Child Support Reinvestment Act of 2002

Child Support Reinvestment Act of 2002 - Amends the Social Security Act to modify the formula used to assess the penalty for State failure to automate child support information systems if the State has submitted a corrective compliance plan approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Directs the State to expend for operation of its approved State plan the amount by which it would have been penalized had it not submitted such corrective compliance plan.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4857 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4857

 To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to modify the 
calculation of the child support automation penalty and provide for the 
                   reinvestment of any such penalty.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 4, 2002

  Mr. Matsui 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 modify the 
calculation of the child support automation penalty and provide for the 
                   reinvestment of any such penalty.

    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 Reinvestment Act of 
2002''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF CALCULATION OF PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO AUTOMATE 
              CHILD SUPPORT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REINVESTMENT OF 
              PENALTY.

    Section 455(a)(4) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 655(a)(4)) 
is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking ``preceding fiscal 
        year'' and inserting ``1st year in which the failure 
        occurred''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (C), by adding at the end the 
        following:
                            ``(iv)(I) The Secretary shall reduce, by 
                        the amount described in the applicable clause 
                        of subparagraph (D) of this paragraph, the 
                        amount of any reduction that, in the absence of 
                        this clause, would be required to be made under 
                        this paragraph by reason of the failure of a 
                        State to achieve compliance with a subparagraph 
                        of section 454(24) if--
                                    ``(aa) the State has submitted, and 
                                the Secretary has approved, a 
                                corrective compliance plan under 
                                subparagraph (A)(i)(II) of this 
                                paragraph with respect to the failure; 
                                and
                                    ``(bb) the Secretary finds that the 
                                State has made and is continuing to 
                                make a good faith effort to comply with 
                                the plan.
                            ``(II) The State shall expend for operation 
                        of the State plan approved under section 454 an 
                        amount equal to the amount by which any 
                        reduction that, in the absence of this clause, 
                        would be required to be made under this 
                        paragraph is reduced under this clause.''; and
            (3) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (E) 
        and inserting after subparagraph (C) the following:
                    ``(D)(i) The amount described in this subparagraph 
                is--
                            ``(I) 25 percent of the reduction, if the 
                        State has increased expenditures by more than 5 
                        but not more than 7 percent;
                            ``(II) 50 percent of the reduction, if the 
                        State has increased expenditures by more than 7 
                        but not more than 9 percent;
                            ``(III) 75 percent of the reduction, if the 
                        State has increased expenditures by more than 9 
                        but not more than 11 percent; or
                            ``(IV) 100 percent of the reduction, if the 
                        State has increased expenditures by more than 
                        11 percent.
                            ``(ii) In subparagraph (D), the term 
                        `increased expenditures' means, with respect to 
                        a State and a fiscal year, the lesser of--
                                    ``(I) the average annual increase 
                                in the State share of expenditures 
                                under the State plan approved under 
                                this part in the 5-year period ending 
                                with the preceding fiscal year; or
                                    ``(II) the increase in the State 
                                share of such expenditures in the 
                                preceding fiscal year.''.
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