[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 219 (Monday, November 15, 1999)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 62074-62087]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29401]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of Child Support Enforcement
RIN 0970-AB97

45 CFR Part 303


National Medical Support Notice

AGENCY: Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE), Administration for 
Children and Families, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of Proposed Rule Making.

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SUMMARY: This proposed regulation implements provisions of the Child 
Support Performance and Incentives Act of 1998 (CSPIA), Public Law 105-
200, that require State child support enforcement agencies, under title 
IV-D of the Social Security Act (the Act), to enforce the health care 
coverage provision in a child support order, and to use the National 
Medical Support Notice (NMSN) to aid enforcement.

DATES: Consideration will be given to written comments received by 
January 14, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Address comments to: Administration for Children and 
Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant 
Promenade, SW., Washington DC 20447. Attention: Division of Policy and 
Planning, Office of Child Support Enforcement. Comments will be 
available for public inspection Monday through Friday, 8:00 A.M. to 
4:30 P.M. on the fourth floor of the Department's offices at the 
address mentioned above.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Seneta, Division of Policy & 
Planning, OCSE, tel: (202) 401-5154, fax: (202) 401-3444, e-mail: 
[email protected]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Statutory Authority

    This notice of proposed rulemaking is published under the authority 
of sections 452(f) and 466(a)(19) of the Social Security Act (the Act), 
42 U.S.C. 652(f) and 666(a)(19), as amended by section 401 of the Child 
Support Performance and Incentive Act of 1998 (CSPIA), Public Law 105-
200, and technical amendments in section 4(b) of the Noncitizen Benefit 
Clarification and other Technical Amendments Act of 1998, Public Law 
105-306.
    Section 401(b)(4) of CSPIA requires the Secretaries of Health and 
Human Services (HHS) and Labor to publish interim regulations providing 
for the NMSN not later than 10 months after the date of enactment of 
CSPIA. The date of enactment was July 16, 1998 and 10 months from that 
date is May 16, 1999. The Medical Child Support Working Group asked to 
be involved in the development of the notice prior to the original 
publication due date. In the interest of developing a proposed Notice 
that best addresses the needs and concerns of the affected parties, DOL 
and HHS solicited comments and suggestions regarding the Notice from 
the Working Group at its public meetings of April 13, and May 12 and 
13, 1999, that proved very helpful in the development of the Notice 
that is proposed herein. In order to encourage greater public 
participation in this rulemaking and reduce the possibility of 
confusion, the agencies have decided to publish the Notice as a 
Proposed Rule, rather than as an interim regulation. We believe that 
this more closely comports with congressional intent to permit the 
affected parties, including the Working Group, to comment on the Notice 
before it becomes effective.
    Also being published in the Federal Register today is a parallel 
proposed regulation developed by the Department of Labor (DOL) under 
section 609(a) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 
(ERISA) (29 U.S.C. 1169(a)), adopting the NMSN. Under ERISA section 
609(a)(5)(C), if the NMSN is appropriately completed, and satisfies the 
conditions of ERISA section 609(a)(3) and (4), the NMSN is deemed to be 
a ``qualified medical child support order'' as defined in section 
609(a) of ERISA.
    In this regulation, OCSE is implementing the provisions of CSPIA 
that require States to have in effect laws that require procedures to 
enforce the health care coverage provisions in child support orders 
through the use of the NMSN. The NMSN notifies the noncustodial 
parent's employer of the provision for health care coverage of the 
child in a IV-D case.

Background

    The enactment of the Child Support Enforcement Amendments of 1984, 
Public Law 98-378, added a new section 452(f) to the Act that required 
the Secretary to issue regulations to require State IV-D agencies to 
secure medical support information, and to secure and enforce medical 
support obligations whenever health care coverage is available to the 
noncustodial parent at a reasonable cost. Initially these regulations 
were placed in Subpart B at 45 CFR 306.50 and 51. Subsequently they 
were redesignated and placed where they appear now at 45 CFR 303.30 and 
31. Since the enactment of this legislation and the implementing 
regulations, States have been making efforts to establish and enforce 
medical support for children with limited success.
    The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (OBRA), Public Law 
103-66, was a significant piece of legislation that contained 
provisions intended to remove some of the impediments to State IV-D 
agency attempts to secure and enforce medical coverage for children in 
IV-D cases. OBRA contained many improvements that facilitated obtaining 
and enforcing medical coverage, including: prohibiting discriminatory 
health care coverage practices; creating ``qualified medical child 
support orders'' (QMCSOs) to obtain coverage from group health plans 
subject to ERISA; and allowing employers to deduct the costs of health 
insurance premiums from the employee/obligor's income. Some of the 
medical support provisions of OBRA were included as Medicaid State plan 
requirements under section 1908 of the Act [42 U.S.C.1396g-1] and 
required States to enact laws governing employer and insurer compliance 
with health care provisions of support orders. The QMCSO provisions are 
contained in section 609 of ERISA (29 U.S.C. 1169).
    Section 382 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity 
Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), Public Law 104-193, added a new 
paragraph 19 to section 466(a) of the Act (466(a)(19)) that requires a 
provision for health care coverage in all child support orders 
established or enforced by IV-D agencies. Prior to enactment of PRWORA, 
health care coverage was required for cases with an assignment of 
medical support rights for public assistance cases under titles IV-A, 
XIX, and IV-E, and, by regulation, individuals not receiving public 
assistance could choose not to seek medical support. Despite improved 
medical support requirements (such as procedures for including health 
care coverage in all child support orders under title IV-D) and a focus 
on enforcement of medical support by OCSE and the State IV-D programs, 
the enforcement of medical support coverage for children under the IV-D 
program has remained elusive.
    Extensive consultations with State IV-D agencies, employers, HHS, 
DOL, and advocates of medical support coverage, resulted in an array of 
medical support provisions in CSPIA. These provisions were enacted in 
order to further eliminate barriers that prevent meaningful 
establishment and enforcement of medical child support coverage.
    In addition to the requirements that are contained in this 
regulation, CSPIA

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provides for the establishment of a Medical Child Support Working 
Group. The Working Group is charged with submitting a report to the 
Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Labor containing 
recommendations regarding appropriate measures to address impediments 
to the effective enforcement of medical support by IV-D agencies. This 
report is due not later than January 2000. The Secretaries in turn will 
jointly submit a report to Congress not later than two months after 
receiving the Working Group's report. The Working Group includes 30 
members representing: HHS and DOL, State child support directors, State 
Medicaid directors, employers (including payroll professionals), 
sponsors and administrators of group health plans (as defined in 
section 607(1) of ERISA), children potentially eligible for medical 
support, such as child advocacy organizations, State medical child 
support programs, and organizations representing State child support 
programs.
    Section 401 of CSPIA modified section 452(f) of the Act to make it 
consistent with the requirement in section 466(a)(19) of the Act, as 
amended by section 382 of PRWORA, that medical support be included as 
part of any child support order under title IV-D of the Act. Section 
401 of CSPIA further strengthens the enforcement of medical support 
coverage for children by requiring HHS and DOL to jointly develop a 
NMSN to be issued by States to enforce the medical support obligations 
of a non-custodial parent. The NMSN must comply with requirements of 
section 609(a)(3) and (4) of ERISA, which pertain to informational 
requirements and restrictions against requiring new types or forms of 
benefits. In addition to complying with ERISA requirements and all 
title IV-D requirements, the NMSN must include a severable employer 
withholding notice informing the employer of: (1) applicable provisions 
of State law requiring the employer to withhold any employee 
contributions due under any group health plan in connection with 
coverage required to be provided; (2) the duration of the withholding 
requirement; (3) the applicability of limitations on any such 
withholding under title III of the Consumer Credit Protection Act; (4) 
the applicability of any prioritization required under State law 
between amounts to be withheld for purposes of cash support and amounts 
to be withheld for purposes of medical support, in cases where 
available funds are insufficient for full withholding for both 
purposes; and (5) the name and telephone number of the appropriate unit 
or division to contact at the State agency regarding the NMSN.
    We believe that employers will welcome the use of a standard form 
that will be used by all State IV-D agencies as required in these 
regulations. This will simplify processing for all concerned and most 
importantly enhance health care coverage for children who are excluded 
from their noncustodial parent's group health plan.
    Section 466(a)(19) of the Act, as amended by section 401(c)(3) of 
CSPIA, requires States to have in effect laws requiring the use of 
procedures providing for IV-D agencies to use the NMSN to enforce child 
support orders which include a provision for the health care coverage 
of the child. Section 466(a)(19)(B) of the Act requires the use of the 
NMSN in all cases where the noncustodial parent is required to provide 
health care coverage for the child pursuant to the order and the 
noncustodial parent's employer is known to the State agency. The 
statute provides an exception, under section 466(a)(19)(B), to using 
the NMSN if a court or administrative order stipulates alternative 
health care coverage to the noncustodial parent's employment-based 
coverage.
    Under section 466(a)(19)(B)(i), States must use the NMSN to 
transfer notice of the provision for health care coverage of the child 
to employers, including State or local governments and churches. 
Section 466(a)(19)(B)(ii) requires the employer within 20 business days 
after the date of the NMSN, to transfer the NMSN, without the employer 
withholding notice, to the appropriate plan which provides health care 
coverage for which the child is eligible.
    Upon notification by the plan administrator(s) that enrollment of 
the child(ren) has been completed and withholding is required for 
employee contributions to one or more plans under this notice, the 
employer implements the withholding from the employee's income. The 
employer withholds employee contributions within the limitations on 
withholding in accordance with the amounts allowed by the State of the 
employee's principal place of employment (which may equal or be less 
than that allowed by the Federal Consumer Credit Protection Act (15 
U.S.C., section 1673(b)), or the amounts allowed for medical support by 
the child support order whichever is less. The employer also observes 
the State law of the employee's principal place of employment for 
prioritization purposes if withholding is required for both cash and 
medical support payments.
    Section 466(a)(19)(B)(iii) of the Act requires, in cases where the 
noncustodial parent is a newly hired employee, that the State agency 
send the NMSN, together with the income withholding notice pursuant to 
section 466(b) of the Act, within 2 business days after the date the 
newly hired employee is entered into the State Directory of New Hires, 
pursuant to section 453A of the Act.
    Under section 466(a)(19)(B)(iv) when the employment of a 
noncustodial parent with any employer who has received an NMSN is 
terminated, the employer is required to notify the State IV-D agency of 
this termination. Finally, under paragraph (C), any liability of a 
noncustodial parent employee to a group health plan for contributions 
necessary for enrollment of a child is subject to appropriate 
enforcement, unless the employee contests such enforcement based on a 
mistake of fact.
    States must implement use of the NMSN no later than the first day 
of the first quarter beginning after the close of the first regular 
State legislative session that begins after October 1, 2001. This 
deadline provides States ample opportunity to enact implementing State 
legislation after publication of final regulations, issuance of the 
Medical Child Support Working Group's recommendations, and the 
Secretaries' report to Congress.

Description of Regulatory Provisions

    We are implementing the statutory requirement for the development 
and use of the NMSN by adding a new section, 45 CFR 303.32, ``National 
Medical Support Notice,'' to existing rules governing the Child Support 
Enforcement program under title IV-D of the Act. This section restates 
statutory requirements.
    Section 303.32(a) requires the State to have laws requiring 
procedures for the mandatory use of the NMSN in accordance with section 
466(a)(19) of the Act.
    Section 303.32(b) provides for an exception to the use of the NMSN. 
The exception applies to cases with court or administrative orders that 
stipulate alternative health care coverage.
    Section 303.32(c) includes the mandatory procedures for enforcement 
of health care coverage for the child through the use of the NMSN.
    Section 303.32(c)(1) requires State IV-D agencies to use the NMSN 
to provide notice of the provision for health care coverage of the 
child(ren) to employers.

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    Section 303.32(c)(2) requires State agencies to send the NMSN to 
the employer within 2 business days after the date of entry into the 
State Directory of New Hires of an employee who is an obligor in a IV-D 
case.
    Section 303.32(c)(3) requires employers to transfer the NMSN to the 
appropriate group health care plan providing any such health care 
coverage for which the child(ren) is eligible (excluding the severable 
employer withholding notice directing the employer to withhold any 
mandatory contributions to the plan) within 20 business days after the 
date of the NMSN.
    Section 303.32(c)(4) requires employers to withhold any mandatory 
employee contributions to the plan and send any employee contributions 
withheld directly to the plan. If the employee contests such 
withholding, we are proposing that employers initiate withholding until 
such time as the employer receives notice that the contest is resolved.
    Employers are specifically directed to transfer contributions to 
the plan because employers may also be directed by a separate child 
support withholding notice to forward support payments withheld from 
the employee's wages to a State IV-D agency.
    Section 303.32(c)(5) requires employers to notify the State agency 
promptly whenever the employment of a noncustodial parent for whom the 
employer received an NMSN is terminated. This is consistent with the 
requirement for notification of termination in income withholding cases 
pursuant to 45 CFR 303.100(e)(1)(x).
    To comply with statutory requirements, section 303.32(d) requires 
laws requiring the use of the NMSN to be enacted by States. The 
requirements for NMSN use must be effective the later of October 1, 
2001 or the effective date of implementing State law. Such State laws 
must be effective no later than the first day of the first calendar 
quarter beginning after the first session of the State legislature that 
begins after October 1, 2001. For States that have 2-year legislative 
sessions, each year of such session would be regarded as a separate 
regular session.

Description of the National Medical Support Notice

    In the development of this notice, we involved the Medical Child 
Support Working Group. The Working Group provided substantive comments, 
recommendations for changes, and a changed format that will be easy to 
follow by all parties concerned.
    A State IV-D agency will issue a two part NMSN to an employer who 
maintains or contributes to a group health plan. Part A of the NMSN, 
the Employer Withholding Notice, is modeled on the Federally-approved 
standardized income withholding form that was issued to State IV-D 
agencies by action transmittal (OCSE-AT-98-03) on January 27, 1998. 
Employers have voiced approval of this form indicating that the 
standardized uniform withholding form has greatly facilitated the 
processing of child support income attachments.
    Part A, the Employer Withholding Notice, includes information for, 
and responsibilities of the employer. The ``Instructions to Employer'' 
segment of the form explains the responsibilities of the employer. The 
issuing agency provides this information starting with the name and 
address of the issuing agency, date of the notice, case number, 
telephone number of the issuing agency, court name (if applicable), 
date of the support order, and the support order number.
    The issuing agency provides pertinent information with respect to 
the employer, the employee/obligor, the custodial parent, and the child 
or children also known as alternate recipients. The issuing agency 
provides the employer's Federal EIN number (if known) and the 
employer's name and address. Information on the employee/obligor is 
also provided including the employee/obligor's name, social security 
number, and mailing address. Information is provided on the custodial 
parent, and the child or children (the children are also referred to as 
alternate recipients). These include the names and address of the 
custodial parent and children. If there is a danger of domestic 
violence and abuse to the custodial parent and/or the children, 
provision is made to substitute the address of the custodial parent and 
children with name and address of an agency official. Finally, the 
Notice includes a provision for the type of family group health care 
coverage that is required by the order, e.g., basic, dental, vision, 
prescription drug, mental health, and other.
    The ``Employer Response'', attached to Part A, is to be completed 
by the employer, as appropriate when either (1) the employer does not 
offer or participate in plans providing family health care coverage or 
the employee is among a class of employees that are not eligible for 
family health coverage under any group health plan maintained by the 
employer or to which the employer contributes, (2) coverage is 
unavailable because the employee is no longer employed by the employer, 
or (3) State or Federal withholding limitations and/or prioritization 
preclude the withholding from the employee's income of the amount 
necessary for coverage.
    Under the proposed DOL regulation published today at FR Part B of 
the NMSN, the Medical Support Notice, notifies the administrator of the 
group health plan in which the named employee is enrolled or eligible 
for enrollment, that the employee is obligated by a court or 
administrative child support order to provide medical support coverage 
for the named child(ren). Part B provides the information necessary for 
the plan administrator to treat the notice as a ``qualified medical 
child support order'' under section 609(a) of ERISA, and to enroll the 
child(ren) as dependents in the group health plan. Part B of the NMSN 
was also developed to comply with the requirements placed on group 
health plans under State laws described in section 1908 of the Act, and 
to accommodate the requirements on State agencies to use automated 
processing of medical child support orders as well. Part B also 
includes a ``Plan Administrator Response'' that is used by the plan 
administrator to inform the Issuing Agency, that either the child has 
been enrolled, or not enrolled with a reason, and other information 
regarding coverage that is pertinent or lacking for enrollment. The 
specific contents of Part B are explained in detail in the DOL 
regulation published today.
    In order to provide an opportunity for maximum review and public 
comment on the National Medical Support Notice (NMSN), we have attached 
the proposed NMSN (including instructions) as an Appendix. We will 
revise this notice following the comment period on the NPRM and will 
issue it to States through the ACF policy issuance system. We will not 
re-publish this appendix as a part of the final rule. However, we will 
make appropriate changes as a result of comments received.

Executive Order 12866

    Executive Order 12866 requires that regulations be drafted to 
ensure that they are consistent with the priorities and principles set 
forth in the Executive Order. The Department has determined that this 
proposed rule is consistent with these priorities and principles. The 
changes in this proposed rule reiterate the language in the statute, 
and do not add any nonstatutory requirements.

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis

    The Regulatory Flexibility Act (Public Law 96-354) requires the 
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government to anticipate and reduce the impact of regulations and 
paperwork requirements on small entities. The Secretary certifies that 
this proposed rule will not have a significant economic impact on a 
substantial number of small entities because the primary impact of 
these regulations is on State governments.

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

    Section 303.32(c)(1) contains an information collection 
requirement. As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. 3507(d)), the Administration for Children and Families has 
submitted a copy of this section to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) for its review.
     Title: National Medical Support Notice.
     Summary: The information collected by State title IV-D 
agencies will be used to complete the National Medical Support Notice 
(NMSN) which will be sent to employers of employee/obligors and used as 
a means of enforcing the health care coverage provision in a child 
support order. Primarily, the information State agencies will use to 
complete the NMSN will be the information regarding appropriate persons 
which is necessary for the enrollment of the child in employer related 
health care coverage, such as the employee/obligor (name, SSN, mailing 
address); employer's name/address; the name/address of the Alternate 
Recipient who is the child; and the custodial parent's name and 
address. The employer forwards the second part of the NMSN to the group 
health plan administrator which contains the same individual 
identifying information. The plan administrator requires this 
information to determine whether to enroll the Alternate Recipient in 
the group health plan. If necessary, the employer would also initiate 
wage withholding from the employee's wages for the purpose of paying 
premiums to the group health plan for enrollment of the child.
     Description of the likely respondents: State and local 
title IV-D agencies initiate the process of enforcing medical health 
care coverage for the child by completing and sending the notice to 
known employers of the noncustodial parents (employee/obligors). 
Employers and plan administrators are on the receiving end of the NMSN.

Information collection........................................     (\1\)
Number of respondents.........................................        54
Responses per respondent......................................    13,454
Average burden hours per response.............................     .1666
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    Total annual burden hours.................................   123,507
 
\1\ 45 CFR 303.32.

    ACF will consider comments by the public on this proposed rule in:
     Evaluating the accuracy of ACF's estimate of the burden of 
the proposed collections of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumption used;
     Enhancing the quality, usefulness, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
     Minimizing the burden of the collection of information on 
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate 
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technology, e.g., 
permitting electronic submission of responses.
    OMB is required to make a decision concerning the collection of 
information contained in this interim final regulation between 30 and 
60 days after publication of this document in the Federal Register. 
Therefore, a comment is best assured of having its full effect if OMB 
receives it within 30 days of publication. This does not affect the 
deadline for the public to comment to the Department on the proposed 
regulation. Written comments to OMB for the information collection 
should be sent directly to the following: Office of Management and 
Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington 
DC 20503, Attn: Ms. Wendy Taylor.

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995

    Section 202 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 requires 
that a covered agency prepare a budgetary impact statement before 
promulgating a rule that includes any Federal mandate that may result 
in the expenditure by State, local, and Tribal governments, in the 
aggregate, or by the private sector, of $100 million or more in any one 
year.
    If a covered agency must prepare a budgetary impact statement, 
section 205 further requires that it select the most cost effective and 
least burdensome alternative that achieves the objectives of the rule 
and is consistent with the statutory requirements. In addition, section 
203 requires a plan for informing and advising any small governments 
that may be significantly or uniquely impacted by the rule.
    We have determined that the rule will not result in the expenditure 
by State, local, and Tribal governments, in the aggregate, or by the 
private sector, of more than $100 million in any one year. Accordingly, 
we have not prepared a budgetary impact statement, specifically 
addressed the regulatory alternatives considered, or prepared a plan 
for informing and advising any significantly or uniquely impacted small 
governments.

Congressional Review

    This rule is not a major rule as defined in 5 U.S.C., Chapter 8.

List of Subjects in 45 CFR Part 303

    Child support, Grant programs/social programs, Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program No 93.563, Child 
Support Enforcement Program)

    Dated: July 14, 1999.
Olivia A. Golden,
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families.

    Approved: August 3, 1999.
Donna E. Shalala,
Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services.
    For the reasons discussed above, we are proposing to amend 45 CFR 
chapter III as follows:

PART 303--STANDARDS FOR PROGRAM OPERATIONS

    1. The authority citation of part 303 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 42 U.S.C. 651 through 658, 660, 663, 664, 666, 667, 
1302, 1396a(a)(25), 1396(d)(2), 1396b(o), 1396b(p) and 1396(k).

    2. A new 303.32 is added to read as follows:


Sec. 303.32  National Medical Support Notice.

    (a) Mandatory State laws. States must have laws, in accordance with 
section 466(a)(19) of the Act, requiring procedures specified under 
paragraph (c) of this section for the use of the National Medical 
Support Notice (NMSN) to this section, to enforce the provision of 
health care coverage for children of noncustodial parents who are 
required to provide health care coverage through an employment-related 
group health plan pursuant to a child support order and for whom the 
employer is known to the State agency.
    (b) Exception. States are not required to use the NMSN in cases 
with court or administrative orders that stipulate alternative health 
care coverage to employer-based coverage.
    (c) Mandatory procedures. The State must have in effect and use 
procedures that require:
    (1) The State agency to use the NMSN to transfer notice of the 
provision for health care coverage of the child(ren) to the employer.
    (2) The State agency to send the NMSN to the employer within 2 
business days after the date of entry of an employee who is an obligor 
in a IV-D case in the State Directory of New Hires.

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    (3) Employers to transfer the NMSN to the appropriate group health 
plan providing any such health care coverage for which the child(ren) 
is eligible (excluding the severable employer withholding notice 
directing the employer to withhold any mandatory employee contributions 
to the plan) within 20 business days after the date of the NMSN.
    (4) Employers to withhold any obligation of the employee for 
employee contributions necessary for coverage of the child(ren) and 
send any amount withheld directly to the plan. If the employee contests 
such withholding, the employer initiates withholding until such time as 
the employer receives notice that the contest is resolved.
    (5) Employers to notify the State agency promptly whenever the 
noncustodial parent's employment is terminated in the same manner as 
required for income withholding cases in accordance with 
Sec. 303.100(e)(1)(x) of this part.
    (d) Effective date. This section is effective October 1, 2001, or, 
if later, the effective date of State laws described in paragraph (a) 
of this section. Such State laws must be effective no later than the 
close of the first day of the first calendar quarter that begins after 
the close of the first regular session of the State legislature that 
begins after October 1, 2001. For States with 2-year legislative 
sessions, each year of such session would be regarded as a separate 
regular session.

    Note: The following appendix will not appear in the Code of 
Federal Regulations.

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