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‘‘(i) the authorities referred to in sec-
tion 4005(c)(2)(A) shall apply with respect 
to coal combustion residuals, structures, 
and inactive coal combustion residuals sur-
face impoundments for which the Adminis-
trator is implementing the coal combustion 
residuals permit program; and 
‘‘(ii) the Administrator may use those 
authorities to inspect, gather information, 
and enforce the requirements of this sec-
tion for the structures and inactive coal 
combustion residuals surface impound-
ments for which the Administrator is im-
plementing the coal combustion residuals 
permit program. 
‘‘(6) PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROCESS.—If the 
Administrator implements a coal combustion residu-
als permit program under this subsection, the Ad-
ministrator shall provide a 30-day period for the 
public participation process required under sub-
section (c)(1)(B)(i). 
‘‘(f) STATE CONTROL AFTER IMPLEMENTATION BY 
ADMINISTRATOR.— 
‘‘(1) STATE CONTROL.— 
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‘‘(A) NEW ADOPTION, OR RESUMPTION OF, 
AND IMPLEMENTATION BY STATE.—For a State 
for which the Administrator is implementing a 
coal combustion residuals permit program 
under 
subsection 
(e)(1)(A) 
or 
subsection 
(e)(1)(C), the State may adopt and implement 
such a permit program by— 
‘‘(i) notifying the Administrator that 
the State will adopt and implement such a 
permit program; 
‘‘(ii) not later than 6 months after the 
date of such notification, submitting to the 
Administrator a certification under sub-
section (b)(2); and 
‘‘(iii) receiving from the Adminis-
trator— 
‘‘(I) a determination, after the 
Administrator provides for a 30-day 
period for notice and public comment, 
that the State coal combustion residu-
als permit program meets the require-
ments described in subsection (c); and 
‘‘(II) a timeline for transition to 
the State coal combustion residuals 
permit program. 
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(2) by inserting after section 1930 the following
new section:
‘‘CONTINUED APPLICATION OF AFDC STANDARDS
‘‘SEC. 1931. (a) For purposes of applying this title
on and after October 1, 1995, with respect to a State—
‘‘(1) except as provided in paragraph (2), any
reference in this title (or other provision of law in
relation to the operation of this title) to a provision
of part A of title IV of this Act, or a State plan
under such part, shall be considered a reference to
such provision or plan as in effect as of March 7,
1995, with respect to the State and eligibility for
medical assistance under this title shall be deter-
mined as if such provision or plan (as in effect as
of such date) had remained in effect on and after
October 1, 1995; and
‘‘(2) any reference in section 1902(a)(5) or
1902(a)(55) to a State plan approved under part A
of title IV shall be deemed a reference to a State
program funded under such part (as in effect on and
after October 1, 1995).
‘‘(b) In the case of a waiver of a provision of part
A of title IV in effect with respect to a State as of March
7, 1995, if the waiver affects eligibility of individuals for
medical assistance under this title, such waiver may con-
tinue to be applied, at the option of the State, in relation
eign distributor, foreign tobacco products that have 
not previously entered the United States, 
‘‘(3) for a manufacturer or importer of proc-
essed tobacco or a wholesaler to knowingly ship, 
transport, deliver, or receive any tobacco products or 
processed tobacco from or to any person other than 
a person who has obtained the permit required by 
this chapter, 
‘‘(4) for a manufacturer or importer of proc-
essed tobacco to knowingly ship, transport, sell, or 
deliver processed tobacco to any person other than 
a manufacturer of processed tobacco, a manufac-
turer of tobacco products, or an export warehouse 
proprietor, 
‘‘(5) for any person (other than the original 
manufacturer of such tobacco products or processed 
tobacco or an export warehouse proprietor author-
ized to receive any tobacco products or processed to-
bacco that have previously been exported and re-
turned to the United States) to knowingly receive 
any tobacco products or processed tobacco that have 
previously been exported and returned to the United 
States, 
‘‘(6) for any export warehouse proprietor to 
knowingly ship, transport, sell, or deliver for sale 
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lotments under subparagraph (A), the Sec-
retary shall allot to each of the States de-
scribed in subparagraph (A) the sum of— 
‘‘(I) an amount that bears the 
same relationship to 35 percent of the 
excess amount as the number of indi-
viduals age 5 through 17 in the State, 
as determined by the Secretary on the 
basis of the most recent satisfactory 
data, bears to the number of those in-
dividuals in all such States, as so de-
termined; and 
‘‘(II) an amount that bears the 
same relationship to 65 percent of the 
excess amount as the number of indi-
viduals age 5 through 17 from fami-
lies with incomes below the poverty 
line, in the State, as determined by 
the Secretary on the basis of the most 
recent satisfactory data, bears to the 
number of those individuals in all 
such States, as so determined. 
‘‘(ii) EXCEPTION.—No State receiving 
an allotment under clause (i) may receive 
less than one-half of 1 percent of the total 
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to this title after the date the waiver would otherwise
expire.’’
(b) PLAN AMENDMENT.—Section 1902(a) of such
Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)) 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 inserting after paragraph (62) the fol-
lowing new paragraph:
‘‘(63) provide for continuing to administer eligi-
bility standards with respect to individuals who are
(or seek to be) eligible for medical assistance based
on the application of section 1931.’’.
(c) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS.—(1) 
Section
1902(c) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1396a(c)) is amended by
striking ‘‘if—’’ and all that follows and inserting the fol-
lowing: ‘‘if the State requires individuals described in sub-
section (l)(1) to apply for assistance under the State pro-
gram funded under part A of title IV as a condition of
applying for or receiving medical assistance under this
title.’’.
(2) Section 1903(i) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1396b(i))
is amended by striking paragraph (9).
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‘‘(II) shall not be required to 
comply with paragraph (3). 
‘‘(d) FEDERAL REVIEW
OF STATE PERMIT PRO-
GRAMS.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Administrator shall 
provide to a State written notice and an opportunity 
to remedy deficiencies in accordance with paragraph 
(3) if at any time the State— 
‘‘(A) does not satisfy the notification re-
quirement under subsection (b)(1); 
‘‘(B) has not submitted a certification as 
required under subsection (b)(2); 
‘‘(C) does not satisfy the maintenance re-
quirement under subsection (b)(3); 
‘‘(D) is not implementing a coal combus-
tion residuals permit program, with respect to 
which the State has submitted a certification 
under subsection (b)(2), that meets the require-
ments described in subsection (c); 
‘‘(E) is not implementing a coal combus-
tion residuals permit program, with respect to 
which the State has submitted a certification 
under subsection (b)(2)— 
‘‘(i) that is consistent with such cer-
tification; and 
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‘‘(ii) for which the State continues to 
have in effect statutes or regulations nec-
essary to implement such program; or 
‘‘(F) does not make available to the Ad-
ministrator, within 90 days of a written re-
quest, specific information necessary for the 
Administrator to ascertain whether the State 
has satisfied the requirements described in sub-
paragraphs (A) through (E). 
‘‘(2) REQUEST.—If a request described in para-
graph (1)(F) is proposed pursuant to a petition to 
the Administrator, the Administrator shall make the 
request only if the Administrator does not possess 
the information necessary to ascertain whether the 
State has satisfied the requirements described in 
subparagraphs (A) through (E) of paragraph (1). 
‘‘(3) CONTENTS OF NOTICE; DEADLINE FOR RE-
SPONSE.—A notice provided under paragraph (1) 
shall— 
‘‘(A) include findings of the Administrator 
detailing any applicable deficiencies described in 
subparagraphs (A) through (F) of paragraph 
(1); and 
‘‘(B) identify, in collaboration with the 
State, a reasonable deadline by which the State 
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(2) RAPID PROTOTYPING.—With respect to the 
rapid prototyping pathway, the guidance shall in-
clude— 
(A) a merit-based process for the consider-
ation of innovative technologies and new capa-
bilities to meet needs communicated by the Joint 
Chiefs of Staff and the combatant commanders; 
(B) a process for developing and imple-
menting acquisition and funding strategies for 
the program; 
(C) a process for cost-sharing with the mili-
tary departments on rapid prototype projects, to 
ensure an appropriate commitment to the success 
of such projects; 
(D) a process for demonstrating and evalu-
ating the performance of fieldable prototypes de-
veloped pursuant to the program in an oper-
ational environment; and 
(E) a process for transitioning successful 
prototypes to new or existing acquisition pro-
grams for production and fielding under the 
rapid fielding pathway or the traditional acqui-
sition system. 
(3) RAPID FIELDING.—With respect to the rapid 
fielding pathway, the guidance shall include—
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(2) UPDATES
OF
INCREASES
IN
NUMBER
OF 
UNITS OF JROTC.—Section 548 of the Duncan Hunter 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
2009 (122 Stat. 4466) is amended by striking sub-
section (e). 
(3) ANNUAL REPORTS ON CENTER OF EXCEL-
LENCE ON TRAUMATIC EXTREMITY INJURIES AND AM-
PUTATIONS.—Section 723 of the Duncan Hunter Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 
(122 Stat. 4508) is amended by striking (d). 
(4) SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON STATUS OF NAVY 
NEXT
GENERATION
ENTERPRISE
NETWORKS
PRO-
GRAM.—Section 1034 of the Duncan Hunter National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (122 
Stat. 4593) is hereby repealed. 
(h) REPORTS UNDER PUBLIC LAW 110–181.— 
(1) BIENNIAL UPDATE OF STRATEGIC MANAGE-
MENT PLAN.—Section 904(d) of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 
110–181; 122 Stat. 275) is amended by striking para-
graph (3). 
(2) REPORTS
ON
ACCESS
OF
RECOVERING 
SERVICEMEMBERS TO ADEQUATE OUTPATIENT RESI-
DENTIAL FACILITIES.—Section 1662 of the Wounded
under subsection (e)(1)(A), or not later than 24 
months after the date of enactment of this sec-
tion with respect to a coal combustion residuals 
permit program that is being implemented by 
the Administrator under subsection (e)(3), as 
applicable, the implementing agency shall notify 
owners or operators of existing structures of— 
‘‘(i) the obligation to apply for and 
obtain a permit under subparagraph (C); 
and 
‘‘(ii) the requirements referred to in 
subparagraph (B)(ii). 
‘‘(B) COMPLIANCE
WITH
CERTAIN
RE-
QUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(i) INITIAL DEADLINE FOR CERTAIN 
REQUIREMENTS.—Not later than 8 months 
after the date of enactment of this section, 
the implementing agency shall require own-
ers or operators of existing structures to 
comply with— 
‘‘(I) 
the 
requirements 
under 
paragraphs (2)(F), (2)(H), (2)(I), and 
(2)(M); and 
‘‘(II) the requirement for a per-
manent identification marker under 
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Sec. 604. Option to provide married couple transition benefit.
Sec. 605. Option to disregard income and resources designated for education,
training, and employability, or related to self-employment.
Sec. 606. Option to require attendance at parenting and money management
classes, and prior approval of any action that would result in
a change of school for a dependent child.
TITLE VII—DRUG TESTING FOR WELFARE RECIPIENTS
Sec. 701. AFDC recipients required to undergo necessary substance abuse
treatment as a condition of receiving AFDC.
TITLE VIII—EFFECTIVE DATE
Sec. 801. Effective date.
TITLE I—REDUCING
ILLEGITIMACY
SEC. 100. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.
It is the sense of the Congress that—
(1) marriage is the foundation of a successful
society;
(2) marriage is an essential social institution
which promotes the interests of children and society
at large;
(3) the negative consequences of an out-of-wed-
lock birth on the child, the mother, and society are
well documented as follows:
(A) the illegitimacy rate among black
Americans was 26 percent in 1965, but today
the rate is 68 percent and climbing;
(B) the illegitimacy rate among white
Americans has risen tenfold, from 2.29 percent
in 1960 to 22 percent today;
(C) the total of all out-of-wedlock births
between 1970 and 1991 has risen from 10 per-
cent to 30 percent and if the current trend con-
tinues, 50 percent of all births by the year 2015
will be out-of-wedlock;
(D) 3⁄4 of illegitimate births among whites
are to women with a high school education or
less;
(E) the 1-parent family is 6 times more
likely to be poor than the 2-parent family;
(F) children born into families receiving
welfare assistance are 3 times more likely than
children not born into families receiving welfare
to be on welfare when they reach adulthood;
(G) teenage single parent mothering is the
single biggest contributor to low birth weight
babies;
(H) children born out-of-wedlock are more
likely to experience low verbal cognitive attain-
ment, child abuse, and neglect;
(I) young people from single parent or
stepparent families are 2 to 3 times more likely
to have emotional or behavioral problems than
those from intact families;
(J) young white women who were raised in
a single parent family are more than twice as
likely to have children out-of-wedlock and to be-
come parents as teenagers, and almost twice as
likely to have their marriages end in divorce, as
are children from 2-parent families;
(K) the younger the single parent mother,
the less likely she is to finish high school;
(L) young women who have children before
finishing high school are more likely to receive
welfare assistance for a longer period of time;
(M) between 1985 and 1990, the public
cost of births to teenage mothers under the aid
to families with dependent children program,
the food stamp program, and the medicaid pro-
gram has been estimated at $120,000,000,000;
(N) the absence of a father in the life of
a child has a negative effect on school perform-
ance and peer adjustment;
(O) the likelihood that a young black man
will engage in criminal activities doubles if he
is raised without a father and triples if he lives
in a neighborhood with a high concentration of
single parent families; and
(P) the greater the incidence of single par-
ent families in a neighborhood, the higher the
incidence of violent crime and burglary; and
(4) in light of this demonstration of the crisis
in our Nation, the reduction of out-of-wedlock births
is an important government interest and the policy
contained in provisions of this title address the cri-
sis.
SEC. 101. REDUCTION OR DENIAL OF AFDC FOR CERTAIN
CHILDREN WHOSE PATERNITY IS NOT ESTAB-
LISHED.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 402(a) of the Social Secu-
rity 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—
‘‘(A) except as provided in subparagraph
(B), aid under the State plan shall not be pay-
able, to a family on whose behalf an application
for such aid is made after the effective date of
this paragraph, with respect to a dependent
and (II) by striking ‘‘section 402(a)(46)’’ and inserting
‘‘paragraphs (46) and (47) of section 402(a)’’.
SEC. 106. DENIAL OF AFDC FOR ADDITIONAL CHILDREN.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 402(a) of the Social Secu-
rity Act (42 U.S.C. 602(a)), as amended by sections
101(a) and 105(a)(1) of this Act, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph
(46);
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (47) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (47) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(48)(A) provide that aid under the plan shall
not be payable with respect to a child born on or
after the effective date of this paragraph to—
‘‘(i) a recipient of aid under any State plan
approved under this part; or
‘‘(ii) an individual who received aid under
any such State plan at any time during the 10-
month period ending with the birth of the child,
unless the recipient or individual was pregnant with
the child at the time of application for such aid; and
‘‘(B) if the amount of aid payable to a family
under the State plan is reduced by reason of this
paragraph, each member of the family shall be con-
sidered to be receiving such aid for purposes of eligi-
bility for medical assistance under the State plan ap-
proved under title XIX for so long as such aid would
otherwise not be so reduced.’’.
(b) NO EFFECT ON ELIGIBILITY FOR FOSTER CARE
MAINTENANCE
PAYMENTS.—Section 472(a)(4)(B) of
such Act (42 U.S.C. 672(a)(4)(B)), as amended by sec-
tions 101(b) and 105(b) of this Act, is amended in each
of clauses (i) and (ii) by striking ‘‘and (47)’’ and inserting
‘‘, (47), and (48)’’.
(c) NO EFFECT ON ELIGIBILITY FOR ADOPTION AS-
SISTANCE PAYMENTS.—Section 473(a)(2)(B)(ii) of such
Act (42 U.S.C. 673(a)(2)(B)(ii)), as amended by sections
101(c) and 105(c) of this Act, is amended in each of
subclauses (I) and (II) by striking ‘‘and (47)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘, (47), and (48)’’.
SEC. 107. STATE OPTION TO DENY AFDC BENEFITS TO
CHILDREN BORN OUT-OF-WEDLOCK TO INDI-
VIDUALS AGED 18, 19, OR 20, AND TO DENY
AFDC BENEFITS AND HOUSING BENEFITS TO
SUCH INDIVIDUALS.
(a) DENIAL OF AFDC.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 402(a) of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 602(a)), as amended by sec-
‘‘(iii) BASE YEAR.—For purposes of
this part, the term ‘base year’ means—
‘‘(I) 1994, if the Congressional
Budget Office is able to determine an
excluded population for each State for
each fiscal year that such a deter-
mination is required using data pro-
vided by the National Integrated
Quality Control System operated by
the 
Department 
of 
Health 
and
Human Services and other relevant
data sources; or
‘‘(II) 1994, or another period de-
termined appropriate by the Sec-
retary, based on a survey conducted
or approved by the Secretary.
‘‘(D) EXCLUDED PARENTS.—The number
of excluded parents for a State for a fiscal year
shall be the number of parents excluded in con-
nection with the exclusion of their children
under subparagraph (C).’’.
(b) STUDY.—Not later than October 1, 1998, and not
later than October 1 of each of the 3 immediately
succeding years, the Comptroller General of the United
States shall submit to the Congress a report on how States
have expended funds provided under part C of title IV of
the Social Security Act, the effect of such expenditures
on the well-being of mothers and children, and whether
there is evidence that illegitimacy rates have changed as
as result of the implementation of such part. Any such
report may address such related matters as the Comptrol-
ler General deems appropriate to examine.
SEC. 109. REMOVAL OF BARRIERS TO INTERETHNIC ADOP-
TION.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that—
(1) nearly 500,000 children are in foster care in
the United States;
(2) tens of thousands of children in foster care
are waiting for adoption;
(3) 2 years and 8 months is the median length
of time that children wait to be adopted;
(4) child welfare agencies should work to elimi-
nate racial, ethnic, and national origin discrimina-
tion and bias in adoption and foster care recruit-
ment, selection, and placement procedures; and
(5) active, creative, and diligent efforts are
needed to recruit parents, from every race and cul-
ture, for children needing foster care or adoptive
parents.
TITLE III—CAPPING THE AGGRE-
GATE GROWTH OF WELFARE
SPENDING
SEC. 301. CAP ON GROWTH OF FEDERAL SPENDING ON
CERTAIN WELFARE PROGRAMS.
(a) RESTRICTIONS ON SPENDING.—(1) Effective for
fiscal year 1996 and any ensuing fiscal year, the total
amount of Federal spending for that fiscal year for the
programs listed in subsection (b) shall not exceed an
amount equal to the sum of the total estimated Federal
spending for the preceding fiscal year on those programs,
adjusted for inflation and change of the poverty population
as specified in paragraph (2).
(2)(A) The inflator used in paragraph (1) shall be
the percentage change in the Implicit Gross Domestic
Product deflator published by the Department of Com-
merce for the most recently available fiscal year over the
preceding fiscal year.
(B) Change of the poverty population for purposes
of paragraph (1) shall be the percentage by which the
number of poor people in the United States in the most
recent fiscal year for which data are available from the
annual report on poverty published by the Bureau of the
Census differs from the number of poor people in the pre-
ceding fiscal year, as computed by the Congressional
Budget Office during January of the calendar year in
which the fiscal year subject to the restriction begins.
(b) PROGRAMS SUBJECT TO SPENDING LIMIT.—The
programs listed in this subsection are the following:
(1) FAMILY
SUPPORT.—The program of aid
and services to needy families with children under
part A of title IV of the Social Security Act, child
support enforcement program under part D of such
title, and the at-risk child care grant under part A
of such title.
(2) SUPPLEMENTAL
SECURITY
INCOME.—The
supplemental security income program under title
XVI of the Social Security Act.
(3) HOUSING AID.—
(A) Lower income housing assistance
under section 8 of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1772).
(B) Low-rent public housing under the
United States Housing Act of 1937.
(C) Rural housing loans for low-income
families under section 502 of the Housing Act
of 1949.
(D) Interest reduction payments under sec-
tion 236 of the National Housing Act.
wholesale food concerns or through financial institutions
which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor-
poration, or which are insured under the Federal Credit
Union Act (12 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) and have retail food
stores or wholesale food concerns in their field of member-
ship, with the cooperation of the Treasury Department,
except that retail food stores defined in section
504(10)(D) shall be authorized to redeem their members’
food coupons prior to receipt by the members of the food
so purchased, and publicly operated community mental
health centers or private nonprofit organizations or insti-
tutions which serve meals to narcotics addicts or alcoholics
in drug addiction or alcoholic treatment and rehabilitation
programs, public and private nonprofit shelters that pre-
pare and serve meals for battered women and children,
public or private nonprofit group living arrangements that
serve meals to disabled or blind residents, and public or
private nonprofit establishments, or public or private non-
profit shelters that feed individuals who do not reside in
permanent dwellings and individuals who have no fixed
mailing addresses shall not be authorized to redeem cou-
pons through financial institutions which are insured by
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Federal
Credit Union Act. No financial institution may impose on
or collect from a retail food store a fee or other charge