[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1461 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1461

 To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from imposing 
  penalties against a State under the Temporary Assistance for Needy 
  Families program for failure to satisfy minimum work participation 
 rates or comply with work participation verification procedures with 
respect to months beginning after September 2006 and before the end of 
the 12-month period that begins on the date the Secretary approves the 
                    State's work verification plan.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 23, 2007

Mr. Rockefeller introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from imposing 
  penalties against a State under the Temporary Assistance for Needy 
  Families program for failure to satisfy minimum work participation 
 rates or comply with work participation verification procedures with 
respect to months beginning after September 2006 and before the end of 
the 12-month period that begins on the date the Secretary approves the 
                    State's work verification plan.

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

SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON IMPOSITION OF CERTAIN PENALTIES UNDER TANF.

    Notwithstanding subpart F of part 261 and part 262 of title 45, 
Code of Federal Regulations (relating to State work verification plans 
required under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program) or 
any other provision of law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
shall not reduce the State family assistance grant payable to a State 
for a fiscal year under section 403(a) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 603(a)), or otherwise impose a penalty against a State for 
failure to comply with subsection (a) or (i)(2) of section 407 of the 
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 607) with respect to months beginning 
after September 2006 and before the end of the 12-month period that 
begins on the date the Secretary notifies the State that the work 
verification plan submitted by the State pursuant to subpart F of part 
261 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations, satisfies the 
requirements of such subpart.
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