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Secretary to meet the requirements of this section
and section 776(i)(2).
(3) HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.—The Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services shall carry out
this section in a manner that enables the Secretary
to meet the requirements of this section and section
1202.
(f) CALCULATION.—In determining, under subsection
(c), the number of full-time equivalent positions required
by a Department to carry out a covered activity, a Sec-
retary referred to in subsection (b)(2), shall include the
number of such positions occupied by personnel carrying
out program functions or other functions (including budg-
etary, legislative, administrative, planning, evaluation, and
legal functions) related to the activity.
(g) GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE REPORT.—Not
later than July 1, 1996, the Comptroller General of the
United States shall prepare and submit to the committees
described in subsection (b)(3), a report concerning the de-
terminations made by each Secretary under subsection (c).
Such report shall contain an analysis of the determina-
tions made by each Secretary under subsection (c) and
a determination as to whether further reductions in full-
time equivalent positions are appropriate.
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SEC. 1202. REDUCTIONS IN FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall reduce the Federal workforce within
the Department of Health and Human Services by an
amount equal to the sum of—
(1) 75 percent of the full-time equivalent posi-
tions at each such Department that relate to any di-
rect spending program, or any program funded
through discretionary spending, that has been con-
verted into a block grant program under this Act
and the amendments made by this Act; and
(2) an amount equal to 75 percent of that por-
tion of the total full-time equivalent departmental
management positions at each such Department that
bears the same relationship to the amount appro-
priated for the programs referred to in paragraph
(1) as such amount relates to the total amount ap-
propriated for use by each such Department.
(b) REDUCTIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
AND HUMAN SERVICES.—Notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human
Services shall take such actions as may be necessary, in-
cluding reductions in force actions, consistent with sec-
tions 3502 and 3595 of title 5, United States Code, to
reduce the full-time equivalent positions within the De-
partment of Health and Human Services—
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(1) by 245 full-time equivalent positions related
to the program converted into a block grant under
the amendment made by section 101(b); and
(2) by 60 full-time equivalent managerial posi-
tions in the Department.
SEC. 1203. REDUCING PERSONNEL IN WASHINGTON, DC,
AREA.
In making reductions in full-time equivalent posi-
tions, the Secretary is encouraged to reduce personnel in
the Washington, DC, area office (agency headquarters)
before reducing field personnel.
TITLE XIII—MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
SEC. 1301. EXPENDITURE OF FEDERAL FUNDS IN ACCORD-
ANCE WITH LAWS AND PROCEDURES APPLI-
CABLE TO EXPENDITURE OF STATE FUNDS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, any funds received by a State under the provi-
sions of law specified in subsection (b) shall be expended
only in accordance with the laws and procedures applicable
to expenditures of the State’s own revenues, including ap-
propriation by the State legislature, consistent with the
terms and conditions required under such provisions of
law.
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(b) PROVISIONS
OF LAW.—The provisions of law
specified in this subsection are the following:
(1) Part A of title IV of the Social Security Act
(relating to block grants for temporary assistance to
needy families).
(2) Section 25 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977
(relating to the optional State food assistance block
grant).
(3) The Child Care and Development Block
Grant Act of 1990 (relating to block grants for child
care).
SEC. 1302. ELIMINATION OF HOUSING ASSISTANCE WITH
RESPECT TO FUGITIVE FELONS AND PROBA-
TION AND PAROLE VIOLATORS.
(a) ELIGIBILITY
FOR
ASSISTANCE.—The United
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) is
amended—
(1) in section 6(l)—
(A) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘and’’ at
the end;
(B) in paragraph (6), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(C) by inserting immediately after para-
graph (6) the following new paragraph:
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‘‘(7) provide that it shall be cause for imme-
diate termination of the tenancy of a public housing
tenant if such tenant—
‘‘(A) is fleeing to avoid prosecution, or cus-
tody or confinement after conviction, under the
laws of the place from which the individual
flees, for a crime, or attempt to commit a
crime, which is a felony under the laws of the
place from which the individual flees, or which,
in the case of the State of New Jersey, is a
high misdemeanor under the laws of such State;
or
‘‘(2) is violating a condition of probation or pa-
role imposed under Federal or State law.’’; and
(2) in section 8(d)(1)(B)—
(A) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the
end;
(B) in clause (iv), by striking the period at
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(C) by adding after clause (iv) the follow-
ing new clause:
‘‘(v) it shall be cause for termination
of the tenancy of a tenant if such tenant—
‘‘(I) is fleeing to avoid prosecu-
tion, or custody or confinement after
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conviction, under the laws of the place
from which the individual flees, for a
crime, or attempt to commit a crime,
which is a felony under the laws of
the place from which the individual
flees, or which, in the case of the
State of New Jersey, is a high mis-
demeanor under the laws of such
State; or
‘‘(II) is violating a condition of
probation or parole imposed under
Federal or State law;’’.
(b) PROVISION OF INFORMATION TO LAW ENFORCE-
MENT AGENCIES.—Section 28 of the United States Hous-
ing Act of 1937, as added by section 504(c) of this Act,
is amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(b) EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION WITH LAW EN-
FORCEMENT AGENCIES.—Notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of law, each public housing agency that enters into
a contract for assistance under section 6 or 8 of this Act
with the Secretary shall furnish any Federal, State, or
local law enforcement officer, upon the request of the offi-
cer, with the current address, Social Security number, and
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photograph (if applicable) of any recipient of assistance
under this Act, if the officer—
‘‘(1) furnishes the public housing agency with
the name of the recipient; and
‘‘(2) notifies the agency that—
‘‘(A) such recipient—
‘‘(i) is fleeing to avoid prosecution, or
custody or confinement after conviction,
under the laws of the place from which the
individual flees, for a crime, or attempt to
commit a crime, which is a felony under
the laws of the place from which the indi-
vidual flees, or which, in the case of the
State of New Jersey, is a high mis-
demeanor under the laws of such State; or
‘‘(ii) is violating a condition of proba-
tion or parole imposed under Federal or
State law; or
‘‘(iii) has information that is nec-
essary for the officer to conduct the offi-
cer’s official duties;
‘‘(B) the location or apprehension of the
recipient is within such officer’s official duties;
and
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‘‘(C) the request is made in the proper ex-
ercise of the officer’s official duties.’’.
SEC. 1303. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING ENTER-
PRISE ZONES.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds that—
(1) many of the Nation’s urban centers are
places with high levels of poverty, high rates of wel-
fare dependency, high crime rates, poor schools, and
joblessness;
(2) Federal tax incentives and regulatory re-
forms can encourage economic growth, job creation
and small business formation in many urban centers;
(3) encouraging private sector investment in
America’s economically distressed urban and rural
areas is essential to breaking the cycle of poverty
and the related ills of crime, drug abuse, illiteracy,
welfare dependency, and unemployment; and
(4) the empowerment zones enacted in 1993
should be enhanced by providing incentives to in-
crease entrepreneurial growth, capital formation, job
creation, educational opportunities, and home owner-
ship in the designated communities and zones.
(b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—Therefore, it is the
Sense of the Senate that the Congress should adopt enter-
prise zone legislation in the One Hundred Fourth Con-
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gress, and that such enterprise zone legislation provide the
following incentives and provisions:
(1) Federal tax incentives that expand access to
capital, increase the formation and expansion of
small businesses, and promote commercial revitaliza-
tion.
(2) Regulatory reforms that allow localities to
petition Federal agencies, subject to the relevant
agencies’ approval, for waivers or modifications of
regulations to improve job creation, small business
formation and expansion, community development,
or economic revitalization objectives of the enterprise
zones.
(3) Home ownership incentives and grants to
encourage resident management of public housing
and home ownership of public housing.
(4) School reform pilot projects in certain des-
ignated enterprise zones to provide low-income par-
ents with new and expanded educational options for
their children’s elementary and secondary schooling.
SEC. 1304. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING THE INABIL-
ITY OF THE NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT TO PAY
CHILD SUPPORT.
It is the sense of the Senate that—
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(a) States should diligently continue their efforts to
enforce child support payments by the non-custodial par-
ent to the custodial parent, regardless of the employment
status or location of the non-custodial parent; and
(b) States are encouraged to pursue pilot programs
in which the parents of a non-adult, non-custodial parent
who refuses to or is unable to pay child support must—
(1) pay or contribute to the child support owed
by the non-custodial parent; or
(2) otherwise fulfill all financial obligations and
meet all conditions imposed on the non-custodial
parent, such as participation in a work program or
other related activity.
SEC. 1305. FOOD STAMP ELIGIBILITY.
Section 6(f) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7
U.S.C. 2015(f)) is amended by striking the third sentence
and inserting the following:
‘‘The State agency shall, at its option, consider either
all income and financial resources of the individual ren-
dered ineligible to participate in the food stamp program
under this subsection, or such income, less a pro rata
share, and the financial resources of the ineligible individ-
ual, to determine the eligibility and the value of the allot-
ment of the household of which such individual is a mem-
ber.’’.
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SEC. 1306. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON LEGISLATIVE AC-
COUNTABILITY FOR UNFUNDED MANDATES
IN WELFARE REFORM LEGISLATION.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds that the purposes
of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 are—
(1) to strengthen the partnership between the
Federal Government and State, local and tribal gov-
ernments;
(2) to end the imposition, in the absence of full
consideration by Congress, of Federal mandates on
State, local and tribal governments without adequate
Federal funding, in a manner that may displace
other essential State, local and tribal governmental
priorities;
(3) to assist Congress in its consideration of
proposed legislation establishing or revising Federal
programs containing Federal mandates affecting
State, local and tribal governments, and the private
sector by—
(A) providing for the development of infor-
mation about the nature and size of mandates
in proposed legislation; and
(B) establishing a mechanism to bring
such information to the attention of the Senate
and the House of Representatives before the
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Senate and the House of Representatives vote
on proposed legislation;
(4) to promote informed and deliberate deci-
sions by Congress on the appropriateness of Federal
mandates in any particular instance; and
(5) to require that Congress consider whether
to provide funding to assist State, local and tribal
governments in complying with Federal mandates.
(b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense of the
Senate that prior to the Senate acting on the conference
report on either H.R. 4 or any other legislation including
welfare reform provisions, the Congressional Budget Of-
fice shall prepare an analysis of the conference report to
include—
(1) estimates, over each of the next 7 fiscal
years, by State and in total, of—
(A) the costs to States of meeting all work
requirements in the conference report, including
those for single-parent families, two-parent
families, and those who have received cash as-
sistance for 2 years;
(B) the resources available to the States to
meet these work requirements, defined as Fed-
eral appropriations authorized in the conference
report for this purpose in addition to what