[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2969 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2969

  To eliminate the separate participation rate for 2-parent families 
                       receiving TANF assistance.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 8, 2015

 Mr. Holding introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 
Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined 
 by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as 
        fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To eliminate the separate participation rate for 2-parent families 
                       receiving TANF assistance.

    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 ``TANF Marriage Penalty Elimination 
Act''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF TANF PARTICIPATION RATE REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Elimination of Separate Participation Rate Requirements for 2-
Parent Families.--Section 407 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
607) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking all through ``A State'' the first 
                place it appears and inserting the following:
    ``(a) Participation Rate Requirements.--A State''; and
                    (B) by striking paragraph (2);
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in the subsection heading, by striking 
                ``Rates'' and inserting ``Rate'';
                    (B) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking ``(a)(1)'' and 
                inserting ``(a)'';
                    (C) by striking paragraph (2) and redesignating 
                paragraphs (3) through (5) as paragraphs (2) through 
                (4), respectively;
                    (D) in paragraph (3) (as so redesignated), by 
                striking ``paragraphs (1)(B) and (2)(B)'' and inserting 
                ``paragraph (1)(B)''; and
                    (E) in paragraph (4) (as so redesignated), by 
                striking ``rates'' and inserting ``rate''; and
            (3) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by striking all through ``For purposes 
                        of subsection (b)(1)(B)(i)'' and inserting the 
                        following:
            ``(1) General rules.--For purposes of subsection 
        (b)(1)(B)(i)''; and
                            (ii) by striking subparagraph (B); and
                    (B) in paragraph (2)(D)--
                            (i) by striking ``paragraphs (1)(B)(i) and 
                        (2)(B) of subsection (b)'' and inserting 
                        ``subsection (b)(1)(B)(i)''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``in all families and in 
                        2-parent families, respectively,''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) The paragraph heading for section 409(a)(3) of such Act 
        (42 U.S.C. 609(a)(3)) is amended by striking ``rates'' and 
        inserting ``rate''.
            (2) Section 411(b)(1)(A) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
        611(b)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ``rates'' and inserting 
        ``rate''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on October 1, 
2015.
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