S.Amdt. 2238

1. Adds SEC. __. RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD PROGRAM wherever appropriate

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   Inserted: SEC. __. RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD PROGRAM.

   Inserted: (a) Responsible Fatherhood Program.--

   Inserted: (1) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:

   Inserted: (A) Nearly 24,000,000 children in the United States, or 34 percent of all such children, live apart from their biological father.

   Inserted: (B) Sixty percent of couples who divorce have at least 1 child.

   Inserted: (C) The number of children living with only a mother increased from just over 5,000,000 in 1960 to 17,000,000 in 1999, and between 1981 and 1991 the percentage of children living with only 1 parent increased from 19 percent to 25 percent.

   Inserted: (D) Forty percent of children who live in households without a father have not seen their father in at least 1 year and 50 percent of such children have never visited their father's home.

   Inserted: (E) The most important factor in a child's upbringing is whether the child is brought up in a loving, healthy, supportive environment.

   Inserted: (F) Children who live without contact with their biological father are, in comparison to children who have such contact--

   Inserted: (i) 5 times more likely to live in poverty;

   Inserted: (ii) more likely to bring weapons and drugs into the classroom;

   Inserted: (iii) twice as likely to commit crime;

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   Inserted: (iv) twice as likely to drop out of school;

   Inserted: (v) more likely to commit suicide;

   Inserted: (vi) more than twice as likely to abuse alcohol or drugs; and

   Inserted: (vii) more likely to become pregnant as teenagers.

   Inserted: (G) Violent criminals are overwhelmingly males who grew up without fathers.

   Inserted: (H) Between 20 and 30 percent of families in poverty are headed by women who have suffered domestic violence during the past year, and between 40 and 60 percent of women with children receiving welfare were abused sometime during their life.

   Inserted: (I) Responsible fatherhood includes active participation 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.

   Inserted: (J) States should be encouraged to implement programs that provide support for responsible fatherhood, promote marriage, and increase the incidence of marriage, and should not be restricted from implementing such programs.

   Inserted: (K) Fatherhood programs should promote and provide support services for--

   Inserted: (i) loving and healthy relationships between parents and children; and

   Inserted: (ii) cooperative parenting.

   Inserted: (L) There is a social need to reconnect children and fathers.

   Inserted: (M) The promotion of responsible fatherhood and encouragement of healthy 2-parent married families should not--

   Inserted: (i) denigrate the standing or parenting efforts of single mothers or other caregivers;

   Inserted: (ii) lessen the protection of children from abusive parents; or

   Inserted: (iii) compromise the safety or health of the custodial parent; but should increase the chance that children will have 2 caring parents to help them grow up healthy and secure.

   Inserted: (N) The promotion of responsible fatherhood must always recognize and promote the values of nonviolence.

   Inserted: (O) For the future of the United States and the future of our children, Congress, States, and local communities should assist parents to become more actively involved in their children's lives.

   Inserted: (P) 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 responsibility for a child.

   Inserted: (2) Fatherhood program.--Title I of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-193) is amended by adding at the end the following:

   Inserted: "SEC. 117. FATHERHOOD PROGRAM.

   Inserted: "(a) In General.--Title IV (42 U.S.C. 601-679b) is amended by inserting after part B the following:

   Inserted: " 'PART C--RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD PROGRAM

   Inserted: " 'SEC. 441. RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD GRANTS.

   Inserted: " '(a) Grants to States To Conduct Demonstration Programs.--

   Inserted: " '(1) Authority to award grants.--

   Inserted: " '(A) In general.--The Secretary shall award grants to up to 10 eligible States to conduct demonstration programs to carry out the purposes described in paragraph (2).

   Inserted: " '(B) Eligible state.--For purposes of this subsection, an eligible State is a State that submits to the Secretary the following:

   Inserted: " '(i) Application.--An application for a grant under this subsection, at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require.

   Inserted: " '(ii) State plan.--A State plan that includes the following:

   Inserted: " '(I) Project description.--A description of the programs or activities the State will fund under the grant, including a good faith estimate of the number and characteristics of clients to be served under such projects and how the State intends to achieve at least 2 of the purposes described in paragraph (2).

   Inserted: " '(II) Coordination efforts.--A description of how the State will coordinate and cooperate with State and local entities responsible for carrying out other programs that relate to the purposes intended to be achieved under the demonstration program, including as appropriate, entities responsible for carrying out jobs programs and programs serving children and families.

   Inserted: " '(III) Records, reports, and audits.--An agreement to maintain such records, submit such reports, and cooperate with such reviews and audits as the Secretary finds necessary for purposes of oversight of the demonstration program.

   Inserted: " '(iii) Certifications.--The following certifications from the chief executive officer of the State:

   Inserted: " '(I) A certification that the State will use funds provided under the grant to promote at least 2 of the purposes described in paragraph (2).

   Inserted: " '(II) A certification that the State will return any unused funds to the Secretary in accordance with the reconciliation process under paragraph (5).

   Inserted: " '(III) A certification that the funds provided under the grant will be used for programs and activities that target low-income participants and that not less than 50 percent of the participants in each program or activity funded under the grant shall be--

   Inserted: " '(aa) parents of a child who is, or within the past 24 months has been, a recipient of assistance or services under a State program funded under part A, D, or E of this title, title XIX, or the Food Stamp Act of 1977; or

   Inserted: " '(bb) parents, including an expectant parent 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.

   Inserted: " '(IV) A certification that the State has or will comply with the requirements of paragraph (4).

   Inserted: " '(V) A certification that funds provided to a State under this subsection shall not be used to supplement or supplant other Federal, State, or local funds that are used to support programs or activities that are related to the purposes described in paragraph (2).

   Inserted: " '(C) Preferences and factors of consideration.--In awarding grants under this subsection, the Secretary shall take into consideration the following:

   Inserted: " '(i) Diversity of entities used to conduct programs and activities.--The Secretary shall, to the extent practicable, achieve a balance among the eligible States awarded grants under this subsection with respect to the size, urban or rural location, and employment of differing or unique methods of the entities that the eligible States intend to use to conduct the programs and activities funded under the grants.

   Inserted: " '(ii) Priority for certain states.--The Secretary shall give priority to awarding grants to eligible States that have--

   Inserted: " '(I) demonstrated progress in achieving at least 1 of the purposes described in paragraph (2) through previous State initiatives; or

   Inserted: " '(II) demonstrated need with respect to reducing the incidence of out-of-wedlock births or absent fathers in the State.

   Inserted: " '(2) Purposes.--The purposes described in this paragraph are the following:

   Inserted: " '(A) Promoting responsible fatherhood through marriage promotion.--To promote marriage or sustain marriage through activities such as counseling, mentoring, disseminating information about the benefits of marriage and 2-parent involvement for children, enhancing relationship skills, education regarding how to control aggressive behavior, disseminating information on the causes of domestic violence and child abuse, marriage preparation programs, premarital counseling, marital inventories, skills-based marriage education, financial planning seminars, including improving a family's ability to effectively manage family business affairs by means such as education, counseling, or mentoring on matters related to family finances, including household management, budgeting, banking, and handling of financial transactions and home maintenance, and divorce education and reduction programs, including mediation and counseling.

   Inserted: " '(B) Promoting responsible fatherhood through parenting promotion.--To promote responsible parenting through activities such as counseling, mentoring, and mediation, disseminating information about good parenting practices, skills-based parenting education, encouraging child support payments, and other methods.

   Inserted: " '(C) Promoting responsible fatherhood through fostering economic stability of fathers.--To foster economic stability by helping fathers improve their economic status by providing activities such as work first services, job search, job training, subsidized employment, job retention, job enhancement, and encouraging education, including career-advancing education, dissemination of employment materials, coordination with existing employment services such as welfare-to-work programs, referrals to local employment training initiatives, and other methods.

   Inserted: " '(3) Restriction on use of funds.--No funds provided under this subsection may be used for costs attributable to court proceedings regarding matters of child visitation or custody, or for legislative advocacy.

   Inserted: " '(4) Requirements for receipt of funds.--A State may not be awarded a grant under this section unless the State, as a condition of receiving funds under such a grant--

   Inserted: " '(A) consults with experts in domestic violence or with relevant community domestic violence coalitions in developing such programs or activities; and

   Inserted: " '(B) describes in the application for a grant under this section--

   Inserted: " '(i) how the programs or activities proposed to be conducted will address, as appropriate, issues of domestic violence; and

   Inserted: " '(ii) what the State will do, to the extent relevant, to ensure that participation in such programs or activities is voluntary, and to inform potential participants that their involvement is voluntary.

   Inserted: " '(5) Reconciliation process.--

   Inserted: " '(A) 3-year availability of amounts allotted.--Each eligible State that receives a grant under this subsection for a fiscal year shall return to the Secretary any unused portion of the grant for such fiscal year not later than the last day of the second succeeding fiscal year, together with any earnings on such unused portion.

   Inserted: " '(B) Procedure for redistribution.--The Secretary shall establish an appropriate procedure for redistributing to eligible States that have expended the entire amount of a grant made under this subsection for a fiscal year any amount that is returned to the Secretary by eligible States under subparagraph (A).

   Inserted: " '(6) Amount of grants.--

   Inserted: " '(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), the amount of each grant awarded under this subsection shall be an amount sufficient to implement the State plan submitted under paragraph (1)(B)(ii).

   Inserted: " '(B) Minimum amounts.--No eligible State shall--

   Inserted: " '(i) in the case of the District of Columbia or a State other than the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, receive a grant for a fiscal year in an amount that is less than $1,000,000; and

   Inserted: " '(ii) in the case of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, receive a grant for a fiscal year in an amount that is less than $500,000.

   Inserted: " '(7) Definition of state.--In this subsection, the term 'State' means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

   Inserted: " '(8) Appropriation.--Out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, there are appropriated for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010, $20,000,000 for purposes of making grants to eligible States under this subsection.

   Inserted: " '(b) Grants to Eligible Entities To Conduct Demonstration Programs.--

   Inserted: " '(1) Authority to award grants.--

   Inserted: " '(A) In general.--The Secretary shall award grants to eligible entities to conduct demonstration programs to carry out the purposes described in subsection (a)(2).

   Inserted: " '(B) Eligible entity.--For purposes of this subsection, an eligible entity is a local government, local public agency, community-based or nonprofit organization, or private entity, including any charitable or faith-based organization, or an Indian tribe or tribal organization (as defined in section 419(4)), that submits to the Secretary the following:

   Inserted: " '(i) Application.--An application for a grant under this subsection, at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require.

   Inserted: " '(ii) Project description.--A description of the programs or activities the entity intends to carry out with funds provided under the grant, including a good faith estimate of the number and characteristics of clients to be served under such programs or activities and how the entity intends to achieve at least 2 of the purposes described in subsection (a)(2).

   Inserted: " '(iii) Coordination efforts.--A description of how the entity will coordinate and cooperate with State and local entities responsible for carrying out other programs that relate to the purposes intended to be achieved under the demonstration program, including as appropriate, entities responsible for carrying out jobs programs and programs serving children and families.

   Inserted: " '(iv) Records, reports, and audits.--An agreement to maintain such records, submit such reports, and cooperate with such reviews and audits as the Secretary finds necessary for purposes of oversight of the demonstration program.

   Inserted: " '(v) Certifications.--The following certifications:

   Inserted: " '(I) A certification that the entity will use funds provided under the grant to promote at least 2 of the purposes described in subsection (a)(2).

   Inserted: " '(II) A certification that the entity will return any unused funds to the Secretary in accordance with the reconciliation process under paragraph (3).

   Inserted: " '(III) A certification that the funds provided under the grant will be used for programs and activities that target low-income participants and that not less than 50 percent of the participants in each program or activity funded under the grant shall be--

   Inserted: " '(aa) parents of a child who is, or within the past 24 months has been, a recipient of assistance or services under a State program funded under part A, D, or E of this title, title XIX, or the Food Stamp Act of 1977; or

   Inserted: " '(bb) parents, including an expectant parent 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.

   Inserted: " '(IV) A certification that the entity has or will comply with the requirements of paragraph (3).

   Inserted: " '(V) A certification that funds provided to an entity under this subsection shall not be used to supplement or supplant other Federal, State, or local funds provided to the entity that are used to support programs or activities that are related to the purposes described in subsection (a)(2).

   Inserted: " '(C) Preferences and factors of consideration.--In awarding grants under this subsection, the Secretary shall, to the extent practicable, achieve a balance among the eligible entities awarded grants under this subsection with respect to the size, urban or rural location, and employment of differing or unique methods of the entities.

   Inserted: " '(2) Restriction on use of funds.--No funds provided under this subsection may be used for costs attributable to court proceedings regarding matters of child visitation or custody, or for legislative advocacy.

   Inserted: " '(3) Requirements for use of funds.--The Secretary may not award a grant under this subsection to an eligible entity unless the entity, as a condition of receiving funds under such a grant--

   Inserted: " '(A) consults with experts in domestic violence or with relevant community domestic violence coalitions in developing the programs or activities to be conducted with such funds awarded under the grant; and

   Inserted: " '(B) describes in the application for a grant under this section--

   Inserted: " '(i) how the programs or activities proposed to be conducted will address, as appropriate, issues of domestic violence; and

   Inserted: " '(ii) what the entity will do, to the extent relevant, to ensure that participation in such programs or activities is voluntary, and to inform potential participants that their involvement is voluntary.

   Inserted: " '(4) Reconciliation process.--

   Inserted: " '(A) 3-year availability of amounts allotted.--Each eligible entity that receives a grant under this subsection for a fiscal year shall return to the Secretary any unused portion of the grant for such fiscal year not later than the last day of the second succeeding fiscal year, together with any earnings on such unused portion.

   Inserted: " '(B) Procedure for redistribution.--The Secretary shall establish an appropriate procedure for redistributing to eligible entities that have expended the entire amount of a grant made under this subsection for a fiscal year any amount that is returned to the Secretary by eligible entities under subparagraph (A).

   Inserted: " '(5) Appropriation.--Out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, there are appropriated for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010, $25,000,000 for purposes of making grants to eligible entities under this subsection.

   Inserted: " 'SEC. 442. NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD PROGRAMS.

   Inserted: " '(a) Media Campaign National Clearinghouse for Responsible Fatherhood.--

   Inserted: " '(1) In general.--From any funds appropriated under subsection (c), the Secretary shall contract with a nationally recognized, nonprofit fatherhood promotion organization described in subsection (b) to--

   Inserted: " '(A) develop, promote, and distribute to interested States, local governments, public agencies, and private entities a media campaign that encourages the appropriate involvement of parents in the life of any child, with a priority for programs that specifically address the issue of responsible fatherhood; and

   Inserted: " '(B) develop a national clearinghouse to assist States and communities in efforts to promote and support marriage and responsible fatherhood by collecting, evaluating, and making available (through the Internet and by other means) to other States information regarding the media campaigns established under section 443.

   Inserted: " '(2) Coordination with domestic violence programs.--The Secretary shall ensure that the nationally recognized nonprofit fatherhood promotion organization with a contract under paragraph (1) coordinates the media campaign developed under subparagraph (A) of such paragraph and the national clearinghouse developed under subparagraph (B) of such paragraph with national, State, or local domestic violence programs.

   Inserted: " '(b) Nationally Recognized, Nonprofit Fatherhood Promotion Organization Described.--The nationally recognized, nonprofit fatherhood promotion organization described in this subsection is an organization that has at least 4 years of experience in--

   Inserted: " '(1) designing and disseminating a national public education campaign, as evidenced by the production and successful placement of television, radio, and print public service announcements that promote the importance of responsible fatherhood, a track record of service to Spanish-speaking populations and historically underserved or minority populations, the capacity to fulfill requests for information and a proven history of fulfilling such requests, and a mechanism through which the public can request additional information about the campaign; and

   Inserted: " '(2) providing consultation and training to community-based organizations interested in implementing fatherhood outreach, support, or skill development programs with an emphasis on promoting married fatherhood as the ideal.

   Inserted: " '(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010 to carry out this section.

   Inserted: " 'SEC. 443. BLOCK GRANTS TO STATES TO ENCOURAGE MEDIA CAMPAIGNS.

   Inserted: " '(a) Definitions.--In this section:

   Inserted: " '(1) Broadcast advertisement.--The term 'broadcast advertisement' means a communication intended to be aired by a television or radio broadcast station, including a communication intended to be transmitted through a cable channel.

   Inserted: " '(2) Child at risk.--The term 'child at risk' means each young child whose family income does not exceed the poverty line.

   Inserted: " '(3) Poverty line.--The term 'poverty line' has the meaning given such term in section 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)), including any revision required by such section, that is applicable to a family of the size involved.

   Inserted: " '(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 advertisement.

   Inserted: " '(5) State.--The term 'State' means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

   Inserted: " '(6) Young child.--The term 'young child' means an individual under age 5.

   Inserted: " '(b) State Certifications.--Not later than October 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 certification that the State shall--

   Inserted: " '(1) use such funds to promote the formation and maintenance of healthy 2-parent married families, strengthen fragile families, and promote responsible fatherhood through media campaigns conducted in accordance with the requirements of subsection (d);

   Inserted: " '(2) return any unused funds to the Secretary in accordance with the reconciliation process under subsection (e); and

   Inserted: " '(3) comply with the reporting requirements under subsection (f).

   Inserted: " '(c) Payments to States.--For each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010, the Secretary shall pay to each State that submits a certification under subsection (b), from any funds appropriated under subsection (i), for the fiscal year an amount equal to the amount of the allotment determined for the fiscal year under subsection (g).

   Inserted: " '(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:

   Inserted: " '(1) Conduct of media campaigns.--

   Inserted: " '(A) Radio and television media campaigns.--

   Inserted: " '(i) Production of broadcast advertisements.--At the option of the State, to produce broadcast advertisements that promote the formation and maintenance of healthy 2-parent married families, strengthen fragile families, and promote responsible fatherhood.

   Inserted: " '(ii) Airtime challenge program.--At the option of the State, to establish an airtime 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 clause (i), but only if the State obtains an amount of time of the same class and during a comparable period to air the advertisement using non-Federal contributions.

   Inserted: " '(B) Other media campaigns.--At the option of the State, to conduct a media campaign that consists of the production and distribution of printed or other advertisements that promote the formation and maintenance of healthy 2-parent married families, strengthen fragile families, and promote responsible fatherhood.

   Inserted: " '(2) Administration of media campaigns.--A State may administer media campaigns funded under this section directly or through grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements with public agencies, local governments, or private entities, including charitable and faith-based organizations.

   Inserted: " '(3) Consultation with domestic violence assistance centers.--In developing broadcast 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.

   Inserted: " '(4) Non-federal contributions.--In this section, the term 'non-Federal contributions' includes 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 assisted or subsidized to any significant extent by the Federal Government, or any amount expended by a State before October 1, 2005.

   Inserted: " '(e) Reconciliation Process.--

   Inserted: " '(1) 3-year availability of amounts allotted.--Each State that receives an allotment under this section shall return to the Secretary any unused portion of the amount allotted to a State for a fiscal year not later than the last day of the second succeeding fiscal year together with any earnings on such unused portion.

   Inserted: " '(2) Procedure for redistribution of unused 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--

   Inserted: " '(A) returned to the Secretary by States under paragraph (1); or

   Inserted: " '(B) not allotted to a State under this section because the State did not submit a certification under subsection (b) by October 1 of a fiscal year.

   Inserted: " '(f) Reporting Requirements.--

   Inserted: " '(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 appropriate.

   Inserted: " '(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 conducted using funds made available under this section at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require.

   Inserted: " '(g) Amount of Allotments.--

   Inserted: " '(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), of the amount appropriated for the purpose 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--

   Inserted: " '(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 current reliable data available) bears to the number of such children in all States; and

   Inserted: " '(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 current reliable data available) bears to the number of such children in all States.

   Inserted: " '(2) Minimum allotments.--No allotment for a fiscal year under this section shall be less than--

   Inserted: " '(A) in the case of the District of Columbia or a State other than the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 1 percent of the amount appropriated for the fiscal year under subsection (i); and

   Inserted: " '(B) in the case of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 0.5 percent of such amount.

   Inserted: " '(3) Pro rata reductions.--The Secretary shall make such pro rata reductions to the allotments determined under this subsection as are necessary to comply with the requirements of paragraph (2).

   Inserted: " '(h) Evaluation.--

   Inserted: " '(1) In general.--The Secretary shall conduct an evaluation of the impact of the media campaigns funded under this section.

   Inserted: " '(2) Report.--Not later than December 31, 2008, the Secretary shall report to Congress the results of the evaluation under paragraph (1).

   Inserted: " '(3) Funding.--Of the amount appropriated under subsection (i) for fiscal year 2006, $1,000,000 of such amount shall be transferred and made available for purposes of conducting the evaluation required under this subsection, and shall remain available until expended.

   Inserted: " '(i) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010 for purposes of making allotments to States under this section.

   Inserted: " 'SEC. 444. NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD

   Inserted: " '(a) In General.--The Secretary shall contract with a nationally recognized, nonprofit research and education fatherhood organization described in subsection (b) to--

   Inserted: " '(1) provide technical assistance and training to public and private agencies and grass roots organizations that promote responsible fatherhood and healthy marriage; and

   Inserted: " '(2) develop a clearinghouse of resource materials to assist community-based organizations in developing local responsible fatherhood programs, with an emphasis on training and outcome evaluation.

   Inserted: " '(b) Nationally Recognized Nonprofit Research and Education Fatherhood Organization Described.--A nationally recognized nonprofit research and education fatherhood organization described in this subsection is an organization that has been in existence for at least 12 years with experience in--

   Inserted: " '(1) developing and distributing research-based curriculum that promotes responsible fatherhood and healthy marriage with an emphasis on low-income and noncustodial fathers;

   Inserted: " '(2) providing consultation and training to community-based organizations with a track record of working with social service, government, and faith-based organizations; and

   Inserted: "'(3) providing direct training to fathers, father figures, and mothers using research-based curriculum in a variety of economic, cultural and family situations.

   Inserted: " '(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section, $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010.

   Inserted: " 'SEC. 445. NONDISCRIMINATION.

   Inserted: " 'The projects and activities assisted under this part shall be available on the same basis to all fathers and expectant fathers able to benefit from such projects and activities, including married and unmarried fathers and custodial and noncustodial fathers, with particular attention to low-income fathers, and to mothers and expectant mothers on the same basis as to fathers.'.

   Inserted: "(b) Inapplicability of Effective Date Provisions.--Section 116 shall not apply to the amendment made by subsection (a) of this section.".

   Inserted: (3) Clerical amendment.--Section 2 of such Act is amended in the table of contents by inserting after the item relating to section 116 the following new item:

   Inserted: "Sec. 117. Responsible fatherhood program.".

   Inserted: (4) Effective date.--The amendments made by this subsection shall be effective as if enacted on October 1, 2005, and shall apply without fiscal year limitation.

   Inserted: (b) Reduction of Funds.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the following amounts shall be available for the following purposes and any other amounts appropriated in this Act for such purposes are reduced accordingly:

   Inserted: (1) For Parent Information Resource Centers, $12,000,000.

   Inserted: (2) For School Leadership programs and activities, $8,000,000.

   Inserted: (3) For State Grants for Incarcerated Youth, $0.

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