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[S. 1698 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.1698

                     One Hundred Fourteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
           the fourth day of January, two thousand and sixteen


                                 An Act


 
   To exclude payments from State eugenics compensation programs from 
consideration in determining eligibility for, or the amount of, Federal 
                            public benefits.

    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 ``Treatment of Certain Payments in 
Eugenics Compensation Act''.
SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF PAYMENTS FROM STATE EUGENICS COMPENSATION PROGRAMS 
FROM CONSIDERATION IN DETERMINING ELIGIBILITY FOR, OR THE AMOUNT OF, 
FEDERAL PUBLIC BENEFITS.
    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
payments made under a State eugenics compensation program shall not be 
considered as income or resources in determining eligibility for, or 
the amount of, any Federal public benefit.
    (b) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
        (1) Federal public benefit.--The term ``Federal public 
    benefit'' means--
            (A) any grant, contract, loan, professional license, or 
        commercial license provided by an agency of the United States 
        or by appropriated funds of the United States; and
            (B) any retirement, welfare, health, disability, public or 
        assisted housing, postsecondary education, food assistance, 
        unemployment benefit, or any other similar benefit for which 
        payments or assistance are provided to an individual, 
        household, or family eligibility unit by an agency of the 
        United States or by appropriated funds of the United States.
        (2) State eugenics compensation program.--The term ``State 
    eugenics compensation program'' means a program established by 
    State law that is intended to compensate individuals who were 
    sterilized under the authority of the State.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.