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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Jun 15, 2000
Child Support Distribution Act of 2000 - Title I: Distribution of Child Support - Amends title IV part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) modify the rule requiring that a family member assign support rights to the State as a condition for receiving TANF; (2) revise child support payment and distribution guidelines; and (3) mandate that State plans for child and spousal support ban the use of the TANF program to recover Medicaid costs for the birth of a child for whom support rights have been assigned.Title II: Review and Adjustment of Child Support Orders - Requires State plans to prescribe mandatory triennial review and modification of child support orders for TANF recipients, including certification that the child support enforcement program will receive notice of certain families leaving the TANF program.Title III: Expanded Information and Enforcement - Instructs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to report to the public separate sets of recommendations regarding participation of certain public and private child support enforcement agencies, 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) 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 - Reduces the amount of child support arrearages that will trigger passport denial. Provides for the 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 - Prescribes requirements for 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: Miscellaneous - Instructs the Secretary to: (1) report to certain congressional committees on undistributed child support payments; (2) disclose to a State unemployment compensation agency the putative employer of an individual listed in the National Directory of New Hires.(Sec. 604) 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 SSA title IV part A to: (1) reflect these provisions; and (2) authorize the Secretary to share child support enforcement information in order to enforce Immigration and Naturalization law.(Sec. 605) Amends the Welfare-to-Work Grants Program to: (1) correct errors in conforming amendments in the Welfare-to-Work and Child Support Amendments of 1999; and (2) repeal the set-aside of welfare-to-work funds for successful performance bonus.Title VII: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date of this Act.
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Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-6] · R–CT
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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 405 - 18 (Roll no. 457).
House roll call 457 · Individual votesPassed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 405 - 18 (Roll no. 457).
House roll call 457 · Individual votesOn motion to recommit with instructions Failed by recorded vote: 175 - 249 (Roll no. 456).
House roll call 456 · Individual votesThe previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
Floor summary: DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the motion to recommit with instructions.
Mr. Scott moved to recommit with instructions to Ways and Means.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule on both the Scott amendment and the bill.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 566, the House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Scott amendment.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 4678.
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4678 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. Amendment recommended by the Committee on Ways and Means now printed in the bill, modified by the amendment printed in part A of H. Rept. 106-798 shall be considered as adopted. Further amendment printed in part B of H. Rept. 106-798 shall be separately debatable for 10 minutes.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 566. (consideration: CR H7296-7321; text of measure as reported in House: CR H7297-7303)
Rule H. Res. 566 passed House.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 566 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4678 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. Amendment recommended by the Committee on Ways and Means now printed in the bill, modified by the amendment printed in part A of H. Rept. 106-798 shall be ocnsidered as adopted. Further amendment printed in part B of H. Rept. 106-798 sahll be separately debatable for 10 minutes.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 459.
Committee on Education and the Workforce discharged.
Committee on Education and the Workforce discharged.
Committee on Judiciary discharged.
Committee on Judiciary discharged.
House Committee on Education and the Workforce Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than July 26, 2000.
House Committee on Judiciary Granted an extension for further consideration ending not later than July 26, 2000.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 106-793, Part I.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 106-793, Part I.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 7 - 6.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
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.
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