Child Support Penalty Fairness Act

Child Support Penalty Fairness Act - Amends title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from disapproving a State plan for child and spousal support for noncompliance with Federal requirements for State disbursement unit operations while the State is receiving a grant-reduction penalty for noncompliance with Federal requirements for an automated data processing and information retrieval system.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2877 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2877

To amend title IV of the Social Security Act to coordinate the penalty 
      for the failure of a State to operate a State child support 
 disbursement unit with the alternative penalty procedure for failures 
                 to meet data processing requirements.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 15, 1999

  Mr. Matsui introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title IV of the Social Security Act to coordinate the penalty 
      for the failure of a State to operate a State child support 
 disbursement unit with the alternative penalty procedure for failures 
                 to meet data processing requirements.

    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 ``Child Support Penalty Fairness 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ALTERNATIVE PENALTY PROCEDURE FOR FAILURE TO OPERATE STATE 
              DISBURSEMENT UNIT.

    (a) In General.--Section 455(a)(4) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 655(a)(4)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) The Secretary may not disapprove a State plan 
                under section 454 for failure to comply with 
                subparagraph (A) or (B)(i) of section 454(27) with 
                respect to a fiscal year for which the amount otherwise 
                payable to the State under paragraph (1)(A) of this 
                subsection is reduced under this paragraph for failure 
                to comply with section 454(24)(A).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall take 
effect as if included in the amendments made by section 101 of the 
Child Support Performance and Incentive Act of 1998.
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