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105th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1048
_______________________________________________________________________
AN ACT
To make technical amendments relating to the Personal Responsibility
and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.
105th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1048
_______________________________________________________________________
AN ACT
To make technical amendments relating to the Personal Responsibility
and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Welfare Reform Technical Corrections
Act of 1997''.
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 TO NEEDY FAMILIES
Sec. 101. Amendment of the Social Security Act.
Sec. 102. Eligible States; State plan.
Sec. 103. Grants to States.
Sec. 104. Use of grants.
Sec. 105. Mandatory work requirements.
Sec. 106. Prohibitions; requirements.
Sec. 107. Penalties.
Sec. 108. Data collection and reporting.
Sec. 109. Direct funding and administration by Indian Tribes.
Sec. 110. Research, evaluations, and national studies.
Sec. 111. Report on data processing.
Sec. 112. Study on alternative outcomes measures.
Sec. 113. Limitation on payments to the territories.
Sec. 114. Conforming amendments to the Social Security Act.
Sec. 115. Other conforming amendments.
Sec. 116. Modifications to the job opportunities for certain low-income
individuals program.
Sec. 117. Denial of assistance and benefits for drug-related
convictions.
Sec. 118. Transition rule.
Sec. 119. Effective dates.
TITLE II--SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME
Subtitle A--Conforming and Technical Amendments
Sec. 201. Conforming and technical amendments relating to eligibility
restrictions
Sec. 202. Conforming and technical amendments relating to benefits for
disabled children.
Sec. 203. Additional technical amendments to title II.
Sec. 204. Additional technical amendments to title XVI.
Sec. 205. Additional technical amendments relating to titles II and
XVI.
Sec. 206. Effective dates.
Subtitle B--Additional Amendments
Sec. 211. Technical amendments relating to drug addicts and alcoholics.
Sec. 212. Extension of disability insurance program demonstration
project authority.
Sec. 213. Perfecting amendments related to withholding from social
security benefits.
Sec. 214. Treatment of prisoners.
Sec. 215. Social Security Advisory Board personnel.
TITLE III--CHILD SUPPORT
Sec. 301. State obligation to provide child support enforcement
services.
Sec. 302. Distribution of collected support.
Sec. 303. Civil penalties relating to State directory of new hires.
Sec. 304. Federal Parent Locator Service.
Sec. 305. Access to registry data for research purposes.
Sec. 306. Collection and use of social security numbers for use in
child support enforcement.
Sec. 307. Adoption of uniform State laws.
Sec. 308. State laws providing expedited procedures.
Sec. 309. Voluntary paternity acknowledgement.
Sec. 310. Calculation of paternity establishment percentage.
Sec. 311. Means available for provision of technical assistance and
operation of Federal Parent Locator
Service.
Sec. 312. Authority to collect support from Federal employees.
Sec. 313. Definition of support order.
Sec. 314. State law authorizing suspension of licenses.
Sec. 315. International support enforcement.
Sec. 316. Child support enforcement for Indian Tribes.
Sec. 317. Continuation of rules for distribution of support in the case
of a title IV-E child.
Sec. 318. Good cause in foster care and food stamp cases.
Sec. 319. Date of collection of support.
Sec. 320. Administrative enforcement in interstate cases.
Sec. 321. Work orders for arrearages.
Sec. 322. Additional technical State plan amendments.
Sec. 323. Federal Case Registry of Child Support Orders.
Sec. 324. Full faith and credit for child support orders.
Sec. 325. Development costs of automated systems.
Sec. 326. Additional technical amendments.
Sec. 327. Effective date.
TITLE IV--RESTRICTING WELFARE AND PUBLIC BENEFITS FOR ALIENS
Subtitle A--Eligibility for Federal, State, and Local Benefits
Sec. 401. Alien eligibility for Federal benefits: limited application
to medicare and benefits under the Railroad
Retirement Act.
Sec. 402. Exceptions to benefit limitations: corrections to reference
concerning aliens whose deportation is
withheld.
Sec. 403. Veterans exception: application of minimum active duty
service requirement; extension to
unremarried surviving spouse; expanded
definition of veteran.
Sec. 404. Correction of reference concerning Cuban and Haitian
entrants.
Sec. 405. Notification concerning aliens not lawfully present:
correction of terminology.
Sec. 406. Freely associated states: contracts and licenses.
Sec. 407. Congressional statement regarding benefits for Hmong and
other highland Lao veterans.
Subtitle B--General Provisions
Sec. 411. Determination of treatment of battered aliens as qualified
aliens; inclusion of alien child of
battered parent as qualified alien.
Sec. 412. Verification of eligibility for benefits.
Sec. 413. Qualifying quarters: disclosure of quarters of coverage
information; correction to assure that
crediting applies to all quarters earned by
parents before child is 18.
Sec. 414. Statutory construction: benefit eligibility limitations
applicable only with respect to aliens
present in United States.
Subtitle C--Miscellaneous Clerical and Technical Amendments; Effective
Date
Sec. 421. Correcting miscellaneous clerical and technical errors.
Sec. 422. Effective date.
TITLE V--CHILD PROTECTION
Sec. 501. Conforming and technical amendments relating to child
protection.
Sec. 502. Additional technical amendments relating to child protection.
Sec. 503. Effective date.
TITLE VI--CHILD CARE
Sec. 601. Conforming and technical amendments relating to child care.
Sec. 602. Additional conforming and technical amendments.
Sec. 603. Repeals.
Sec. 604. Effective dates.
TITLE VII--ERISA AMENDMENTS RELATING TO MEDICAL CHILD SUPPORT ORDERS
Sec. 701. Amendments relating to section 303 of the Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act of 1996.
Sec. 702. Amendment relating to section 381 of the Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act of 1996.
Sec. 703. Amendments relating to section 382 of the Personal
Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act of 1996.
TITLE I--BLOCK GRANTS FOR TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE TO NEEDY FAMILIES
SEC. 101. AMENDMENT OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.
Except as otherwise expressly provided, wherever 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 Social Security Act, and
if the section or other provision is of part A of title IV of such Act,
the reference shall be considered to be made to the section or other
provision as amended by section 103, and as in effect pursuant to
section 116, of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act of 1996.
SEC. 102. ELIGIBLE STATES; STATE PLAN.
(a) Later Deadline for Submission of State Plans.--Section 402(a)
(42 U.S.C. 602(a)) is amended by striking ``2-year period immediately
preceding'' and inserting ``27-month period ending with the close of
the 1st quarter of''.
(b) Clarification of Scope of Work Provisions.--Section
402(a)(1)(A)(ii) (42 U.S.C. 602(a)(1)(A)(ii)) is amended by inserting
``, consistent with section 407(e)(2)'' before the period.
(c) Correction of Cross-Reference.--Section 402(a)(1)(A)(v) (42
U.S.C. 602(a)(1)(A)(v)) is amended by striking ``403(a)(2)(B)'' and
inserting ``403(a)(2)(C)(iii)''.
(d) Notification of Plan Amendments.--Section 402 (42 U.S.C. 602)
is amended--
(1) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c) and
inserting after subsection (a) the following:
``(b) Plan Amendments.--Within 30 days after a State amends a plan
submitted pursuant to subsection (a), the State shall notify the
Secretary of the amendment.''; and
(2) in subsection (c) (as so redesignated), by inserting
``or plan amendment'' after ``plan''.
SEC. 103. GRANTS TO STATES.
(a) Bonus for Decrease in Illegitimacy Modified To Take Account of
Certain Territories.--
(1) In general.--Section 403(a)(2)(B) (42 U.S.C.
603(a)(2)(B)) is amended to read as follows:
``(B) Amount of grant.--
``(i) In general.--If, for a bonus year,
none of the eligible States is Guam, the Virgin
Islands, or American Samoa, then the amount of
the grant shall be--
``(I) $20,000,000 if there are 5
eligible States; or
``(II) $25,000,000 if there are
fewer than 5 eligible States.
``(ii) Amount if certain territories are
eligible.--If, for a bonus year, Guam, the
Virgin Islands, or American Samoa is an
eligible State, then the amount of the grant
shall be--
``(I) in the case of such a
territory, 25 percent of the mandatory
ceiling amount (as defined in section
1108(c)(4)) with respect to the
territory; and
``(II) in the case of a State that
is not such a territory--
``(aa) if there are 5
eligible States other than such
territories, $20,000,000, minus
\1/5\ of the total amount of
the grants payable under this
paragraph to such territories
for the bonus year; or
``(bb) if there are fewer
than 5 such eligible States,
$25,000,000, or such lesser
amount as may be necessary to
ensure that the total amount of
grants payable under this
paragraph for the bonus year
does not exceed
$100,000,000.''.
(2) Certain territories to be ignored in ranking other
states.-- Section 403(a)(2)(C)(i)(I)(aa) (42 U.S.C.
603(a)(2)(C)(i)(I)(aa)) is amended by adding at the end the
following: ``In the case of a State that is not a territory
specified in subparagraph (B), the comparative magnitude of the
decrease for the State shall be determined without regard to
the magnitude of the corresponding decrease for any such
territory.''.
(b) Computation of Bonus Based on Ratios of Out-of-Wedlock Births
to All Births Instead of Numbers of Out-of-Wedlock Births.--Section
403(a)(2) (42 U.S.C. 603(a)(2)) is amended--
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