3.0.0 3607 2023-01-13T04:50:36Z 2023-01-13T04:50:36Z Senate S S 2006-06-29 109 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2006-06-29T20:40:49Z 2006-06-29 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2006-06-29 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001233 Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN] EVAN BAYH D IN N O000167 Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL] Barack Obama D IL 2006-06-29 True Social Welfare Agriculture and Food Aid to dependent children Cash welfare block grants Child support Childbirth Collection of accounts Commerce Crime and Law Enforcement Custody of children Disabled Earned income tax credit Economics and Public Finance Employment of the disabled Employment subsidies Ex-offenders Expatriation Families Family violence Fathers Food stamps Foreign Trade and International Finance Foreign corporations Foreign tax credit Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Health Imports Imprisonment Income Income tax Indexing (Economic policy) Labor and Employment Marriage Married people Medicaid Paternity Rehabilitation of criminals State laws Tax evasion Tax returns Tax shelters Taxation Taxation of foreign income Welfare eligibility Welfare work participation Working poor Social Welfare 00 2006-06-29 Introduced in Senate 2006-07-21T17:25:51Z Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2006 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to: (1) funding for responsible fatherhood programs; (2) requirements to ensure procedures to address domestic violence; (3) activities promoting responsible fatherhood; (4) grants to healthy family partnerships for domestic violence prevention, for services for families and individuals affected by domestic violence, and for developing and implementing best practices; and (5) elimination of separate TANF work participation rate for two-parent families.

Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity), as amended by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, to prohibit a state from collecting any amount owed to the state by reason of costs it has incurred for the birth of a child for whom support rights have been assigned.

Requires a state to make a full distribution of collected child support to the family.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to states for three employment demonstration projects, including: (1) a court- or state child support agency-supervised program for noncustodial parents so they can pay child support obligations; (2) a transitional jobs program combining temporary subsidized employment with skill development activities; and (3) public-private career pathways partnerships.

Conditions continued approval of a state plan under part D upon state assessment of its policies with respect to barriers to employment and financial support of children.

Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 with respect to: (1) deductions from family income for child support received in order to qualify for food stamps; (2) verification of child support payments; and (3) inclusion of economic opportunities programs in qualifying work programs.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) modify the earned income tax credit; (2) provide an additional tax credit for certain workers required to make child support payments; (3) revise the formula to increase the earned income tax credit for joint returns; (4) revise tax treatment of inverted entities, especially expatriated entities; (5) treat controlled foreign corporations established in tax havens as domestic corporations for tax purposes; and (6) prescribe the taxation of income of controlled foreign corporations attributable to imported property.

]]> Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2006 Display Title Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2006 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title IV of the Social Security Act to ensure funding for grants to promote responsible fatherhood and strengthen low-income families, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2006 Introduced in Senate 2006-06-29T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s3607is/xml/BILLS-109s3607is.xml 2006-06-29 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. 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.