3.0.0 751 2019-11-15T21:47:33Z 2019-11-15T21:47:33Z House H HR 2005-02-10 109 hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee House Standing hsif14 Health Subcommittee Referred to 2005-03-14T15:13:04Z Referred to 2005-02-10T15:00:50Z hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing Referred to 2005-02-10T15:00:45Z 2005-03-14 hsif14 Health Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman. Committee 2005-02-10 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsif00 Energy and Commerce Committee 2005-02-10 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100-A 9 Library of Congress 2005-02-10 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hswm00 Ways and Means Committee 2005-02-10 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2005-02-10 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress M000404 Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7] JIM MCDERMOTT D WA 7 N C000141 Rep. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD-3] Ben Cardin D MD 3 2005-02-10 True S000810 Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13] PETE STARK D CA 13 2005-02-10 True B000287 Rep. Becerra, Xavier [D-CA-31] XAVIER BECERRA D CA 31 2005-02-10 True E000287 Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5] Rahm Emanuel D IL 5 2005-02-10 True Social Welfare Adult education Agriculture and Food Aid to dependent children Aliens American Samoa Appropriations Authorization Block grants Cash welfare block grants Child health Child support Child welfare Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Collection of accounts Congress Congressional reporting requirements Cost of living adjustments Counseling Crime and Law Enforcement Day care Department of Health and Human Services Disabled Discrimination in employment Drug abuse Drug abuse treatment Earned income tax credit Earnings Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Employee rights Employment subsidies Energy Energy assistance for the poor Families Family services Family violence Federal aid to child health services Federal-state relations Food stamps Government Operations and Politics Government lending Government paperwork Government publicity Governmental investigations Guam Health Health insurance Higher education Housing and Community Development Immigrants Immigration Income tax Indian children Intergovernmental fiscal relations Job hunting Labor and Employment Labor statistics Literacy programs Low-income housing Medicaid Medically uninsured Mental health services Minorities Native Americans Northern Mariana Islands Part-time employment Performance measurement Policy sciences Poor children Poverty Pregnant women Public housing Puerto Rico Rehabilitation of the disabled Sunset legislation Supplemental security income program Surveys Taxation Teenage pregnancy Unemployment Virgin Islands Vocational and technical education WIC program Welfare eligibility Welfare waivers Welfare work participation Women Social Welfare 00 2005-02-10 Introduced in House 2005-04-08T16:26:30Z Work, Family, and Opportunity Promotion Act - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act (SSA), including with respect to: (1) modification of individual responsibility plans; (2) elimination of the caseload reduction rate under mandatory work requirements; (3) the State option to select a job entry rate requirement in lieu of the work participation rate requirement; (4) work rates; (5) employment credit; (6) the effect of wage subsidies on the five-year limit of assistance; (7) workplace discrimination laws; (8) the funding for child care; (9) extension of supplemental grants; (10) additional grants for States with low Federal funding per poor child; (11) the bonus to reward high performance States; (12) contingency fund grants; (13) eligibility of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, and Guam for the supplemental grant for population increases, the contingency fund, and mandatory child care funding; (14) education and training; (15) poverty reduction; (16) the family formation fund; (17) two-parent eligibility; (18) treatment of aliens under the TANF program; (19) the authority of States to use TANF funds carried over from prior years to provide TANF benefits and services; (20) funding for tribal TANF programs; and (21) the ban on using Federal TANF funds to replace State and local spending that does not meet the definition of qualified State expenditures.

Amends SSA title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) to provide for the restoration of funds for the social services block grant.

Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to provide for a five-year extension and modification of the transitional medical assistance program.

Amends SSA title XIX and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) to provide for optional coverage of legal immigrants under Medicaid and SCHIP.

Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 with respect to: (1) treatment of aliens under the TANF program; (2) the eligibility of disabled children who are qualified aliens for SSI (SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income)); and (3) an SSI extension for humanitarian immigrants.

Amends SSA title XI to provide for an increase in the mandatory ceiling amount with respect to funding for families assisted by a territory program.

Extends the TANF program and related authorities through FY 2005.

]]> Work, Family, and Opportunity Promotion Act Short Titles as Introduced Work, Family, and Opportunity Promotion Act Display Title Work, Family, and Opportunity Promotion Act Official Title as Introduced To reauthorize and improve the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program by promoting work, family, and opportunity, and for other purposes. Introduced in House 2005-02-10T05:00:00Z 2005-03-14 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.