To provide more child support money to families leaving welfare, to simplify the rules governing the assignment and distribution of child support collected by States on behalf of children, to improve the collection of child support, to promote marriage, and for other purposes.
(Sec. 101) Amends the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 to accelerate from September 30, 2001, to September 30, 2000, the repeal of hold harmless provisions governing the increased State share of distribution of collected child support.
Title II: Review and Adjustment of Child Support Orders - Requires State plans to prescribe mandatory triennial review and update of child support orders for TANF recipients, including certification that the child support enforcement program will receive notice when certain families leave the TANF program.
Title III: Expanded Information and Enforcement - Instructs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make a public report containing separate sets of recommendations regarding participation of certain public and private child support enforcement agencies in child support enforcement, including privacy safeguards, data security, and due process rights.
Subtitle A: State Option to Provide Information and Enforcement Mechanisms to Public Non-IV-D Child Support Enforcement Agencies - Requires State plans for child and spousal support to set forth a State plan option to provide information and enforcement mechanisms to public non-IV-D child support enforcement agencies, including all information in the State Directory of New Hires and information obtained through certain information comparisons.
(Sec. 312) Authorizes a State agency implementing such option to use certain enforcement mechanisms, including: (1) Federal tax refund intercepts; (2) reports of arrearages to credit bureaus, (3) passport sanctions; (4) financial institution data matches; and (5) use of income withholding for unemployment insurance benefits.
Subtitle B: State Option to Provide Information and Enforcement Mechanisms to Private Child Support Enforcement Agencies - Requires State plans for child and spousal support to set forth a State plan option to provide the same information and enforcement mechanisms to private child support enforcement agencies as apply to their public non-IV-D child support enforcement agency counterparts.
Title IV: Expanded Enforcement - Decreases the amount of child support arrearage which will trigger passport denial. Sets forth limitations upon garnishment of compensation paid to veterans for service-connected disabilities in order to enforce child support obligations.
(Sec. 403) Authorizes use of the tax refund intercept program to collect past-due child support on behalf of children who are not minors.
Title V: Fatherhood Programs - Subtitle A: Fatherhood Grant Program - Sets forth the parameters of a fatherhood grant program to promote marriage, parenting and employment building skills.
Subtitle B: Fatherhood Projects of National Significance - Instructs the Secretary to award a grant to a nationally recognized, nonprofit fatherhood promotion organization to develop and promote marriage and responsible fatherhood, including a national clearinghouse to disseminate information regarding media campaigns and fatherhood programs.
Title VI: Financing - Amends the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program to repeal the set-aside of welfare-to-work funds for successful performance bonus.
Title VII: Miscellaneous - Instructs the Secretary to: (1) report to certain congressional committees on undistributed child support payments; and (2) disclose to a State unemployment compensation agency the putative employer of an individual listed in the National Directory of New Hires.
(Sec. 704) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to: (1) declare that nonimmigrant aliens are ineligible to receive visas and excluded from admission for nonpayment of adjudicated child support; and (2) authorize immigration officers to serve an alien applicant for admission to the United States with legal process with respect to any action to enforce or establish a legal obligation to pay child support.
Makes conforming amendments to the TANF program to authorize the Secretary to share child support enforcement information to enforce Immigration and Naturalization law.
(Sec. 705) Amends the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program to correct errors in conforming amendments in the Welfare-to-Work and Child Support Amendments of 1999.
Title VIII: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date of this Act.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.
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