Commission for national guidelines to be followed by the
States in making child support awards, together with its
recommendations for such legislation or administrative ac-
tion as the Commission considers appropriate.
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall take effect
on the date of the enactment of this Act.
(f) TERMINATION.—The Commission shall terminate
on the earlier of—
(1) the date the work of the Commission is
completed, as determined by the Secretary; or
(2) the date that is 1 year after the effective
date of this section.
SEC. 8. UNIFORM TERMINATION OF CHILD SUPPORT OBLI-
GATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 454 of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 654) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph
(23);
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (24) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (24) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(25) provide that the State shall have in effect
a law providing that a court order, or an order of
an administrative process established under State
law, for support and maintenance of a child, or of
a child and the parent with whom the child is living
may not require the payment of such support or
maintenance with respect to—
‘‘(A) a child who has attained 18 years of
age, unless the parent claims an exemption for
the child under section 151 of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986; or
‘‘(B) any child who has attained 21 years
of age.’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall take effect on January 1, 1995.
SEC. 9. REALLOCATION OF RESOURCES.
(a) STAFFING.—
(1) PROMULGATION OF METHODOLOGY TO BE
USED TO DETERMINE STATE STAFFING NEEDS.—
Section 452(a)(2) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 652(a)(1)) is amended by inserting ‘‘, and a
methodology to be used to determine such require-
ments’’ before the semicolon.
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made
by paragraph (1) shall take effect on November 1,
1995.
(3) CERTAIN CONSULTATIONS REQUIRED.—Be-
fore prescribing a methodology to be used to deter-
mine staffing requirements under section 452(a)(2)
of the Social Security Act, the Secretary of Health
and Human Services shall consult with the heads of
State child support enforcement agencies, experts in
the operation of State child support enforcement
programs.
(4) DETERMINATION
OF
REQUIRED
STATE
STAFFING NEEDS; DEVELOPMENT OF PLAN TO MEET
REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall—
(A) determine the staffing requirements
for each State child support enforcement pro-
gram, in consultation with the State, by using
the methodology established under section
452(a)(2) of the Social Security Act; and
(B) develop a plan that details the steps
that the State must take to meet such require-
ments by September 1, 1994.
(b) INCREASE IN FEDERAL FINANCIAL PARTICIPA-
TION.—Section 455(a)(2) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 655(a)(2)) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘and’’;
(2) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘fiscal
year 1990 and each fiscal year thereafter.’’ and in-
serting ‘‘fiscal years 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, and
1994, and the first quarter of fiscal year 1995;
and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(D) 82.5 percent for quarters beginning after
calendar year 1994.’’.
(c) MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT.—Section 455 of such
Act (42 U.S.C. 655) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this sec-
tion, the amount otherwise payable to a State for a quar-
ter under this section shall be reduced to the extent that
the total of the amount expended by the State from State
and local sources to carry out the State plans under part
A and this part during the quarter is less than the amount
so expended from such sources during the corresponding
quarter of the calendar year 1994.’’.
(d) MINIMUM AFDC STANDARD OF NEED.—Section
402(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 602(a)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph
(44);
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (45) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (45) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(46) provide that the State’s standard of need
for a family shall be an amount that is not less than
the greater of—
‘‘(A) 90 percent of the income official pov-
erty line (as defined by the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget, and revised annually in ac-
cordance with section 673(2) of the Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981) applicable
to a family of the same composition; or
‘‘(B) the State’s standard of need for the
family as of March 1, 1994.’’.
(e) EXPANDED AFDC COVERAGE FOR NEEDY STU-
DENTS.—Section 406(a)(2)(B) of such Act (42 U.S.C.
606(a)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘nineteen’’ each
place such term appears and inserting ‘‘21’’.
(f) OPERATION OF STATE AFDC PLAN AND STATE
CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT PLAN AS REQUIREMENT
UNDER STATE MEDICAID PLAN.—Section 1902(a) of
such Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)), as amended by section
13631(a)(3) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of
1993, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph
(61);
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (62) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(63) provide that the State—
‘‘(A) has in effect a plan approved under part
D of title IV and operates a child support program
in substantial compliance with such plan, and
‘‘(B) has in effect a plan approved under part
A of title IV and operates a program of aid to fami-
lies with dependent children in substantial compli-
ance with such plan.’’.
(g) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Except as provided in sub-
section (a), the amendments made by this section shall
take effect on January 1, 1995.
SEC. 10. DIRECT ACCOUNTABILITY OF CHILD SUPPORT EN-
FORCEMENT PROGRAMS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 403(h) of such Act (42
U.S.C. 603(h))—
(1) is amended—
(A) in paragraph (1)—
(i) by striking ‘‘part D’’ and inserting
‘‘this part’’;
(ii) by striking ‘‘such part’’ and in-
serting ‘‘this part’’; and
(iii) by striking ‘‘—’’ and all that fol-
lows and inserting ‘‘5 percent.’’;
(B) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ‘‘re-
ductions’’ and inserting ‘‘reduction’’; and
(C) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘, section
402(a)(27),’’; and
(2) as so amended, is hereby transferred to sec-
tion 455 of such Act, inserted after subsection (b)
of such section 455 and designated as subsection (c)
of such section 455.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 454(1) of
such Act (42 U.S.C. 654(1)) is amended by inserting ‘‘and
carried out’’ after ‘‘in effect’’.
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall take effect on January 1, 1995.
SEC. 11. SOCIAL SERVICES DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.
(a) PURPOSE.—The Secretary of Health and Human
Services (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’)
shall authorize 5 States to conduct 5-year demonstration
projects under which States are to give priority, to custo-
dial and noncustodial parents who are unable to support
their children financially, in the provision of services under
the job opportunities and basic skills training program
under part F of title IV of the Social Security Act and
under the Job Training Partnership Act, and in the provi-
sion of other Federal job training, education, and child
care services, in order to aid such parents to better provide
for themselves and their children.
(b) DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY.—
(1) CONSIDERATION
OF
APPLICATIONS.—The
Secretary shall consider all applications received
from States desiring to conduct demonstration
projects under this section.
(2) APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS.—
(A) NUMBER.—The Secretary shall ap-
prove not more than 5 applications to conduct
demonstration projects under this section.
(B) PRIORITY.—In approving such applica-
tions, the Secretary shall give priority to States
that are conducting programs similar to those
that would be conducted under this section.
(3) GRANTS.—The Secretary shall make a
grant in the amount of $2,000,000, in a lump sum,
to each State whose application to conduct a dem-
onstration project under this section is approved by
the Secretary, to assist the State in carrying out the
project.
(4) TIMING OF GRANTS.—The Secretary shall
make all grants under this section at the same time.
(c) REQUIREMENTS.—
(1) PRESCRIBED
BY
THE
SECRETARY.—Each
State that receives a grant for a demonstration
project under this section shall conduct the project
in accordance with such requirements as the Sec-
retary may prescribe.
(2) EVALUATIONS AND REPORTS.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—
(i) INTERIM
EVALUATION
AND
RE-
PORT.—Each State that conducts a dem-
onstration project under this section shall
conduct an interim evaluation of the effec-
tiveness of the project after the project has
been conducted for 30 months, and shall
submit to the Secretary an interim report
that contains—
(I) information on the number of
parents involved in particular pro-
grams under the project;
(II) information on the average
length of time between the enrollment
of a parent and the employment of
the parent; and
(III) a description of any rela-
tionship found to exist between social
service programs and the payment of
child support.
(ii) FINAL
EVALUATION
AND
RE-
PORT.—Each State that conducts a dem-
onstration project under this section shall
conduct a final evaluation of the effective-
ness of the project at the end of the
project, and shall submit to the Secretary
a final report that contains—
(I) information on the number of
parents involved in particular pro-
grams under the project;
(II) information on the average
length of time between the enrollment
of a parent and the employment of
the parent; and
(III) a description of any rela-
tionship found to exist between social
service programs and the payment of
child support.
(B) CONTENTS.—The evaluations and re-
ports required by subparagraph (A) with re-
spect to a demonstration project shall analyze
and describe (in a manner prescribed by the
Secretary)—
(i) the impact of the project on the
economic and noneconomic well-being of
children and adults in custodial and
noncustodial households;
(ii) the rates at which custodial and
noncustodial parents increase participation
in the workforce as a result of the project;
(iii) the impact of the project on par-
ticipation rates in, amounts of aid provided
under, and overall level of funding for, the
program of aid to families with dependent
children under part A of title IV of the So-
cial Security Act; and
(iv) the impact on custodial and
noncustodial parents of access to education
and job training services under the project.
(d) REPORTS TO THE CONGRESS.—
(1) INTERIM
REPORT.—After receiving and
analyzing the interim reports required by subsection
(c)(2)(A)(i) and analyzing such reports, the Sec-
retary shall submit to the Committee on Ways and
Means and the Committee on Education and Labor
of the House of Representatives, and to the Commit-
tee on Finance and the Committee on Labor and