To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide for the pass through of all child support collected on behalf of families receiving assistance under the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families.

Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for the pass-through of child support collected on behalf of families receiving assistance under the program of block grants to states for temporary assistance for needy families (TANF).

Requires pass-through to a family receiving TANF of the total amount of collected child support. (Currently the federal government receives its share and the state retains or distributes to the family the state share of such child support.)

Requires payment to: (1) the federal government of its share of foster care maintenance payments; (2) the state for retention, or distribution to the family, of the state share of such payments; and (3) the family of any remaining amount.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5706 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5706

 To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide for 
 the pass through of all child support collected on behalf of families 
 receiving assistance under the program of block grants to States for 
                temporary assistance for needy families.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 28, 2006

    Mr. Ryan of Wisconsin (for himself and Ms. Moore of Wisconsin) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide for 
 the pass through of all child support collected on behalf of families 
 receiving assistance under the program of block grants to States for 
                temporary assistance for needy families.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PASS THROUGH OF ALL CHILD SUPPORT COLLECTED ON BEHALF OF 
              FAMILIES RECEIVING TANF.

    (a) In General.--Section 457(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 657(a)(1)), as amended by section 7301(b) of the Deficit 
Reduction Act of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) Families receiving assistance.--In the case of a 
        family receiving assistance from the State, the State shall--
                    ``(A) if the assistance is referred to in 
                subsection (c)(1)(A), pay the amount to the family; or
                    ``(B) if the assistance is referred to in 
                subsection (c)(1)(B)--
                            ``(i) pay to the Federal Government the 
                        Federal share of the amount collected, subject 
                        to paragraph (3)(A) of this subsection;
                            ``(ii) retain, or pay to the family, the 
                        State share of the amount collected, subject to 
                        paragraph (3)(B) of this subsection; and
                            ``(iii) pay to the family any remaining 
                        amount.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--
            (1) In general.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
        take effect on October 1, 2009, and shall apply to payments 
        under part D of title IV of the Social Security Act for 
        calendar quarters beginning on or after such date, and without 
        regard to whether regulations to implement the amendments are 
        promulgated by such date.
            (2) State option to accelerate effective date.--
        Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a State may elect to have the 
        amendment made by subsection (a) apply to the State and to 
        amounts collected by the State (and the payments under such 
        part D), on and after such date as the State may select that is 
        not earlier than October 1, 2008, and not later than September 
        30, 2009.
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