[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1615 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1615

  To prohibit a State from penalizing a single custodial parent of a 
  child under age 11 for failing to meet work requirements under the 
 State program funded under part A of title IV of the Social Security 
           Act if the parent cannot find suitable child care.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 14, 1997

Ms. Woolsey (for herself and Ms. Norton) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit a State from penalizing a single custodial parent of a 
  child under age 11 for failing to meet work requirements under the 
 State program funded under part A of title IV of the Social Security 
           Act if the parent cannot find suitable child care.

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

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION AGAINST PENALIZING SINGLE CUSTODIAL PARENT OF 
              CHILD UNDER AGE 11 FOR FAILING TO MEET WORK REQUIREMENTS 
              UNDER STATE PROGRAM OF TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE TO NEEDY 
              FAMILIES IF PARENT CANNOT FIND SUITABLE CHILD CARE.

    Section 407(e)(2) of the Social Security Act, as amended by section 
103(a), and as in effect pursuant to section 116, of the Personal 
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, (42 U.S.C. 607(e)(2)) 
is amended by striking ``6'' and inserting ``11''.
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