[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
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[S. 2183 Considered and Passed Senate (CPS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2183

 To make technical corrections to the Personal Responsibility and Work 
                Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 1, 1996

 Mr. Domenici (for himself and Mr. Bingaman) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed

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                                 A BILL


 
 To make technical corrections to the Personal Responsibility and Work 
                Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.

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

SECTION 1. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND 
              WORK OPPORTUNITY RECONCILIATION ACT OF 1996.

    (a) Clarification of Limitation On Certain Federal Obligations for 
1997.--Section 116(b)(1)(B)(ii)(II) of the Personal Responsibility and 
Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 is amended--
            (1) in item (aa), by striking ``the State family assistance 
        grant'' and inserting ``the sum of the State family assistance 
        grant and the amount, if any, that the State would have been 
        eligible to be paid under the Contingency Fund for State 
        Welfare Programs established under section 403(b) of the Social 
        Security Act (as amended by section 103(a)(1) of this Act), 
        during the period beginning on October 1, 1996, and ending on 
        the date the Secretary of Health and Human Services first 
        receives from the State a plan described in section 402(a) of 
        the Social Security Act (as so amended) if, with respect to 
        such State, the effective date of this Act under subsection 
        (a)(1) were August 22, 1996,''; and
            (2) in item (bb)--
                    (A) by inserting ``sum of the'' before ``State 
                family assistance grant''; and
                    (B) by striking the period and inserting ``, and 
                the amount, if any, that the State would have been 
                eligible to be paid under the Contingency Fund for 
                State Welfare Programs established under section 403(b) 
                of the Social Security Act (as amended by section 
                103(a)(1) of this Act), during the period beginning on 
                October 1, 1996, and ending on the date the Secretary 
                of Health and Human Services first receives from the 
                State a plan described in section 402(a) of the Social 
                Security Act (as so amended) if, with respect to such 
                State, the effective date of this Act under subsection 
                (a)(1) were August 22, 1996.''.
    (b) Corrections Related to the Contingency Fund for State Welfare 
Programs.--
            (1) Annual reconciliation.--Section 403(b)(4)(A) of the 
        Social Security Act, as amended by section 103(a)(1) of the 
        Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act 
        of 1996, is amended--
                    (A) in clause (i)(II), by striking ``minus any 
                Federal payment with respect to such child care 
                expenditures''; and
                    (B) in clause (ii)(I)--
                            (i) by inserting ``the sum of'' before 
                        ``the expenditures''; and
                            (ii) by inserting ``, and any additional 
                        qualified State expenditures, as defined in 
                        section 409(a)(7)(B)(i), for child care 
                        assistance made under the Child Care and 
                        Development Block Grant Act of 1990'' before 
                        the semicolon.
    (c) Clarification of Heading.--The heading of section 116(b)(1) of 
the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 
1996 is amended by inserting ``; limitation on fiscal years 1996 and 
1997 payments'' after ``date''.
    (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect as if included in the provisions of and the amendments made by 
the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 
1996.
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