[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4786 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4786

   To convert into a requirement the option of States to deny aid to 
families with dependent children to unmarried minors not living at home 
     or under adult supervision, and narrow the exceptions to the 
 requirement, and to deem to a minor parent all income of the minor's 
      parents who are living in the same home as the minor parent.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 1994

  Mr. Petri introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
   To convert into a requirement the option of States to deny aid to 
families with dependent children to unmarried minors not living at home 
     or under adult supervision, and narrow the exceptions to the 
 requirement, and to deem to a minor parent all income of the minor's 
      parents who are living in the same home as the minor parent.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. STATES REQUIRED TO DENY AID TO FAMILIES WITH DEPENDENT 
              CHILDREN TO UNMARRIED MINORS NOT LIVING AT HOME OR UNDER 
              ADULT SUPERVISION; EXCEPTIONS NARROWED.

    Section 402(a)(43) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
602(a)(43)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``at the option of the State,''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking clause (ii) and 
        redesignating clauses (iii), (iv), and (v) as clauses (ii), 
        (iii), and (iv), respectively.

SEC. 2. INCOME OF MINOR PARENT DEEMED TO INCLUDE ALL INCOME OF MINOR'S 
              PARENTS WHO ARE LIVING IN THE SAME HOME AS THE MINOR 
              PARENT.

    Section 402(a)(39) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
602(a)(39)) is amended by striking ``, to the same extent that the 
income of a stepparent is included under paragraph (31)''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply to aid payable for 
months beginning after the calendar month in which this Act is enacted
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