[Excerpted from Reuter article, "Clinton: Tighten Child Support Enforcement",
July 22, 1996, under fair use.]


[...]

Republican bills now moving through Congress contain broad provisions
designed to help states collect child support payments and track deadbeat
parents who cross state lines. 

The House bill approved last week requires each state to set up an automated
registry of child support data and establish a central unit to collect and
disburse payments. 

States would also have to set up directories to track new hires, with
employers required to furnish the W-4 form for each worker within 20 days of
hiring. States would use the data to establish paternity and enforce 
child support orders. 

The Senate was to vote Tuesday on its version of the politically popular
legislation. 

Clinton, who promised to restructure the much criticized U.S. system of aid
to the poor in his 1992 campaign for the presidency, indicated that he
expected to sign the welfare reform plan that finally reaches his desk. 

[...]

Clinton has already taken action to increase collection of child support
with a June 18 executive order setting up a computer database to track
fathers or mothers behind on their payments as they move from job to job. 
He also cracked down on federal workers who owe child support back payments. 

[...]