Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I—BLOCK GRANTS FOR TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR
NEEDY FAMILIES
Sec. 100. References to Social Security Act.
Sec. 101. Block grants to States.
Sec. 102. Services provided by charitable, religious, or private organizations.
Sec. 103. Limitations on use of funds for certain purposes.
Sec. 104. Continued application of current standards under medicaid program.
Sec. 105. Census data on grandparents as primary caregivers for their grand-
children.
Sec. 105A. Development of prototype of counterfeit-resistant social security
card required.
Sec. 106. Conforming amendments to the Social Security Act.
Sec. 107. Conforming amendments to the Food Stamp Act of 1977 and related
provisions.
Sec. 108. Conforming amendments to other laws.
Sec. 109. Study of effect of welfare reform on grandparents as primary
caregivers.
Sec. 110. Disclosure of receipt of Federal funds.
Sec. 110A. Modifications to the job opportunities for certain low-income indi-
viduals program.
Sec. 110B. Demonstration projects for school utilization.
Sec. 110C. Corrective compliance plan.
Sec. 110D. Parental responsibility contracts.
Sec. 110E. Corrective action plan.
Sec. 111. Secretarial submission of legislative proposal for technical and con-
forming amendments.
Sec. 112. Effective date; transition rule.
TITLE II—SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME
Subtitle A—Eligibility Restrictions
Sec. 201. Denial of supplemental security income benefits by reason of disabil-
ity to drug addicts and alcoholics.
Sec. 202. Limited eligibility of noncitizens for SSI benefits.
Sec. 203. Denial of SSI benefits for 10 years to individuals found to have
fraudulently misrepresented residence in order to obtain bene-
fits simultaneously in 2 or more States.
Sec. 204. Denial of SSI benefits for fugitive felons and probation and parole
violators.
Sec. 205. Effective dates; application to current recipients.
Subtitle B—Benefits for Disabled Children
Sec. 211. Definition and eligibility rules.
Sec. 212. Eligibility redeterminations and continuing disability reviews.
Sec. 213. Additional accountability requirements.
Subtitle C—Studies Regarding Supplemental Security Income Program
Sec. 221. Annual report on the supplemental security income program.
Sec. 222. Improvements to disability evaluation.
Sec. 223. Study of disability determination process.
Sec. 224. Study by General Accounting Office.
Subtitle D—National Commission on the Future of Disability
Sec. 231. Establishment.
Sec. 232. Duties of the Commission.
Sec. 233. Membership.
Sec. 234. Staff and support services.
Sec. 235. Powers of Commission.
Sec. 236. Reports.
Sec. 237. Termination.
Subtitle E—State Supplementation Programs
Sec. 241. Repeal of maintenance of effort requirements applicable to optional
State programs for supplementation of SSI benefits.
Subtitle F—Retirement Age Eligibility
Sec. 251. Eligibility for supplemental security income benefits based on social
security retirement age.
TITLE III—FOOD STAMP PROGRAM
Subtitle A—Food Stamp Reform
Sec. 301. Declaration of policy.
Sec. 301A. Certification period.
Sec. 302. Treatment of children living at home.
Sec. 303. Optional additional criteria for separate household determinations.
Sec. 304. Adjustment of thrifty food plan.
Sec. 305. Definition of homeless individual.
Sec. 306. State options in regulations.
Sec. 307. Earnings of students.
Sec. 308. Energy assistance.
Sec. 309. Deductions from income.
Sec. 310. Amount of vehicle asset limitation.
Sec. 311. Benefits for aliens.
Sec. 312. Disqualification.
Sec. 313. Caretaker exemption.
Sec. 314. Employment and training.
Sec. 315. Comparable treatment for disqualification.
Sec. 316. Cooperation with child support agencies.
Sec. 317. Disqualification for child support arrears.
Sec. 318. Permanent disqualification for participating in 2 or more States.
Sec. 319. Work requirement.
Sec. 319A. Disqualification of fleeing felons.
Sec. 320. Electronic benefit transfers.
Sec. 321. Minimum benefit.
Sec. 322. Benefits on recertification.
Sec. 323. Optional combined allotment for expedited households.
Sec. 324. Failure to comply with other welfare and public assistance programs.
Sec. 325. Allotments for households residing in institutions.
Sec. 326. Operation of food stamp offices.
Sec. 327. State employee and training standards.
Sec. 328. Exchange of law enforcement information.
Sec. 329. Expedited coupon service.
Sec. 330. Fair hearings.
Sec. 331. Income and eligibility verification system.
Sec. 332. Collection of overissuances.
Sec. 333. Termination of Federal match for optional information activities.
Sec. 334. Standards for administration.
Sec. 335. Work supplementation or support program.
Sec. 336. Waiver authority.
Sec. 337. Authorization of pilot projects.
Sec. 338. Response to waivers.
Sec. 339. Private sector employment initiatives.
Sec. 340. Reauthorization of appropriations.
Sec. 341. Reauthorization of Puerto Rico nutrition assistance program.
Sec. 342. Simplified food stamp program.
Sec. 343. Optional State food assistance block grant.
Sec. 344. Effective date.
Subtitle B—Anti-Fraud and Trafficking
Sec. 351. Expanded definition of coupon.
Sec. 352. Doubled penalties for violating food stamp program requirements.
Sec. 353. Authority to establish authorization periods.
Sec. 354. Specific period for prohibiting participation of stores based on lack
of business integrity.
Sec. 355. Information for verifying eligibility for authorization.
Sec. 356. Waiting period for stores that initially fail to meet authorization cri-
teria.
Sec. 357. Bases for suspensions and disqualifications.
Sec. 358. Disqualification of stores pending judicial and administrative review.
Sec. 359. Disqualification of retailers who are disqualified under the WIC pro-
gram.
Sec. 360. Permanent debarment of retailers who intentionally submit falsified
applications.
Sec. 361. Expanded criminal forfeiture for violations.
Sec. 362. Effective date.
TITLE IV—CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS
Subtitle A—Reimbursement Rates
Sec. 401. Termination of additional payment for lunches served in high free
and reduced price participation schools.
Sec. 402. Value of food assistance.
Sec. 403. Lunches, breakfasts, and supplements.
Sec. 404. Summer food service program for children.
Sec. 405. Special milk program.
Sec. 406. Free and reduced price breakfasts.
Sec. 407. Conforming reimbursement for paid breakfasts and lunches.
Subtitle B—Grant Programs
Sec. 411. School breakfast startup grants.
Sec. 412. Nutrition education and training programs.
Sec. 413. Effective date.
Subtitle C—Other Amendments
Sec. 421. Free and reduced price policy statement.
Sec. 422. Summer food service program for children.
Sec. 423. Child and adult care food program.
Sec. 424. Reducing required reports to State agencies and schools.
Subtitle D—Reauthorization
Sec. 431. Commodity distribution program; commodity supplemental food pro-
gram.
Sec. 432. Emergency food assistance program.
Sec. 433. Soup kitchens program.
Sec. 434. National commodity processing.
Sec. 435. Commodity supplemental food program.
TITLE V—NONCITIZENS
Sec. 501. State option to prohibit assistance for certain aliens.
Sec. 502. Deemed income requirement for Federal and federally funded pro-
grams.
Sec. 503. Requirements for sponsor’s affidavit of support.
Sec. 504. Limited eligibility of noncitizens for SSI benefits.
Sec. 505. Treatment of noncitizens.
Sec. 506. Information reporting.
Sec. 507. Prohibition on payment of Federal benefits to certain persons.
TITLE VI—CHILD CARE
Sec. 601. Short title.
Sec. 602. Amendments to the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of
1990.
Sec. 603. Repeals and technical and conforming amendments.
TITLE VII—PROTECTION OF BATTERED INDIVIDUALS
Sec. 701. Exemption of battered individuals from certain requirements.
TITLE VIII—ADOPTION EXPENSES
Sec. 801. Refundable credit for adoption expenses.
Sec. 802. Exclusion of adoption assistance.
Sec. 803. Withdrawal from IRA for adoption expenses.
TITLE IX—CHILD SUPPORT
Sec. 900. Reference to Social Security Act.
Subtitle A—Eligibility for Services; Distribution of Payments
Sec. 901. State obligation to provide child support enforcement services.
Sec. 902. Distribution of child support collections.
Sec. 903. Rights to notification and hearings.
Sec. 904. Privacy safeguards.
Subtitle B—Locate and Case Tracking
Sec. 911. State case registry.
Sec. 912. Collection and disbursement of support payments.
Sec. 913. State directory of new hires.
Sec. 914. Amendments concerning income withholding.
Sec. 915. Locator information from interstate networks.
Sec. 916. Expansion of the Federal parent locator service.
Sec. 917. Collection and use of social security numbers for use in child support
enforcement.
Subtitle C—Streamlining and Uniformity of Procedures
Sec. 921. Adoption of uniform State laws.
Sec. 922. Improvements to full faith and credit for child support orders.
Sec. 923. Administrative enforcement in interstate cases.
Sec. 924. Use of forms in interstate enforcement.
Sec. 925. State laws providing expedited procedures.
Subtitle D—Paternity Establishment
Sec. 931. State laws concerning paternity establishment.
Sec. 932. Outreach for voluntary paternity establishment.
Sec. 933. Cooperation by applicants for and recipients of temporary family as-
sistance.
Subtitle E—Program Administration and Funding
Sec. 941. Performance-based incentives and penalties.
Sec. 942. Federal and State reviews and audits.
Sec. 943. Required reporting procedures.
Sec. 944. Automated data processing requirements.
Sec. 945. Technical assistance.
Sec. 946. Reports and data collection by the Secretary.
Subtitle F—Establishment and Modification of Support Orders
Sec. 951. National Child Support Guidelines Commission.
Sec. 952. Simplified process for review and adjustment of child support orders.
Sec. 953. Furnishing consumer reports for certain purposes relating to child
support.
Sec. 954. Nonliability for depository institutions providing financial records to
State child support enforcement agencies in child support
cases.
Subtitle G—Enforcement of Support Orders
Sec. 961. Internal Revenue Service collection of arrearages.
Sec. 962. Authority to collect support from Federal employees.
Sec. 963. Enforcement of child support obligations of members of the armed
forces.
Sec. 964. Voiding of fraudulent transfers.
Sec. 965. Work requirement for persons owing child support.
Sec. 966. Definition of support order.
Sec. 967. Reporting arrearages to credit bureaus.
Sec. 968. Liens.
Sec. 969. State law authorizing suspension of licenses.
Sec. 970. Denial of passports for nonpayment of child support.
Sec. 971. International child support enforcement.
Sec. 972. Denial of means-tested Federal benefits to noncustodial parents who
are delinquent in paying child support.
Sec. 973. Child support enforcement for Indian tribes.
Sec. 974. Financial institution data matches.
Subtitle H—Medical Support
‘‘(C) Children born out-of-wedlock are
more likely to experience low verbal cognitive
attainment, as well as more child abuse, and
neglect.
‘‘(D) Children born out-of-wedlock were
more likely to have lower cognitive scores, lower
educational aspirations, and a greater likelihood
of becoming teenage parents themselves.
‘‘(E) Being born out-of-wedlock signifi-
cantly reduces the chances of the child growing
up to have an intact marriage.
‘‘(F) Children born out-of-wedlock are 3
more times likely to be on welfare when they
grow up.
‘‘(8) Currently 35 percent of children in single-
parent homes were born out-of-wedlock, nearly the
same percentage as that of children in single-parent
homes whose parents are divorced (37 percent).
While many parents find themselves, through divorce
or tragic circumstances beyond their control, facing
the difficult task of raising children alone, neverthe-
less, the negative consequences of raising children in
single-parent homes are well documented as follows:
‘‘(A) Only 9 percent of married-couple
families with children under 18 years of age