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mine the incentives that should be provided to
encourage States to enforce obligations of
noncustodial parents to pay (and obtain medical
insurance coverage with respect to) the reason-
able and necessary health and dental expenses
of the children to whom the noncustodial par-
ents owe such obligations.
(B) REPORT.—Not later than 12 months
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Secretary of Health and Human Services shall
submit to the Committee on Ways and Means
of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Finance of the Senate the results of
the study required by subparagraph (A).
SEC. 499UU. ANNUAL REPORTS ON STATE COMPLIANCE
WITH TIME LIMITS WITHIN WHICH STATE
MUST PROVIDE CERTAIN CHILD SUPPORT AS-
SISTANCE.
Section 452(a)(10) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 652(a)(10)) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (H), by striking ‘‘and’’;
(2) in subparagraph (I), by striking the period
and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (I) the fol-
lowing:
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‘‘(J) compliance, by State, with the stand-
ards established pursuant to subsections (h)
and (i).’’.
SEC. 499VV. WAGES WITHHELD BY EMPLOYERS TO PAY
CHILD SUPPORT OBLIGATIONS REQUIRED TO
BE PAID TO STATE WITHIN 10 DAYS; LATE
PAYMENT PENALTY IMPOSED ON EMPLOY-
ERS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 466(b)(6)(A) of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 666(b)(6)(A)) is amended—
(1) in clause (i), by inserting ‘‘within 10 days
after the payment of such wages’’ before ‘‘to the ap-
propriate agency’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(iii) The State must require any employer who
fails to make any payment required in accordance
with clause (i) within the 10-day period described
therein to pay the State a $1,000 penalty. The State
must expend all penalties collected in accordance
with this clause for the operation of the State plan
approved under section 454, not later than the end
of the calendar quarter following the calendar quar-
ter in which collected.’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—
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(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2) of this subsection, the amendments made
by subsection (a) of this section shall take effect on
the date of the enactment of this Act and apply to
wages paid on or after such date and payments
under part D of title IV of the Social Security Act
for calendar quarters beginning on or after such
date.
(2) DELAY PERMITTED IF STATE LEGISLATION
REQUIRED.—In the case of a State plan approved
under section 454 of the Social Security Act which
the Secretary of Health and Human Services deter-
mines requires State legislation (other than legisla-
tion appropriating funds) in order for the plan to
meet the additional requirements imposed by the
amendments made by subsection (a) of this section,
the State plan shall not be regarded as failing to
comply with the requirements of such section 454
solely on the basis of the failure of the plan to meet
such additional requirements before the 1st day of
the 1st calendar quarter beginning after the close of
the 1st regular session of the State legislature that
begins after the date of the enactment of this Act.
For purposes of the previous sentence, in the case
of a State that has a 2-year legislative session, each
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year of such session shall be deemed to be a sepa-
rate regular session of the State legislature.
SEC. 499WW. NATIONAL PARENT LOCATOR NETWORK.
Section 453 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
653) is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(g) The Secretary shall expand the Parent Locator
Service to establish a national network based on the com-
prehensive statewide child support enforcement systems
developed by the States, to—
‘‘(1) allow each State to—
‘‘(A) locate any absent parent who owes
child support, for whom a child support obliga-
tion is being established, or for whom an order
for visitation is being enforced, by—
‘‘(i) accessing the records of other
State agencies and sources of locate infor-
mation directly from one computer system
to another; and
‘‘(ii) accessing Federal sources of lo-
cate information in the same fashion;
‘‘(B) access the files of other States to de-
termine whether there are other child support
orders involving the same absent parent, and
obtain the details of any such order;
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‘‘(C) provide for both on-line and batch
processing of locate requests, with on-line ac-
cess restricted to cases in which the information
is needed immediately (for such reasons as
court appearances) and batch processing used
to ‘troll’ data bases to locate individuals or up-
date information periodically; and
‘‘(D) direct locate requests to individual
States or Federal agencies, broadcast requests
to selected States, or broadcast cases to all
States when there is no indication of the source
of needed information;
‘‘(2) provide for a maximum of 48-hour turn-
around time for information to be broadcast and re-
turned to a requesting State; and
‘‘(3) provide ready access to courts of the infor-
mation on the network by location of a computer
terminal in each court.’’.
PART N—REPORTING DELINQUENT PARENTS TO
CONSUMER CREDIT AGENCIES
SEC. 499XX. INCLUSION IN CONSUMER CREDIT REPORTS
OF INFORMATION ON OVERDUE CHILD SUP-
PORT OBLIGATIONS OF THE CONSUMER.
(a) PROVISION TO CONSUMER REPORTING AGENCIES
OF INFORMATION ON OVERDUE CHILD SUPPORT OBLIGA-
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TIONS OF ABSENT PARENTS.—Section 466(a)(7) of the
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 666(a)(7)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘will’’ and inserting ‘‘shall’’;
(2) by striking ‘‘upon the request of such agen-
cy’’;
(3) by striking ‘‘, and (C)’’ and all that follows
through ‘‘State’’; and
(4) by striking ‘‘minor’’ from 466(e) and delet-
ing ‘‘at the option’’ and all that follows through the
word ‘‘section.’’
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall take effect on the 1st day of the 1st cal-
endar quarter that begins on or after the date of the en-
actment of this Act.
Subtitle B—Pension Reform
SEC. 501. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Pension Reform
Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 502. PENSION INTEGRATION RULES.
(a) APPLICABILITY OF NEW INTEGRATION RULES
EXTENDED TO ALL EXISTING ACCRUED BENEFITS.—
Notwithstanding subsection (c)(1) of section 1111 of the
Tax Reform Act of 1986 (relating to effective date of ap-
plication of nondiscrimination rules to integrated plans)
(100 Stat. 2440), effective for plan years beginning after