3.0.0 105 2019-11-15T21:52:26Z 2019-11-15T21:52:26Z Senate S S 2005-01-24 109 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-01-24T23:10:18Z Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2005 109 240 HR 2005-10-20 Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 20. Related bill CRS 2005-01-24 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S264-278) IntroReferral 2005-01-24 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000024 Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO] JIM TALENT R MO N S001141 Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL] Jeff Sessions R AL 2005-01-24 True D000595 Sen. DeMint, Jim [R-SC] James DeMint R SC W. 2005-01-24 True I000024 Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] Jim Inhofe R OK 2005-01-31 False Social Welfare Academic performance Adoption Agriculture and Food Aid to dependent children Alimony Appropriations Armed Forces and National Security Auditing Automobiles Blind Block grants California Caregivers Cash welfare block grants Census Child abuse Child development Child health Child support Child welfare Church and social problems Collection of accounts Commerce Commuting Congress Congressional investigations Congressional reporting requirements Consumer credit Counseling Crime and Law Enforcement Crime prevention Day care Directories Disability evaluation Disabled Dropouts Drug abuse Drug abuse treatment Drugs and youth Earnings Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Employment subsidies Evaluation research (Social action programs) Families Family services Fathers Federal aid to Indians Federal aid to child health services Federal-Indian relations Federal-state relations Finance and Financial Sector Food relief Food stamps Foster home care Gambling Garnishment Government Operations and Politics Government contractors Government lending Government paperwork Government publicity Governmental investigations Health Health counseling Health insurance Identification devices Immigration Income tax Indian children Insurance Interest Interstate banking Interstate relations Job hunting Jurisdiction Juvenile delinquency Labor and Employment Longshoremen Marriage Married people Maternal health services Medicaid Medically uninsured Mentoring Minorities Nonmarital births Nonprofit organizations Parent and child Parents Passports Performance measurement Personal budgets Poor children Premarital sex Preschool education Public service advertising Public-private partnerships Puerto Rico Recruiting of employees Religion School-age child care Searches and seizures Sex education Sexual abstinence Single people Social surveys Sports and Recreation State courts Suicide Supplemental security income program Tax refunds Taxation Teenage pregnancy Territories (U.S.) Transportation and Public Works Travel costs Unemployment Unmarried couples User charges Veterans' disability compensation Vocational and technical education Wages Welfare eligibility Welfare work participation Wisconsin Women Workers' compensation Youth Social Welfare 00 2005-01-24 Introduced in Senate 2005-02-11T21:15:40Z Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2005 - Amends title IV (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to reauthorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to award state family assistance grants.

Authorizes States to use grants for marriage promotion activities and requires the Secretary to make bonus grants to each State that has achieved formulated employment goals.

Revises requirements for: (1) the consideration of certain child care expenditures in determining State compliance with contingency fund requirements; (2) State work participation standards (including minimum participation rate floors), incorporating a 40-hour work week standard, and creating a State superachiever participation rate credit; and (3) the use of TANF grants.

Replaces personal responsibility plans with family self-sufficiency plans.

Authorizes the Secretary to establish TANF performance goals and plans. Makes appropriations for research, demonstrations, and technical assistance.

Promotion and Support of Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage Act of 2005 - Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to authorize the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit community entities for demonstration projects to test the effectiveness of various approaches to create a Fatherhood Program.

Permits States the option to make TANF programs mandatory partners with one-stop employment training centers.

Caring for Children Act of 2005 - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to specify consumer education information States are required to collect and disseminate.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to income tax benefits.

Reauthorizes funding for State child care entitlement programs and revises State requirements for child support payments.

Amends: (1) SSA title XI (General Provisions) to eliminate specified limitations on the Secretary's authority to approve demonstration projects and grant waivers; and (2) SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) to require the Commissioner of Social Security to review State agency blindness and disability determinations.

Authorizes the administering Secretary to authorize innovative State demonstration projects involving individual programs, or integrating multiple public assistance, employment security, and other programs to support working families.

Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require the Secretary to establish a program to make grants to States to provide food assistance and funds to operate employment and training programs for needy individuals.

Extends abstinence education funding and reauthorizes transitional medical assistance.

]]> Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2005 Short Titles as Introduced Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2005 Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Caring for Children Act of 2005 Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Promotion and Support of Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage Act of 2005 Display Title Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2005 Official Title as Introduced A bill to reauthorize and improve the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families, improve access to quality child care, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2005-01-24T05:00:00Z 2005-01-24 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S264-278) 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.