AMENDMENTS RELATING TO SECTION 303 OF THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND WORK OPPORTUNITY RECONCILIATION ACT OF 1996.

SEC. 5611. AMENDMENTS RELATING TO SECTION 303 OF THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND WORK OPPORTUNITY RECONCILIATION ACT OF 1996. (a) Privacy Safeguards for Medical Child Support Orders.—Section 609(a)(3)(A) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1169(a)(3)(A)) is amended by adding at the end the following: “except that, to the extent provided in the order, the name and mailing address of an official of a State or a political subdivision thereof may be substituted for the mailing address of any such alternate recipient,”. (b) Payment to State Official Treated as Satisfaction of Plan’s Obligation.—Section 609(a) of such Act (29 U.S.C. 1169(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(9) Payment to state official treated as satisfaction of plan’s obligation to make payment to alternate recipient.—Payment of benefits by a group health plan to an official of a State or a political subdivision thereof whose name and address have been substituted for the name and address of an alternate recipient in a qualified medical child support order, pursuant to paragraph (3)(A), shall be treated, for purposes of this title, as payment of benefits to the alternate recipient.”. (c) Effective Date.—The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to medical child support orders issued on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.