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(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 466(c) (42
U.S.C. 666(c)) is repealed.
SEC. 315. LOCATOR INFORMATION FROM INTERSTATE NET-
WORKS.
Section 466(a) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)) is amended by
adding at the end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(12) LOCATOR
INFORMATION
FROM
INTER-
STATE NETWORKS.—Procedures to ensure that all
Federal and State agencies conducting activities
under this part have access to any system used by
the State to locate an individual for purposes relat-
ing to motor vehicles or law enforcement.’’.
SEC. 316. EXPANSION OF THE FEDERAL PARENT LOCATOR
SERVICE.
(a) EXPANDED AUTHORITY TO LOCATE INDIVID-
UALS
AND ASSETS.—Section 453 (42 U.S.C. 653) is
amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking all that follows
‘‘subsection (c))’’ and inserting ‘‘, for the purpose of
establishing parentage, establishing, setting the
amount of, modifying, or enforcing child support ob-
ligations, or enforcing child custody or visitation or-
ders—
‘‘(1) information on, or facilitating the discov-
ery of, the location of any individual—
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‘‘(A) who is under an obligation to pay
child support or provide child custody or visita-
tion rights;
‘‘(B) against whom such an obligation is
sought;
‘‘(C) to whom such an obligation is owed,
including the individual’s social security number (or
numbers), most recent address, and the name, ad-
dress, and employer identification number of the in-
dividual’s employer;
‘‘(2) information on the individual’s wages (or
other income) from, and benefits of, employment (in-
cluding rights to or enrollment in group health care
coverage); and
‘‘(3) information on the type, status, location,
and amount of any assets of, or debts owed by or
to, any such individual.’’; and
(2) in subsection (b)—
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1),
by striking ‘‘social security’’ and all that follows
through ‘‘absent parent’’ and inserting ‘‘infor-
mation described in subsection (a)’’; and
(B) in the flush paragraph at the end, by
adding the following: ‘‘No information shall be
disclosed to any person if the State has notified
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the Secretary that the State has reasonable evi-
dence of domestic violence or child abuse and
the disclosure of such information could be
harmful to the custodial parent or the child of
such parent. Information received or transmit-
ted pursuant to this section shall be subject to
the safeguard provisions contained in section
454(26).’’.
(b) AUTHORIZED PERSON FOR INFORMATION RE-
GARDING
VISITATION
RIGHTS.—Section 453(c) (42
U.S.C. 653(c)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘support’’ and
inserting ‘‘support or to seek to enforce orders pro-
viding child custody or visitation rights’’; and
(2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘, or any
agent of such court; and’’ and inserting ‘‘or to issue
an order against a resident parent for child custody
or visitation rights, or any agent of such court;’’.
(c) REIMBURSEMENT FOR INFORMATION FROM FED-
ERAL
AGENCIES.—Section 
453(e)(2) 
(42 
U.S.C.
653(e)(2)) is amended in the 4th sentence by inserting
‘‘in an amount which the Secretary determines to be rea-
sonable payment for the information exchange (which
amount shall not include payment for the costs of obtain-
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ing, compiling, or maintaining the information)’’ before
the period.
(d) REIMBURSEMENT
FOR
REPORTS
BY
STATE
AGENCIES.—Section 453 (42 U.S.C. 653) is amended by
adding at the end the following new subsection:
‘‘(g) REIMBURSEMENT
FOR REPORTS
BY STATE
AGENCIES.—The Secretary may reimburse Federal and
State agencies for the costs incurred by such entities in
furnishing information requested by the Secretary under
this section in an amount which the Secretary determines
to be reasonable payment for the information exchange
(which amount shall not include payment for the costs of
obtaining, compiling, or maintaining the information).’’.
(e) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
(1) Sections 452(a)(9), 453(a), 453(b), 463(a),
463(e), and 463(f) (42 U.S.C. 652(a)(9), 653(a),
653(b), 663(a), 663(e), and 663(f)) are each amend-
ed by inserting ‘‘Federal’’ before ‘‘Parent’’ each
place such term appears.
(2) Section 453 (42 U.S.C. 653) is amended in
the heading by adding ‘‘FEDERAL’’ before ‘‘PAR-
ENT’’.
(f) NEW COMPONENTS.—Section 453 (42 U.S.C.
653), as amended by subsection (d) of this section, is
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amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
sections:
‘‘(h) FEDERAL CASE REGISTRY OF CHILD SUPPORT
ORDERS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than October 1,
1998, in order to assist States in administering pro-
grams under State plans approved under this part
and programs funded under part A, and for the
other purposes specified in this section, the Sec-
retary shall establish and maintain in the Federal
Parent Locator Service an automated registry
(which shall be known as the ‘Federal Case Registry
of Child Support Orders’), which shall contain ab-
stracts of support orders and other information de-
scribed in paragraph (2) with respect to each case
in each State case registry maintained pursuant to
section 454A(e), as furnished (and regularly up-
dated), pursuant to section 454A(f), by State agen-
cies administering programs under this part.
‘‘(2) CASE INFORMATION.—The information re-
ferred to in paragraph (1) with respect to a case
shall be such information as the Secretary may
specify in regulations (including the names, social
security numbers or other uniform identification
numbers, and State case identification numbers) to
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identify the individuals who owe or are owed support
(or with respect to or on behalf of whom support ob-
ligations are sought to be established), and the State
or States which have the case.
‘‘(i) NATIONAL DIRECTORY OF NEW HIRES.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In order to assist States in
administering programs under State plans approved
under this part and programs funded under part A,
and for the other purposes specified in this section,
the Secretary shall, not later than October 1, 1997,
establish and maintain in the Federal Parent Loca-
tor Service an automated directory to be known as
the National Directory of New Hires, which shall
contain the information supplied pursuant to section
453A(g)(2).
‘‘(2) ENTRY
OF
DATA.—Information shall be
entered into the data base maintained by the Na-
tional Directory of New Hires within 2 business
days of receipt pursuant to section 453A(g)(2).
‘‘(3) 
ADMINISTRATION
OF
FEDERAL
TAX
LAWS.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall have
access to the information in the National Directory
of New Hires for purposes of administering section
32 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or the ad-
vance payment of the earned income tax credit
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under section 3507 of such Code, and verifying a
claim with respect to employment in a tax return.
‘‘(4) LIST OF MULTISTATE EMPLOYERS.—The
Secretary shall maintain within the National Direc-
tory of New Hires a list of multistate employers that
report information regarding newly hired employees
pursuant to section 453A(b)(1)(B), and the State
which each such employer has designated to receive
such information.
‘‘(j) INFORMATION COMPARISONS AND OTHER DIS-
CLOSURES.—
‘‘(1) VERIFICATION BY SOCIAL SECURITY AD-
MINISTRATION.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary shall
transmit information on individuals and em-
ployers maintained under this section to the So-
cial Security Administration to the extent nec-
essary for verification in accordance with sub-
paragraph (B).
‘‘(B) VERIFICATION BY SSA.—The Social
Security Administration shall verify the accu-
racy of, correct, or supply to the extent pos-
sible, and report to the Secretary, the following
information supplied by the Secretary pursuant
to subparagraph (A):
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‘‘(i) The name, social security num-
ber, and birth date of each such individual.
‘‘(ii) The employer identification num-
ber of each such employer.
‘‘(2) INFORMATION
COMPARISONS.—For the
purpose of locating individuals in a paternity estab-
lishment case or a case involving the establishment,
modification, or enforcement of a support order, the
Secretary shall—
‘‘(A) compare information in the National
Directory of New Hires against information in
the support case abstracts in the Federal Case
Registry of Child Support Orders not less often
than every 2 business days; and
‘‘(B) within 2 business days after such a
comparison reveals a match with respect to an
individual, report the information to the State
agency responsible for the case.
‘‘(3) INFORMATION COMPARISONS AND DISCLO-
SURES OF INFORMATION IN ALL REGISTRIES FOR
TITLE IV PROGRAM PURPOSES.—To the extent and
with the frequency that the Secretary determines to
be effective in assisting States to carry out their re-
sponsibilities under programs operated under this
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part and programs funded under part A, the Sec-
retary shall—
‘‘(A) compare the information in each com-
ponent of the Federal Parent Locator Service
maintained under this section against the infor-
mation in each other such component (other
than the comparison required by paragraph
(2)), and report instances in which such a com-
parison reveals a match with respect to an indi-
vidual to State agencies operating such pro-
grams; and
‘‘(B) disclose information in such registries
to such State agencies.
‘‘(4) PROVISION OF NEW HIRE INFORMATION
TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION.—The
National Directory of New Hires shall provide the
Commissioner of Social Security with all information
in the National Directory, which shall be used to de-
termine the accuracy of payments under the supple-
mental security income program under title XVI and
in connection with benefits under title II.
‘‘(5) RESEARCH.—The Secretary may provide
access to information reported by employers pursu-
ant to section 453A(b) for research purposes found
by the Secretary to be likely to contribute to achiev-
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ing the purposes of part A or this part, but without
personal identifiers.
‘‘(k) FEES.—
‘‘(1) FOR SSA VERIFICATION.—The Secretary
shall reimburse the Commissioner of Social Security,
at a rate negotiated between the Secretary and the
Commissioner, for the costs incurred by the Com-
missioner in performing the verification services de-
scribed in subsection (j).
‘‘(2) FOR INFORMATION FROM STATE DIREC-
TORIES OF NEW HIRES.—The Secretary shall reim-
burse costs incurred by State directories of new
hires in furnishing information as required by sub-
section (j)(3), at rates which the Secretary deter-
mines to be reasonable (which rates shall not include
payment for the costs of obtaining, compiling, or
maintaining such information).
‘‘(3) FOR INFORMATION FURNISHED TO STATE
AND FEDERAL AGENCIES.—A State or Federal agen-
cy that receives information from the Secretary pur-
suant to this section shall reimburse the Secretary
for costs incurred by the Secretary in furnishing the
information, at rates which the Secretary determines
to be reasonable (which rates shall include payment
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for the costs of obtaining, verifying, maintaining,
and comparing the information).
‘‘(l) RESTRICTION ON DISCLOSURE AND USE.—In-
formation in the Federal Parent Locator Service, and in-
formation resulting from comparisons using such informa-
tion, shall not be used or disclosed except as expressly pro-
vided in this section, subject to section 6103 of the Inter-
nal Revenue Code of 1986.
‘‘(m) INFORMATION INTEGRITY
AND SECURITY.—
The Secretary shall establish and implement safeguards
with respect to the entities established under this section
designed to—
‘‘(1) ensure the accuracy and completeness of
information in the Federal Parent Locator Service;
and
‘‘(2) restrict access to confidential information
in the Federal Parent Locator Service to authorized
persons, and restrict use of such information to au-
thorized purposes.
‘‘(n) FEDERAL GOVERNMENT REPORTING.—Each
department, agency, and instrumentality of the United
States shall on a quarterly basis report to the Federal
Parent Locator Service the name and social security num-
ber of each employee and the wages paid to the employee
during the previous quarter, except that such a report
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shall not be filed with respect to an employee of a depart-
ment, agency, or instrumentality performing intelligence
or counterintelligence functions, if the head of such de-
partment, agency, or instrumentality has determined that
filing such a report could endanger the safety of the em-
ployee or compromise an ongoing investigation or intel-
ligence mission.’’.
(g) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
(1) TO PART D OF TITLE IV OF THE SOCIAL SE-
CURITY ACT.—
(A) 
Section 
454(8)(B) 
(42 
U.S.C.
654(8)(B)) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(B) the Federal Parent Locator Service
established under section 453;’’.
(B) Section 454(13) (42 U.S.C.654(13)) is
amended by inserting ‘‘and provide that infor-
mation requests by parents who are residents of
other States be treated with the same priority
as requests by parents who are residents of the
State submitting the plan’’ before the semi-
colon.
(2) TO FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT TAX ACT.—
Section 3304(a)(16) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 is amended—
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(A) by striking ‘‘Secretary of Health, Edu-
cation, and Welfare’’ each place such term ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘Secretary of Health and
Human Services’’;
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking
‘‘such information’’ and all that follows and in-
serting ‘‘information furnished under subpara-
graph (A) or (B) is used only for the purposes
authorized under such subparagraph;’’;
(C) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of sub-
paragraph (A);
(D) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as
subparagraph (C); and
(E) by inserting after subparagraph (A)
the following new subparagraph:
‘‘(B) wage and unemployment compensa-
tion information contained in the records of
such agency shall be furnished to the Secretary
of Health and Human Services (in accordance
with regulations promulgated by such Sec-
retary) as necessary for the purposes of the Na-
tional Directory of New Hires established under
section 453(i) of the Social Security Act, and’’.
(3) TO STATE GRANT PROGRAM UNDER TITLE
III OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.—Subsection (h)
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of section 303 (42 U.S.C. 503) is amended to read
as follows:
‘‘(h)(1) The State agency charged with the adminis-
tration of the State law shall, on a reimbursable basis—
‘‘(A) disclose quarterly, to the Secretary of
Health and Human Services, wage and claim infor-
mation, as required pursuant to section 453(i)(1),
contained in the records of such agency;
‘‘(B) ensure that information provided pursuant
to subparagraph (A) meets such standards relating
to correctness and verification as the Secretary of
Health and Human Services, with the concurrence
of the Secretary of Labor, may find necessary; and
‘‘(C) establish such safeguards as the Secretary
of Labor determines are necessary to insure that in-
formation disclosed under subparagraph (A) is used
only for purposes of section 453(i)(1) in carrying out
the child support enforcement program under title
IV.
‘‘(2) Whenever the Secretary of Labor, after reason-
able notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agen-
cy charged with the administration of the State law, finds
that there is a failure to comply substantially with the re-
quirements of paragraph (1), the Secretary of Labor shall
notify such State agency that further payments will not
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be made to the State until the Secretary of Labor is satis-
fied that there is no longer any such failure. Until the
Secretary of Labor is so satisfied, the Secretary shall
make no future certification to the Secretary of the Treas-
ury with respect to the State.
‘‘(3) For purposes of this subsection—
‘‘(A) the term ‘wage information’ means infor-
mation regarding wages paid to an individual, the
social security account number of such individual,
and the name, address, State, and the Federal em-
ployer identification number of the employer paying
such wages to such individual; and
‘‘(B) the term ‘claim information’ means infor-
mation regarding whether an individual is receiving,
has received, or has made application for, unemploy-
ment compensation, the amount of any such com-
pensation being received (or to be received by such
individual), and the individual’s current (or most re-
cent) home address.’’.
(4) DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN INFORMATION TO
AGENTS OF CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AGEN-
CIES.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (6) of sec-
tion 6103(l) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 (relating to disclosure of return informa-
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tion to Federal, State, and local child support
enforcement agencies) is amended by redesig-
nating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C)
and by inserting after subparagraph (A) the fol-
lowing new subparagraph:
‘‘(B) DISCLOSURE TO CERTAIN AGENTS.—
The following information disclosed to any child
support enforcement agency under subpara-
graph (A) with respect to any individual with
respect to whom child support obligations are
sought to be established or enforced may be dis-
closed by such agency to any agent of such
agency which is under contract with such agen-
cy to carry out the purposes described in sub-
paragraph (C):
‘‘(i) The address and social security
account number (or numbers) of such indi-
vidual.
‘‘(ii) The amount of any reduction
under section 6402(c) (relating to offset of
past-due support against overpayments) in
any overpayment otherwise payable to such
individual.’’
(B) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
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(i) Paragraph (3) of section 6103(a)
of such Code is amended by striking
‘‘(l)(12)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph (6) or
(12) of subsection (l)’’.
(ii) Subparagraph (C) of section
6103(l)(6) of such Code, as redesignated
by subsection (a), is amended to read as
follows:
‘‘(C) RESTRICTION ON DISCLOSURE.—In-
formation may be disclosed under this para-
graph only for purposes of, and to the extent
necessary in, establishing and collecting child
support obligations from, and locating, individ-
uals owing such obligations.’’
(iii) The material following subpara-
graph (F) of section 6103(p)(4) of such
Code is amended by striking ‘‘subsection
(l)(12)(B)’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘paragraph
(6)(A) or (12)(B) of subsection (l)’’.
(h) REQUIREMENT
FOR COOPERATION.—The Sec-
retary of Labor and the Secretary of Health and Human
Services shall work jointly to develop cost-effective and ef-
ficient methods of accessing the information in the various
State directories of new hires and the National Directory
of New Hires as established pursuant to the amendments
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made by this subtitle. In developing these methods the
Secretaries shall take into account the impact, including
costs, on the States, and shall also consider the need to
insure the proper and authorized use of wage record infor-
mation.
SEC. 317. COLLECTION AND USE OF SOCIAL SECURITY
NUMBERS FOR USE IN CHILD SUPPORT EN-
FORCEMENT.
(a) STATE LAW REQUIREMENT.—Section 466(a) (42
U.S.C. 666(a)), as amended by section 315 of this Act,
is amended by adding at the end the following new para-
graph:
‘‘(13) RECORDING OF SOCIAL SECURITY NUM-
BERS
IN
CERTAIN
FAMILY
MATTERS.—Procedures
requiring that the social security number of—
‘‘(A) any applicant for a professional li-
cense, commercial driver’s license, occupational
license, or marriage license be recorded on the
application;
‘‘(B) any individual who is subject to a di-
vorce decree, support order, or paternity deter-
mination or acknowledgment be placed in the
records relating to the matter; and
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‘‘(C) any individual who has died be placed
in the records relating to the death and be re-
corded on the death certificate.
For purposes of subparagraph (A), if a State allows
the use of a number other than the social security
number, the State shall so advise any applicants.’’.
(b) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS.—Section
205(c)(2)(C) (42 U.S.C. 405(c)(2)(C)), as amended by
section 321(a)(9) of the Social Security Independence and
Program Improvements Act of 1994, is amended—
(1) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘may require’’ and
inserting ‘‘shall require’’;
(2) in clause (ii), by inserting after the 1st sen-
tence the following: ‘‘In the administration of any
law involving the issuance of a marriage certificate
or license, each State shall require each party named
in the certificate or license to furnish to the State
(or political subdivision thereof), or any State agen-
cy having administrative responsibility for the law
involved, the social security number of the party.’’;
(3) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘or marriage cer-
tificate’’ after ‘‘Such numbers shall not be recorded
on the birth certificate’’.
(4) in clause (vi), by striking ‘‘may’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘shall’’; and
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(5) by adding at the end the following new
clauses:
‘‘(x) An agency of a State (or a politi-
cal subdivision thereof) charged with the
administration of any law concerning the
issuance or renewal of a license, certificate,
permit, or other authorization to engage in
a profession, an occupation, or a commer-
cial activity shall require all applicants for
issuance or renewal of the license, certifi-
cate, permit, or other authorization to pro-
vide the applicant’s social security number
to the agency for the purpose of admin-
istering such laws, and for the purpose of
responding to requests for information
from an agency operating pursuant to part
D of title IV.
‘‘(xi) All divorce decrees, support or-
ders, and paternity determinations issued,
and all paternity acknowledgments made,
in each State shall include the social secu-
rity number of each party to the decree,
order, determination, or acknowledgment
in the records relating to the matter, for
the purpose of responding to requests for
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information from an agency operating pur-
suant to part D of title IV.’’.
Subtitle C—Streamlining and
Uniformity of Procedures
SEC. 321. ADOPTION OF UNIFORM STATE LAWS.
Section 466 (42 U.S.C. 666) is amended by adding
at the end the following new subsection:
‘‘(f) UNIFORM
INTERSTATE
FAMILY
SUPPORT
ACT.—
‘‘(1) ENACTMENT AND USE.—In order to sat-
isfy section 454(20)(A), on and after January 1,
1998, each State must have in effect the Uniform
Interstate Family Support Act, as approved by the
American Bar Association on February 9, 1993, to-
gether with any amendments officially adopted be-
fore January 1, 1998 by the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
‘‘(2) EMPLOYERS
TO
FOLLOW
PROCEDURAL
RULES OF STATE WHERE EMPLOYEE WORKS.—The
State law enacted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall
provide that an employer that receives an income
withholding order or notice pursuant to section 501
of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act follow
the procedural rules that apply with respect to such
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(A) by inserting ‘‘individual’’ before ‘‘con-
testant’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘subsection (e)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘subsections (e) and (f)’’;
(6) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘make a modi-
fication of a child support order with respect to a
child that is made’’ and inserting ‘‘modify a child
support order issued’’;
(7) in subsection (e)(1), by inserting ‘‘pursuant
to subsection (i)’’ before the semicolon;
(8) in subsection (e)(2)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘individual’’ before ‘‘con-
testant’’ each place such term appears; and
(B) by striking ‘‘to that court’s making the
modification and assuming’’ and inserting ‘‘with
the State of continuing, exclusive jurisdiction
for a court of another State to modify the order
and assume’’;
(9) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as
subsections (g) and (h), respectively;
(10) by inserting after subsection (e) the follow-
ing new subsection:
‘‘(f) RECOGNITION OF CHILD SUPPORT ORDERS.—
If 1 or more child support orders have been issued with
regard to an obligor and a child, a court shall apply the
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following rules in determining which order to recognize for
purposes of continuing, exclusive jurisdiction and enforce-
ment:
‘‘(1) If only 1 court has issued a child support
order, the order of that court must be recognized.
‘‘(2) If 2 or more courts have issued child sup-
port orders for the same obligor and child, and only
1 of the courts would have continuing, exclusive ju-
risdiction under this section, the order of that court
must be recognized.
‘‘(3) If 2 or more courts have issued child sup-
port orders for the same obligor and child, and more
than 1 of the courts would have continuing, exclusive
jurisdiction under this section, an order issued by a
court in the current home State of the child must
be recognized, but if an order has not been issued
in the current home State of the child, the order
most recently issued must be recognized.
‘‘(4) If 2 or more courts have issued child sup-
port orders for the same obligor and child, and none
of the courts would have continuing, exclusive juris-
diction under this section, a court may issue a child
support order, which must be recognized.
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‘‘(5) The court that has issued an order recog-
nized under this subsection is the court having con-
tinuing, exclusive jurisdiction.’’;
(11) in subsection (g) (as so redesignated)—
(A) by striking ‘‘PRIOR’’ and inserting
‘‘MODIFIED’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘subsection (e)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘subsections (e) and (f)’’;
(12) in subsection (h) (as so redesignated)—
(A) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘includ-
ing the duration of current payments and other
obligations of support’’ before the comma; and
(B) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘arrears
under’’ after ‘‘enforce’’; and
(13) by adding at the end the following new
subsection:
‘‘(i) REGISTRATION FOR MODIFICATION.—If there is
no individual contestant or child residing in the issuing
State, the party or support enforcement agency seeking
to modify, or to modify and enforce, a child support order
issued in another State shall register that order in a State
with jurisdiction over the nonmovant for the purpose of
modification.’’.
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SEC. 323. ADMINISTRATIVE ENFORCEMENT IN INTERSTATE
CASES.
Section 466(a) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)), as amended by
sections 315 and 317(a) of this Act, is amended by adding
at the end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(14) 
ADMINISTRATIVE
ENFORCEMENT
IN
INTERSTATE CASES.—Procedures under which—
‘‘(A)(i) the State shall respond within 5
business days to a request made by another
State to enforce a support order; and
‘‘(ii) the term ‘business day’ means a day
on which State offices are open for regular
business;
‘‘(B) the State may, by electronic or other
means, transmit to another State a request for
assistance in a case involving the enforcement
of a support order, which request—
‘‘(i) shall include such information as
will enable the State to which the request
is transmitted to compare the information
about the case to the information in the
data bases of the State; and
‘‘(ii) shall constitute a certification by
the requesting State—
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‘‘(I) of the amount of support
under the order the payment of which
is in arrears; and
‘‘(II) that the requesting State
has complied with all procedural due
process requirements applicable to the
case;
‘‘(C) if the State provides assistance to an-
other State pursuant to this paragraph with re-
spect to a case, neither State shall consider the
case to be transferred to the caseload of such
other State; and
‘‘(D) the State shall maintain records of—
‘‘(i) the number of such requests for
assistance received by the State;
‘‘(ii) the number of cases for which
the State collected support in response to
such a request; and
‘‘(iii) the amount of such collected
support.’’.
SEC. 324. USE OF FORMS IN INTERSTATE ENFORCEMENT.
(a) PROMULGATION.—Section 452(a) (42 U.S.C.
652(a)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph
(9);
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(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (10) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(11) not later than October 1, 1996, after con-
sulting with the State directors of programs under
this part, promulgate forms to be used by States in
interstate cases for—
‘‘(A) collection of child support through in-
come withholding;
‘‘(B) imposition of liens; and
‘‘(C) administrative subpoenas.’’.
(b) USE BY STATES.—Section 454(9) (42 U.S.C.
654(9)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of subpara-
graph (C);
(2) by inserting ‘‘and’’ at the end of subpara-
graph (D); and
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph:
‘‘(E) not later than March 1, 1997, in
using the forms promulgated pursuant to sec-
tion 452(a)(11) for income withholding, imposi-
tion of liens, and issuance of administrative
subpoenas in interstate child support cases;’’.
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SEC. 325. STATE LAWS PROVIDING EXPEDITED PROCE-
DURES.
(a) STATE LAW REQUIREMENTS.—Section 466 (42
U.S.C. 666), as amended by section 314 of this Act, is
amended—
(1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking the first
sentence and inserting the following: ‘‘Expedited ad-
ministrative and judicial procedures (including the
procedures specified in subsection (c)) for establish-
ing paternity and for establishing, modifying, and
enforcing support obligations.’’; and
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the follow-
ing new subsection:
‘‘(c) EXPEDITED
PROCEDURES.—The procedures
specified in this subsection are the following:
‘‘(1) ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION BY STATE AGEN-
CY.—Procedures which give the State agency the au-
thority to take the following actions relating to es-
tablishment of paternity or to establishment, modi-
fication, or enforcement of support orders, without
the necessity of obtaining an order from any other
judicial or administrative tribunal, and to recognize
and enforce the authority of State agencies of other
States) to take the following actions:
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‘‘(A) GENETIC TESTING.—To order genetic
testing for the purpose of paternity establish-
ment as provided in section 466(a)(5).
‘‘(B) FINANCIAL
OR
OTHER
INFORMA-
TION.—To subpoena any financial or other in-
formation needed to establish, modify, or en-
force a support order, and to impose penalties
for failure to respond to such a subpoena.
‘‘(C) RESPONSE
TO
STATE
AGENCY
RE-
QUEST.—To require all entities in the State (in-
cluding for-profit, nonprofit, and governmental
employers) to provide promptly, in response to
a request by the State agency of that or any
other State administering a program under this
part, information on the employment, com-
pensation, and benefits of any individual em-
ployed by such entity as an employee or con-
tractor, and to sanction failure to respond to
any such request.
‘‘(D) ACCESS TO CERTAIN RECORDS.—To
obtain access, subject to safeguards on privacy
and information security, to the following
records (including automated access, in the case
of records maintained in automated data
bases):
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‘‘(i) Records of other State and local
government agencies, including—
‘‘(I) vital statistics (including
records of marriage, birth, and di-
vorce);
‘‘(II) State and local tax and rev-
enue records (including information
on residence address, employer, in-
come and assets);
‘‘(III) records concerning real
and titled personal property;
‘‘(IV) records of occupational and
professional licenses, and records con-
cerning the ownership and control of
corporations, partnerships, and other
business entities;
‘‘(V) 
employment 
security
records;
‘‘(VI) records of agencies admin-
istering public assistance programs;
‘‘(VII) records of the motor vehi-
cle department; and
‘‘(VIII) corrections records.
‘‘(ii) Certain records held by private
entities with respect to individuals who owe
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or are owed support (or against or with re-
spect to whom a support obligation is
sought), consisting of—
‘‘(I) the names and addresses of
such individuals and the names and
addresses of the employers of such in-
dividuals, as appearing in customer
records of public utilities and cable
television companies; and
‘‘(II) information (including in-
formation on assets and liabilities) on
such individuals held by financial in-
stitutions,
subject to the nonliability of such entities
arising from affording such access under
this subparagraph.
‘‘(E) CHANGE
IN
PAYEE.—In cases in
which support is subject to an assignment in
order to comply with a requirement imposed
pursuant to part A or section 1912, or to a re-
quirement to pay through the State disburse-
ment unit established pursuant to section
454B, upon providing notice to obligor and obli-
gee, to direct the obligor or other payor to
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change the payee to the appropriate government
entity.
‘‘(F) INCOME
WITHHOLDING.—To order
income withholding in accordance with sub-
sections (a)(1) and (b) of section 466.
‘‘(G) SECURING
ASSETS.—In cases in
which there is a support arrearage, to secure
assets to satisfy the arrearage by—
‘‘(i) intercepting or seizing periodic or
lump-sum payments from—
‘‘(I) a State or local agency, in-
cluding unemployment compensation,
workers’ compensation, and other ben-
efits; and
‘‘(II) judgments, settlements, and
lotteries;
‘‘(ii) attaching and seizing assets of
the obligor held in financial institutions;
‘‘(iii) attaching public and private re-
tirement funds; and
‘‘(iv) imposing liens in accordance
with subsection (a)(4) and, in appropriate
cases, to force sale of property and dis-
tribution of proceeds.