‘‘(B) To payments of premiums for health
care insurance coverage for dependent children.
‘‘(C) To payments of support due before
the month of withholding, and of unreimbursed
health-care expenses.’’.
(d) ACCESS
TO VARIOUS DATA BASES.—Section
466(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 666(a)), as amended by
subsection (a) of this section, is amended by inserting
after paragraph (12) the following:
‘‘(13) Procedures under which the State child
support enforcement agency shall have automated
on-line 
or 
batch 
access 
(or, 
if 
necessary,
nonautomated access) to information regarding resi-
dential addresses, employers and employer address-
es, income and assets, and medical insurance bene-
fits with respect to absent parents that is available
through any data base maintained by—
‘‘(A) any agency of the State or any politi-
cal subdivision thereof, that contains informa-
tion on residential addresses, or on employers
and employer addresses, as the State deems ap-
propriate;
‘‘(B) any publicly regulated utility com-
pany located in the State; and
‘‘(C) any credit reporting agency located in
the State.’’.
(e) EXPANDED INTERACTION WITH THE NATIONAL
PARENT LOCATOR NETWORK.—Section 454(16) of such
Act (42 U.S.C. 654(16)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and (E)’’ and inserting ‘‘(E)’’;
and
(2) by striking ‘‘enforcement;’’ and inserting
‘‘enforcement, and (F) to provide access to the na-
tional network developed pursuant to section
453(g);’’.
(f) PRIVATE ACCESS TO LOCATE AND ENFORCE-
MENT SERVICES.—Section 466(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C.
666(a)), as amended by subsections (a) and (d) of this
section, is amended by inserting after paragraph (13) the
following:
‘‘(14)(A) Procedures under which private attor-
neys and pro se obligees must be given access to
State locate resources and through enforcement
techniques of the State child support enforcement
agency, for the purpose of establishing, modifying,
and enforcing child support and parentage orders, in
accordance with safeguards established—
‘‘(i) to provide the custodial parent ad-
vance notice of any release of information with
respect to a noncustodial parent; and
‘‘(ii) to prevent release of information with
respect to a noncustodial parent if the release
may jeopardize the safety of the noncustodial
parent, the custodial parent, or any child of ei-
ther parent; and
‘‘(B) The procedures described in subparagraph
(A) must require the State—
‘‘(i) to develop and publish guidelines im-
plementing the safeguards described in sub-
paragraph (A); and
‘‘(ii) if the State provides for reasonable
fees for the access referred to in subparagraph
(A), to establish such fees in accordance with
guidelines developed and published by the State
that set schedules for such fees.’’.
SEC. 407. CONSUMER CREDIT PROTECTION ACT AMEND-
MENTS.
(a) PRIORITY OF DEBTS.—Title III of the Consumer
Credit Protection Act (15 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.) is amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘§ 308. Priority of debts
‘‘If an individual’s disposable earnings are not suffi-
cient to pay—
‘‘(1) a garnishment intended to satisfy a Fed-
eral debt; and
‘‘(2) a garnishment intended to satisfy a debt
related to the support of any child,
the Federal debt shall be satisfied through garnishment
only after the debt related to support of a child has been
satisfied.’’.
(b) ADDITIONAL
INDEBTEDNESS
IN
ANTI-DIS-
CHARGE SECTION.—Section 304 of such Act (15 U.S.C.
1674) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (b) as sub-
section (c);
(2) in subsection (c) (as so redesignated) by
striking ‘‘subsection (a) of’’; and
(3) by inserting after subsection (a) the follow-
ing:
‘‘(b) No employer may discharge any employee by
reason of the fact that the earnings of the employee have
been subjected to more than one indebtedness, if all but
one of the indebtedness arise from one or more orders for
the support of a child.’’.
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections
at the beginning of title III of the Consumer Credit Pro-
tection Act is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘308. Priority of debts.’’.
SEC. 408. STATES REQUIRED TO ENACT THE UNIFORM
INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 466 of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 666) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘(f) In order to satisfy section 454(20)(A), each
State must have in effect laws which adopt the officially
approved version of the Uniform Interstate Family Sup-
port Act adopted by the National Conference of Commis-
sioners on Uniform State Laws in August 1992.’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
subsection (a) shall apply to payments under part D of
title IV of the Social Security Act for calendar quarters
ending 2 or more years after the date of the enactment
of this Act.
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