[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 640 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 640

   To extend the transition period for aliens receiving supplemental 
     security income or food stamp benefits as of August 22, 1996.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 23, 1997

 Mr. D'Amato (for himself, Mr. Chafee, and Mr. DeWine) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                                Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To extend the transition period for aliens receiving supplemental 
     security income or food stamp benefits as of August 22, 1996.

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

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF SSI AND FOOD STAMP REDETERMINATION PROVISIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 402(a)(2)(D) of the Personal 
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 
U.S.C. 1612(a)(2)(D)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (i)--
                    (A) in subclause (I), by striking ``the date which 
                is 1 year after such date of enactment'' and inserting 
                ``February 22, 1998''; and
                    (B) in subclause (III), by striking ``the date of 
                the redetermination with respect to such individual'' 
                and inserting ``February 22, 1998''; and
            (2) in clause (ii)--
                    (A) in subclause (I), by striking ``the date which 
                is 1 year after the date of enactment'' and inserting 
                ``February 22, 1998''; and
                    (B) in subclause (III), by striking ``the date of 
                recertification'' and inserting ``February 22, 1998''.
    (b) Notice and Redetermination.--The Commissioner of Social 
Security, in the case of the specified Federal program defined in 
section 402(a)(3)(A) of the Personal Responsibility and Work 
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 Act (8 U.S.C. 1612(a)(3)(A)), 
and the State agency, in the case of the specified Federal program 
defined in section 402(a)(3)(B) of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1612(a)(3)(B)), 
shall notify any individual described in section 402(a)(2)(D) of such 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1612(a)(2)(D)), as amended by subsection (a), who, on or 
after August 22, 1996, has been determined to be ineligible for any 
such specified Federal program solely on the basis of the application 
of section 402 of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1612), as in effect on the day 
before the date of enactment of this Act, that the individual's 
eligibility for such program shall be redetermined or recertified (as 
the case may be), and shall conduct such redetermination or 
recertification in a timely manner. Any benefits that such an 
individual should have received under any such specified Federal 
program during the period beginning on August 22, 1996, and ending on 
the date of the redetermination or recertification under this 
subsection shall be restored to that individual.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    Section 1(a) takes effect as if included in the enactment of 
section 402 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity 
Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1612).
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