[104th Congress Public Law 327]
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Public Law 104-327
104th Congress

                                 An Act


 
 To make technical corrections to the Personal Responsibility and Work 
  Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. <<NOTE: Oct. 19, 1996 -  [S. 
                                2183]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY 
                              AND WORK OPPORTUNITY RECONCILIATION 
                              ACT OF 1996.

    (a) Clarification of Limitation On Certain Federal Obligations for 
1997.--Section 116(b)(1)(B)(ii)(II) of the Personal Responsibility and 
Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 <<NOTE: Ante, p. 2181.>> is 
amended--
            (1) in item (aa), by striking ``the State family assistance 
        grant'' and inserting ``the sum of the State family assistance 
        grant and the amount, if any, that the State would have been 
        eligible to be paid under the Contingency Fund for State Welfare 
        Programs established under section 403(b) of the Social Security 
        Act (as amended by section 103(a)(1) of this Act), during the 
        period beginning on October 1, 1996, and ending on the date the 
        Secretary of Health and Human Services first receives from the 
        State a plan described in section 402(a) of the Social Security 
        Act (as so amended) if, with respect to such State, the 
        effective date of this Act under subsection (a)(1) were August 
        22, 1996,''; and
            (2) in item (bb)--
                    (A) by inserting ``sum of the'' before ``State 
                family assistance grant''; and
                    (B) by striking the period and inserting ``, and the 
                amount, if any, that the State would have been eligible 
                to be paid under the Contingency Fund for State Welfare 
                Programs established under section 403(b) of the Social 
                Security Act (as amended by section 103(a)(1) of this 
                Act), during the period beginning on October 1, 1996, 
                and ending on the date the Secretary of Health and Human 
                Services first receives from the State a plan described 
                in section 402(a) of the Social Security Act (as so 
                amended) if, with respect to such State, the effective 
                date of this Act under subsection (a)(1) were August 22, 
                1996.''.

    (b) Corrections Related to the Contingency Fund for State Welfare 
Programs.--Section 403(b)(4)(A) of the Social Security Act, as amended 
by section 103(a)(1) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity 
Reconciliation Act of 1996, <<NOTE: Ante, p. 2115.>>  is amended--

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            (1) in clause (i)(II), by striking ``minus any Federal 
        payment with respect to such child care expenditures''; and
            (2) in clause (ii)(I)--
                    (A) by inserting ``the sum of'' before ``the 
                expenditures''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``, and any additional qualified 
                State expenditures, as defined in section 
                409(a)(7)(B)(i), for child care assistance made under 
                the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990'' 
                before the semicolon.

    (c) Clarification of Heading.--The heading of section 116(b)(1) of 
the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 
1996 <<NOTE: Ante, p. 2181.>> is amended by inserting ``; limitation on 
fiscal years 1996 and 1997 payments'' after ``date''.

<<NOTE: 42 USC 603 note.>>     (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made 
by this section shall take effect as if included in the provisions of 
and the amendments made by the Personal Responsibility and Work 
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS RURAL DEVELOPMENT 
                    COMMISSION.

    Section 11 of the Northern Great Plains Rural Development Act 
(Public Law 103-318; 7 U.S.C. 2661 note) is amended by striking ``the 
earlier'' and all that follows through the period at the end and 
inserting ``September 30, 1997.''.

    Approved October 19, 1996.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 2183:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 142 (1996):
            Oct. 1, considered and passed Senate.
            Oct. 4, considered and passed House.

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