[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4486 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4486

To amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to define good cause to include the 
  loss of adequate child care, for the purpose of determining whether 
  voluntarily quitting a job results in a failure to satisfy the work 
    requirement applicable under section 6(d)(1)(A)(v) of such Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 1998

 Mrs. Mink of Hawaii introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                    to the Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to define good cause to include the 
  loss of adequate child care, for the purpose of determining whether 
  voluntarily quitting a job results in a failure to satisfy the work 
    requirement applicable under section 6(d)(1)(A)(v) of such Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 6(d)(1)(D)(i) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 
2015(d)(1)(D)(i)) is amended by inserting before the period at the end 
the following: ``, except that for purposes of subparagraph (A)(v)(I), 
good cause shall include loss of adequate child care for a dependent 
child under the age of 12''.
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