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Evan Bayh (D-LA)

Tom Carper (D-DE)

Work and Family Act

A bill to amend TANF to increase work participation rates and hours; increase funding to the childcare and social services block grants; improve child support enforcement; and credit states for achieving objectives of the program.

2/27/02 - Referred to the Senate Finance Committee.

H.R. 3625

Ben Cardin (D-MD) (25)

Next Step in Reauthorizing Welfare Reform

A bill to increase funding for the TANF, childcare and social services block grants; make poverty reduction an objective of welfare reform; and restore benefits to legal immigrants.

1/24/02 - Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

H.R. 3113

Patsy Mink (D-HI) (70)

TANF Reauthorization Act

A bill to amend TANF to revise and extend the program through FY08, with changes made to: work and various other specified requirements and prohibitions; penalties; studies and reports; minimum benefit rules; and child care.

10/21/02 - Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

H.R. 3667

Lynn Woolsey (D-CA)

Self-Sufficiency Act

Amends TANF to require state plans to include a specification of the income needs of families adequate for attaining self-sufficiency; requires the state to: collect information on the monthly income of the family; and submit to the HHS annually a report that describes the ways in which the state program moved families toward self-sufficiency.

1/9/02 - Referred to the Ways and Means Committee.

H.R. 3459

Nydia Velazquez (D-CA) (11)

TANF Recipients Lifeline

Amends TANF to: repeal the five year limit on TANF benefits; requires states use appropriate bilingual personnel and printed material in the administration of the program states with a substantial number of recipients do not speak English; and provide for inflation adjustment of the TANF block grant.

12/11/01 - Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

S. 501

H.R. 956

Bob Graham (D-FL) (28)

Nancy Johnson (R-CT) (62)

Social Services Block Grant Restoration Act

of 2001

A bill to amend titles IV and XX of the Social Security Act to restore funding for the SSBF, to restore the ability of States to transfer up to 10 percent of TANF funds to carry out activities under such block grant, and to require an annual report on such activities by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

3/8/01 - Referred to Senate Finance Committee.

3/20/01 – Referred to House Subcommittee on Human Resources.

S. 583

H.R. 2142

Edward Kennedy (D-MA) (16)

James Walsh (R-NY) (56)

Nutrition Assistance for Working Families and Seniors Act

Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to make legal immigrants eligible for food stamp program benefits.

3/21/01 - Referred to Committee on Agriculture and Nutrition.

6/18/01 - Referred to Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.