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 PUBLIC LAW 99-509—OCT. 21, 1986

100 STAT. 1973

SEC. 9103. REQUIREMENT OF STATUTORILY PRESCRIBED PROCEDURES TO PROHIBIT RETROACTIVE MODIFICATION OF CHILD SUPPORT ARREARAGES.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 466(a) of the Social Security Act is amended by inserting immediately after paragraph (8) the following new paragraph: "(9) Procedures which require that any payment or installment of support under any child support order, whether ordered f processes required by paragraph (2), is (on and after the date it is due)— "(A) a judgment by operation of law, with the full force, effect, and attributes of a judgment of the State, including the ability to be enforced, "(B) entitled as a judgment to full faith and credit in such State and in any other State, and "(C) not subject to retroactive modification by such State or by any other State; except that such procedures may permit modification with respect to any period during which there is pending a petition for modification, but only from the date that notice of such petition ^ has been given, either directly or through the appropriate agent, to the obligee or (where the obligee is the petitioner) to the obligor.". (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the amendment made by subsection (a) shall become effective on the date of the enactment of this Act. (2) In the case of a State with respect to which the Secretary of Health and Human Services has determined that State legislation is required in order to conform the State plan approved under part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to the requirements imposed by the amendment made by subsection (a), the State plan shall not be regarded as failing to comply with the requirements of such part solely by reason of its failure to meet the requirements imposed by such amendment prior to the beginning of the fourth month beginning after the end of the first session of the State legislature which ends on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the term "session" means a regular, special, budget, or other session of a State legislature.
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Subtitle C—Older Americans Pension Benefits SEC. 920L PROHIBITION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF AGE IN EMPLOYEE PENSION BENEFIT PLANS.

Section 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (29 U.S.C 623) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: "(i)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, it shall be unlawful for an employer, an employment agency, a labor organization, or any combination thereof to establish or maintain an employee pension benefit plan which requires or permits— "(A) in the case of a defined benefit plan, the cessation of an employee's benefit accrual, or the reduction of the rate of an employee's benefit accrual, because of age, or

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State and local governments. 42 USC 666.

42 USC 666 note. State and local governments. 42 USC 651.

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