‘‘(A) in response to a request from an author-
ized person (as defined in subsection (c) and section
463(d)(2)), the Secretary shall advise the authorized
person that the Secretary has been notified that
there is reasonable evidence of domestic violence or
child abuse and that information can only be dis-
closed to a court or an agent of a court pursuant to
subparagraph (B); and
‘‘(B) information may be disclosed to a court or
an agent of a court described in subsection (c)(2) or
section 463(d)(2)(B), if—
‘‘(i) upon receipt of information from the
Secretary, the court determines whether disclo-
sure to any other person of that information
could be harmful to the parent or the child; and
‘‘(ii) if the court determines that disclosure
of such information to any other person could
be harmful, the court and its agents shall not
make any such disclosure.
‘‘(3) Information received or transmitted pursuant to
this section shall be subject to the safeguard provisions
contained in section 454(26).’’; and
(3) in subsection (c)—
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘or to
seek to enforce orders providing child custody
or visitation rights’’; and
(B) in paragraph (2)—
(i) by inserting ‘‘or to serve as the ini-
tiating court in an action to seek an order’’
after ‘‘issue an order’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘or to issue an order
against a resident parent for child custody
or visitation rights’’.
(b) USE OF THE FEDERAL PARENT LOCATOR SERV-
ICE.—Section 463 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
663) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph
(1)—
(i) by striking ‘‘any State which is
able and willing to do so,’’ and inserting
‘‘every State’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘such State’’ and in-
serting ‘‘each State’’; and
(B) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘or visi-
tation’’ after ‘‘custody’’;
(2) in subsection (b)(2), by inserting ‘‘or visita-
tion’’ after ‘‘custody’’;
(3) in subsection (d)—
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘or visi-
tation’’ after ‘‘custody’’; and
(B) in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of para-
graph (2), by inserting ‘‘or visitation’’ after
‘‘custody’’ each place it appears;
(4) in subsection (f)(2), by inserting ‘‘or visita-
tion’’ after ‘‘custody’’; and
(5) by striking ‘‘noncustodial’’ each place it ap-
pears.
SEC. 305. ACCESS TO REGISTRY DATA FOR RESEARCH PUR-
POSES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 453(j)(5) of the Social Se-
curity Act (42 U.S.C. 653(j)(5)) is amended by inserting
‘‘data in each component of the Federal Parent Locator
Service maintained under this section and to’’ before ‘‘in-
formation’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 453 of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 653) is amended—
(1) in subsection (j)(3)(B), by striking ‘‘reg-
istries’’ and inserting ‘‘components’’; and
(2) in subsection (k)(2), by striking ‘‘subsection
(j)(3)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 453A(g)(2)’’.
SEC. 306. COLLECTION AND USE OF SOCIAL SECURITY
NUMBERS FOR USE IN CHILD SUPPORT EN-
FORCEMENT.
Section 466(a)(13) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 666(a)(13)) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A)—
(A) by striking ‘‘commercial’’; and
(B) by inserting ‘‘recreational license,’’
after ‘‘occupational license,’’; and
(2) in the matter following subparagraph (C),
by inserting ‘‘to be used on the face of the document
while the social security number is kept on file at
the agency’’ after ‘‘other than the social security
number’’.
SEC. 307. ADOPTION OF UNIFORM STATE LAWS.
Section 466(f) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
666(f)) is amended by striking ‘‘together’’ and all that fol-
lows and inserting ‘‘and as in effect on August 22, 1996,
including any amendments officially adopted as of such
date by the National Conference of Commissioners on
Uniform State Laws.’’.
SEC. 308. STATE LAWS PROVIDING EXPEDITED PROCE-
DURES.
Section 466(c) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
666(c)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
(A) in subparagraph (E), by inserting ‘‘,
part E,’’ after ‘‘part A’’; and
(B) in subparagraph (G), by inserting
‘‘any current support obligation and’’ after ‘‘to
satisfy’’; and
(2) in paragraph (2)(A)—
(A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘the tribunal
and’’; and
(B) in clause (ii)—
(i) by striking ‘‘tribunal may’’ and in-
serting ‘‘court or administrative agency of
competent jurisdiction shall’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘filed with the tribu-
nal’’ and inserting ‘‘filed with the State
case registry’’.
SEC. 309. VOLUNTARY PATERNITY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Section 466(a)(5)(C)(i) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 666(a)(5)(C)(i)) is amended by inserting ‘‘, or
through the use of video or audio equipment,’’ after ‘‘oral-
ly’’.
SEC. 310. CALCULATION OF PATERNITY ESTABLISHMENT
PERCENTAGE.
Section 452(g)(2) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 652(g)(2)) is amended, in the matter following
subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘subparagraph (A)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘subparagraphs (A) and (B)’’.
SEC. 311. MEANS AVAILABLE FOR PROVISION OF TECH-
NICAL ASSISTANCE AND OPERATION OF FED-
ERAL PARENT LOCATOR SERVICE.
(a) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—Section 452(j) of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 652(j)), is amended, in the
matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘to cover
costs incurred by the Secretary’’ and inserting ‘‘which
shall be available for use by the Secretary, either directly
or through grants, contracts, or interagency agreements,’’.
(b) OPERATION
OF FEDERAL PARENT LOCATOR
SERVICE.—
(1) MEANS AVAILABLE.—Section 453(o) of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 653(o)) is amend-
ed—
(A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘RECOVERY
OF COSTS’’ and inserting ‘‘USE OF SET-ASIDE
FUNDS’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘to cover costs incurred by
the Secretary’’ and inserting ‘‘which shall be
available for use by the Secretary, either di-
rectly or through grants, contracts, or inter-
agency agreements,’’.
(2) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Section 453(o)
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 653(o)) is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘Amounts appropriated under this subsection for
each of fiscal years 1997 through 2001 shall remain
available until expended.’’.
SEC. 312. AUTHORITY TO COLLECT SUPPORT FROM FED-
ERAL EMPLOYEES.
(a) RESPONSE TO NOTICE OR PROCESS.—Section
459(c)(2)(C) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
659(c)(2)(C)) is amended by striking ‘‘respond to the
order, process, or interrogatory’’ and inserting ‘‘withhold
available sums in response to the order or process, or an-
swer the interrogatory’’.
(b) 
MONEYS
SUBJECT
TO
PROCESS.—Section
459(h)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
659(h)(1)) is amended—
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)
and in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking ‘‘paid or’’
each place it appears;
(2) in subparagraph (A)—
(A) in clause (ii)(V), by striking ‘‘and’’ at
the end;
(B) in clause (iii)—
(i) by inserting ‘‘or payable’’ after
‘‘paid’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘but’’ and inserting ‘‘;
and’’; and
(C) by inserting after clause (iii), the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(iv) benefits paid or payable under
the Railroad Retirement System, but’’; and
(3) in subparagraph (B)—
(A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘or’’ at the
end;
(B) in clause (ii), by striking the period
and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(iii) of periodic benefits under title
38, United States Code, except as provided
in subparagraph (A)(ii)(V).’’.
(c) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section
454(19)(B)(ii) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
654(19)(B)(ii)) is amended by striking ‘‘section 462(e)’’
and inserting ‘‘section 459(i)(5)’’.
SEC. 313. DEFINITION OF SUPPORT ORDER.
Section 453(p) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
653(p)), is amended by striking ‘‘a child and’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘of’’.
SEC. 314. STATE LAW AUTHORIZING SUSPENSION OF LI-
CENSES.
Section 466(a)(16) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 666(a)(16)) is amended by inserting ‘‘and sport-
ing’’ after ‘‘recreational’’.
SEC. 315. INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT.
Section 454(32)(A) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 654(32)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘section
459A(d)(2)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 459A(d)’’.
SEC. 316. CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT FOR INDIAN
TRIBES.
(a) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS BY INDIAN TRIBES
AND STATES FOR CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT.—Sec-
tion 454(33) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
654(33)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and enforce support orders,
and’’ and inserting ‘‘or enforce support orders, or’’;
(2) by striking ‘‘guidelines established by such
tribe or organization’’ and inserting ‘‘guidelines es-
tablished or adopted by such tribe or organization’’;
(3) by striking ‘‘funding collected’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘collections’’; and
(4) by striking ‘‘such funding’’ and inserting
‘‘such collections’’.
(b) CORRECTION OF SUBSECTION DESIGNATION.—
Section 455 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 655),
is amended by redesignating subsection (b), as added by
section 375(b) of the Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–
193, 110 Stat. 2256), as subsection (f).
(c) DIRECT GRANTS TO TRIBES.—Section 455(f) of
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 655(f)), as redesig-
nated by subsection (b), is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(f) The Secretary may make direct payments under
this part to an Indian tribe or tribal organization that
demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary that it
has the capacity to operate a child support enforcement
program meeting the objectives of this part, including es-
tablishment of paternity, establishment, modification, and
enforcement of support orders, and location of absent par-
ents. The Secretary shall promulgate regulations estab-
lishing the requirements which must be met by an Indian
tribe or tribal organization to be eligible for a grant under
this subsection.’’.
SEC. 317. CONTINUATION OF RULES FOR DISTRIBUTION OF
SUPPORT IN THE CASE OF A TITLE IV–E
CHILD.
Section 457 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
657) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a), in the matter preceding
paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘subsection (e)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘subsections (e) and (f)’’; and
(2) by adding at the end, the following:
‘‘(f) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this
section, amounts collected by a State as child support for
months in any period on behalf of a child for whom a pub-
lic agency is making foster care maintenance payments
under part E—
‘‘(1) shall be retained by the State to the extent
necessary to reimburse it for the foster care mainte-
nance payments made with respect to the child dur-
ing such period (with appropriate reimbursement of
the Federal Government to the extent of its partici-
pation in the financing);
‘‘(2) shall be paid to the public agency respon-
sible for supervising the placement of the child to
the extent that the amounts collected exceed the fos-
ter care maintenance payments made with respect to
the child during such period but not the amounts re-
quired by a court or administrative order to be paid
as support on behalf of the child during such period;
and the responsible agency may use the payments in
the manner it determines will serve the best inter-
ests of the child, including setting such payments
aside for the child’s future needs or making all or
a part thereof available to the person responsible for
meeting the child’s day-to-day needs; and
‘‘(3) shall be retained by the State, if any por-
tion of the amounts collected remains after making
the payments required under paragraphs (1) and
(2), to the extent that such portion is necessary to
reimburse the State (with appropriate reimburse-
ment to the Federal Government to the extent of its
participation in the financing) for any past foster
care maintenance payments (or payments of assist-
ance under the State program funded under part A)
which were made with respect to the child (and with
respect to which past collections have not previously
been retained);
and any balance shall be paid to the State agency respon-
sible for supervising the placement of the child, for use
by such agency in accordance with paragraph (2).’’.
SEC. 318. GOOD CAUSE IN FOSTER CARE AND FOOD STAMP
CASES.
(a) STATE PLAN.—Section 454(4)(A)(i) of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 654(4)(A)(i)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘or’’ before ‘‘(III)’’; and
(2) by inserting ‘‘or (IV) cooperation is required
pursuant to section 6(l)(1) of the Food Stamp Act
of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2015(l)(1)),’’ after ‘‘title XIX,’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 454(29)
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 654(29)) is amend-
ed—
(1) in subparagraph (A)—
(A) in the matter preceding clause (i), by
striking ‘‘part A of this title or the State pro-
gram under title XIX’’ and inserting ‘‘part A,
the State program under part E, the State pro-
gram under title XIX, or the food stamp pro-
gram, as defined under section 3(h) of the Food
Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2012(h)),’’; and
(B) by striking clauses (i) and (ii) and all
that follows through the semicolon and insert-
ing the following:
‘‘(i) in the case of the State program
funded under part A, the State program
under part E, or the State program under
title XIX shall, at the option of the State,
be defined, taking into account the best in-
terests of the child, and applied in each
case, by the State agency administering
such program; and
‘‘(ii) in the case of the food stamp
program, as defined under section 3(h) of
the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C.
2012(h)), shall be defined and applied in
each case under that program in accord-
ance with section 6(l)(2) of the Food
Stamp 
Act 
of 
1977 
(7 
U.S.C.
2015(l)(2));’’;
(2) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘or the
State program under title XIX’’ and inserting ‘‘the
State program under part E, the State program
under title XIX, or the food stamp program, as de-
fined under section 3(h) of the Food Stamp Act of
1977 (7 U.S.C. 2012(h))’’; and
(3) in subparagraph (E), by striking ‘‘individ-
ual,’’ and all that follows through ‘‘XIX,’’ and in-
serting ‘‘individual and the State agency administer-
ing the State program funded under part A, the
State agency administering the State program under
part E, the State agency administering the State
program under title XIX, or the State agency ad-
ministering the food stamp program, as defined
under section 3(h) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977
(7 U.S.C. 2012(h)),’’.
SEC. 319. DATE OF COLLECTION OF SUPPORT.
Section 454B(c)(1) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 654B(c)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the
following: ‘‘The date of collection for amounts collected
and distributed under this part is the date of receipt by
the State disbursement unit, except that if current support
is withheld by an employer in the month when due and
is received by the State disbursement unit in a month
other than the month when due, the date of withholding
may be deemed to be the date of collection.’’.
SEC. 320. ADMINISTRATIVE ENFORCEMENT IN INTERSTATE
CASES.
(a) PROCEDURES.—Section 466(a)(14) of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 666(a)(14)) is amended to read
as follows:
‘‘(14) HIGH-VOLUME, AUTOMATED
ADMINIS-
TRATIVE ENFORCEMENT IN INTERSTATE CASES.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Procedures under
which—
‘‘(i) the State shall use high-volume
automated administrative enforcement, to
the same extent as used for intrastate
cases, in response to a request made by
another State to enforce support orders,
and shall promptly report the results of
such enforcement procedure to the request-
ing State;
‘‘(ii) the State may, by electronic or
other means, transmit to another State a
request for assistance in enforcing support
orders through high-volume, automated ad-
ministrative enforcement, which request—
‘‘(I) shall include such informa-
tion as will enable the State to which
the request is transmitted to compare
the information about the cases to the
information in the data bases of the
State; and
‘‘(II) shall constitute a certifi-
cation by the requesting State—
‘‘(aa) of the amount of sup-
port under an order the payment
of which is in arrears; and
‘‘(bb) that the requesting
State has complied with all pro-
cedural due process requirements
applicable to each case;
‘‘(iii) if the State provides assistance
to another State pursuant to this para-
graph with respect to a case, neither State
shall consider the case to be transferred to
the caseload of such other State; and
‘‘(iv) the State shall maintain records
of—
‘‘(I) the number of such requests
for assistance received by the State;
‘‘(II) the number of cases for
which the State collected support in
response to such a request; and
‘‘(III) the amount of such col-
lected support.
‘‘(B) HIGH-VOLUME AUTOMATED ADMINIS-
TRATIVE
ENFORCEMENT.—In this part, the
term ‘high-volume automated administrative en-
forcement’ means the use of automatic data
processing to search various State data bases,
including license records, employment service
data, and State new hire registries, to deter-
mine whether information is available regarding
a parent who owes a child support obligation.’’.
(b) INCENTIVE PAYMENTS.—Section 458(d) of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 658(d)) is amended by in-
serting ‘‘, including amounts collected under section
466(a)(14),’’ after ‘‘another State’’.
SEC. 321. WORK ORDERS FOR ARREARAGES.
Section 466(a)(15) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 666(a)(15)) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(15) PROCEDURES TO ENSURE THAT PERSONS
OWING OVERDUE SUPPORT WORK OR HAVE A PLAN
FOR
PAYMENT
OF
SUCH
SUPPORT.—Procedures
under which the State has the authority, in any case
in which an individual owes overdue support with re-
spect to a child receiving assistance under a State
program funded under part A, to issue an order or
to request that a court or an administrative process
established pursuant to State law issue an order
that requires the individual to—
‘‘(A) pay such support in accordance with
a plan approved by the court, or, at the option
of the State, a plan approved by the State
agency administering the State program under
this part; or
‘‘(B) if the individual is subject to such a
plan and is not incapacitated, participate in
such work activities (as defined in section
407(d)) as the court, or, at the option of the
State, the State agency administering the State
program under this part, deems appropriate.’’.
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(2) in paragraph (17)—
(A) by striking ‘‘in the case of a State
which has’’ and inserting ‘‘provide that the
State will have’’; and
(B) by inserting ‘‘and’’ after ‘‘section
453,’’; and
(3) in paragraph (26)—
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph
(A), by striking ‘‘will’’;
(B) in subparagraph (A)—
(i) by inserting ‘‘, modify,’’ after ‘‘es-
tablish’’, the second place it appears; and
(ii) by inserting ‘‘, or to make or en-
force a child custody determination’’ after
‘‘support’’;
(C) in subparagraph (B)—
(i) by inserting ‘‘or the child’’ after ‘‘1
party’’;
(ii) by inserting ‘‘or the child’’ after
‘‘former party’’; and
(iii) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end;
(D) in subparagraph (C)—
(i) by inserting ‘‘or the child’’ after ‘‘1
party’’;
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(ii) by striking ‘‘another party’’ and
inserting ‘‘another person’’;
(iii) by inserting ‘‘to that person’’
after ‘‘release of the information’’; and
(iv) by striking ‘‘former party’’ and
inserting ‘‘party or the child’’; and
(E) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(D) in cases in which the prohibitions
under subparagraphs (B) and (C) apply, the re-
quirement to notify the Secretary, for purposes
of section 453(b)(2), that the State has reason-
able evidence of domestic violence or child abuse
against a party or the child and that the disclo-
sure of such information could be harmful to
the party or the child; and
‘‘(E) procedures providing that when the
Secretary discloses information about a parent
or child to a State court or an agent of a State
court 
described 
in 
section 
453(c)(2) 
or
463(d)(2)(B), and advises that court or agent
that the Secretary has been notified that there
is reasonable evidence of domestic violence or
child abuse pursuant to section 453(b)(2), the
court shall determine whether disclosure to any
other person of information received from the