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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1982

96 STAT. 1736

Annual audits.

PUBLIC LAW 97-363—OCT. 25, 1982

contracts may only be obligated or expended during the fiscal year in which they are provided (or the subsequent fiscal year or such subsequent fiscal period as the Federal contracting agency may approve) to carry out the purposes of this subsection. Such grants and contracts shall provide that the agency shall provide (directly or through its local affiliate) notice to the appropriate county or other local welfare office at the time that the agency becomes aware that a refugee is offered employment and provide notice to the refugee that such notice has been provided. Such grants and contracts shall also provide that the agency shall assure that refugees, known to the agency as having been identified pursuant to paragraph (4)(B) as having medical conditions affecting the public health and requiring treatment, report to the appropriate county or other health agency upon their resettlement in an area."; (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: "(5) The Director is authorized to make grants to, and enter into contracts with. State and local health agencies for payments to meet their costs of providing medical screening and initial medical treatment to refugees."; and (4) by adding after such paragraph the following new paragraph: "(6) The Comptroller General shall conduct an annual audit of funds expended under grants and contracts made under this subsection.". CASH AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE

Hearing.

SEC. 6. (a) Paragraph (1) of section 412(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1522(e)) is amended by striking out "up to" before "100 per centum". (b) Paragraph (2) of such section is amended— (1) by striking out the semicolon at the end of subparagraph (B) and all that follows through the end of such paragraph and inserting in lieu thereof a period; (2) by striking out "and" at the end of subparagraph (A); (3) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as clauses (i) and (iii), respectively, by inserting "(A)" after "(2)", and by inserting after clause (i) (as so redesignated) the following new clause: "(ii) on the refugee's participation in any available and appropriate social service program (funded under subsection (c)) providing job or language training in the area in which the refugee resides; and"; and (4) by adding at the end the following: "Such cash assistance provided to such a refugee shall be terminated (after opportunity for an administrative hearing) with the month in which the refugee refuses such an appropriate offer of employment or refuses to participate in such an available and appropriate social service program. (B) Cash assistance shall not be made available to refugees who are full-time students in institutions of higher education (as defined by the Director after consultation with the Secretary of Education).". (c) Such section is further amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: "(6) As a condition for receiving assistance, reimbursement, or a contract under this subsection and notwithstanding any other provi-