(D) twice as likely to drop out of school;
(E) twice as likely to be abused;
(F) more likely to commit suicide;
(G) more than twice as likely to abuse al-
cohol or drugs; and
(H) more likely to become pregnant as
teenagers.
(7) Violent criminals are overwhelmingly males
who grew up without fathers.
(8) Between 20 and 30 percent of families in
poverty are headed by women who have suffered do-
mestic violence during the past year and between 40
and 60 percent of women with children receiving
welfare were abused sometime during their life.
(9) Responsible fatherhood includes active par-
ticipation in financial support and child care, as well
as the formation and maintenance of a positive,
healthy, and nonviolent relationship between father
and child and a cooperative relationship between
parents.
(10) States should be encouraged to implement
programs that provide support for responsible fa-
therhood, promote marriage, and increase the inci-
dence of marriage, and should not be restricted from
implementing such programs.
local communities should assist parents to become
more actively involved in their children’s lives.
(16) Child support is an important means by
which a parent can take financial responsibility for
a child and emotional support is an important
means by which a parent can take social responsi-
bility for a child.
SEC. 3. BLOCK GRANTS TO STATES TO ENCOURAGE MEDIA
CAMPAIGNS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part D of title IV of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 651 et seq.) is amended by adding
at the end the following:
‘‘SEC. 469C. BLOCK GRANTS TO STATES FOR MEDIA CAM-
PAIGNS PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE FATHER-
HOOD.
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
‘‘(1) BROADCAST ADVERTISEMENT.—The term
‘broadcast advertisement’ means a communication
intended to be aired by a television or radio broad-
cast station, including a communication intended to
be transmitted through a cable channel.
‘‘(2) CHILD AT RISK.—The term ‘child at risk’
means each young child whose family income does
not exceed the poverty line.
‘‘(3) POVERTY LINE.—The term ‘poverty line’
has the meaning given such term in section 673(2)
of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981
(including any revision required by such section)
that is applicable to a family of the size involved.
‘‘(4) PRINTED OR OTHER ADVERTISEMENT.—
The term ‘printed or other advertisement’ includes
any communication intended to be distributed
through a newspaper, magazine, outdoor advertising
facility, mailing, or any other type of general public
advertising, but does not include any broadcast ad-
vertisement.
‘‘(5) STATE.—The term ‘State’ means each of
the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin
Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
‘‘(6) YOUNG CHILD.—The term ‘young child’
means an individual under age 5.
‘‘(b) STATE CERTIFICATIONS.—Not later than Octo-
ber 1 of each of fiscal year for which a State desires to
receive an allotment under this section, the chief executive
officer of the State shall submit to the Secretary a certifi-
cation that the State will—
‘‘(1) use such funds to promote the formation
and maintenance of married 2-parent families,
strengthen fragile families, and promote responsible
fatherhood through media campaigns conducted in
accordance with the requirements of subsection (d);
‘‘(2) return any unused funds to the Secretary
in accordance with the reconciliation process under
subsection (e); and
‘‘(3) comply with the reporting requirements
under subsection (f).
‘‘(c) PAYMENTS TO STATES.—For each of fiscal years
2002 through 2006, the Secretary shall pay to each State
that submits a certification under subsection (b), from any
funds appropriated under subsection (h), for the fiscal
year an amount equal to the amount of the allotment de-
termined for the fiscal year under subsection (g).
‘‘(d) ESTABLISHMENT OF MEDIA CAMPAIGNS.—Each
State receiving an allotment under this section for a fiscal
year shall use the allotment to conduct media campaigns
as follows:
‘‘(1) CONDUCT OF MEDIA CAMPAIGNS.—
‘‘(A) RADIO AND TELEVISION MEDIA CAM-
PAIGNS.—
‘‘(i) PRODUCTION OF BROADCAST AD-
VERTISEMENTS.—At the option of the
State, to produce broadcast advertisements
that promote the formation and mainte-
nance 
of 
married 
2-parent 
families,
strengthen fragile families, and promote
responsible fatherhood.
‘‘(ii) 
AIR-TIME
CHALLENGE
PRO-
GRAM.—At the option of the State, to es-
tablish an air-time challenge program
under which the State may spend amounts
allotted under this section to purchase time
from a broadcast station to air a broadcast
advertisement produced under subpara-
graph (A), but only if the State obtains an
amount of time of the same class and dur-
ing a comparable period to air the adver-
tisement using non-Federal contributions.
‘‘(B) OTHER MEDIA CAMPAIGNS.—At the
option of the state, to conduct a media cam-
paign that consists of the production and dis-
tribution of printed or other advertisements
that promote the formation and maintenance of
married 2-parent families, strengthen fragile
families, and promote responsible fatherhood.
‘‘(2) ADMINISTRATION OF MEDIA CAMPAIGNS.—
A State may administer media campaigns funded
under this section directly or through grants, con-
tracts, or cooperative agreements with public agen-
cies, local governments, or private entities, including
charitable and religious organizations.
‘‘(3) CONSULTATION
WITH
DOMESTIC
VIO-
LENCE ASSISTANCE CENTERS.—In developing broad-
cast and printed advertisements to be used in the
media campaigns conducted under paragraph (1),
the State or other entity administering the campaign
shall consult with representatives of State and local
domestic violence centers.
‘‘(4) NON-FEDERAL CONTRIBUTIONS.—In this
subsection, the term ‘non-Federal contributions’ in-
cludes contributions by the State and by public and
private entities. Such contributions may be in cash
or in kind. Such term does not include any amounts
provided by the Federal Government, or services as-
sisted or subsidized to any significant extent by the
Federal Government, or any amount expended by a
State before October 1, 2002.
‘‘(e) RECONCILIATION PROCESS.—
‘‘(1) 3-YEAR
AVAILABILITY
OF
AMOUNTS
AL-
LOTTED.—Each State that receives an allotment
under this section shall return to the Secretary any
unused portion of the amount allotted to a State
under this section for a fiscal year not later than
the last day of the second succeeding fiscal year to-
gether with any earnings on such unused portion.
‘‘(2) PROCEDURE FOR REDISTRIBUTION OF UN-
USED ALLOTMENTS.—The Secretary shall establish
an appropriate procedure for redistributing to States
that have expended the entire amount allotted under
this section any amount that is—
‘‘(A) returned to the Secretary by States
under paragraph (1); or
‘‘(B) not allotted to a State under this sec-
tion because the State did not submit a certifi-
cation under subsection (b) by October 1 of a
fiscal year.
‘‘(f) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.—
‘‘(1) MONITORING
AND
EVALUATION.—Each
State receiving an allotment under this section for a
fiscal year shall monitor and evaluate the media
campaigns conducted using funds made available
under this section in such manner as the Secretary,
in consultation with the States, determines appro-
priate.
‘‘(2) ANNUAL
REPORTS.—Not less frequently
than annually, each State receiving an allotment
under this section for a fiscal year shall submit to
the Secretary reports on the media campaigns con-
ducted under this section at such time, in such man-
ner, and containing such information as the Sec-
retary may require.
‘‘(g) AMOUNT OF ALLOTMENTS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), of the amount appropriated for the pur-
pose of making allotments under this section for a
fiscal year, the Secretary shall allot to each State
that submits a certification under subsection (b) for
the fiscal year an amount equal to the sum of—
‘‘(A) the amount that bears the same ratio
to 50 percent of such funds as the number of
young children in the State (as determined by
the Secretary based on the most recent March
supplement to the Current Population Survey
of the Bureau of the Census before the begin-
ning of the calendar year in which such fiscal
year begins) as bears to the number of such
children in all States; and
‘‘(B) the amount that bears the same ratio
to 50 percent of such funds as the number of
children at risk in the State (as determined by
the Secretary based on the most recent March
supplement to the Current Population Survey
of the Bureau of the Census before the begin-
ning of the calendar year in which such fiscal
year begins) bears to the number of such chil-
dren in all States.
‘‘(2) MINIMUM
ALLOTMENTS.—No allotment
for a fiscal year under this section shall be less
than—
‘‘(A) in the case of a State other than the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United
States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa,
and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mar-
iana Islands, 1 percent of the amount appro-
priated for the fiscal year under subsection (h);
and
‘‘(B) in the case of the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands,
Guam, American Samoa, and the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 0.5
percent of such amount.
‘‘(3) PRO RATA REDUCTIONS.—The Secretary
shall make such pro rata reductions to the allot-
ments determined under paragraph (1) as are nec-
essary to comply with the requirements of paragraph
(2).
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There
is authorized to be appropriated $25,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2002 through 2006 for purposes of making
allotments to States under this section.’’.
(b) EVALUATION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall conduct an evaluation of the
impact of the media campaigns funded under section
469C of the Social Security Act, as added by sub-
section (a).
(2) REPORT.—Not later than December 31,
2004, the Secretary of Health and Human Services
shall report to Congress the results of the evaluation
under paragraph (1).
(3) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—
There is authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000
for fiscal year 2002 for purposes of conducting the
evaluation required under this subsection, to remain
available until expended.
SEC. 4. RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD BLOCK GRANT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part D of title IV of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 651 et seq.), as amended by sec-
tion 3, is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘SEC. 469D. RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD BLOCK GRANT.
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
‘‘(1) CHILD AT RISK.—The term ‘child at risk’
has the meaning given such term in section
469C(a)(2).
‘‘(2) POVERTY LINE.—The term ‘poverty line’
has the meaning given such term in section
469C(a)(3).
‘‘(3) STATE.—The term ‘State’ has the mean-
ing given such term in section 469C(a)(5).
‘‘(4) YOUNG CHILD.—The term ‘young child’
has the meaning given such term in section
469C(a)(6).
‘‘(b) STATE CERTIFICATIONS.—Not later than Octo-
ber 1 of each of fiscal year for which a State desires to
receive an allotment under this section, the chief executive
officer of the State shall submit to the Secretary a certifi-
cation that the State will—
‘‘(1) comply with the matching requirements
under subsection (c)(2);
‘‘(2) use such funds to promote responsible fa-
therhood in accordance with the requirements of
subsection (d);
‘‘(3) use such funds to promote or sustain mar-
riage in accordance with subparagraph (A) or (B) of
subsection (d)(2);
‘‘(4) return any unused funds to the Secretary
in accordance with the reconciliation process under
subsection (e); and
‘‘(5) comply with the reporting requirements
under subsection (f).
‘‘(c) PAYMENTS TO STATES.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2),
for each of fiscal years 2002 through 2006, the Sec-
retary shall pay to each State that submits a certifi-
cation described in subsection (b), from any funds
appropriated under subsection (h), for the fiscal year
an amount equal to the amount of the allotment de-
termined under subsection (g).
‘‘(2) MATCHING
REQUIREMENT.—The Sec-
retary may not make a payment to a State under
paragraph (1) unless the State agrees that, with re-
spect to the costs to be incurred by the State in sup-
porting the programs described in subsection (d),
the State will make available non-Federal contribu-
tions in an amount equal to 25 percent of the
amount of Federal funds paid to the State under
such clause.
‘‘(3) NON-FEDERAL CONTRIBUTIONS.—In this
subsection, the term ‘non-Federal contributions’ in-
cludes contributions by the State and by public and
private entities. Such contributions may be in cash
or in kind. Such term does not include any amounts
provided by the Federal Government, or services as-
sisted or subsidized to any significant extent by the
Federal Government or any amount expended by a
State before October 1, 2002.
‘‘(d) RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD PROGRAMS.—
‘‘(1) SUPPORT OF PROGRAMS.—A State shall
use the allotments received under this section to
support programs described in paragraph (2) di-
rectly or through a grant, contract, or cooperative
agreement with any public agency, local government,
or private entity (including any charitable or reli-
gious organization) with experience in administering
such a program.
‘‘(2) PROGRAMS DESCRIBED.—Responsible Fa-
therhood programs include programs that—
‘‘(A) promote marriage through such ac-
tivities as counseling, mentoring, disseminating
information about the benefits of marriage and
2-parent involvement for children, enhancing re-
lationship skills, teaching on how to control ag-
gressive behavior, and disseminating informa-
tion on the causes of domestic violence and
child abuse;
‘‘(B) sustain marriages through marriage
preparation programs, premarital counseling,
marital inventories, skills-based marriage edu-
cation, financial planning seminars, and divorce
education and reduction programs, including
mediation and counseling;
‘‘(C) 
promote 
responsible 
parenting
through such activities as counseling, men-
toring, disseminating information about good
parenting practices, skills-based parenting edu-
cation, encouraging child support payments,
and other methods; and
‘‘(D) help fathers and their families avoid
or leave cash welfare and improve their eco-
nomic status by providing such activities as
work first services, job search, job training,
subsidized employment, job retention, job en-
hancement, and encouraging education, includ-
ing career-advancing education, dissemination
of employment materials, coordination with ex-
isting employment services such as Welfare to
Work and referrals to local employment train-
ing initiatives, and other methods.
‘‘(3) TARGETED LOW-INCOME PARTICIPANTS.—
Not less than 50 percent of the participants in each
program supported under paragraph (1) shall be—
‘‘(A) parents of a child who is, or within
the past 24 months has been, a recipient of as-
sistance or services under a State program
funded under this part; or
‘‘(B) parents, including an expectant par-
ent or a married parent, whose income (after
adjustment for court-ordered child support paid
or received) does not exceed 150 percent of the
poverty line.
‘‘(4) CONSULTATION
WITH
DOMESTIC
VIO-
LENCE ASSISTANCE CENTERS.—Each State or entity
administering a program supported under paragraph
(1) shall consult with representatives of State and
local domestic violence centers.
‘‘(5) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—Amounts
allotted to a State under this section shall be used
to supplement and not supplant other Federal,
State, or local funds provided to the State under this
part or any other provision of law that are used to
support programs and activities similar to the a re-
sponsible fatherhood program described in para-
graph (2).
‘‘(6) RESTRICTIONS ON USE.—No amount allot-
ted under this section may be used for court pro-
ceedings on matters of child visitation or child cus-
tody, or for legislative advocacy.
‘‘(e) RECONCILIATION PROCESS.—
‘‘(1) 3-YEAR
AVAILABILITY
OF
AMOUNTS
AL-
LOTTED.—Each State that receives an allotment
under this section shall return to the Secretary any
unused portion of the amount allotted to a State
under this section for a fiscal year not later than the
last day of the second succeeding fiscal year, to-
gether with any earnings on such unused portion.
‘‘(2) PROCEDURE FOR REDISTRIBUTION OF UN-
USED ALLOTMENTS.—The Secretary shall establish
an appropriate procedure for redistributing to States
that have expended the entire amount allotted under
this section any amount that is—
‘‘(A) returned to the Secretary by States
under paragraph (1); or
‘‘(B) not allotted to a State under this sec-
tion because the State did not submit a certifi-
cation under subsection (b) by October 1 of a
fiscal year.
‘‘(f) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.—
‘‘(1) MONITORING
AND
EVALUATION.—Each
State receiving an allotment under this section shall
monitor and evaluate the programs supported using
funds made available under this section in such
manner as the Secretary, in consultation with the
States, determines appropriate.
‘‘(2) ANNUAL
REPORTS.—Not less frequently
than annually, each State receiving an allotment
under this section for a fiscal year shall submit to
the Secretary reports on the programs supported
under this section at such time, in such manner, and
containing such information as the Secretary may
reasonably require.
‘‘(g) AMOUNT OF ALLOTMENTS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), of the amount appropriated for the pur-
pose of making allotments under this section for a
fiscal year the Secretary shall allot to each State
that submits a certification under subsection (b) for
that fiscal year an amount equal to the sum of—
‘‘(A) the amount that bears the same ratio
to 50 percent of such funds as the number of
young children in the State (as determined by
the Secretary based on the most recent March
supplement to the Current Population Survey
of the Bureau of the Census before the begin-
ning of the calendar year in which such fiscal
year begins) as bears to the number of such
children in all States; and
‘‘(B) the amount that bears the same ratio
to 50 percent of such funds as the number of
children at risk in the State (as determined by
the Secretary based on the most recent March
supplement to the Current Population Survey
of the Bureau of the Census before the begin-
ning of the calendar year in which such fiscal
year begins) bears to the number of such chil-
dren in all States.
‘‘(2) MINIMUM
ALLOTMENTS.—No allotment
for a fiscal year under this section shall be less
than—
‘‘(A) in the case of a State other than the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United
States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa,
and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mar-
iana Islands, 1 percent of the amount appro-
priated for the fiscal year under subsection (h);
and
‘‘(B) in the case of the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands,
Guam, American Samoa, and the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 0.5
percent of such amount.
‘‘(3) PRO RATA REDUCTIONS.—The Secretary
shall make such pro rata reductions to the allot-
ments determined under paragraph (1) as are nec-
essary to comply with the requirements of paragraph
(2).
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There
is authorized to be appropriated $50,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2002 through 2006 for purposes of making
allotments to States under this section.’’.
(b) EVALUATION AND REPORT.—
(1) EVALUATION.—
(A) 
IN
GENERAL.—The 
Secretary 
of
Health and Human Services (in this subsection
referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’), in consultation
with the Secretary of Labor, shall, directly or
through a grant, contract, or interagency agree-
ment, conduct an evaluation of the projects
funded under section 469D of the Social Secu-
rity Act (as added by subsection (a)).
(B) OUTCOMES
ASSESSMENT.—The eval-
uation conducted under subparagraph (A) shall
assess, among other outcomes selected by the
Secretary, effects of the projects on marriage,
parenting, employment, earnings, payment of
child support, and incidence of domestic vio-
lence and child abuse.
(C) PROJECT
SELECTION.—In selecting
projects for the evaluation, the Secretary should
include projects that are most likely to further
the purposes of this section.
(D) RANDOM ASSIGNMENT.—In conducting
the evaluation, random assignment should be
used wherever possible.
(2) REPORT.—Not later than December 31,
2004, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a re-
port on the results of the evaluation conducted
under paragraph (1).
(3) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—
There is authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000
for each of fiscal years 2002 through 2006 to carry
out this subsection.
SEC. 5. NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR RESPONSIBLE FA-
THERHOOD PROGRAMS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part D of title IV of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 651), as amended by section 4,
is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘SEC. 469E. MEDIA CAMPAIGN NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE
FOR RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD.
‘‘(a) MEDIA CAMPAIGN AND NATIONAL CLEARING-
HOUSE.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—From any funds appro-
priated under subsection (c), the Secretary shall con-
tract with a nationally recognized, nonprofit father-
hood promotion organization described in subsection
(b) to—
‘‘(A) develop, promote, and distribute to
interested States, local governments, public
agencies, and private entities a media campaign
that encourages the appropriate involvement of
both parents in the life of any child of the par-
ents, with a priority for programs that specifi-
cally address the issue of responsible father-
hood; and
‘‘(B) develop a national clearinghouse to
assist States and communities in efforts to pro-
mote and support marriage and responsible fa-
therhood by collecting, evaluating, and making
available (through the Internet and by other
means) to other States information regarding
the media campaigns established under section
469C.
‘‘(2) COORDINATION WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
PROGRAMS.—The Secretary shall ensure that the na-
tionally recognized nonprofit fatherhood promotion
organization with a contract under paragraph (1)
coordinates the media campaign developed under
subparagraph (A) of such paragraph and the na-
tional clearinghouse developed under subparagraph
(B) of such paragraph with a national, State, or
local domestic violence program.
‘‘(b) NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED, NONPROFIT FA-
THERHOOD PROMOTION ORGANIZATION DESCRIBED.—
The nationally recognized, nonprofit fatherhood promotion
organization described in this subsection is such an orga-
nization that has at least 4 years of experience in—
‘‘(1) designing and disseminating a national
public education campaign, including the production
and successful placement of television, radio, and
print public service announcements that promote the
importance of responsible fatherhood; and
‘‘(2) providing consultation and training to
community-based organizations interested in imple-
menting fatherhood outreach, support, or skill devel-
opment programs with an emphasis on promoting
married fatherhood as the ideal.
‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There
is authorized to be appropriated $2,000,000 for each of
fiscal years 2002 through 2006 to carry out this section.’’.
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