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        <fullName>Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act Amendments of 2003 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) reauthorize State family assistance grants and provide for their annual adjustment; (2) revise contingency fund requirements; (3) provide for bonuses for States that reduce child poverty; (4) repeal authority for Federal loans for State welfare programs; (5) replace the caseload reduction credit with employment credit to reward States in which families leave welfare for work; (6) increase guaranteed funding for child care; (7) authorize States to establish a parents as scholars program; (8) modify requirements with respect to vocational educational training and other preemployment activities; (9) eliminate the separate work participation rate for two parent families; (10) prohibit State imposition of stricter eligibility criteria for two-parent families; (11) establish grants to States for programs encouraging two-parent families and reducing teenage pregnancies; (12) require a child well-being plan as part of the individual responsibility plan; (13) exclude victims of domestic violence from the 20 percent limitation on hardship exception; (14) provide for continuation of certain pre-TANF waivers for States that elect to continue to operate under such a waiver; (15) authorize States to cover legal immigrants under SSA titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP); (16) establish grants for second chance homes; and (17) authorize transfer of TANF funds to carry out an access to jobs or a reverse commute project.<p>Restores SCHIP funding for the social services block grant.<p>Directs the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and of Labor to award grants for projects related to promoting business linkages and providing for transitional jobs programs.<p>Amends SSA title IV part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) to authorize States to align foster care and adoption assistance eligibility with TANF eligibility.<p>Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to exclude State TANF assistance from the five year waiting period for legal immigrants.<p>Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to revise and extend the transitional medical assistance (TMA) program.<p>Prohibits use of TANF funds to displace public employees.]]></text>
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    <title>Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act Amendments of 2003</title>
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