S. 2183

One Hundred Fourth Congress

of the

United States of America

AT THE SECOND SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,

the third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six

An Act

To make technical corrections 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. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND WORK OPPORTUNITY RECONCILIATION

ACT OF 1996.

(a) CLARIFICATION OF LIMITATION ON CERTAIN FEDERAL OBLIGATIONS FOR 1997.—Section 116(b)(1)(B)(ii)(II) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 is amended—

(1) in item (aa), by striking ‘‘the State family assistance

grant’’ and inserting ‘‘the sum of the State family assistance

grant and the amount, if any, that the State would have been

eligible to be paid under the Contingency Fund for State Welfare Programs established under section 403(b) of the Social

Security Act (as amended by section 103(a)(1) of this Act),

during the period beginning on October 1, 1996, and ending

on the date the Secretary of Health and Human Services first

receives from the State a plan described in section 402(a) of

the Social Security Act (as so amended) if, with respect to

such State, the effective date of this Act under subsection

(a)(1) were August 22, 1996,’’; and

(2) in item (bb)—

(A) by inserting ‘‘sum of the’’ before ‘‘State family

assistance grant’’; and

(B) by striking the period and inserting ‘‘, and the

amount, if any, that the State would have been eligible

to be paid under the Contingency Fund for State Welfare

Programs established under section 403(b) of the Social

Security Act (as amended by section 103(a)(1) of this Act),

during the period beginning on October 1, 1996, and ending

on the date the Secretary of Health and Human Services

first receives from the State a plan described in section

402(a) of the Social Security Act (as so amended) if, with

respect to such State, the effective date of this Act under

subsection (a)(1) were August 22, 1996.’’.

(b) CORRECTIONS RELATED TO THE CONTINGENCY FUND FOR

STATE WELFARE PROGRAMS.—Section 403(b)(4)(A) of the Social

Security Act, as amended by section 103(a)(1) of the Personal

Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996,

is amended—
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(1) in clause (i)(II), by striking ‘‘minus any Federal payment

with respect to such child care expenditures’’; and

(2) in clause (ii)(I)—

(A) by inserting ‘‘the sum of’’ before ‘‘the expenditures’’;

and

(B) by inserting ‘‘, and any additional qualified State

expenditures, as defined in section 409(a)(7)(B)(i), for child

care assistance made under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990’’ before the semicolon.

(c) CLARIFICATION OF HEADING.—The heading of section

116(b)(1) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 is amended by inserting ‘‘; LIMITATION ON

FISCAL YEARS 1996 AND 1997 PAYMENTS’’ after ‘‘DATE’’.

(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this section

shall take effect as if included in the provisions of and the amendments made by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity

Reconciliation Act of 1996.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS RURAL DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION.

Section 11 of the Northern Great Plains Rural Development

Act (Public Law 103–318; 7 U.S.C. 2661 note) is amended by striking ‘‘the earlier’’ and all that follows through the period at the

end and inserting ‘‘September 30, 1997.’’.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.