[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2403 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2403

  To provide for payment in December 1999 of Social Security benefits 
                   otherwise payable in January 2000.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 30, 1999

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for payment in December 1999 of Social Security benefits 
                   otherwise payable in January 2000.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Seniors' Accelerated Payment Act of 
1999''.

SEC. 2. PAYMENT IN DECEMBER 1999 OF BENEFITS OTHERWISE PAYABLE IN 
              JANUARY 2000.

    The Commissioner of Social Security and the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall jointly take such actions as are necessary to ensure 
that monthly insurance benefits under title II of the Social Security 
Act which are otherwise payable in January 2000 will be paid in 
December 1999.

SEC. 3. EFFECT ON OTHER PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--For purposes of--
            (1) determining the amount of, eligibility for, or 
        entitlement to, any cash benefit payable under any provision of 
        Federal law, the cash value of any benefit provided under the 
        Food Stamp Act of 1977, or any cash benefit payable under any 
        State program funded under part A of title IV of the Social 
        Security Act, and
            (2) the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
the payment of any monthly insurance benefit in December 1999 solely by 
reason of this section shall be deemed to have been made on the date on 
which such payment would have been made (as determined by the 
Commissioner of Social Security) if this Act had not been enacted.
    (b) Penalty for States Operating TANF Programs Without Regard to 
Deeming Rule.--If the Secretary of Health and Human Services determines 
that a State program funded under part A of title IV of the Social 
Security Act has been operated during fiscal year 2000 without regard 
to subsection (a)(1) of this section, then the Secretary shall reduce 
the grant payable to the State under section 403(a)(1) of such Act for 
fiscal year 2000 by an amount equal to 1 percent of the State family 
assistance grant (as defined in section 403(a)(1)(B) of such Act).
    (c) Sense of the Congress.--It is the sense of the Congress that, 
in determining the amount of, eligibility for, or entitlement to, any 
benefit or assistance under any State or local program not described in 
subsection (a)(1), the payment of any monthly insurance benefit in 
December 1999 solely by reason of this section should be deemed to have 
been made on the date on which such payment would have been made (as 
determined by the Commissioner of Social Security) if this Act had not 
been enacted.
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