payments of withholding and 
     fica taxes.--
       ``(A) In general.--For purposes of this title, advance 
     earned income payments during any calendar quarter--
       ``(i) shall neither be treated as a payment of compensation 
     nor be included in gross income, and
       ``(ii) shall be treated as made out of--

       ``(I) amounts required to be deducted by the State and 
     withheld for the calendar quarter by the State under section 
     3401 (relating to wage withholding), and
       ``(II) amounts required to be deducted for the calendar 
     quarter under section 3102 (relating to FICA employee taxes), 
     and
       ``(III) amounts of the taxes imposed on the State for the 
     calendar quarter under section 3111 (relating to FICA 
     employer taxes),

     as if the State had paid to the Secretary, on the day on 
     which payments are made to participating residents, an amount 
     equal to such payments.
       ``(B) Advance payments exceed taxes due.--If for any 
     calendar quarter the aggregate amount of advance earned 
     income payments made by the responsible State agency under a 
     State Advance Payment Program exceeds the sum of the amounts 
     referred to in subparagraph (A)(ii) (without regard to 
     paragraph (6)(A)), each such advance earned income payment 
     shall be reduced by an

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     amount which bears the same ratio to such excess as such 
     advance earned income payment bears to the aggregate amount 
     of all such advance earned income payments.
       ``(6) State repayment of excessive advance earned income 
     payments.--
       ``(A) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, in the case of an excessive advance earned income 
     payment a State shall be treated as having deducted and 
     withheld under section 3401 (relating to wage withholding), 
     and therefore is required to pay to the United States, the 
     repayment amount during the repayment calendar quarter.
       ``(B) Excessive advance earned income payment.--For 
     purposes of this section, an excessive advance income payment 
     is that portion of any advance earned income payment that, 
     when combined with other advance earned income payments 
     previously made to the same participating resident during the 
     same calendar year, exceeds the amount of earned income tax 
     credit to which that participating resident is entitled under 
     section 32 for that year.
       ``(C) Repayment amount.--The repayment amount is equal to 
     50 percent of the excess of--
       ``(i) excessive advance earned income payments made by a 
     State during a particular calendar year, over
       ``(ii) the sum of--

       ``(I) 4 percent of all advance earned income payments made 
     by the State during that calendar year, and
       ``(II) the excessive advance earned income payments made by 
     the State during that calendar year that have been collected 
     from participating residents by the Secretary.

       ``(D) Repayment calendar quarter.--The repayment calendar 
     quarter is the second calendar quarter of the third calendar 
     year after the calendar year in which an excessive earned 
     income payment is made.
       ``(7) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
       ``(A) State advance payment program.--The term `State 
     Advance Payment Program' means the program described in a 
     proposal submitted for designation under paragraph (1) and 
     designated by the Secretary under paragraph (2).
       ``(B) Responsible state agency.--The term `responsible 
     State agency' means the single State agency that will be 
     making the advance earned income payments to residents of the 
     State who elect to participate in a State Advance Payment 
     Program.
       ``(C) Advance earned income payments.--The term `advance 
     earned income payments' means an amount paid by a responsible 
     State agency to residents of the State pursuant to a State 
     Advance Payment Program.
       ``(D) Participating resident.--The term `participating 
     resident' means an individual who--
       ``(i) is a resident of a State that has in effect a 
     designated State Advance Payment Program,
       ``(ii) makes the election described in paragraph (3)(C) 
     pursuant to guidelines prescribed by the State,
       ``(iii) certifies to the State the number of qualifying 
     children the individual has, and
       ``(iv) provides to the State the certifications and 
     statement set forth in subsections (b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(3), 
     and (b)(4) (except that for purposes of this clause (iv), the 
     term `any employer' shall be substituted for `another 
     employer' in subsection (b)(3)), along with any other 
     information required by the State.''.
       (b) Technical Assistance.--The Secretaries of Treasury and 
     Health and Human Services shall jointly ensure that technical 
     assistance is provided to State Advance Payment Programs and 
     that these programs are rigorously evaluated.
       (c) Annual Reports.--The Secretary shall issue annual 
     reports detailing the extent to which--
       (1) residents participate in the State Advance Payment 
     Programs,
       (2) participating residents file Federal and State tax 
     returns,
       (3) participating residents report accurately the amount of 
     the advance earned income payments made to them by the 
     responsible State agency during the year, and
       (4) recipients of excessive advance earned income payments 
     repaid those amounts.

     The report shall also contain an estimate of the amount of 
     advance earned income payments made by each responsible State 
     agency but not reported on the tax returns of a participating 
     resident and the amount of excessive advance earned income 
     payments.
       (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--For purposes of 
     providing technical assistance described in subsection (b), 
     preparing the reports described in subsection (c), and 
     providing grants to States in support of designated State 
     Advance Payment Programs, there are authorized to be 
     appropriated in advance to the Secretary of the Treasury and 
     the Secretary of Health and Human Services a total of 
     $1,400,000 for fiscal years 1996 through 1999.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to House Resolution 482, the gentleman from 
Tennessee [Mr. Tanner] and a Member opposed will each control 30 
minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Tanner].
  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Chairman, I would like to thank the minority leader for 
allowing us to present the so-called Castle-Tanner amendment to the 
matter pending before the body in this fashion. I want to, at the 
outset, thank my cosponsor, the gentleman from Delaware [Mr. Castle], 
the cosponsor of this Castle-Tanner bill. It has received some 
favorable comment around, and I appreciate it being considered on the 
floor today.
  Madam Chairman, with those words, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman 
from Delaware [Mr. Castle].
  Mr. CASTLE. Madam Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding me 
time.
  Madam Chairman, I will say very briefly, because we do not have much 
time, it has been a tremendous pleasure working with the gentleman and 
the others who worked on this for many, many months, in what is truly a 
bipartisan and bicameral piece of legislation, to resolve the problems 
of welfare in the United States of America. It was a bipartisan 
problem, and I think it is going to take a bipartisan solution to get 
there.
  The differences between the Castle-Tanner proposal and the Archer 
legislation have been, I think, overstated as I have listened to the 
debate. Both are very tough, they end welfare as we know it, and they 
require work. There is unanimity of opinion that we need to reform 
welfare.
  I think what I need to do in the brief time which I have is highlight 
some of the differences between these two pieces of legislation so 
people can make up their minds which they are going to support, or, as 
in my case, if they are going to support both.
  First in the case of vouchers, Castle-Tanner continues benefits that 
can be used for the care of the child after a State-imposed time limit, 
be it up until the time of a job, 2 years, 5 years or after 5 years, 
while the Archer legislation strictly prohibits it. That is a highly 
important change, and, quite frankly, that has to be done before we 
pass any welfare reform bill.
  Our bill has an additional $3 billion for work funding. There simply 
is not enough money in the Republican proposal right now to make it 
work. Maybe it can be put in later, but let us do it now. It is 
authorized in the Republican bill. It is committed in this particular 
bill.
  The lack of money for the work requirement also gives States 
flexibility in terms of being able to put together programs to put 
people to work. There just is not sufficient money, and what we have 
really is an unfunded mandated if it goes to that level.
  The maintenance of effort is extremely important. We are requiring 
the State spend at least 85 percent of what they spent in 1994. The 
States are doing very well by this in terms of saving money, maybe even 
better than the Federal Government. This is a minimal requirement in my 
opinion, and something we should do.
  There is a contingency fund. I can tell Members that the Archer 
legislation does not provide a safety net if the contingency fund is 
wiped out by recession. Ours is more responsive to economic downturns. 
It gives people an opportunity.

  There will be economic downturns. Welfare will never get better than 
it is now in terms of people not being on it with respect to the 
economy we have.
  Transferability is important, for example. We want to limit the 
transferability to some degree between these different block grants 
which are being created to make sure the children receive the benefits 
of that. I believe our bill does that better.
  Medicaid linkage is important. If you qualify now, you qualify later. 
People should have access to medical care.
  In the area of food stamps, our bill ensures the food stamp safety 
net is not cut off if people are not working after 4 months, even if 
job slots are not available.
  There are other changes in our legislation. There are many things 
which address this. But, overall, we have the same fundamental focus of 
ending welfare as we know it. I think we have carefully crafted the 
safety nets in a variety of areas to help the States carry out their 
programs, to give them flexibility, to make sure particularly the 
children, but those who are in the situation in which they cannot take 
care of themselves, are served by the piece of legislation we have 
before us.
  I do not know what the will of the House is today. My preference is 
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pass this legislation, but I would be satisfied in passing the 
Republican legislation. But we must move forward with a concept of 
welfare reform. I hope before anyone votes on this, they will look at 
it carefully and decide this is the best way to do it, and support 
Castle-Tanner.
  Mr. SHAW. Madam Chairman, I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Florida [Mr. Shaw] is recognized for 
30 minutes.
  Mr. SHAW. Madam Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania [Mr. Goodling], the chairman of the Committee on Economic 
and Educational Opportunities.
  (Mr. GOODLING asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)

                              {time}  1415

  Mr. GOODLING. Madam Chairman, there is good news to announce on the 
floor of the House today. The good news basically is that all of those 
who have, over the last 30 some years, generated an unworkable welfare 
program, have now come to the floor and admitted that it does not work.
  Well, obviously, anyone knew it was not going to work if the idea was 
to help Americans get a part of the American dream. It certainly worked 
very well if the intention was to make sure that millions of Americans 
would become wards of the State and never have an opportunity to get 
part of the American dream.
  I want to point out some of the things that came from our committee, 
because they have been misrepresented, and why I feel so strongly that 
the Republican proposal is the way to go.
  First of all, we designed the program with several things in mind. We 
said welfare must be a safety net, not a way of life. There must be 
very clear emphasis on work and on getting those on welfare into work. 
We need to stop abuses of the system. We need to return power and 
flexibility to the States because they have a better idea of how to 
handle it than we do. Welfare should not encourage, it should 
discourage destructive personal behavior that contributes so clearly to 
welfare dependence as sell as a host of other social problems.

  Now, let me talk briefly about the bill. Under our bill, States must 
ensure an increasing percentage of their caseload as participating in 
work activities. The percentage increases to 50 percent by the year 
2002. What is unique about the Republican welfare bill is that these 
are meaningful, honest numbers, unlike the numbers that we will hear in 
the other bill.
  One of the easiest things to do in putting in work participation 
rates is to put in a high percentage, but then either exempt most 
welfare recipients from the calculation or count those who cycle on and 
off welfare toward meeting those numbers. That is one problem with the 
bill being offered by the other side. The work participation numbers 
are not honest numbers. We try to balance the need for States to have 
flexibility and how they put people to work with tough and meaningful 
goals and accountability.
  Second, working together with the Committee on Ways and Means and 
others, I am pleased that the bill authorizes more money for child 
care, more money than anybody ever dreamed could become available. 
Clearly, if welfare reform is to succeed, there must be adequate child 
care.
  We have increased funding to nearly $5 billion more than the current 
law and more than the President offered when claiming our bills were 
short on child care. One problem may arise, however. All of the working 
poor and those from low, middle income are going to say we cannot get 
child care but we are going to have to pay for someone else's.
  We also made some other important improvements in child care. We 
consolidated programs to try to help both the States and, more 
importantly, families access child care. The bill increase the amount 
of money set aside for quality improvement activities and maintains the 
language on health and safety standards that is the child care 
development block grant.
  The second, on child protection, we consolidated again six small 
separate single purpose grants into a new block that would be 
distributed by formula to the States. The results, more flexibility and 
more money for States to use in setting up programs to prevent as well 
as treat child abuse and related problems.
  In the areas of child nutrition, the bill saves some money, primarily 
by means testing the family day care program, the only program that is 
not means tested, the only nutrition program. So it does not matter 
what the income is, we take from the money that we would have to feed 
the low income and the poor and give it to those who can otherwise pay 
for the care,
  I would also note, unlike the substitute bill, the leadership welfare 
reform bill makes no reduction in reimbursement rates for school lunch 
and breakfast. Is it not ironic: All the misrepresentation last year 
when we talked about school lunch and child nutrition, and all of the 
abuse that got? And now the very people who made those promises and 
those abuses are doing just what they thought we were doing when we 
were not. They, as a matter of fact, are reducing the amount of money 
available for school lunch and school breakfast.
  I would finally point out that we have come a long way on both sides. 
We are getting closer all the time. I truly believe that the Republican 
proposal is the way to go for meaningful welfare reform.
  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume 
to parenthetically note that the gentleman's criticism of our plan with 
respect to work participation is what the Governors' conference told us 
that they thought they could achieve. The numbers came from the 
Governors, not from us.
  Madam Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. 
Sawyer].
  Mr. SAWYER. Madam Chairman, I rise today in recognition of the 
contributions of the previous speaker through the Committee on Economic 
and Educational Opportunities to improving this bill, but it is not 
sufficient to improve the work that came out of other committees and, 
therefore, I rise in support of the Castle-Tanner substitute.
  I am opposed to the Republican bill not because it tries to reform 
welfare, but because it tries to do so on the cheap. The Republican 
plan is based on the premise that the primary goal and the first 
objective of welfare reform ought to be to save money, and sadly it 
cannot be that alone.
  If personal self-sufficiency for every American were easy or cheap, 
it would have been done long ago. The fact is that real and lasting and 
effective welfare reform will save money in the long run, but it will 
be difficult and costly and different in every State no matter what we 
do here today.
  Today we have before us two bills that stand in stark contrast to one 
another, and what we do will make a difference. In one bill we ask the 
children to pay the price. It does not pay for work requirements, but 
it takes away the guarantee of food and health care for America's 
children.
  We have another bill, the Castle-Tanner bill. It is tough. It 
requires self-sufficiency of adults, but it protects the children. It 
makes sure that at every level, no matter what we expect of adults, the 
children are fed and cared for. It has adequate funding for work 
programs. It recognizes this country sometimes has hard times, and it 
will not make the poorest and the youngest pay the most when the whole 
country is in a downturn.
  Madam Chairman, we frequently point out that the devil is in the 
details. In this case both bills are filled with mind-numbing details, 
but the cumulative consequences of all those details are clear. We 
should not make the children pay an arbitrary and unfair share of the 
cost of reform, but we do need to reform.
  Therefore, I support and urge my colleagues to support the Tanner-
Castle bill because it is responsible, it puts people to work, and it 
looks out for America's children.
  Mr. SHAW. Madam Chairman, I yield 5\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman 
from Kansas [Mr. Roberts], the distinguished chairman of the Committee 
on Agriculture.
  Mr. ROBERTS. Madam Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding me 
this time.
  Madam Chairman, I rise in opposition to the substitute and for real 
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thank the gentlewoman for the splendid and fair job that she is doing 
in presiding over a controversial issue, but a very important issue.
  There have been many speeches over the past 2 days, 2 years, for that 
matter, and there has been quite a bit of talk about what is 
compassionate, what is caring, what is humane, what is inhumane about 
welfare reform.
  Well, let us apply these markers to the Food Stamp Program. Now, that 
is the provision of the part of welfare reform that comes under the 
jurisdiction of the House Committee on Agriculture and to a great 
extent has been ignored in this debate.
  Does it help the poor to run a program that has no work requirements? 
What is compassionate about running a program so rife with abuse and 
mismanagement that the public has lost faith in food stamps? How does 
it benefit the needy to run a program that the Department of 
Agriculture's own inspector general says is overrun with instances of 
trafficking food stamps for guns and drugs?
  Evidence of those abuses, by the way, became national news on 
television as a result of the first hearing held by the Committee on 
Agriculture at the beginning of this Congress.
  That is not compassion. That is not caring. Those are failures and 
they are failures of the current system that we address and reform in 
the committee bill.
  Now, let me address another recurring part of this debate, and that 
is the gridlock or the inability of the Congress and the President to 
reach a compromise. We have worked with the Department of Agriculture, 
we have worked with the administration and we have reached accord on 
many items, 72 percent, in regards to this bill.
  I respect the gentleman from Delaware [Mr. Castle] and the gentleman 
from Tennessee [Mr. Tanner]. They are two fine Members, with 
unimpeachable integrity, and I respect their views. But there are 
significant differences. The substitute does not structurally reform 
the Food Stamp Program. It achieves much of its savings by cutting food 
stamp benefits, and then in later years reintroduces something called 
indexing. That is not real reform.
  Now, we have also heard much debate, especially from the 
administration, in reference to strong work requirements. My colleagues 
should know the substitute's work program actually costs $25 million 
more than current law. Current law. This substitute's work requirement 
is hollow, hollow because it does not apply, does not apply if a State 
does not provide every covered individual a position in a work training 
program. That is not a real work requirement, that is government make-
work.
  Our bill requires that able-bodied persons between the ages of 18 and 
50, who have no dependents, may receive food stamps now for up to 3 
months, and then the person is disqualified from food stamps unless 
they work for 20 hours a week or participate in a work program.
  Who are we talking about? Two percent of the people that receive food 
stamps. Two-tenths of 1 percent of the population, able-bodied.
  Now, let us talk about something that should be talked about 
regarding this debate, and that is the spending that has been out of 
control. This program has been on automatic pilot. It went from $10 
billion to $27 billion in 10 years. If the economy improved, it went 
up. If the economy went bad, we would expect it to go up.
  Our bill actually cuts the standard deduction provided to all 
applications below current levels to achieve savings. But then it goes 
back to indexing, the very cause of past runaway spending. Our bill 
takes the Food Stamp Program off of automatic pilot by keeping the 
deductions at current rates, but allowing the food stamp benefits to be 
adjusted to reflect the changes in the cost of food. Food stamps. We 
adjust the cost of food. That is simply basic.
  Let us talk about unique and innovative work programs. True 
compassion. The substitute does not allow States to operate work 
support programs, our bill does, programs in which public assistance is 
provided to employers who hire recipients and then are used to pay part 
of the wages. Hiring, employers, wages: Real work. That allows food 
stamp recipients to gain the experience of working in real jobs to earn 
a paycheck.
  Our bill allows certain States to pay cash in lieu of food stamp 
benefits to a household if a member of the household works in a 
nonsubsidized job for 90 days, earns at least $350 a month, and is 
eligible to receive welfare. My colleagues, that is incentive. That is 
not disincentive, that is incentive to work.
  Now, let us talk about the real difference in these bills, and that 
is how our savings are achieved. Our bill is focused on making 
fundamental structural reforms, at the same time a careful and 
conscious decision was made to preserve the food assistance levels that 
are currently available.
  The substitute, which relies on the proposals of the Clinton 
administration, preserves the failed structure of the old Food Stamp 
Program. Castle-Tanner achieves their savings by significantly cutting 
the benefit levels for the poor. Sixty percent of the savings in this 
substitute are derived from cuts in the current food assistance 
program.
  In other words, saving the old failed system is so important that 
they would rather take food from the mouths of food stamp recipients 
today than make the needed changes to the structure of the program. We 
preserve the existing benefit levels. We make the needed reforms in the 
structure of the program.
  If we are going to be compassionate and caring and humane, defeat the 
substitute and adopt the committee bill. Truly reform the Food Stamp 
Program.
  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, I yield 10 seconds to the gentleman from 
Delaware [Mr. Castle].
  Mr. CASTLE. Madam Chairman, I admire the Agriculture Committee 
chairman greatly, but the Castle-Tanner bill requires all able-bodied 
food stamp recipients to work within 6 months of receiving benefits. 
Unlike the Republican leadership bill, Castle-Tanner does not deny food 
stamps to individuals who are willing to work but are not able to find 
a job. Participation in the food stamp program is a fair program.
  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Utah [Mr. Orton].
  Mr. ORTON. Madam Chairman, let me begin with my sincere 
congratulations to my Republican colleagues.

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  They have come a long way in the last 18 months since their original 
proposal, H.R. 4, which was a harsh and an unworkable bill. I would 
also like to congratulate my friends, the gentleman from Delaware [Mr. 
Castle] and the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Tanner], and all the 
others who worked together with us on the bipartisan compromise 
legislation. The Castle-Tanner bill is a good reform bill which should 
be enacted into law.
  While H.R. 3734 is getting much closer to a viable reform package, it 
is not quite there yet. I will not again list the problems with the 
majority bill and explain how Castle-Tanner resolves them. Others have 
done or will do that adequately. Let me just summarize my concerns in 
two major categories: the impact of this legislation on States and on 
America's children.
  If we are going to fix welfare, then our fix must be adequate. The 
Republican bill is inadequate, particularly in the area of work 
requirements. The National Governors Association 2 days ago adopted a 
resolution on welfare which states in part, we are concerned that the 
bill restricts State flexibility and will create additional unfunded 
costs. CBO in the report accompanying the Republican bill stated that 
in fact the estimate of the unfunded mandate will be at $1.9 billion. 
By the way, a footnote: The first day we were in session in this 
Congress we adopted legislation to prevent us from implementing 
unfunded mandates on States.
  In my home State of Utah, we have adopted welfare reform with strong 
work requirements, but there is concern whether this legislation 
provides sufficient flexibility for Utah to continue that program. Most 
importantly, our welfare reform should not hurt innocent children who 
have no choice where they are born or whether their parents can find 
work. The Castle-Tanner provisions on child care funding, vouchers, 
maintenance of efforts, contingency funding and limits on shifting 
funds from block grants are all designed to protect innocent children 
in a way better than the majority bill. These are cured in the Castle-
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bill, and I urge adoption of the measure.
  Madam Chairman, I am pleased that the House is debating welfare 
reform today. I have frequently stated that there are few things that 
people in our Nation agree upon more than the fact that our welfare 
system is a failure. I believe we all agree that the welfare system 
should be reformed so that it is based on work, and I have worked 
diligently to ensure that Congress adopts welfare reform which will be 
signed into law this year.
  In order to achieve this goal, we must put aside partisan differences 
and concentrate on issues like requiring work, strengthening child 
support enforcement, and increasing State flexibility. At the same 
time, we need to provide sufficient funds for States to meet work 
requirements and to provide adequate child care, foster care, adoption 
assistance, and health care services to make it economically feasible 
for parents to go to work. If we fail to meet these objectives, we are 
either settling for a system that is designed to fail, or we are 
imposing an unfunded mandate on the States.
  I am pleased to be a part of the bipartisan effort that has lead to 
the creation of the Castle-Tanner bill. The House will have the 
opportunity to consider this legislation today, and I strongly urge my 
colleagues to support this proposal because it is the only welfare bill 
that meets all of the objectives I have just stated.
  In March of last year, the House passed the Personal Responsibility 
Act. I voted against that bill because it included several extreme 
provisions that would have imposed restrictive mandates on the States 
and decimated the safety net for American children. My greatest 
concerns were that it provided inadequate funding for child care, it 
imposed one-size-fits-all work requirements on States, and it did not 
provide for accountability of Federal tax dollars.
  Adequate child care and health care funding is essential as we move 
parents into the workforce. No one wants innocent children to be in an 
unsafe environment because their parent is working. In addition, while 
everyone supports the concept of greater State flexibility in designing 
a welfare program that meets the needs of their population, it is 
essential to provide for accountability of Federal tax dollars. The 
Personal Responsibility Act provided no guarantee that States would use 
Federal grant funds for their stated purpose.
  Finally, one of my central concerns in considering the Personal 
Responsibility Act was determining the impact of the legislation on the 
successful Single Parent Employment Demonstration [SPED] program in 
Utah. The premise underlying the Utah program is universal 
participation: everyone works toward self-sufficiency. This program has 
enjoyed national and local support, and is exactly the kind of program 
you would expect welfare reform to be based upon. Certainly, you would 
expect that the Utah program would be allowed to continue down the same 
successful path under a reformed system.
  Instead, the Utah State Department of Human Services was concerned 
with the original bill because restrictive work participation 
definitions in the Personal Responsibility Act posed a threat to the 
program. The restrictive definition meant that a person faithfully 
following a self-sufficiency plan specifically designed to assist them 
in entering the labor market could be considered a non-participant by 
the Federal Government. The bill contained a Federal definition that 
would prevent States, who are dealing directly with individuals, from 
determining what would best assist a person in getting a job.
  Ironically, while the bill did not allow States to count many active 
participants toward meeting mandatory rates, people who were forced to 
leave the system because of reaching a time limit could be counted 
toward meeting work participation rate even if they have never received 
any work-related assistance services.
  The original bill simultaneously restricted successful State reform 
efforts and offered no protection to people on welfare who were willing 
to work--it was the worst of both worlds.
  This original bill, which I opposed, was the same song only a 
different verse. It imposed a one-size-fits-all Federal solution, only 
it prohibited certain actions of States rather than mandating them.
  The Democratic alternative was far superior, but not perfect 
solution. Subsequently, many of us, Democrat and Republicans have 
worked together and forged a bipartisan compromise, which has forced 
both the Republicans and the President toward a centrist compromise. 
Today's Republican welfare reform bill has been improved dramatically 
since its original version last year in the following areas:
  It provides an additional $4 billion for child care funding, allowing 
more parents to be assured of their children's safety as they enter the 
workforce,
  It removes the annual food stamp spending cap that would have hurt 
people during times of economic recession by limiting the food stamp 
program regardless of economic downturn,
  It no longer allows conversion of child nutrition programs to State 
block grants, therefore we as a nation will remain committed to a basic 
level of nutrition for all of America's needy children,
  It guarantees services to children in the foster care and adoption 
assistance programs where many children are waiting to be placed with a 
loving family, and
  It enhances States' ability to create a flexible program by providing 
a work performance bonus, additional funding through the contingency 
fund, and a greater hardship exemption.
  I commend my colleagues on the other side of the aisle for moving 
toward us on these critical issues. However, there still remain some 
very serious problems with the current Republican proposal that are 
addressed in the Castle/Tanner bill.

  Before outlining important differences, it is critical to point out 
that where the Congressional Budget Office [CBO] has determined that 
the Republican bill provides inadequate funding to meet the 
requirements of the bill, the bill imposes an unfunded mandate on the 
States. One of the first actions of this Congress was to prohibit 
unfunded mandates.
  The bipartisan Castle/Tanner bill, of which I am an original 
cosponsor, contains the following superior provisions:
  Castle/Tanner adopts the recommendations of the National Governor's 
Association to give States greater flexibility to meet work 
requirements. On the other hand, the Republican bill contains an 
unfunded mandate. CBO estimates that the bill provides $12.9 billion 
less than necessary to achieve the work requirements in the bill, and 
concludes that most States would fail to meet the work requirements. 
Finally, CBO assumes that States would choose to accept penalties 
rather than meeting the costs of the program. In addition, the National 
Governors' Association has recently adopted a resolution regarding 
welfare reform in which the Governors state they are concerned that 
Republican majority bill H.R. 3734 because it ``restricts State 
flexibility and will create additional unfunded costs.''
  Castle-Tanner provides for contingency funding for protection during 
times of economic downturn, when States are experiencing a regional 
recession or when the Nation is in recession. Without this provision, 
there will be no funding to assist States when they need it most.
  Castle-Tanner provides adequate child care funding. CBO estimates 
that the Republican bill provides $800 million less than what is 
necessary to serve the children who need care as their parents enter 
the work force. Further, Castle/Tanner limits the transfer of block 
grant funds to anything but child care whereas the Republican bill 
would allow transfer of funds to other programs.
  Castle-Tanner requires that States maintain at least 85 percent of 
their current level of effort. In contrast, the Republican bill allows 
States to decrease their current expenditures by 25 percent, even if 
they are not having any success in getting people into jobs. The 
Castle/Tanner bill allows some States to decrease their level of 
expenditures to 80 percent if they have been successful in getting 
people to work. This is a sensible provision that guarantees that 
States keep up their end of the partnership with the Federal 
Government, and that they are rewarded for their success.
  Castle-Tanner requires that individuals in similar situations are 
treated similarly. This is a commonsense provision. In addition, it 
requires that States have objective and equitable standards for 
determining eligibility.
  In conclusion, I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of the Castle-
Tanner welfare bill. It outlines tough common sense reforms, but 
provides States with assistance in times of economic downturn. Let's 
not settle for anything less than welfare reform that works.
  Mr. SHAW. Madam Chairman, I would point out to the gentleman in the 
well that the letter from the Congressional Budget Office to the 
chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means states that the work 
requirements contained in the portion of H.R. 3734 titled Temporary 
Assistance for Needy Families do not constitute an intergovernmental 
mandate as defined under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995.
  It is a bogus argument.
  Madam Chairman, I include for the Record the letter to which I 
referred:

                                                    U.S. Congress,


                                  Congressional Budget Office,

                                    Washington, DC, July 18, 1996.
     Hon. Bill Archer,
     Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means, House of 
         Representatives, Washington, DC.
       Dear Mr. Chairman: At the request of your staff, the 
     Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is providing a more 
     detailed explanation of why the work requirements contained 
     in the portion of H.R. 3734 titled Temporary Assistance for 
     Needy Families do not constitute an intergovernmental mandate 
     as defined under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 
     (Public Law 104-4). On June

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     26, 1996, CBO transmitted an intergovernmental mandates 
     statement for H.R. 3734, the Welfare and Medicaid Reform Act 
     of 1996, as ordered reported by the House Committee on the 
     Budget on June 18, 1996.
       Even though the proposed work requirements would be more 
     stringent than those in current law, the additional 
     requirements would not constitute a mandate because states 
     would have the flexibility to offset the cost of the 
     requirement by reducing their own financial or programmatic 
     responsibilities. Public Law 104-4 defines a federal 
     intergovernmental mandate, in part, as:
       ``* * * any provision in legislation, statute, or 
     regulation that relates to a then-existing Federal program 
     under which $500,000,000 or more is provided annually to 
     State, local, and tribal governments under entitlement 
     authority, if the provision--
       ``(i)(I) would increase the stringency of conditions of 
     assistance to State, local, or tribal governments under that 
     program; or
       ``(II) would place caps upon, or otherwise decrease, the 
     Federal Government's responsibility to provide funding to 
     State, local, or tribal governments under the program; and
       ``(ii) the State, local, or tribal governments that 
     participate in the Federal program lack authority under the 
     program to amend their financial or programmatic 
     responsibilities to continue providing required services that 
     are affected by the legislation, statute, or regulation.''
       Under the program titled Temporary Assistance to Needy 
     Families, states would have the flexibility to determine who 
     is eligible for assistance and the size of the benefit. 
     Therefore, the bill would not require states to devote 
     additional funds to assistance for needy families. States 
     would have the flexibility to offset the cost of the work 
     requirements by tightening eligibility for assistance to 
     needy families or by reducing the size of the benefit.
       If you wish further details on this analysis, we will be 
     pleased to provide them. The staff contact is John Patterson 
     who can be reached at 225-3220.
           Sincerely,
                                                     James T. Blum
                                  (For June E. O'Neill, Director.)

  Madam Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Texas 
[Mr. DeLay], distinguished Republican whip.
  Mr. DeLAY. Madam Chairman, I rise in opposition to this substitute 
offered by my good friends, the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Tanner] 
and the gentleman from Delaware [Mr. Castle]. I thought they worked 
very hard on this substitute. To me, this substitute is one last 
desperate attempt by the minority to cling to the status quo.
  They are making an argument about unfunded mandates, yet they still 
do not understand the concept of block grants and flexibility given to 
the States to make decisions based upon where the money will be spent 
among these programs. Our children cannot afford this status quo.
  I ask my colleagues this question: Is it right to preserve a system 
that has ruined opportunities, destroyed hope, and hurt generations of 
our Nation's children?
  I say to my colleagues that the current system is tough on children, 
weak on work, and easy on deadbeat dads. It is this system that I think 
the minority has fought so fiercely to expand and protect.
  This substitute does not go far enough to change the current system. 
It has loopholes that make any time limits worthless.
  It still allows people who will have been on welfare for 5 years to 
continue to receive benefits. It puts the States in a straitjacket, 
giving them very little freedom to design their own reform programs. In 
fact, this substitute gives Secretary Shalala veto power over State 
welfare plans.
  Madam Chairman, I just urge my colleagues to vote for real reform, 
defeat the Tanner substitute and let the American people know that the 
status quo is just not good enough.
  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, one could categorize our bill as a lot of 
things, but status quo it is not.
  Madam Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman 
from Tennessee [Mr. Clement].
  (Mr. CLEMENT asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. CLEMENT. Madam Chairman, I rise in support of Tanner-Castle. It 
is a good piece of legislation.
  Let me tell you about Charles Davis, a former NBA basketball star who 
grew up in south Nashville on welfare. By utilizing his athletic skill, 
he was able to receive a scholarship to college and eventually play for 
the Chicago Bulls.
  While he may be best known as a basketball great, he remains most 
admired in our community for his dedication to helping the 
disadvantaged. After years in the spotlight from his basketball 
achievements, he never forgot those less fortunate than himself, and he 
established the Charles Davis Foundation to provide funds that help 
individuals who are on welfare. He never forgot these people, because 
he knew firsthand what it was like to grow up on welfare.

  As a Congress, we to cannot forget these individuals. We can on 
longer delay welfare reform and we must enact a tough, balanced 
proposal while striving to preserve the basic guarantees of assistance 
to the disadvantaged. Reflecting the principles of work, family, and 
responsibility, I feel that the Castle-Tanner welfare reform bill 
achieves this effect.
  It is the Castle-Tanner substitute that requires work while providing 
the necessary support to make it a reality. We cannot forget the 
mothers trying to compete for jobs that provide real routes out of 
poverty but who find it extremely difficult to get the education or 
training they need. We cannot forget the value of good nutrition and 
health for the millions of children, working families, and the elderly 
on welfare.
  I will support the Castle-Tanner substitute that guarantees 
protections for children and moves able welfare recipients to work. We 
must follow Charles Davis' example and not forget the individuals on 
welfare. The Castle-Tanner substitute is welfare reform that we can all 
support.
  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Missouri [Ms. McCarthy].
  Ms. McCARTHY. Madam Chairman, I rise as a cosponsor of the Castle-
Tanner proposal and in strong support of this substitute. Castle-Tanner 
is a fiscally responsible, bipartisan approach to putting people to 
work and protecting our children. It is encouraging to see that the 
House leadership has made changes in their bill attempting to move 
toward the Castle-Tanner substitute; however, many substantive 
differences still remain.
  This proposal will give States the tools they need to achieve genuine 
welfare reform. Adequate funding is essential to a successful welfare 
reform and the Castle-Tanner substitute provides the resources for 
States to meet the participation rates required in their work programs. 
It will require a more reasonable State maintenance of effort, while 
still rewarding States that exceed their work participation rates. In 
times of economic downturn, it will ensure additional contingency funds 
for States to meet the increased demands.
  The bipartisan alternative protects children. It requires States to 
provide vouchers for the needs of children in families removed from 
welfare rolls as a result of State imposed time limits less than 5 
years, and it gives States the option of offering vouchers for children 
who leave welfare after the 5-year time limit Castle-Tanner also 
protects legal immigrant children by exempting them from the ban on 
food stamps and SSI. The substitute contains strong child support 
enforcement provisions to ensure that parents take responsibility for 
their children. In addition, the Castle-Tanner substitute protects the 
nutritional safety net by maintaining the entitlement in the Food 
Stamps Program.
  THe Castle-Tanner substitute moves more people from welfare to work. 
The substitute establishes reasonable work participation requirements 
and guarantees States the resources needed to meet those requirements 
rather another unfunded Federal mandate.
  So that families working their way out of poverty will be able to put 
food on the table.
  According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, under the 
majority's welfare reform bill, households in Missouri could experience 
a decrease in food stamp benefits of $301 in 1998 and as much as $435 
in the year 2000. When families are struggling to free themselves from 
poverty, punitive reductions in food stamp benefits make that job more 
difficult. The Castle-Tanner substitute ensures that families working 
their way out of poverty will be able to put food on the table.
  As a State Legislator in Missouri, I worked diligently to reform the 
welfare system in my home State and implement reforms similar to 
provisions contained in the Castle-Tanner proposal. Our plan requires 
self-sufficiency pacts, similar to the personal responsibility 
contracts in this substitute, and we impose time based on these pacts.
  We established successful State initiatives such as the Futures 
Program, which moves individuals with long-term dependency from welfare 
to work, and the Local Investment Commission [LINC] to encourage local 
businesses to put recipients to work a sustainable wage. One Futures 
participant, Scotti has two children and was on the verge of being 
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when she entered the program. She was able to find housing, enroll in 
computer training classes, and find employment in 10 months. Scotti, 
along with the other Futures participants were able to reach their goal 
of self-sufficiency by utilizing the support of Food Stamps and other 
public assistance programs.
  All of the Missouri participants were willing to take risks to change 
the direction of their life by being confident their children's basic 
needs of food and nutrition and health care would not be jeopardized. 
These programs have been instrumental in assisting individuals to leave 
welfare and become productive taxpayers, and the Castle-Tanner 
substitute will give each State the opportunity to make reforms and 
experience similar success.
  The Castle-Tanner substitute is a fiscally responsible approach to 
welfare reform that will move people from welfare to work, encourage 
responibility, and protect children. This substitute is supported by a 
bipartisan group in Congress and is a bill that the Pesident can sign. 
I urge my colleagues to support the Castle-Tanner substitute.
  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
New Jersey [Mrs. Roukema].
  (Mrs. ROUKEMA asked and was given permission to revise and extend her 
remarks.)
  Mrs. ROUKEMA. Madam Chairman, I rise in support of the Tanner-Castle 
alternative to the underlying welfare reform package contained in H.R. 
3734.
  I want to be very clear that I have been in the forefront of welfare 
reform that can be correctly characterized as ``tough love'' and I also 
support the block grant approach. The flexibility of block grants is 
meritorious as long as we preserve the maintenance of effort standards, 
protect the safety net with a rainy day fund and the food stamp 
program. I support block grants, in other words, does not become a 
blank check for the Governors. Tanner-Castle will not open the 
possibility that innocent children will go hungry and homeless.
  I was quite distressed to learn, late last night, that the welfare 
reform package we are debating today contains changes to the food stamp 
program that undermine the food stamp program, and in doing so move our 
country in exactly the wrong direction--away from maintaining a true 
safety net for those truly in need, especially innocent children.
  This welfare reform package--as opposed to our prior Republican 
plans--gives the States, and their Governors, newfound discretion over 
the food stamp program, which I readily suspect will be used in an 
attempt to block grant food stamps.
  Block granting food stamps was subject to extensive debate and 
analysis last year, and ultimately this Congress correctly rejected 
this notion.
  It is my strongly held position that block grants for food stamps was 
intentionally rejected because it represents beginning of the end of 
the food stamp program as a safety net for families with children in 
need.
  Allowing Governors to block grant food stamps is a loophole that 
deeply concerns me and many others who have worked so hard to ensure 
that these programs help those who need it because they cannot help 
themselves.
  Throughout all of the debate in recent years over how best to 
implement welfare reform, I have repeatedly made clear that I simply 
will not support any legislation that results in innocent children 
going hungry or homeless.
  In my view, the Tanner-Castle alternative meets this test, while the 
underlying bill does not.
  After reviewing both plans last night, I have concluded that Tanner-
Castle does not erode our Nation's commitment to provide a safety net 
for those among us who cannot provide for themselves.
  For example, the underlying bill calls for $23 billion in food stamp 
savings, while the Tanner-Castle amendment calls for $20 billion in 
savings.
  Unfortuantely, the underlying bill calls for food stamp benefits to 
be terminated if a welfare recipient does not find work within 4 
months, regardless of the circumstances. Under this policy, what 
happens to the innocent children in this family?
  Thankfully, the Tanner-Castle amendment stipulates food stamp 
assistance cannot be denied to someone on welfare who can't find work 
because jobs aren't available--this is exactly the kind of protections 
that will ensure our Nation's safety net remains in place in order to 
protect children and ensure that they don't go hungry through no fault 
of their own.
  I agree with today's New York Times editorial which voiced its clear 
support for the alternative plan by saying that Tanner-Castle 
``preserves a federally-guaranteed food stamp program,'' in addition to 
the editorial in today's Washington Post which said endorsed Tanner-
Castle saying it will ``preserve the income floor [provided by food 
stamp benefits] and reduce the severity of the cuts'' proposed by the 
underlying bill.
  Finally, this legislation allows States to use vouchers--instead of 
cash benefits--to pay for certain services needed by welfare recipients 
if a State has terminated cash benefits as part of its sanction 
program.
  This is a large step in the right direction, because even if a 
welfare recipient is playing by all of the rules and has not found a 
job when the time limits become effective, the use of vouchers for 
services plays an important role in helping the family and its children 
keep their head above the waterline.
  Although last night I indicated my support for the underlying 
legislation, I have withdrawn my support for this plan because I 
believe that the Tanner-Castle alternative is a more equitable, 
balanced approach to welfare reform.
  Last April, I supported the initial House version of welfare reform 
legislation with some reservations. I was very pleased to see 
subsequently that the conference committee report on H.R. 4 last 
November included many significant improvements from the Senate-passed 
bill, which have properly been retained in the legislation before us 
now.
  I might add that, at that time, I stressed and received explicit 
assurances from our House Agriculture Committee that food stamps would 
not be clock granted.
  There should be no question that we must enact strong welfare reform 
legislation this year. The American people are correctly demanding that 
we restore the notion of individual responsibility and self-reliance to 
a system that has run amok over the past 20 years.
  Although I have strongly supported some welfare reforms that have 
been described as tough love measures for several years now, I want to 
reiterate that my goal has always been to require self-reliance and 
responsibility, while ensuring that innocent children do not go hungry 
and homeless as a result of any Federal action--the Tanner-Castle plan 
meets that test, too.
  Let me also be clear about the need for more flexibility for the 
States--I support giving Governors and State legislatures more freedom 
to design a welfare program that meets the needs of their people. 
However, the notion of block grants giving States more freedom and 
flexibility to better design programs for their local areas does not 
meet that the Federal Government gives the States a blank check for 
which they are not held accountable.
  For example, I believe that block grants must still require so-called 
maintenance of effort requirements on States in order to ensure that 
the safety net of our Nation is maintained, and that States don't 
simply fund welfare programs with only Federal funds.
  It is primarily for these reasons that I cannot support the 
underlying legislation, and must instead vote for the Tanner-Castle 
alternative.
  First, this bill requires welfare recipients to work--a big step in 
the right direction.

  Second, this bill places time limits on welfare benefits--no longer 
will people be allowed to live their lives on welfare.
  Third, this bill keeps the family cap in place, which means that 
mothers on welfare don't get extra cash benefits for having babies.
  In other words, the United States will no longer be the only nation 
in the Western World that pays young girls to have babies.
  New Jersey already has this policy in place, and I am pleased to see 
that H.R. 3734 retains this worthwhile reform--I should mention that 
the New Jersey family cap law was sponsored by a Democratic State 
legislator, and gained strong bipartisan support and was ultimately 
signed into law by a Democratic Governor.

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  Fourth, this bill has a strong and effective child support 
enforcement reform title, which is something that I have worked on here 
in Congress for more than 10 years.
  As I have long maintained, strong child support enforcement reforms 
must be an essential component of any true welfare reform plan, because 
improved child support enforcement is welfare prevention: one of 
primary reasons that so many mothers with children land on welfare 
rolls is that they are not receiving the child support payments they 
are legally and morally owed.
  Failure to pay court-ordered child support is not a victimless crime. 
The children going with these payments are the first victims. But, the 
taxpayers who have to pick up the tab for deadbeat parents evading 
their obligations are the ultimate victims.
  The core of these child support enforcement reforms is the absolute 
requirement for interstate enforcement of child support, because the 
current, State-based system is only as good as its weakest link.
  Specifically, I want to note that the Roukema amendment on license 
revocation, which the House overwhelmingly approved last April 426 to 
5, has been included in this bill. It requires States to implement a 
license revocation program for deadbeat parents who have driver's 
licenses, professional licenses, occupational licenses, or recreational 
licenses.
  This reform has worked very well in 19 States--the State of Maine, in 
particular, has been a leader--that already have it in place, and if 
license revocation is implemented nationwide I am convinced it will 
work even more successfully.
  Earlier today, I asked the Rules Committee to include a second child 
support enforcement proposal--a requirement that States enact criminal 
penalties of their own design for willful nonsupport of children--as 
part of the manager's amendment to H.R. 3734. I hope that the Rules 
Committee will do the right thing, and include this tough reform in the 
legislation we will vote on tomorrow.
  Fifth, I believe that the legislation's reforms for nutrition 
programs represents significant progress in maintaining the safety net 
for those in our society who are unable to provide for themselves.
  During both Opportunities Committee markup and floor debate on 
welfare reform last year, I repeatedly attempted to protect the current 
safety net for school lunches so that, during times of recession, when 
more families move toward or beyond the poverty level and become 
eligible to participate in the School Lunch Program, additional money 
would be available to provide nutrition services.
  Thankfully, the Senate saved the House from itself with its decision 
to preserve the current Federal safety net for school lunches, and H.R. 
3734 follows the Senate position on this issue, which I wholeheartedly 
support.
  I have always preferred to see the School Lunch Program completely 
maintained at the Federal level, and this legislation correctly does 
just that.
  I am also extremely pleased that the welfare reform package before us 
does not block grant nutrition services for WIC, the nutrition program 
serving low-income, postpartum women with children and infants.
  Finally, I am gratified to see that this bill incorporates a rainy 
day fund for those States that suffer a recession or economic downturn.
  Last year, I repeatedly advocated that this kind of provision be 
included in any kind of welfare reform package that contains block 
grants in order to ensure that those who truly depend on our safety net 
programs can continue to rely on them during times of economic 
distress.
  Earlier this spring, the National Governors Association called upon 
the Congress to put $2 billion of funding into the rainy day fund, and 
this legislation meets that goal--I enthusiastically support this 
provision.
  We have been so close to passing meaningful welfare reform for so 
long. Let us today finally move that process forward one more step by 
passing this comprehensive welfare reform bill.
  This is the bill. This is the time. The people of America should not 
have to wait any longer. I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting 
this important package.
  Mr. SHAW. Madam Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Ohio [Mr. Hoke].
  Mr. HOKE. Madam Chairman, what mean-spirited right winger said the 
following:

       The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence 
     immediately before me, show conclusively that continued 
     dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration, 
     fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out 
     relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle 
     destroyer of the human spirit. It is in violation of the 
     traditions of America. The Federal Government must and shall 
     quit this business of relief?

  We heard the gentleman from Utah quote CBO. I am quoting another well 
known, much better known three-letter icon in American history, FDR, 
who made it very clear, the Federal Government must and shall quit this 
business of relief because the lessons of history make clear that to 
administer it is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the 
human spirit.
  I rise in opposition to this amendment and in support of the 
underlying bill. The reason that I do is because there is a fundamental 
difference that I want to highlight. It is the fundamental difference 
between allowing noncitizens to have access to our welfare safety net 
and not. The Castle-Tanner bill makes it very clear that noncitizens 
will have greater access to the welfare system; certainly, much more 
access than under the underlying bill.
  What happens under the welfare reform bill that we are going to vote 
on later today is we completely eliminate welfare benefits to 
noncitizens except for emergency medical treatment and some other 
exceptions for elderly people.
  The fact is that we have got to, if we are going to fix the 
immigration, illegal immigration problem, and even legal immigration 
problem, if we are going to fix that and if we are going to have those 
people coming to America because they want to be in America, because 
they want to give to America, not take from America, then we have to 
eliminate the welfare magnet that we have created here.
  The real solution to the immigration problem lies in eliminating and 
changing the way that we dole out relief, dole out welfare to anyone 
who is in this country, whether legally or illegally, citizen, or 
noncitizen. That is a fundamental problem.
  We have a certain responsibility with respect to safety nets to 
citizens of the United States of America. That responsibility does not 
extend to noncitizens. If we are to, in fact, as a compassionate nation 
that is able to take care of its own who are falling through the 
cracks, if we are to be able to do that in a proper way, then we must 
eliminate the welfare that goes to noncitizens.
  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, in response, I would simply say we have a 
modest exemption in our plan for kids and people who are legally in 
this country working and paying taxes.
  Madam Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. 
Roemer].
  Mr. ROEMER. Madam Chairman, this bill, Castle-Tanner, reflects common 
sense because it is produced on common ground. How refreshing, Madam 
Chairman, to see Democrats and Republicans working together and trying 
to fix the welfare system that all Americans want us to fix.
  I compliment the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Tanner] and the 
gentleman from Delaware [Mr. Castle] for bringing us together, and I am 
proud to be an original cosponsor of this legislation.

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  This is how the system is supposed to work.
  Now, why will this bill work? Welfare reform will create work, it 
makes people work because it gives people work because it gives people 
the skills to work.
  This bill protects children with child care, it protects children 
with foster care, and it cares about making sure that people work. Way 
too many people get on to welfare and then too quickly go off to 
welfare and come right back on again. Figures indicate that it might be 
from 50 from 60 percent of people are on welfare for a year and then 
get off and then come back on. We want to make sure we put a bill 
together to keep them off of welfare.

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  This bill puts $3 billion extra into the worker training programs. It 
provides the States with the needed flexibility so that Indiana can do 
some things differently from California in order to do and make people 
work. It also saves, Madam Chairman, $53 billion for the taxpayer.
  So it puts people to work, and it still saves money.
  Finally, in our State, in Indiana, the worker training programs are 
working if we put money into them and they are getting people off of 
welfare. We have had an impact program in Indiana which as seen a job 
placement increase of 162 percent and a 26 percent decrease in AFDC 
caseloads.
  So I would encourage our Members to vote for a bipartisan bill that 
puts people to work and gives them the skills to work.
  Mr. SHAW. Madam Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman 
from Washington [Ms. Dunn], a Member of the Committee on Ways and 
Means.
  Ms. DUNN of Washington. Madam Chairman, I commend all the people who 
have been active in this debate on welfare. It has been a tough long 
haul. We have produced two very good bills, sent them to the President. 
He has vetoed both of them. We are working now to put together a bill 
that he will sign, and I certainly understand and appreciate the 
concern and the compassion of all the folks who have been involved.
  I like this alternative bill, but I simply believe that our original 
welfare bill is far better balanced and has looked at every issue with 
a better eye. There are three areas where I am a bit concerned, Madam 
Chairman, about the lay of the land on the substitute bill.
  First of all, it reduces earned income tax credit payments to low-
income families by over $3 billion over our original bill. I am 
concerned about that. I think that we have been far more careful in 
revising the EITC and that this cuts it too much for working families.
  Second, this substitute continues welfare after 5 years. There needs 
to be an end to welfare. Sixty months is enough in most cases, and as 
we continue food stamps and as we continue Medicaid, I believe 5 years 
is enough and that the voucher system is not a good part of the 
substitute bill.
  Last, this substitute provides about $12 billion in extra welfare for 
noncitizens.
  Madam Chairman, Americans are generous people. We have opened our 
arms to people from all over the world as long as they come to this 
Nation realizing it is a Nation of opportunity, not a Nation where we 
lean on the Government. We have in our original bill tightened the 
sponsor agreements. I believe that it is very, very bad to provide 
welfare to able-bodied noncitizens. I urge a vote against this 
substitute.
  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Chairman, I would simply say that insofar as the EITC matter is 
concerned, once again we make no substantive change in the law. What we 
do is have savings scored because of compliance with the law.
  Madam Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Alabama [Mr. 
Cramer].
  Mr. CRAMER. Madam Chairman, I thank my colleague from Tennessee for 
yielding this time to me, and I rise in strong support of the Tanner-
Castle substitute here today, and I want to congratulate my colleague, 
the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Tanner] as well as the entire 
Conservative Democratic Coalition, the Blue Dogs, as we are fondly 
known.
  We have worked long and hard to make sure that we had an opportunity 
to get to this day when we could engage in some effective give and 
take, some effective dialog of this issue to make sure that we had the 
opportunity to see that the American people have this chance to see 
this worn-out, burned-out welfare system redesigned.
  Now, this is not an easy thing to do, and I think that is why my 
colleagues need to pay attention. The Tanner-Castle substitute is the 
better way to go. When we look at the bottom line of what we are about 
to do, we need to do what is effective, not just window dress this 
issue. I am concerned about the States, where the States are coming 
from and what they will be able to do effectively when we pass part of 
this burden, a significant part of this burden, on to the States, and I 
think the Tanner-Castle is the reasonable approach to take.
  Mr. SHAW. Madam Chairman, I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from 
Tennessee [Mr. Tanner] to find out how he saves $6 billion on EITC 
without affecting any benefits.
  I mean I have been debating this as a straightforward bill, but I am 
wondering how in the world he saves that without affecting the 
benefits.
  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, I am advised that we made no substantive 
changes, that we get scoring for that savings because we cut out waste, 
fraud and abuse and maintained compliance. for example, if one has a 
trust fund income of $50,000 and has a job that pays 12, one would not 
be able to claim the EITC because they have a $12,000 income because we 
count the $50,000 unearned that they received from a trust fund.
  So, as we score that, we are entitled to savings, and they have been 
so stated.
  Mr. SHAW. Madam Chairman, I would simply say to the gentleman that 
those same provisions are in our bill, and we certainly do not save any 
$6 billion.
  Madam Chairman, I yield to the 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from 
Missouri [Mr. Talent].
  Mr. TALENT. Madam Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding this 
time to me.
  Madam Chairman, I have 1\1/2\ minutes; let me get right to the point.
  I appreciate very much the tone of the debate to this point, but I 
think the reason we ought to oppose the Democratic substitute is that 
it is much weaker on work than the underlying bill. It is better than 
the ones they have offered in the past, but it is much weaker on work. 
In fact, that is one of the things trumpeted as a virtue of it. We have 
heard that the Governors like that bill. Of course, they like that 
bill. They do not have to do very much under that bill, particularly in 
the earlier years. That is what they want, freedom and more money and 
not to have to do very much, particularly with regard to work 
requirements, and that is what the Democratic substitute does.
  First, on face value, in terms of the face work participation 
requirements, the main bill is stronger than the substitute. But we 
have to look beyond face value when we look at work requirements.
  Madam Chairman, at any given time, if we take a snapshot of the 
welfare caseload at any given time, there are people coming on and 
people going off. Naturally, without doing anything, people are leaving 
the welfare caseload, but others are coming on, and historically it has 
been growing, and we have been paying more and more money. The 
substitute would count people who leave naturally from the caseload 
towards meeting the work participation requirements. That is like a 10-
percent bonus every year. What it would mean is that in order to meet 
the work requirements in the first year the Governors would have to do 
very little. They have to get another 4 percent of the caseload 
working.
  That is the reason that they like it.
  What we have heard basically is that this bill has to be reasonable, 
it has to be effective. Of course, it has to be effective. This system 
is terrible. Why are we arguing that we should be moderate in 
approaching it? If we are going to get substantial change, we have to 
have a bill that achieves substantial change and enforces that in the 
States. Vote for the main bill and vote against the substitute measure.
  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, I yield a minute and a half to the 
gentlewoman from Florida [Mrs. Thurman].
  Mrs. THURMAN. Madam Chairman, I too would like to take this time to 
congratulate the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Tanner] and the 
gentleman from Delaware [Mr. Castle] and, I might add, Mr. Castle, 
being a former Governor, I think lends some respectability to the 
issues that we are speaking about today.
  I, too, am an original cosponsor of the Castle-Tanner because I think 
it does give us real reform and real responsibility. We demand 
responsibility not only from welfare recipients, but from the Federal 
Government and the States who are our partners in this system. We 
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but we do not make these demands and then not live up to our end of the 
bargain.
  Our commitment requires adequate funding levels for the work 
requirements in the bill. Castle-Tanner meets this need. The majority 
bill does not.
  Our commitment requires that we have a plan in the event of a 
national or regional rescission. We have seen that in this country. 
Castle-Tanner has a real contingency fund to meet this need. The 
majority bill has an underfunded contingency fund with unrealistic 
limits on a State's access to the fund.
  In the Castle-Tanner we are more realistic. If there is no job, one 
cannot lose something as basic as food stamps.
  We also provide better protections for children. Children must not be 
made to suffer for their parents' action. We allow vouchers so that 
families who reach that time limit on welfare can still care for the 
very basic needs of their children. The majority's bill prohibits the 
use of Federal funds to help children once their families have met the 
time limit.
  These are both tough bills and reform bills. We are just as strict on 
fraud and abuse as the majority's bill. But the fact is the Castle-
Tanner treats people fairly withholding them, and we save $53 billion 
as well.
  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Michigan [Mr. Levin].
  (Mr. LEVIN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. LEVIN. Madam Chairman, let me respond briefly to a couple of 
points. First of all, on time limits.
  The time limits remain in Tanner-Castle. There are exceptions in both 
bills. They have a 20-percent exemption allowed to the States. Castle-
Tanner has a similar provision. The question is whether the States 
should have the flexibility to use Federal funds for vouchers for kids 
because of the time limit. They say ``no.'' They say they are for 
flexibility, but if the States want to use Federal funds not for cash 
benefits but to help kids, they say ``no.'' Castle-Tanner is much 
better in that respect.
  EITC, I want to reiterate, we do not touch the rates. They tried to 
in their original bill. We scared them off it. We do not change the 
basic EITC. We get savings through compliance efforts, basically 
leaving the structure as it is, and it is so ironic they would come 
here after trying to take 15, 20 billion from EITC, from working 
families, and all of a sudden they are defending them.
  Mr. SHAW. Madam Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. LEVIN. I yield to the gentleman from Florida.
  Mr. SHAW. I mean the gentleman has been asking us to work with him in 
a bipartisan way, we come toward his position, and he says they scared 
us off of it. Come on. Let us lighten up.
  Mr. LEVIN. All right, look. They agreed with us finally. All right, 
they can call it what they want. We hit them hard, and they finally 
said ``OK,'' as they did on a lot of other things where they were weak 
on work and hard on kids. They have moved our way. They simply have to 
come further.
  Now I want to talk about States getting people off welfare into work, 
which is so critical. CBO says, ``You do not have money to help States 
get people off welfare to work.'' That is the key.
  Now they say there is an authorization now. They have given this to 
the gentleman from Delaware [Mr. Castle]. The rumors are they will take 
it back in a conference. I hope those rumors are wrong. But I do not 
care, because it is only an authorization.
  What Tanner-Castle says is we are serious about welfare to work. We 
are tough on that and we are going to provide the States the moneys to 
do it. They provide zero, and CBO says they are between $9 and $12 
billion short.
  If my colleagues want a bill that is tough on work, getting people 
off welfare to work, and does not hurt kids, Castle-Tanner is much 
closer to the mark, and they are further away. Vote for the Tanner-
Castle bill. Vote for it, and then against the Republican bill. I hope 
the Tanner-Castle bill will pass. It is the only bipartisan effort so 
far. We need to keep that bipartisan spirit going.
  Vote for it.

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  Mr. SHAW. Madam Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Connecticut [Mr. Franks], a distinguished member of the Committee on 
Commerce.
  Mr. FRANKS of Connecticut. Madam Chairman, I thank the gentleman for 
yielding time to me.
  Madam Chairman, as we argue and continue to delay the passage of real 
welfare reform, more families are getting trapped or continue to be 
trapped in a system that, to me, is like the slavery system we had 
years ago. It is the 20th century version of slavery. We, the 
Government, will provide food and shelter but little hope of real 
change.
  There are differences, however. Slaves were black. Most welfare 
recipients are white. Slaves worked but were not paid. Welfare 
recipients do not work but they are paid. The Republican bill will take 
a major step removing the shackles of Government dependency.
  As we have argued and delayed passage of welfare reform over the 
years, more fathers have not been getting identified so they can be 
forced to take care of their own children. The growth of the single-
parent household in the black community will hit 80 percent and in the 
white community 40 percent by the year 2000 if we continue to do 
nothing.
  Compassion. It has been proven that these youngsters are more likely 
to get lower grades, more likely to be involved in crime, and more 
likely to fall victim of our welfare state. Compassion will be 
demonstrated when we change this slide downward.
  As we have argued and delayed passage of welfare reform over the 
years, more young ladies have been getting more money for having more 
babies. How wrong.
  As we have argued and delayed passage of welfare reform over the 
years, more drugs have been bought with taxpayers' dollars. Studies 
have shown that 25 percent of welfare recipients are drug abusers. So 
where are they getting the money? They are getting the money from you, 
the taxpayer.
  The Republican bill will encourage the adoption of a debit card 
electronic benefits transfer system and will move us towards 
eliminating cash in our current welfare system.
  Madam Chairman, it is like Nero during the Roman Empire. We fiddle 
while our welfare state continues to destroy lives. In 1992 Mr. Clinton 
promised that he would end welfare as we know it, and he has failed to 
do so. The President has vetoed two bills. He has failed to present his 
own bill, and he expressed support for the Wisconsin bill and a Senate 
bill, but failed to sign on to either one of them. The record of the 
Democratic-controlled Congress would be no better. In my first 4 years 
in Congress we never even voted on a welfare reform bill.
  Madam Chairman, it took Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, to end 
slavery. I am becoming more and more convinced that it will take a 
Republican-controlled Congress and a Republican President to end 
welfare as we know it. I strongly support the Republican plan and I 
would strongly suggest opposition to the substitute.
  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume.
  Madam Chairman, I thank the gentleman for his previous remarks, and 
would point out that our bill contains the electronic transfer 
provisions as well.
  Madam Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Texas [Mr. 
Stenholm].
  (Mr. STENHOLM asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. STENHOLM. Madam Chairman, let me first begin by commending my 
colleagues, the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Tanner] and the gentleman 
from Delaware [Mr. Castle], for the tireless work they have put in on 
this issue, and also to my colleague, the gentleman from Florida [Mr. 
Shaw], for his very constructive handling of this bill. With the lone 
exception of the rhetoric on EITC, I have appreciated the gentleman's 
approach and attitude toward the development on this issue.
  To set the record straight one more time, I simply want to reiterate 
that Castle-Tanner ensures that scarce EITC dollars go to the working 
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who need it, not to the individuals with substantial business income 
who do not need it. And I suspect the gentleman from Florida [Mr. Shaw] 
would like to see the same provision in his bill today.
  Also, I do not see my friend and colleague, the chairman of the House 
Committee on Agriculture on the floor, but I find it very, very 
interesting that he would be complaining about the fact that our bill 
attempts to maintain indexation of housing benefits for the very poor, 
those who have to spend over 50 percent of their income for housing; 
and at the same time the majority will have next week on the floor a 
bill dealing with campaign reform in which they will say indexation of 
those who would contribute to us is OK but those who would index those 
of the very poorest among us is bad. I find it very, very interesting.
  Madam Chairman, I want to take a couple of minutes and try to make it 
as plain and simple why I support Castle-Tanner versus the base bill. I 
want to do it in a way that is perfectly understandable.
  First is the matter of political practicality. I am weary of 
political posturing, and we have heard it from a few today over and 
over, language that is intended more for campaign platforms than for 
realistic problem-solving. The Castle-Tanner proposal was developed to 
try to break that partisan stalemate on this issue and reach a 
consensus on welfare reform that can be signed into law. Our proposal 
is a true compromise, as evidenced by the fact 26 Democrats and 16 
Republicans have cosponsored the legislation.
  The principles and policies of this substitute can be supported by 
both parties in both bodies of Congress. The bill can be signed into 
law by the President. The base bill cannot.
  Second is the matter of unfunded mandates. One of the first pieces of 
legislation passed by the 104th Congress was a resolution ensuring that 
the Federal Government pay the cost incurred by State and local 
governments in complying with Federal statutes and regulations.

  The work mandate placed on the States in the base bill is not matched 
by financial support necessary to meet the mandate. CBO says so, the 
National Governors Association says so, and in addition to the unfunded 
work mandate, there is also an unfunded mandate on health care 
providers that will result from Medicaid changes for current welfare 
recipients.
  So, $7 billion in Medicaid will no longer be available for those 
recipients, and yet health care providers in our States will still be 
morally if not legally obligated to provide care for these people. 
Castle-Tanner does not have unfunded mandates. The base bill does, as 
ascertained by CBO.
  Third is the matter of how our Nation treats its children. Tanner-
Castle is much stronger than the Republican bill in protecting 
children, all children. This substitute requires States to provide 
vouchers for the needs of the child for families removed from welfare 
rolls as a result of a time limit of less than 5 years, and gives 
States the option of providing vouchers for families cut off as a 
result of the 5-year time limit. The base bill explicitly prohibits 
States from using block grant funds to protect innocent children from 
being harmed because of the mistakes of their parents.
  Madam Chairman, I urge my colleagues to vote for the bipartisan, 
bicameral, commonsense, achievable, enforceable Castle-Tanner 
substitute, and against the final passage of the base bill in its 
current form.
  Mr. SHAW. Madam Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Louisiana [Mr. McCrery], a most valuable member of the Committee on 
Ways and Means who was very instrumental in crafting the bill before 
us.
  Mr. McCRERY. Madam Chairman, I have a lot of things to talk about.
  First of all, the issue of unfunded mandates. I have in my hand here 
a letter from the CBO that my dear friend, the gentleman from Texas, 
kept referring to, in which the CBO states clearly:

       The work requirements contained in the portion of H.R. 3734 
     titled ``Temporary Assistance for Needy Families'' do not 
     constitute an intergovernmental mandate, as defined under the 
     Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995.

       So I hope that will put that to rest once and for all.
  The issue of earned income tax credit. We received not too long ago a 
letter from the President in which he said, in listing his objections 
to our bill, the underlying bill on the floor today, the bill would 
still raise taxes on millions of working families by cutting the earned 
income tax credit.
  Madam Chairman, in trying to satisfy the objections of the President, 
we took that out of our bill. We do not raise taxes any more, using the 
President's terminology, on working families by cutting the EITC, but 
the substitute we are about to vote on does. It does. They do lower the 
threshold for disqualified income under the EITC in their substitute. 
They do add additional sources of income to disqualified income under 
the EITC. Also, they add additional income to the definition of 
adjusted gross income, which affects the level of the EITC.
  So we can talk around it all we want, but the fact is the substitute 
on the floor cuts the EITC by $3 billion in real money to real people. 
Do not get me wrong, I agree with the cuts. I think they are good.
  Madam Chairman, I think it is good, our EITC changes. I wish we had 
more of them. We took them out, trying to satisfy the objections of 
Democrats and the President. Members ought not to say they do not have 
those cuts in there, because they do.
  I think the Castle-Tanner substitute is a good bill. It is far 
superior to the present welfare system. The base bill, though, is a 
little better, so I hope people will vote against the substitute and 
for the underlying bill.
  Medicaid, I heard my good friend, the gentleman from Delaware [Mr. 
Castle], talking about how the substitute is better on Medicaid. Again, 
we have made a change in our bill to satisfy the gentleman from 
Delaware [Mr. Castle] and the President. Our provision is exactly the 
same as the Castle-Tanner substitute, maintenance of effort. They have 
85 percent, we have 80 percent. My goodness, an 80 percent maintenance 
of effort requirement is a tough requirement.
  Vouchers. Our bill provides for a 20-percent hardship exemption at 
the option of the States. Twenty percent of their entire caseload can 
be exempted from the 5-year time limit. That is a very generous 
exemption. You do not need vouchers and you ought not to have them. You 
ought to have a strict time limit with an exemption for hardship cases. 
That is what we do in this bill.
  Food stamps, there are very strict requirements in the base bill for 
block grants. CBO estimates very few States will qualify.
  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, I would state again for the record, we do 
not do anything with the EITC substantively.
  Madam Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California 
[Mr. Fazio].
  Mr. FAZIO of California. Madam Chairman, we have heard a lot of talk 
about work requirements and where they really exist and where they are 
merely a sham. I argue that the Castle-Tanner bill really does the job 
of providing the States with the necessary funding to put welfare 
recipients to work.
  The Republican leadership bill, as drafted, falls $12.9 billion short 
of the funding necessary to put people to work. The CBO, which is 
headed by a person appointed by the Republican leadership, has done a 
study. I refer Members to this chart, because CBO confirms that work 
requirements under this bill, the Republican leadership bill, are empty 
promises.
  CBO concludes that most States would fail to meet the work 
requirements. They assume most States would simply accept penalties 
rather than implement the work requirements. In other words, the 
Republican bill places such a tremendous unfunded mandate on States 
that they would not even try to comply with the requirements to put 
welfare recipients to work.
  Castle-Tanner provides States with the flexibility to design work 
programs that are appropriate for their local communities. In fact, the 
Republican leadership bill rejects the recommendations of the National 
Governors Association for State flexibility. This is an organization 
made up, obviously, of many, many Republican Governors, a majority of 
them. The NGA unanimously adopted a resolution stating:

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``We are concerned that the Republican leadership bill restricts State 
flexibility and will create additional unfunded costs.''
  So unless the States are given the flexibility to design work 
programs and given the resources to implement those programs, as the 
Tanner-Castle bill does, rhetoric about tough work requirements is 
either an empty promise, as CBO would maintain, or the greatest 
unfunded mandate in history; this, of course, in the Congress of 
devolution.
  So really, who has the sham work requirement? It is obviously the 
Republican leadership bill. The bipartisan Castle-Tanner bill is the 
only one that really puts people to work.
  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman 
from California [Ms. Harman].
  (Ms. HARMAN asked and was given permission to revise and extend her 
remarks.)
  Ms. HARMAN. Madam Chairman, I commend the gentleman for his 
leadership in this important subject.
  Madam Chairman, the Castle-Tanner bipartisan welfare reform bill is 
smart, fair, and comprehensive. It gives States both flexibility and 
the resources necessary for welfare-to-work programs, even in times of 
economic downturns. It is also fair to children whose parents are 
denied cash benefits. I urge my colleagues in the strongest terms to 
support it.
  But if the House will not endorse this plan, in my view we cannot 
delay any longer enacting welfare reform. I have twice before voted 
against proposals which went too far and hurt children. I have many 
concerns about the underlying welfare reform plan. I would like to see 
Congress increase resources for moving people into the work force, less 
dramatic cuts in the eligibility of legal immigrants for some programs, 
and vouchers for children whose parents are ineligible for cash 
benefits.
  But the underlying bill includes significant improvements over the 
bills the President vetoed. It provides an additional $4 billion for 
child care, removes the earlier bill's spending caps on food stamps, 
and increases the minimum required spending by States to 80 percent of 
fiscal 1994 levels.

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  I also believe the Senate will continue to improve the bill.
  Madam Chairman, we must act now to move welfare reform forward. I 
urge my colleagues to vote for the Castle-Tanner amendment and to 
support final passage of welfare reform today.
  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  Madam Chairman, I want to thank again, as I said at the outset, the 
cosponsors of this legislation. Particularly it has been a pleasure 
working with the gentleman from Delaware [Mr. Castle] and his staff in 
trying to put together a truly bipartisan approach to what is an 
American crisis and will require an American solution. The American 
solution to me means a bipartisan solution, one that both sides maybe 
cannot embrace in total but can accept.
  That is really what we have tried to do, because we are honestly, 
sincerely, and for no other purpose, interested in changing and 
reforming a broken system. Everyone has spoken to that today, and that 
is the sole purpose for the countless hours that we have worked on this 
and brought it to this point.
  We have tried to sail a partisan ship through this place twice this 
year, and it has not worked. What happens when we do that? We all fail; 
the White House fails, the Congress fails. It does not matter whether 
one is Democrat or Republican. We fail to deliver welfare reform to the 
American people when we insist on sailing this partisan ship through 
the Halls of this Congress.
  Our bill does not do that. We have got 42 cosponsors, 26 Democrats 
and 16 Republicans. Our premise started when we sailed that ship of 
partisanship through here, and it became obvious to us that the 
Republican leadership and the White House had a gap. They were apart. 
So we got together and said, ``Let's see what we can do to bridge the 
gap.''
  Our substitute is much like the base bill as the gentleman from 
Delaware [Mr. Castle] said in his opening remarks. We impose time 
limits on welfare. We change the system. We require personal 
responsibility. We have tough work requirements. No one can say that we 
do not. We have provisions to combat illegitimacy, and two-parent 
families we encourage. We have tough child support measures and so on.
  It is clear to anyone, I think, to be fair, who reads these measures 
that both of them dramatically reform the current system and end, 
hopefully, this destructive cycle of generational dependency.
  So why should a Member vote for Castle-Tanner over the base bill? 
First of all, one of the speakers, I think the gentleman from Texas 
[Mr. Stenholm] said, we have a chance to pass and actually enact law, 
if we do, one that is close to the Republican bill in many respects but 
is better for kids.

  We can pass this and actually make a law this year. We do not have to 
wait until next year. The President mentioned it in his radio address 
last Saturday morning. He has moved and said he would move to something 
like Castle-Tanner.
  Second, we do a better job, we think, in providing the necessary 
structure, or infrastructure, to actually put people to work. That is 
the whole purpose of this bill, getting people off welfare, some say 
off the dole, into meaningful jobs, so that they will be role models 
for their kids and so on.
  We are better, we think, on the State-Federal partnership theory. 
That really is what any social program like this ought to be under our 
system of government. We provide and we are better on the economic and 
necessary responsiveness to a downturn. And then, finally, it has been 
alluded to many times, we are really better for the kids.
  I do not know anyone who is the most fervent supporter for welfare 
reform that thinks that treating a 4-year-old child like they are a 34-
year-old person who will not work is a good idea. If we read the 
Republican underlying bill, that is what is happening. I hope Members 
will support this amendment.
  Mr. SHAW. Madam Chairman, I yield myself the balance of my time.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Florida [Mr. Shaw] is recognized for 
6 minutes.
  Mr. SHAW. Madam Chairman, I want to join my other colleagues in 
congratulating the chairman for the way that she has presided over this 
body today. She has brought us great dignity.
  I would like to also speak to the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. 
Tanner], my good friend, who I think has done a wonderful job. I think 
it is incredible that the name Mike Castle, as a Republican Member, a 
most distinguished Republican Member, appears first on a bill that is 
being offered as a substitute by the gentleman from Missouri [Mr. 
Gephardt]. My goodness, what in the world is this Chamber coming to?
  But I think there are a few things we need to correct here. These are 
some of the characteristics that have been and some of the charges that 
have been laid toward H.R. 3734, the base bill that we are going to 
vote on this afternoon.
  We hear speaker, after speaker who has gotten up and said how it is 
weak on work. For goodness sake, one of the last speakers gets down 
with a poster that says we are weak on work. Which is it, are we too 
weak on work or too strong on work? They say that the work requirements 
are not even obtainable. Come on, we cannot have it both ways.
  At the request of the gentleman from Delaware [Mr. Castle], we also 
put in our bill, because he is concerned about, as a former Governor, 
whether or not the States are going to be able to meet these 
requirements. We provide that the States are going to report back to 
the Ways and Means and the Finance Committee in 3 years to take another 
look at these work standards to be sure that we have not made them too 
strong. That has been the concern that has been voiced here.
  Let us put all the cliches aside, obviously the soundbite, weak on 
work, hard on kids. Come on. This is not the case. You know that, I 
know that. The dignity of this debate should bring us above that, and 
we should be talking in specifics. When we have honest disagreements as 
to what to do with noncitizens, I think we should face those. But I 
think it is also important to understand that in such matters as higher 
education, we allow noncitizens to continue to get Pell grants. We 
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them, by the way, to sign a college loan by themselves. Castle-Tanner 
provides that the sponsor has to cosign that loan. We did not require 
that, because we do not consider higher education as welfare. That is 
part of the American dream. This is something that we desperately want 
to preserve.
  I would tell my colleagues as members of this committee that, when we 
talk about harder on kids, sure, we do not provide for vouchers out of 
the Federal funds after 5 years. You might argue that that is hard on 
kids. I do not think so. We provide, however, that the States can 
provide 20 percent of the funding for their case load, of the Federal 
funds, to go beyond the 5-year work level. What does that mean? It 
means that, if they want to create with that 20 percent a voucher 
system, they can do it.
  So there is virtually no difference in the two bills when you look at 
the practical application of what the States can do. But we set forth 
the national policy, and the national policy is that we are for now, 
and once and for all, going to time-limit the period of time someone 
can be on welfare. That is going to be the national policy.
  We are going to also allow the States to craft their own bills. We 
are not going to continue to make welfare available to noncitizens. 
That is a very big difference of opinion that we have here in this 
hall, and I respect that difference of opinion.
  But soon we are going to be taking a vote, I think, that is going to 
be most historic. When we talk about a bipartisan approach, I sincerely 
hope, and we have reached out to the Democrat side of the aisle in 
bringing Members in and talking to them. The gentleman from Michigan 
[Mr. Levin] has said on the floor that he made us do it. Well, whether 
he made us do it or whether it is bipartisan, it happened, and it 
happened with the Democrats and Republicans coming together.

  We are receptive to good ideas not only from the Republican side but 
from the Democrat side as well. Once the minority party is fulfilling 
its responsibility of criticizing legislation that is provided by the 
Republican side, they are fulfilling their requirement under the system 
in which we work. When we listen to you, we are working in a bipartisan 
way. We are not getting bullied into any position.
  One thing I want to answer, too, that the gentleman from Michigan 
[Mr. Levin] said, talked about all the rumors that are around about how 
we are going to cut this and that out of the bill. I can say the rumors 
are starting from my colleague's side; they are not starting on our 
side. I do not intend to take any of those provisions out that my 
colleague has talked about as being rumored to come out in conference. 
I would hope that the other body would move swiftly and pass this bill, 
that we could conference it and get it to the President's desk.
  I would also hope on final passage that many of the Democrats who 
feel strongly about welfare reform, as I do, and as the Republicans do 
and as the President has stated, that my colleague will join us and 
show support of welfare reform coming out of this body so that, when we 
put something on the President's desk, we can truly say this is a 
bipartisan effort, this has bipartisan support, because we have worked 
with many of you on the Democrat side.
  My colleagues have had input into this bill. I would now earnestly 
ask them after the substitute, support H.R. 3734.
  Mrs. MALONEY. Madam Chairman, the American people do not want to hurt 
kids.
  The Republican bill is so removed from reality. It punishes children, 
penalties working families, and denies benefits to virtually all legal 
immigrant children.
  The bill would worsen poverty and hunger for 9 million innocent 
children by making deep cuts in benefits, especially during economic 
downturns by limiting the contingency fund to only $2 billion.
  The Castle-Tanner substitute has an uncapped contingency fund for use 
during these troubling times.
  Working families, who play by the rules, will see their food stamp 
benefits cuts by as much as 19 percent.
  When you completely eliminate the Federal guarantee, those of us who 
work in State and city legislatures know that, given the financial 
pressures, poor people often fall through the cracks.
  The Castle-Tanner bill provides State vouchers for needed support for 
families.
  But the Republican bill we're considering today would make a bad 
system much worse by allowing only State funds.
  This Republican bill just tells defenseless children, tough luck.
  This bill won't put people to work. According to the CBO, the bill is 
$10 billion short of what they need to carry out their work program.
  It will put families with children out on the street.
  That's not welfare reform.
  It's a blueprint for disaster.
  Say yes to welfare reform Castle-Tanner.
  Say no to this cruel and senseless bill.
  Mrs. LINCOLN. Madam Chairman, today is a landmark day in 
congressional history. Today we will pass needed welfare reform that 
will hopefully move our Nation's low-income citizens from passively 
accepting a welfare check to actively earning a paycheck.
  Most of my colleagues in this Chamber would agree with me that the 
current welfare system needs to be changed. No one should get something 
for nothing, and if the American people are going to be generous with 
their tax dollars, they should get something in return.
  Madam Chairman, the bipartisan Castle-Tanner substitute, of which I 
am an original cosponsor, provides responsible reform through three 
main goals: personal responsibility, State flexibility, and work.
  Personnel responsibility: Under our plan, all recipients must work 
within 2 years of receiving benefits, and the proposal establishes a 5-
year time limit on cash assistance. Also, our plan requires teenage 
mothers to stay in school and live with an adult to receive assistance, 
and it establishes a family cap halting benefits for additional 
children born to welfare recipients. In addition, the bipartisan 
Castle-Tanner substitute holds fathers responsible for their children 
through strong child support enforcement.
  State flexibility: Our plan provides States with the flexibility to 
design innovative welfare reform proposals within broad Federal 
guidelines. States can develop successful work programs that reflect 
the needs of their local communities, and States can deny cash 
assistance to teenage mothers. In addition Castle-Tanner gives States 
the option of providing vouchers for children or noncash emergency 
assistance to families and have lost cash assistance as a result of a 
time limit.
  Work: Unlike the Republican proposal before us today, our substitute 
provides the amount of funding that the Congressional Budget Office has 
stated is necessary to fund the work programs, thereby ensuring no 
unfunded mandates for our States. Our bipartisan proposal provides $4.5 
billion more than the Republican measure for child care assistance to 
families that leave welfare for work and need child care help in order 
to remain employed and stay off the welfare rolls.
  But most importantly, Madam Chairman, if my colleagues want to pass 
welfare reform that has the best chance of being signed into law, then 
I encourage support of the bipartisan Castle-Tanner substitute. It is 
the only proposal that the President has promised to sign.
  Mrs. COLLINS of Illinois. Madam Chairman, there is an old saying 
``the poor will be with us always.'' And another that ``a person never 
stands so tall as when he or she bends to help a child.'' When a child 
is poor, that child is at greater risk of being undernourished and 
undereducated. My constituents in the Seventh District of Illinois are 
among the richest and the poorest of the Nation. I am told that I am 
the longest serving African-American female Member in the history of 
the United States House of Representatives, and as such, I have for 23 
years fought strong and sometimes bitter battles for the benefit of the 
vulnerable, the disenfranchised, the young, old, disabled, and poor. 
That is what I hope to be remembered for when I retire from this body 
at the end of the year.
  So, I rise today with some reservations about the Tanner-Castle 
substitute welfare reform measure which really is a compromise for me. 
I do not like the idea of block granting welfare benefits, but with 
sufficient Federal criteria and oversight, perhaps they can work. If 
so, they will be the wave of the future.
  This substitute requires States to enter into personal responsibility 
plans with parents who seek to receive this public assistance. As long 
as this is a two way street, spelling out what the States' 
responsibilities are as well as those of the parents' it could possible 
financially protect the families. The States have asked for block 
grants and will be called upon to demonstrate that they can act 
responsibly to all vulnerable populations in a nondiscriminatory 
manner. My fear and recollection of contemporary history is that many 
of them will not.
  The Tanner-Castle substitute also incorporates time limits as a 
widely accepted way to provide measurements toward performance for both 
the family receiving public assistance and the State in providing 
sufficient training, guidance and support--both personal and monetary.
  A requirement of work is not unreasonable if the person has the 
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a meaningful job. Thus, with that requirement for work by the parent--
and let's get it clear about whom we're talking: this welfare reform is 
for parents--the State has a comparable responsibility to provide that 
parent with the tools and means to perform and succeed in a job that 
pays a living wage.
  I consider a living wage to include the ability to pay the family's 
bills: the rent, food, clothing, transportation, medical care, and 
child care. Without that ability, no parent now benefiting from AFDC 
should be made to take a job when there is no means of providing health 
care for a sick child, or which would provide insufficient food for 
their bellies. Let's stop making parents look like the bad guys in this 
debate.
  A special problem has arisen because of the large number of teenage 
parents who are, for the most part single, and have not completed their 
education--and many will not. They, too, need to have a stable, 
dependable support system. Whether that is that teen parent's 
biological or substitute parent or a publicly funded shelter, should be 
the decision of that child-parent.
  I also believe that the Federal Government must oversee the States to 
assure that those extremely vulnerable family units of ``kids having 
kids'' have alternative homes that will provide the shelter and life-
skill training from which they can draw strength, skills, nurturing, 
and self-esteem.
  There is a provision in the substitute that I strongly object to. It 
ties an arbitrary abortion rate within a State to an illegitimacy rate 
for which a State may receive additional bonus funding. I will monitor 
this provision as legislation progresses through Congress to assure the 
States fair and honest availability to receive performance bonuses when 
they develop successful programs to reduce their out-of-wedlock births.
  States that currently have waivers of various measures would have the 
option to continue under those options until the expiration of those 
waivers.
  The Tanner-Castle substitute does have a strong child support 
enforcement provision. As long as those provisions are implemented 
universally and non-discriminatorily nationwide, it may succeed in 
providing those vulnerable single parents a valuable additional 
resource. I wholeheartedly agree that parents should be responsible for 
their children, but when short duration public assistance is needed, 
they are entitled by our God almighty, to a decent life.
  On the issue of Medicaid eligibility, until and unless Congress can 
achieve meaningful health care reform to provide for universal access 
to health care financing, there must be Medicaid eligibility for the 
unemployed, uninsured families who receive public assistance. Tanner-
Castle retains current law for child protection funding, guidelines, 
and requirements. Child protection is what this welfare reform is 
really supposed to be all about. It is protecting the vulnerable 
children of our Nation against poverty and despair, against hunger and 
sickness, and against fear and helplessness. I think that for the most 
part, the Tanner-Castle substitute attempts to do that.
  Mr. POSHARD. Madam Chairman, I rise today in strong support of the 
Castle-Tanner Welfare Reform Act, a tough, balanced welfare reform 
proposal that moves able welfare recipients to work and protects 
children. I am a cosponsor of this reform bill because I believe it 
provides States and our local communities with the resources, support, 
and flexibility they need to successfully move welfare recipients into 
the work force.
  The Castle-Tanner Welfare Act requires all welfare recipients to 
begin work within 2 years of receiving assistance and imposes a 5-year 
time limit on cash assistance. However, the plan also gives States the 
option of providing continued assistance to children and non-cash 
emergency assistance to families that have lost cash assistance as a 
result of a time limitation.
  The bill further requires that minor mothers must stay in school and 
live with an adult in order to receive assistance, and stops additional 
benefits for additional children born to individuals on welfare. In 
addition, the Castle-Tanner plan rewards States that are able to reduce 
illegitimacy without increasing the abortion rate. The bill also holds 
fathers responsible for their children through strong child support 
enforcement.
  The Congressional Budget Office [CBO] estimated that the Republican 
welfare reform proposal, which we are also considering today, would 
fall nearly $13 billion below the funding level necessary to meet the 
work requirements outlined in the Republican bill, and $800 million 
short of the necessary funds to providing child care assistance to 
individuals who are required to work.
  The Castle-Tanner plan ensures that States would be able to meet the 
work requirements in the bill by providing $3 billion, over the 
Republican plan, in additional mandatory funds they can access in order 
to meet the costs of moving welfare recipients to work. In addition, 
this plan gives more flexibility to States in meeting the bill's work 
requirements. The Castle-Tanner plan gives States the opportunity and 
the resources to meet the goals all of us support.
  CBO has estimated the Castle-Tanner plan contains enough mandatory 
funding to provide child care assistance to all welfare recipients who 
need such assistance in order to comply with the work requirements in 
the bill. The additional funds contained in this plan for transitional 
and at-risk child care will give States an important tool in preventing 
individuals from returning to welfare.
  I am also concerned with the fact that the Republican welfare measure 
would cut food stamp funding by $23 billion or 19 percent by converting 
the program into a block grant. Instead, the Castle-Tanner plan 
maintains the national food stamp program as we know it without 
allowing an optional block grant that would freeze funding for food for 
children and families.
  Madam Chairman, I agree it is time to reform the current welfare 
system, but let us do it in a manner that reflects the values of this 
country. Let us reform the system to encourage men and women who have 
come to rely on welfare to return to work. We must also insure that the 
children of those on welfare are not punished in the process of 
reforming this system. I believe the Castle-Tanner Welfare Reform Act 
meets these goals, and I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle 
to support this reasonable, but effective reform measure.
  Mrs. MORELLA. Madam Chairman, I rise in strong support of the Castle-
Tanner bipartisan welfare reform substitute that will dramatically 
overhaul our welfare system. This substitute is based on the welfare 
bill that we crafted earlier this year to improve upon the Governors' 
plan.
  I support bold welfare reform that moves recipients from welfare to 
work and encourages personal responsibility. This substitute does that, 
allowing States to try new approaches that meet the needs of their 
recipients. States are already experimenting with welfare reform. Over 
40 waivers have been given to States by the Department of Health and 
Human Services, and the results are encouraging. It is clear that we 
must dramatically change our system to give women and children hope and 
opportunities to build a better future. This substitute does that. In 
giving leeway and dollars to States, however, we must ensure that we 
protect children and the disabled by adopting Castle-Tanner.
  This substitute requires that States invest the resources necessary 
for welfare reform to succeed by establishing an 85-percent maintenance 
of effort requirement. It also ensures that States will have sufficient 
funds to provide work programs to move people off welfare into work.
  We know that child care funding is the cornerstone of successful 
welfare reform. Without it, women cannot even go to work or job 
training. This substitute improves the Governors' plan by increasing 
child care funding by $4 billion and requiring States to spend 100 
percent of their 1994 child care dollars before they can draw down 
Federal funds. It also provides States the flexibility to permit women 
with children under 6 to work 20 hours a week and maintains health and 
safety standards set by States for child care providers.
  This substitute protects children by requiring States to provide 
vouchers for children in families removed from the welfare rolls as a 
result of a time limit of less than 5 years, and gives States the 
option of providing vouchers for families cut off as a result of the 5-
year time limit. It also preserves the national food stamp safety net 
and does not allow food stamps to be converted into a block grant. Its 
humane immigration provisions would exempt children from the food stamp 
ban and exempt disabled children from the SSI ban.
  I have been working with the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues 
for many years to enact child support reform that will finally crack 
down on deadbeat parents by enacting penalties with real teeth and 
establishing Federal registries to help track deadbeats. This 
substitute contains these critical provisions.
  Madam Chairman, I am pleased that H.R. 3734 contains substantial 
improvements over the House-passed bill and the conference report. The 
Castle-Tanner substitute, however, is our best opportunity yet to enact 
welfare reform that moves people from welfare to work while protecting 
children. I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting the Castle-
Tanner substitute.
  Mr. CRAMER. Madam Chairman, do we want welfare reform? That is the 
bottom line here today. The Castle-Tanner bill is a bipartisan bill. It 
shares and improves upon the leadership's ideas on how to restructure 
our welfare system that has become a burned-out, broken-down 
bureaucracy.
  Like the leadership's bill, Castle-Tanner creates a single cash 
welfare block grant to replace the current AFDC, JOBS and Emergency 
Assistance programs. It requires recipients to work within 2 years and 
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to 5 years. Castle-Tanner requires able-bodied individuals with no 
dependents between the ages of 18 to 50 to participate in a work 
program in order to receive food stamps. It requires minor mothers to 
stay in school and live with an adult to receive assistance. In 
addition, Castle-Tanner creates a $2 billion contingency fund for 
States to meet their need in time of recession.
  In this era of giving the States more responsibility, Castle-Tanner 
honors the Governor's request for greater flexibility. The leadership's 
bill, however, rejects the Governor's request. The National Governor's 
Assoication says ``the bill greatly restricts State flexibility and 
will result in increased, unfunded costs for States, while undermining 
States ability to implement effective welfare reform programs. CBO 
estimates the leaderhip's bill would fall $12.9 billion short of the 
funding needed to meet the work requirements under their measure. 
Castle-Tanner remedies this by providing States necessary help in 
implementing their work programs.
  I have focused much of my work in Congress on helping our children. 
One of the most important additions to the leadership's bill is Castle-
Tanner's protection of our Nation's children. States must be able to 
provide for the needs of children. Castle-Tanner requires vouchers for 
those children whose families lose cash assistance as a result of a 
State time limit less than 5 years. Castle-Tanner contains sufficient 
child care assistance for mothers participating in work programs and 
provides additional child care assistance for working poor families in 
jeopardy of losing employment if child care assistance is not provided. 
Fathers are held responsible for their children through strong child 
support enforcement provisions. Unfortunately, CBO estimates the 
leadership's bill would fall $800 million short of the child care funds 
necessary to meet the legislation's work requirements and maintain 
current levels of spending on transitional and at-risk child care.
  We must permanently erase the current, broken welfare state. To do 
this, we must ensure people are able to move into the workforce and 
enable them to stay there. Castle-Tanner does this while at the same 
time preserving the most sacred of American values--the family. The 
working poor should not be required to choose between caring for their 
children and the opportunity to be productive, working members of our 
society.
  The CHAIRMAN. All time for debate on this amendment has expired.
  The question is on the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
offered by the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Tanner].
  The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that the noes 
appeared to have it.


                             recorded vote

  Mr. TANNER. Madam Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 168, 
noes 258, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 329]

                               AYES--168

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baesler
     Baldacci
     Barcia
     Barrett (WI)
     Beilenson
     Bentsen
     Berman
     Bevill
     Bishop
     Blumenauer
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boucher
     Brewster
     Browder
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Bryant (TX)
     Cardin
     Castle
     Chapman
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Collins (IL)
     Collins (MI)
     Condit
     Conyers
     Costello
     Cramer
     Danner
     Davis
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Deutsch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doyle
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fazio
     Flake
     Foglietta
     Ford
     Fox
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Furse
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Geren
     Gibbons
     Gilman
     Gordon
     Green (TX)
     Greenwood
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hamilton
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hefner
     Hinchey
     Holden
     Hoyer
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jacobs
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnston
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (MA)
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Kleczka
     Klink
     LaFalce
     Lantos
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lowey
     Luther
     Maloney
     Manton
     Markey
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McDermott
     McHale
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek
     Millender-McDonald
     Minge
     Moakley
     Mollohan
     Montgomery
     Moran
     Morella
     Murtha
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Orton
     Pallone
     Payne (VA)
     Pelosi
     Peterson (FL)
     Peterson (MN)
     Pickett
     Pomeroy
     Poshard
     Rangel
     Reed
     Rivers
     Roemer
     Rose
     Roukema
     Sabo
     Sawyer
     Schroeder
     Schumer
     Scott
     Sisisky
     Skaggs
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Spratt
     Stenholm
     Studds
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Thornton
     Thurman
     Torkildsen
     Torricelli
     Traficant
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Volkmer
     Ward
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Weldon (PA)
     Williams
     Wilson
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wynn
     Yates

                               NOES--258

     Allard
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker (CA)
     Baker (LA)
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Becerra
     Bereuter
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bliley
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brownback
     Bryant (TN)
     Bunn
     Bunning
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chenoweth
     Christensen
     Chrysler
     Clinger
     Coble
     Coburn
     Coleman
     Collins (GA)
     Combest
     Cooley
     Cox
     Coyne
     Crane
     Crapo
     Cremeans
     Cubin
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Deal
     DeLay
     Dellums
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Doolittle
     Dornan
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Engel
     English
     Ensign
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fawell
     Fields (LA)
     Fields (TX)
     Filner
     Flanagan
     Foley
     Fowler
     Franks (CT)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frisa
     Funderburk
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gingrich
     Gonzalez
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Greene (UT)
     Gunderson
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Heineman
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hilliard
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hoke
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inglis
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jefferson
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kim
     King
     Kingston
     Klug
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Laughlin
     Lazio
     Leach
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Lightfoot
     Linder
     Livingston
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Longley
     Lucas
     Manzullo
     Martinez
     Martini
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McKeon
     Menendez
     Metcalf
     Meyers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Mink
     Molinari
     Moorhead
     Myers
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Oxley
     Parker
     Pastor
     Paxon
     Payne (NJ)
     Petri
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce
     Quillen
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Richardson
     Riggs
     Roberts
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roth
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Rush
     Salmon
     Sanders
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaefer
     Seastrand
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shuster
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Solomon
     Souder
     Spence
     Stark
     Stearns
     Stockman
     Stokes
     Stump
     Talent
     Tate
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Tejeda
     Thomas
     Thompson
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Torres
     Towns
     Upton
     Velazquez
     Vucanovich
     Walker
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Waters
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weller
     White
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Zeliff
     Zimmer

                             NOT VOTING--8

     de la Garza
     Forbes
     Lincoln
     McDade
     Miller (CA)
     Packard
     Schiff
     Young (FL)

                              {time}  1545

  The Clerk announced the following pairs:
  On this vote:

       Mrs. Lincoln for, with Mr. Forbes against.
       Mr. Miller of California for, with Mr. Packard against.

  Mr. GONZALEZ and Mr. HILLIARD changed their vote from ``aye'' to 
``no.''
  Mrs. COLLINS of Illinois, Mr. FOGLIETTA, and Mr. GILMAN changed their 
vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment in the nature of a substitute was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The CHAIRMAN. Under the rule, the Committee rises.
  Accordingly the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Armey) having assumed the chair, Ms. Greene of Utah, chairman of the 
Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, reported that 
that Committee, having had under consideration the bill, (H.R. 3734), 
to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201(a)(1) of the 
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1997, pursuant to 
House Resolution 482, as amended by the adoption of that rule, she 
reported the bill back to the House with a further amendment adopted by 
the Committee of the Whole.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is 
ordered.
  The question is on the further amendment.
  The further amendment was agreed to.

[[Page H7988]]

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third 
reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.


                motion to recommit offered by mr. tanner

  Mr. TANNER. Mr. Speaker, I offer a motion to recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the bill?
  Mr. TANNER. Yes, Mr. Speaker, in its present form.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Tanner moves to recommit the bill H.R. 3734 to the 
     Committee on Budget with instructions to report the same to 
     the House with the following amendment:
       In section 408(a)(8)(A) of the Social Security Act, as 
     proposed to be added by section 4103(a)(1), insert ``cash'' 
     before ``assistance to a family.''

  Mr. TANNER (during the reading). Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
that the motion be considered as read and printed in the Record.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Tennessee?
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Tanner] is 
recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. TANNER. Mr. Speaker, I know it has been a long debate. Almost 
everything that can be said has been said about the bill. I do not 
intend to use the full 5 minutes.
  The motion to recommit is a laser beam about children. The Castle-
Tanner substitute that was just voted down requires States to provide 
vouchers for the needs of the child for families cut off as a result of 
State-imposed time limits of less than 5 years, and gives States the 
option of providing vouchers for families cut off as a result of the 
Federal 5-year limit.
  The bill that we are about to vote on in a minute explicitly 
prohibits States from using Federal funds to provide vouchers for 
children after this 5-year time limit.
  Now, Mr. Speaker, I think both of these bills, under the debate that 
has occurred, a fair reading by any fair-minded individual would 
conclude both of these proposals are a complete and dramatic reform and 
change of the present system, which everybody wants. Our substitute and 
time limits, personal responsibility, work requirements, State 
flexibility, just like the base bill.
  I am going to talk about State flexibility. Why in the world, when we 
are going to a block grant and telling the States, ``You fashion the 
program that you think is best for your State,'' would we go then and 
after 5 years prohibit the States from using any Federal funds for 
noncash vouchers for kids whose parents have run over the 5-year or run 
out of the 5-year limit?
  Mr. Speaker, according to the New Testament there is only one 
individual in the whole of human history who was privileged or enabled 
to decide the circumstance and the place and time of his birth, and 
that was decided for him by his father. These children come into this 
world and they cannot help their circumstance.
  Now, for this body to say to the State, ``You cannot use block grant 
money that is put there for you to devise for children in welfare 
programs,'' for this Congress to say, ``But, by the way, you cannot use 
any of this money to provide noncash assistance to children because 
their,'' according to some, ``deadbeat parent has overstayed his 
welcome in society,'' I think is just plain wrong.
  This motion to recommit days that States will simply have the option 
to use part of the Federal grant money they receive to take care of 
these people in vouchers, noncash vouchers for children. I do not know 
of anyone who wants a welfare system where we reform it and say to a 3-
year-old child, ``You are just cut off, and it is too bad because your 
33-year-old parents are not taking care of you.'' That is not welfare 
reform.
  This will cure that, and I would urge a ``yes'' vote on this very 
simple, straightforward motion to recommit.
  Mr. SHAW. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the motion to 
recommit.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Florida [Mr. Shaw] for 5 minutes.
  Mr. SHAW. Mr. Speaker, I want to address some of the remarks made by 
the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. tanner].
  This bill has been very, very carefully crafted, and it is something 
we did not draw up last night or even last year. We have been working 
on this thing for so long, we have had so many drafts, and I think it 
has been done in the most compassionate way possible.
  I would like to recognize Dr. Ron Haskins as someone who has been a 
great resource not only for the Republican side but he has also been a 
great resource for the Castle-Tanner people.
  To address the question that is immediately before us can States 
craft vouchers after 5 years, the bill that is before us, that we are 
about to vote on on final passage, has a 20-percent exception in it. It 
provides that States can take 20 percent of their caseload and take it 
out of the welfare reform picture.
  This simply means that they can use that money, the 20 percent, to 
issue vouchers if they want to, so in effect it does what the gentleman 
from Tennessee [Mr. Tanner] is talking about.
  Mr. Speaker, this is extraordinarily important. Also, we particularly 
provide in the bill, so that we do maintain States' rights in the bill, 
specifically that there is absolutely no Federal hold on what the 
States do with their own funds. So, in effect, what Mr. Tanner wants to 
do can be done.
  The difference is what message do we send from this body. Are we for 
genuine welfare reform? Are we for time limits on welfare reform? That 
is the message that we have got to send from this Congress if we are 
going to look for the people to get up and go to work and cooperate 
with us and take hold of their lives. This is the message that we carry 
with us when we are trying to rescue people from a corrupted system of 
welfare that has prevailed in this country now for 60 years.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote on the motion to recommit and a 
``yes'' vote on final passage.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is 
ordered on the motion to recommit.
  There was no objection.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. TANNER. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 203, 
noes 220, not voting 10, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 330]

                               AYES--203

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baesler
     Baldacci
     Barcia
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Beilenson
     Bentsen
     Berman
     Bevill
     Bishop
     Blumenauer
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boucher
     Brewster
     Browder
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Bryant (TX)
     Bunn
     Cardin
     Castle
     Chapman
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coleman
     Collins (IL)
     Collins (MI)
     Condit
     Conyers
     Costello
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Cummings
     Danner
     Davis
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Dellums
     Deutsch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doyle
     Durbin
     Edwards
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fazio
     Fields (LA)
     Filner
     Flake
     Foglietta
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Furse
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Geren
     Gibbons
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green (TX)
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hamilton
     Harman
     Hastings (FL)
     Hefner
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Holden
     Hoyer
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jacobs
     Jefferson
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnston
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (MA)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Kleczka
     Klink
     LaFalce
     Lantos
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Luther
     Maloney
     Manton
     Markey
     Martinez
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McDermott
     McHale
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek
     Menendez
     Millender-McDonald
     Minge
     Mink
     Moakley
     Mollohan
     Montgomery
     Moran
     Morella
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Neal
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Orton
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pastor
     Payne (NJ)
     Payne (VA)
     Pelosi
     Peterson (FL)
     Peterson (MN)
     Pickett
     Pomeroy
     Poshard
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Reed
     Richardson
     Rivers
     Roemer
     Rose
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Sawyer
     Schroeder
     Schumer
     Scott
     Serrano
     Sisisky

[[Page H7989]]


     Skaggs
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Stokes
     Studds
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Tejeda
     Thompson
     Thornton
     Thurman
     Torres
     Torricelli
     Towns
     Traficant
     Upton
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Volkmer
     Ward
     Waters
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Williams
     Wilson
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wynn
     Yates

                               NOES--220

     Allard
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baker (CA)
     Baker (LA)
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bereuter
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bliley
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brownback
     Bryant (TN)
     Bunning
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chenoweth
     Christensen
     Chrysler
     Clinger
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins (GA)
     Combest
     Cooley
     Cox
     Crane
     Crapo
     Cremeans
     Cubin
     Cunningham
     Deal
     DeLay
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Doolittle
     Dornan
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     English
     Ensign
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fawell
     Fields (TX)
     Flanagan
     Foley
     Fowler
     Fox
     Franks (CT)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frisa
     Funderburk
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Graham
     Greene (UT)
     Greenwood
     Gunderson
     Gutknecht
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Heineman
     Herger
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Hoke
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inglis
     Istook
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kim
     King
     Kingston
     Klug
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     LaHood
     Largent
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Laughlin
     Lazio
     Leach
     Lewis (KY)
     Lightfoot
     Linder
     Livingston
     LoBiondo
     Longley
     Lucas
     Manzullo
     Martini
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McKeon
     Metcalf
     Meyers
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Molinari
     Moorhead
     Myers
     Myrick
     Nethercutt
     Neumann
     Ney
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oxley
     Parker
     Paxon
     Petri
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce
     Quillen
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Riggs
     Roberts
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roth
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaefer
     Seastrand
     Sensenbrenner
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shuster
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Solomon
     Souder
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stockman
     Stump
     Talent
     Tate
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas
     Thornberry
     Tiahrt
     Torkildsen
     Vucanovich
     Walker
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watts (OK)
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     White
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Zeliff
     Zimmer

                             NOT VOTING--10

     de la Garza
     Forbes
     Lewis (CA)
     Lincoln
     McDade
     McIntosh
     Miller (CA)
     Packard
     Schiff
     Young (FL)

                              {time}  1612

  The Clerk announced the following pairs:
  On this vote:

       Mrs. Lincoln for, with Mr. Packard against.
       Mr. Miller of California for, with Mr. Schiff against.

  So the motion to recommit was rejected.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.


                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. McINTOSH. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 330, I was unavoidably 
detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Armey). The question is on the passage 
of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.


                             recorded vote

  Mr. SHAW. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 256, 
noes 170, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 331]

                               AYES--256

     Allard
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baesler
     Baker (CA)
     Baker (LA)
     Ballenger
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bereuter
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Bliley
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Brewster
     Browder
     Brownback
     Bryant (TN)
     Bunning
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chenoweth
     Christensen
     Chrysler
     Clinger
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins (GA)
     Combest
     Condit
     Cooley
     Cox
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crapo
     Cremeans
     Cubin
     Cunningham
     Danner
     Davis
     Deal
     DeLay
     Deutsch
     Dickey
     Doolittle
     Dornan
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     Fields (TX)
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     Frelinghuysen
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     Gingrich
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     Goodling
     Gordon
     Goss
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     Johnson (CT)
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     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
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     Mica
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     Molinari
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     Neumann
     Ney
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     Petri
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     Porter
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     Riggs
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     Roemer
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Roth
     Royce
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Saxton
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     Zeliff
     Zimmer

                               NOES--170

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Andrews
     Baldacci
     Barcia
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Beilenson
     Bentsen
     Berman
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     Clement
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     Collins (IL)
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     Conyers
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     Coyne
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     DeFazio
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     Dellums
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Durbin
     Engel
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Farr
     Fattah
     Fazio
     Fields (LA)
     Filner
     Flake
     Foglietta
     Ford
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Gibbons
     Gonzalez
     Green (TX)
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hastings (FL)
     Hefner
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hoyer
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jacobs
     Jefferson
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnston
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy (MA)
     Kennedy (RI)
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Klink
     LaFalce
     Lantos
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Luther
     Maloney
     Manton
     Markey
     Martinez
     Matsui
     McCarthy
     McDermott
     McKinney
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     Meehan
     Meek
     Menendez
     Millender-McDonald
     Minge
     Mink
     Moakley
     Mollohan
     Moran
     Murtha
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     Neal
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     Olver
     Ortiz
     Orton
     Owens
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     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanders
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     Scott
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     Skaggs
     Slaughter
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stenholm
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     Studds
     Stupak
     Tanner
     Tejeda
     Thompson
     Thornton
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     Visclosky
     Volkmer
     Ward
     Waters
     Watt (NC)
     Waxman
     Williams
     Wilson
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wynn
     Yates

                             NOT VOTING--8

     de la Garza
     Forbes
     Lincoln
     McDade
     Miller (CA)
     Packard
     Schiff
     Young (FL)

                              {time}  1632

  The Clerk announced the following pair:
  On this vote:

       Mrs. Lincoln, with Mr. Miller of California against.


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  Mr. BECERRA changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Mr. BISHOP changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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