[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 172 (Monday, November 30, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S8195]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       TREATMENT OF CERTAIN PAYMENTS IN EUGENICS COMPENSATION ACT

  Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, as in legislative session, I ask unanimous 
consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of 
Calendar No. 139, S. 1698.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 1698) to exclude payments from State eugenics 
     compensation programs from consideration in determining 
     eligibility for, or the amount of, Federal public benefits.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. INHOFE. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third 
time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and 
laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 1698) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 1698

       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.

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