[House Report 104-85]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



104th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 1st Session                                                     104-85
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    PROVIDING FOR THE FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 4, THE PERSONAL 
                       RESPONSIBILITY ACT OF 1995

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   March 21, 1995.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
                                printed

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   Mr. Solomon, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 119]
    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 119, by a record vote of 7 to 5, report the 
same to the House with the recommendation that the resolution 
be adopted.

               brief summary of provisions of resolution

    The resolution provides for the further consideration of 
H.R. 4, the ``Personal Responsibility Act of 1995.'' The rule 
provides for the adoption in the House and Committee of the 
Whole of an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting 
of the text of H.R. 1214, for the bill as so amended to be 
considered an original bill for the purpose of amendment, and 
for the bill as so amended to be considered as read. Only 
amendments printed in the Rules Committee report or specified 
in the rule are in order, and the amendments are considered as 
read. Except as otherwise specified in the rule, amendments 
printed in the rule may only be offered in the order specified, 
by the Member designated, and debatable for 20 minutes each, 
equally divided between the proponent and an opponent, except 
that the chairman and ranking minority member of the Ways and 
Means Committee, or their designees, may offer one pro forma 
amendment each per amendment for debate purposes. All points of 
order are waived against the amendments made in order by the 
rule.
    The Committee on Ways and Means or a designee may offer 
amendments en bloc consisting of amendments not previously 
disposed of which are printed in the Rules Committee report or 
germane modifications thereof. The amendments offered en bloc 
shall be considered as read (except that modifications shall be 
reported), shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally divided 
between the chairman and ranking minority member of the Ways 
and Means Committee.
    The rule permits the original proponent of an amendment 
included in an en bloc amendment to insert a statement in the 
Congressional Record immediately prior to the disposition of 
the amendments en bloc.
    The rule permits the chairman of the Committee of the Whole 
to postpone until a time during further consideration in the 
Committee of the Whole a request for a recorded vote on any 
amendment made in order by the rule, and to reduce to five 
minutes the time for voting on any such postponed question 
following the first such vote if there is no intervening 
business. The chairman of the Committee of the Whole may 
recognize out of the order printed the consideration of any 
amendment made in order by the rule, provided it is not sooner 
than one hour after the chairman of the Ways and Means 
Committee or a designee announces from the floor a request to 
that effect.
    Following the disposition of the amendments printed in the 
Rules Committee report and any en bloc combinations thereof, it 
shall be in order to consider three amendments in the nature of 
a substitute if offered by the named proponent or a designee, 
if offered in the following order, debatable for one hour each: 
(1) an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of 
the text of H.R. 1267 if offered by Representative Deal of 
Georgia; (2) an amendment in the nature of a substitute 
consisting of the text H.R. 1250 if offered by Representative 
Mink of Hawaii; and (3) an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute consisting of the text of the bill as amended prior 
to the consideration of the three substitutes if offered by the 
chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means or a designee. The 
amendments shall not be subject to further amendment except for 
the third amendment which may be amended by any amendment 
printed in the report not yet offered, but subject to the same 
conditions for debate and consideration out of order, including 
the one-hour notice requirement.
    If more than one amendment in the nature of a substitute is 
adopted, the one receiving the most affirmative votes shall be 
considered as finally adopted and reported to the House. In the 
case of a tie, the last such amendment adopted receiving the 
most votes shall be reported.
    It shall be in order in the House to demand a separate vote 
to any amendment adopted to the bill or incorporated in the 
third amendment in the nature of a substitute made in order 
unless it is replaced by another amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
    Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit, with or 
without instructions.
                            committee votes

    Pursuant to clause 2(l)(2)(B) of House rule XI the results 
of each rollcall vote on an amendment or motion to report, 
together with the names of those voting for and against, are 
printed below (the numbers referred to in the amendments moved 
to be made in order are the numbers assigned to amendments in 
the order filed with the Rules Committee; see the amendment 
summary following the rollcall votes for an explanation):

                    rules committee rollcall no. 99

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Moakley.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Neal amendment #44.
    Results: Rejected, 4 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--Yea; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; 
Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 100

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Moakley.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Volkmer amendment #96.
    Results: Rejected, 4 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--Yea; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; 
Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 101

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Moakley.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Stark/Volkmer amendment 
#114.
    Results: Rejected, 4 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--Yea; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; 
Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.
                    rules committee rollcall no. 102

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Moakley.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Berman amendment #159.
    Results: Rejected, 4 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--Yea; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; 
Hall--Yea; Solomon--Yea.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 103

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Beilenson.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Stark amendment #113.
    Results: Rejected, 5 to 7.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Yea; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--Yea; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; 
Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 104

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Beilenson.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order McDermott amendment #102.
    Results: Rejected, 3 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--Yea; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; 
Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 105

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Beilenson.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Kildee amendment #37.
    Results: Rejected, 2 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; Hall--; 
Solomon--Nay.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 106

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Beilenson.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Reed amendment #73.
    Results: Rejected, 3 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; Hall--
Yea; Solomon--Nay.
                    rules committee rollcall no. 107

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion by: Mr. Beilenson.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Clayton amendment #9.
    Results: Rejected, 3 to 8.
     Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Drier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; Hall--
Yea; Solomon--Nay.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 108

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion by: Mr. Beilenson.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Engel amendment #138.
    Results: Rejected, 3 to 8.
     Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Drier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; Hall--
Yea; Solomon--Nay.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 109

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion by: Mr. Beilenson.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Hyde-Woolsey amendment #1.
    Results: Rejected, 3 to 8.
     Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Drier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--Nay; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; 
Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 110

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion by: Mr. Beilenson.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Waters amendment #111.
    Results: Rejected, 3 to 8.
     Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Drier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; Hall--
Yea; Solomon--Nay.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 111

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion by: Mr. Frost.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Stenholm amendments #39 
and #40.
    Results: Rejected, 3 to 8.
     Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Drier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; Hall--
Yea; Solomon--Nay.
                    rules committee rollcall no. 112

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Frost.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Kennelly/Hoyer amendment 
#30.
    Results: Rejected, 4 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--Yea; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; 
Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 113

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Frost.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Obey amendment #118.
    Results: Rejected, 6 to 6.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--; Goss--Yea; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Yea; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--Yea; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; 
Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 114

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Frost.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Rivers amendment #84.
    Results: Rejected, 4 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--Yea; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; 
Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 115

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Frost.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Kleczka/Rangel amendment 
#88.
    Results: Rejected, 4 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--Yea; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; 
Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 116

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Hall.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Hall amendment #12.
    Results: Rejected, 4 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--Yea; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; 
Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.
                    rules committee rollcall no. 117

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Hall.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Hall amendment #13.
    Results: Rejected, 4 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--Yea; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; 
Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 118

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Hall.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Roemer amendment #150, 
#151, #157.
    Results: Rejected, 4 to 8.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--Yea; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; 
Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 119

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Hall.
    Summary of Motion: Make in order Rangel amendment #148; 
Matsui/Kennedy amendments #34, #53; Waxman amendment #79; 
Levin/Kleczka amendment #86; Mineta amendments #131, #132.
    Results: Rejected, 5 to 7.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Nay; Dreier--; Goss--Nay; 
Linder--Nay; Pryce--Nay; Diaz-Balart--Yea; McInnis--Nay; 
Waldholtz--Nay; Moakley--Yea; Beilenson--Yea; Frost--Yea; 
Hall--Yea; Solomon--Nay.

                    rules committee rollcall no. 120

    Date: March 21, 1995.
    Measure: Rule for H.R. 4, The Personal Responsibility Act 
of 1995.
    Motion By: Mr. Quillen.
    Summary of Motion: Report rule to House.
    Results: Adopted, 7 to 5.
    Vote by Members: Quillen--Yea; Dreier--; Goss--Yea; 
Linder--Yea; Pryce--Yea; Diaz-Balart--Nay; McInnis--Yea; 
Waldholtz--Yea; Moakley--Nay; Beilenson--Nay; Frost--Nay; 
Hall--Nay; Solomon--Yea.

     Summary of Amendments Filed With the Rules Committee on H.R. 4

    Listed below is a summary of the amendments filed with the 
Committee on Rules to H.R. 4 listed in the order filed:
    Amendments Submitted to the Rules Committee on H.R. 4, Personal 
      Responsibility Act of 1995, Tuesday, March 21, 1995--9 p.m.

    1. Hyde (IL)--Ends the current states-based child support 
enforcement scheme. Rescinds the present federal requirements 
as to state child support enforcement efforts. Federal payments 
to state programs would also be eliminated, however, states 
would still be responsible for paternity establishment, support 
order establishment, and the enforcement of medical support.
    2. Ros-Lehtinen (FL)/Diaz-Balart (FL)--Exempts legal 
permanent residents who cannot take the U.S. naturalization 
exam because of physical or developmental disability or mental 
impairment from being denied Federal public benefits. (Revised)
    3. Ros-Lehtinen (FL)/Diaz-Balart (FL)--Extends from one to 
two years the time for enactment of the provision restricting 
legal immigrants from receiving state and local public 
benefits. (Revised)
    4. Ros-Lehtinen (FL)/Diaz-Balart (FL)--Exempts legal 
permanent residents who cannot take the U.S. naturalization 
exam because of physical or developmental disability or mental 
impairment from being denied state and local public benefits. 
(Revised)
    5. Ros-Lehtinen (FL)/Diaz-Balart (FL)--Extends from one to 
two years the time for enactment of the provision restricting 
legal immigrants from receiving federal public benefits. 
(Revised)
    6. Fields (LA)--Deletes the provision allowing states to 
transfer up to 20% of school nutrition block grants to other 
block grant programs. States may use school nutrition funds 
only on school-based meal programs.
    7. Fields (LA)--Requires minimum nutrition standards for 
school meals under the bill.
    8. Clayton (NC)--Inserts language that requires an 
individual employed or participating in a work or workfare 
program shall be paid at least the minimum wage.
    9. Clayton (NC)--Conforming amendment to achieve same 
purpose as Clayton #8.
    10. Clayton (NC)--Rejects Block Grants and restore Federal 
Food Assistance Programs.
    11. Menendez (NJ)--Reforms the SSI program for disabled 
children. Provides SSI benefits in the form of vouchers in the 
case of a disabled child who is not institutionalized and whose 
disability is determined solely on the basis of an 
individualized functional assessment.
    12. Hall (OH)--Preserves WIC and School Lunch and Breakfast 
programs. It would not turn them into a block grant and it 
would retain current law for the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 
and the National School Lunch Act.
    13. Hall (OH)--Preserves the School Lunch and Breakfast 
programs and not turn them into a block grant.
    14. Bunn (OR)--Allows unwed mothers to continue to receive 
assistance if certain conditions are met.
    15. Hastings (WA)--Substitute. Consolidates programs, 
empowers the states and increases the flexibility necessary to 
meet the needs of the local communities.
    16. Cunningham (CA)--Bars legal aliens from higher 
education means-tested benefits as is the case for AFDC, Food 
Stamps SSI, Medicaid; Specifies that deeming shall not apply to 
higher education assistance, enforceability of affidavit of 
support would apply, among other things.
    17. Cunningham (CA)--Adds an additional exception to AFDC, 
Food Stamps, SSI, Medicaid, Social Services Block Grant for 
legal aliens who have filed an application for naturalization. 
(Withdrawn)
    18. Cunningham (CA)--Relating to higher education and 
application for naturalization. (Withdrawn)
    19. Cunningham (CA)--Relating to approved applicants for 
naturalization.
    20. Cunningham (CA)--Technical correction relating to 
nonimmigrants.
    21. Hostettler (IN)--Block grant funds to the states based 
on the population of economically disadvantaged person in the 
state; require all grant funds to be used for food assistance; 
restricts administrative costs to 5% of the grant.
    22. Morella (MD)--Adds to the paternity establishment 
provisions an exception for those cases in which there is a 
significant probability that paternity establishment will 
result in physical harm to the custodial parent or child.
    23. Smith (NJ)--Modifies the ``family cap'' provision in 
the bill by giving states the option to provide vouchers for 
children born to families receiving assistance.
    24. Traficant (OH)--Directs the state agencies to notify 
applicants of all appropriate entitlements to ensure that those 
individuals applying to benefits are notified of all of their 
options.
    25. Traficant (OH)--Directs those states using an 
electronic benefit transfer card to include a photograph of the 
members of the household to which the food stamp card is 
issued.
    26. Moran (VA)--Would give families that participate in a 
welfare reform work program priority preference for federal 
housing assistance. It would be transitional and limited to no 
more than 5 years per family. (Revised)
    27. Kim (CA)--Allow legal immigrants to be eligible to 
receive welfare benefits if they have fulfilled naturalization 
requirements; submitted a complete application for U.S. 
citizenship to the INS and that application has been accepted 
by the INS for approval.
    28. Kim (CA)--Removes the prohibition of federal, state and 
local benefits from legal permanent residents for 5 years.
    29. Bilbray (CA)--Provides the Secretaries of Agriculture 
and HHS with the authority to initiate negotiations with the 
State of California and the County of San Diego to establish 
the appropriate rules to govern the establishment and operation 
of a 5 year demonstration project that demonstrates the 
ability, efficiency, innovations, and cost savings that 
flexibility to administrate welfare programs at the county 
level provides.
    30. Kennelly (CT)/Hoyer (MD)--States are required to have 
laws authorizing the suspending or restricting of professional, 
occupational and driver's licenses of individual's refusing to 
pay or enter into an agreement to pay child support. (Revised)
    31. Kennelly (CT)--Child care must be made available for 
the children of parents required to participate in work, 
training or education programs.
    32. Martinez (CA)--Relating to the health and safety, fee 
scales, required earmarks and repealers of the child care block 
grant.
    33. Thurman (FL)--Prohibits the basic food stamp benefit 
level from falling below 102% of the current value of the 
thrifty food plan.
    34. Matsui (CA)--Amends Title II to retain the entitlement 
status for Title IV-E foster care maintenance and adoption 
assistance payments. (Revised)
    35. Pastor (AZ)--Makes children who reside here legally and 
who are 18 years old or young eligible for food stamp 
assistance. (Revised)
    36. Pastor (AZ)--Makes children who are 18 years old or 
young and pregnant women who reside here legally eligible for 
food stamp assistance. (Revised)
    37. Kildee (MI)--Requires states to continue to carry out 
competitive bidding to procure infant formula in the program to 
provide assistance for pregnant, postpartum, and breastfeeding 
women, infants and children.
    38. Zimmer (NJ)--(en bloc) Clarifies the intent of the Ways 
and Means Committee language to ensure that the 10 year penalty 
covers the major means-tested programs in the Act and to 
clarify that the denial can be imposed administratively by 
states and not solely as a result of court convictions, as is 
consistent with current law.
    39. Stenholm (TX)--Reductions in outlays resulting from the 
enactment of this Act shall not be taken into account for 
purposes of section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
    40. Stenholm (TX)--Requires that reductions in outlays 
resulting from the enactment of this Act shall not be taken 
into account for purposes of Section 252 of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
    41. Hoyer (MD)--Instructs the Secretaries of HHS, 
Agriculture, Labor, Education and HUD report to the Congress on 
legislative and regulatory barriers to providing one stop 
coordinated services.
    42. Wyden (OR)--To insure that states give consideration to 
relatives when making foster care or adoption placements.
    43. Durbin (IL)--Subjects to civil and criminal forfeiture 
any property used in or derived from the proceeds of food stamp 
trafficking.
    44. Neal (MA)--Amends Title I, Block Grants for Temporary 
Assistance for Needy Families, by striking the language which 
allows states to count case load reductions towards 
participation requirements. Would not allow benefits to be paid 
to anyone who refuses to work, refuses to participate in work 
activities required by the State or turns down a job offer.
    45. Talent (MO)--Increases the work participation rates.
    46. Collins (IL)--Prevents States from eliminating 
temporary assistance to individuals if the unemployment level 
in the State in which the individual resides is more than 10% 
according to the most recent available date for the State. 
(Revised)
    47. Talent (MO)--Amends the prohibition on the provision of 
cash aid to unmarried mothers under age 18 to clarify the 
States may provide vouchers for the purchase of certain 
commodities.
    48. Burton (IN)--Sense of Congress to strongly urge States 
to allow sufficient funds under the Child Protection Block 
Grant towards adoption assistance in order to encourage 
families to adopt children and expediently place children in 
permanent homes.
    49. Jackson-Lee (TX)--Provides job training assistance for 
welfare recipients so that they can obtain the necessary skills 
to enter the work force. Provides funding for transitional 
child care for a two year period from the date that such 
individuals cease to receive benefits. Provides tax incentives 
for the private sector to hire welfare recipients. (Revised)
    50. Talent (MO)--Restores the Sense of Congress, contained 
in the original Personal Responsibility Act, which documents 
the societal effects of the current high rate of out of wedlock 
births.
    51. Talent (MO)--Amends the Food Stamp program to provide 
States with the option to provide food commodities instead of 
food coupons to beneficiaries. Allows the States to retain any 
savings which result from the distribution of commodities and 
to use those savings to provide other benefits and services to 
low income Americans.
    52. Salmon (AZ)/Waldholtz (UT)--Allows liens for past-due 
child support to attach to property automatically, without 
registration of the original child support order, in the State 
in which the property is located.
    53. Kennedy (MA)--Protects the federal foster care and 
adoption assistance programs which now ensure a safe haven for 
children who cannot live safely at home. exempts Foster Care 
and Adoption Assistance Programs from the Child Protection 
block grant and continue them as entitlements under current 
law.
    54. Clay (MO)--Increase the minimum wage for all workers by 
90 cents over a 2 year period.
    55. Gutierrez (IL)--Determines whether denying eligibility 
to federal means-tested public benefits programs to legal 
aliens will impose additional direct costs on states, local 
governments or tribal governments equal or exceeding $50 
million.
    56. Smith (MI)--Excludes non-dairy beverages with less than 
80% fruit and/or vegetable juice and candy (including candy-
coated ice cream and chewing gum) from the definition of food 
under the program. This would prevent the use of food stamps to 
purchase soda pop and candy.
    57. Torres (CA)--Make legal immigrants with sponsors 
eligible for non-cash, in-kind emergency services.
    58. Gutierrez (IL)--Allows aliens who have paid U.S. 
federal income taxes for at least 5 years to be eligible for 
any of the federal means-tested public benefits programs.
    59. Engel (NY)--Requires that States maintain funding 
levels for working-poor families. (duplicate)
    60. Roukema (NJ)--Requires States to enact criminal 
penalties (of their own design and choosing) for individuals 
who willfully refuse to pay child support orders.
    61. Hyde (IL)--Adds language to Section 403 of the bill to 
ensure that no funds under the bill can be used for medical 
services.
    62. Smith (MI)--Allows states to pass state laws to define 
eligibility between 120 percent and 140 percent of the poverty 
level. This allows the states to adjust the food stamp program 
to reflect the conditions in their states. (Revised)
    63. Talent (MO)--Amends the state plan requirement to 
provide for stronger work requirements.
    64. Orton (UT)--Restores the Secretary's waiver authority 
for the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (AFDC) 
by deleting the section of the bill which strikes the AFDC 
program from being considered for federal waivers.
    65. Stark (CA)--(Withdrawn)
    66. Roemer (IN)--Requires a 25 percent state match for the 
portion of the Child Care Block Grant that is derived from the 
AFDC Child Care, At-Risk Child Care, and Transitional Child 
Care programs.
    67. Roemer (IN)--Clarifies that any savings resulting from 
the bill's enactment would not be spent and, in effect, will be 
devoted to deficit reduction.
    68. Smith (MI)--Allows states to decide which food products 
can be purchased with food stamps.
    69. Ney (OH)--Changes the mandatory six month period of 
extended Medicaid coverage to 12 months (divided into two six 
month periods). Changes the state's required optional six month 
extension to twelve months (divided into two six month 
periods).
    70. Roukema (NJ)--Requires states to adopt procedures of 
their own design and choosing under which parents who are 
delinquent in child support payments face the prospect of 
having a license (drivers, professional, occupational, etc) 
withheld, suspended or restricted.
    71. Portman (OH)--Makes ``Loans to Qualified States'' under 
the ``Federal Rainy Day Fund'' a grant instead of a loan.
    72. Portman (OH)--Deletes appropriation of $1 billion and 
substitute $2 billion under ``Rainy Day Fund''.
    73. Reed (RI)--Makes the two nutrition block grants more 
responsive to changing economic conditions within states. 
Establishes a trigger based upon the rise in a state's 
unemployment. (Revised)
    74. Torkildsen (MA)--Eliminates the imposition of liens by 
processing orders through the judicial system by ordering 
states to give full faith and credit to any lien imposed by 
another state in the pursuit of child collection.
    75. Kleczka (WI)/Kennelly (CT)--Eliminates the provision 
mandating that a state reduce benefits to any mother who is 
cooperating with paternity establishment but for whose child 
paternity has not been established due to a state backlog or 
inefficiency.
    76. Richardson (NM)--Provides tribal governments the 
opportunity to participate fully in the welfare reform process.
    77. Blute (MA)--(en bloc) Prohibits fugitive felons from 
receiving benefits from three welfare programs and amends 
current law to allow social service agencies to share certain 
information with law enforcement officials. Prohibits benefits 
to parents or other caretaker relative for a child that is 
temporarily absent from home.
    78. Engel (NY)--Requires states maintain adequate funding 
levels for school nutrition programs.
    79. Waxman (CA)--Strikes the prohibition of eligibility of 
legal aliens for Medicaid, title XIX of the Social Security 
Act.
    80. Waxman (CA)--Allows the continuation of Medicaid 
matching funds at state option for persons who would otherwise 
be disabled for purposes of SSI except that alcoholism or drug 
addiction is a contributing factor to their disability.
    81. Cardin (MD)--Preserves the existing authorization of 
the National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse.
    82. Cardin (MD)--Provides authority for two citizen review 
panels established under Title II to request a review by the 
Secretary of the Department of HHS of their state's child 
protection program.
    83. Kaptur (OH)--Streamlines human service delivery at the 
local level, where implementation actually occurs, by involving 
counties (or analogous units) and states in programmatic 
partnerships.
    84. Rivers (MI)--Establishes a new section, Section 803 to 
H.R. 4 to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer all 
savings realized under H.R. 4 into the Deficit Reduction Fund.
    85. Levin (MI)/Rivers (MI)--Strikes the provision denying 
benefits to children of minor mothers and allows aid if the 
minor parent is living at home with a legal guardian, such 
payment is made to person supervising minor and the school-age 
minor minor is in school and the minor parent fully cooperates 
with paternity establishment.
    86. Levin (MI)/Kleczka (WI)--Grandfathers cash benefits for 
children losing SSI due to the repeal of the Individualized 
Functional Assessment eligibility if those children meet or 
equal the listings.
    87. Levin (MI)--Requires all states to participate in a 
simplified, nationally uniform child-support credit-bureau 
reporting system. The states will report the status of all 
court-ordered child support accounts, whether or not they are 
in arrears on a monthly basis.
    88. Kleczka (WI)/Rangel (NY)--Gives states the option of 
waiving the 5 year time limit for any individual who is willing 
to work, but for whom no job is available. States would have 
the discretion to determine what constitutes job availability.
    89. Kleczka (WI)--Gives states the option of granting or 
denying benefits to teenage mothers. It removes the bill's 
mandatory denial of benefits to this group.
    90-A. Roberts (KS)--(en bloc) Technical Corrections--
typographical and correct effective dates.
    90-B. Roberts (KS)--Adds criminal forfeiture authority to 
the actions of the Dept. of Justice and the Dept. of 
Agriculture in prosecuting violators of the Food Stamp Act.
    91. Gutierrez (IL)--Allows aliens who have paid U.S. 
federal income taxes for at least 5 years in any ten year 
period to be eligible for any of the federal means-tested 
public benefits programs.
    92. Volkmer (MO)--Reauthorizes the food stamp program 
through fiscal year 1999.
    93. Volkmer (MO)--Modifies the work requirement provisions 
of the food stamp title of the bill to prevent the 
disqualification of individuals who were working 90 days after 
being certified eligible, but who subsequently lost their jobs, 
unless they fail to get work within 90 days.
    94. Volkmer (MO)--Modifies the work requirement provisions 
of the food stamp title of the bill to limit disqualifications 
to those cases where an individual was not employed or in a 
training program for any 90-day period rather than just the 
first 90 days after certified eligible.
    95. Volkmer (MO)--Eliminates the potential retroactive 
nature of the work requirement provisions of the food stamp 
title of the bill that would disqualify individuals who are not 
employed on the effective date if they have been certified 
eligible for food stamps for more than 90 days.
    96. Volkmer (MO)--Clarifies that illness of injury that 
temporarily prevents an individual from working would not cause 
disqualification from the food stamp program.
    97. Volkmer (MO)--Strikes section 551 of the bill. Section 
551 replaces the current law requirement that the thrifty food 
plan be changed each year to reflect 103 percent of the cost of 
the plan with a provision for a 2 percent annual increase in 
the plan.
    98. McDermott (WA)--Strikes the provisions in Title IV of 
H.R. 1214 that would make most legal immigrants ineligible for 
the Medicaid program.
    99. McDermott (WA)--Exempts legal immigrant pregnant women 
and children from the H.R. 1214's provisions making legal 
immigrants ineligible for Medicaid. (Withdrawn)
    100. McDermott (WA)--Exempts legal immigrant children from 
the H.R. 1214's provisions making legal immigrants ineligible 
for Medicaid. (Withdrawn)
    101. McDermott (WA)--Requires a state not terminate a 
recipients benefits unless it had made available counseling, 
education, training, substance abuse treatment, and child care.
    102. McDermott (WA)--Leaves to state discretion decisions 
about family caps and the eligibility of teen parents for cash 
assistance.
    103. Torricelli (NJ)--Precludes states from providing 
welfare assistance to a family if a minor child in that family 
is absent from school in excess of the days allowed by the 
state. The assistance would be cut-off for the remainder of 
that academic semester.
    104. Torricelli (NJ)--Precludes states from providing 
welfare assistance to a family unless the family has 
demonstrated that they have vaccinated their minor children.
    105. Kleczka (WI)--Requires continuing disability reviews 
for child SSI recipients. Establishes a continuing disability 
review revolving fund to help finance the reviews required by 
the bill. (Withdrawn)
    106. Kleczka (WI)--Restores the benefit eligibility for any 
legal alien who has paid federal income taxes for five or more 
consecutive years.
    107. Kleczka (WI)--Prohibits states from transferring funds 
from the Title I state rainy day fund to the state general 
treasury, even after 120 percent of the allotment has been 
accumulated.
    108. Dunn (WA)--Adds a provision requiring that the Social 
Security number of the deceased be recorded upon the issuance 
of a death certificate.
    109. Andrews (NJ)--Makes the Childcare and Development 
Block Grant an entitlement to the States and freeze the 
aggregate amount of the entitlement at $1,943,000,000, the 
amount authorized by the bill.
    110. Waters (CA)--SoC to include a provision to require 
non-custodial parents to participate in supervised, structured 
activities with their children. Allows an income deduction for 
grandparents who are receiving old-age assistance in cases 
where the state places in the custody of the grandparents an 
eligible child, in lieu of foster care.
    111. Water (CA)--Provides for a one-time refundable tax 
credit in the amount of $1,000 for any AFDC parent who receives 
a high school diploma or equivalent. Provides a refundable tax 
credit in the amount of $1,000 for a married AFDC household.
    112. Lipinski (IL)--Allows law enforcement agencies to 
obtain addresses from welfare agencies distributing food stamps 
when searching for someone they have an arrest warrent for. (en 
bloc)
    113. Stark (CA)--Strikes the illegitimacy ratio and rewards 
states who reduce teen pregnancies. (Withdrawn)
    114. Stark (CA)--Strike the illegitimacy ratio.
    115. Nadler (NY)--Provides for reimbursement to states for 
added costs due to future federal budget cuts. (Revised)
    116. Volkmer (MO)--Reauthorizes the food stamp program 
through FY99 instead of FY95.
    117. Nadler (NY)--Calls for a study of the costs of future 
budget cuts. (Revised)
    118. Obey (WI)--Makes the federal government responsible 
for providing 100% of the AFDC benefits for the refugee 
population for the first 36 months after a refugee's arrival.
    119. Stokes (OH)--Requires that states form a partnership 
with relevant businesses by collecting information from local 
job markets to ensure that the training meets the needs of that 
region.
    120. Jefferson (LA)--A state will not provide assistance: 
for children whose identity of the father is not established; 
to a family unless at least one parent is employed full-time or 
in a job training program; and, to an individual who is 
employed for less than 30 hours a week. (Revised)
    121. Nadler (NY)--Modifies an age requirement in the bill. 
(Revised)
    122. Young (AK)--Makes the 3% set aside for Indian tribes 
uniform for the many block grants in the welfare proposal. 
Currently the Child Care and Development Block Grant is the 
only part of the welfare proposal that sets aside 3% for Indian 
tribes. (Revised)
    123. Lipinski (IL)--Allows law enforcement agencies to 
obtain addresses from the state agency that distributes SSI 
benefits when they have a warrant out for an individual's 
arrest. (en bloc--revised)
    124. Lipinski (IL)--Allows law enforcement agencies to 
obtain addresses from the state agency that handles AFDC 
benefits when they have a warrant out for an individual's 
arrest. (Withdrawn)
    125. DeFazio (OR)--Each state receiving federal assistance 
under this Act shall measure certain outcomes to determine the 
effectiveness, of their state programs in addressing human 
needs each year, beginning in 1997.
    126. Shaw (FL)--Addresses the Secretary's authority to 
grant waivers; Establishes a Centralized Disbursement Center, 
Technical amendments.
    127. Kildee (MI)/Kennelly (CT)--Requires any state that 
receives Family Assistance Block Grant funds to provide day 
care that meets applicable state and local day care standards 
for children of parents required to participate in work, 
education, or training activities.
    128. Cunningham (CA)--Provides for the equitable 
participation of child care programs located on military 
installations and operated by the Department of Defense in 
child care food programs operated in each state.
    129. Clay (MO)--Deletes the nutrition block grants, thereby 
maintaining existing law. (Revised)
    130. Miller (CA)--Requires that states continue to comply 
with national nutrition standards until they devise their own 
standards that the Secretary of Agriculture approves. (Revised)
    131. Mineta (CA)--Certifies that in preparing the written 
document that outlines the block grants for child welfare, the 
state must consult with, and receive approval from, local 
governments in the state that will be participating in the 
administration of the state program.
    132. Mineta (CA)--Certifies that in preparing the written 
document that outlines the state family assistance program, the 
state must consult with, and receive approval from, local 
government in the state that will be participating in the 
administration of the state program.
    133. Gunderson (WI)--Modifies language in the bill which 
allows the Secretary of Agriculture to add additional reporting 
requirements to those already required under the Family 
Nutrition and School-Based Nutrition Block Grants.
    134. Smith (TX)--Allows the state to determine in their 
definitions of child abuse and neglect what is proper health 
care for a child.
    135. Mink (HI)--Substitute. Retain entitlement status of 
the program, denies benefits to those who refuse to work, does 
not deny benefits to teenage mothers or children who are born 
to families already of AFDC, rewards states for successfully 
moving welfare recipients into jobs, makes the investments 
necessary to prepare welfare recipients for work, allows 
families to retain health, child care, housing and food stamp 
benefits for up to two years, and does not finance welfare by 
denying benefits to legal immigrants.
    136. Upton (MI)--Prohibits anyone who fails to pay child 
support from receiving food stamp assistance.
    137. Emerson (MO)/Hall (OH)--Restores the ``Option to 
Disregard Income and Resources Designated for education, 
training, and employability or related to self-employment.'' 
(Revised)
    138. Engel (NY)--Requires that states maintain funding 
levels for working poor families.
    139. Engel (NY)--Requires that states maintain adequate 
funding levels for school nutrition programs. (Duplicate)
    140. Johnson (CT)--If a state chooses to do so, minor 
parents who are denied benefits under the bill may earn money 
by participating in a state-sponsored program of work, career 
preparation, or other state-devised program.
    141. Johnson (CT)--The bill mandates that no additional 
benefits be provided to families who have additional children 
while on welfare. This amendment modifies it by allowing states 
to provide that benefit, provided that their state legislatures 
pass a law exempting themselves.
    142. Coburn (OK)--Amends the single-year, cost-neutral rule 
to allow states more flexibility in implementing an Electronic 
Benefit Transfer, clarifies the measures a state must take to 
ensure maximum protection from fraud and abuse; and establishes 
a target date for states to electronically distinguish eligible 
food items from non-eligible food items.
    143. Johnson (CT)--Deletes the provision encouraging states 
to assign the highest priority to requiring families with older 
preschool or school-age children to be engaged in work 
activities.
    144. Johnson (CT)--Amends Title II to require states to 
certify that they have a program for the expedited adoption of 
abandoned children; a unit that specializes in the termination 
of parental rights; and an adoption assistance program that 
helps speed the adoption of special needs children.
    145. Johnson (CT)/Pryce (OH)/Dunn (WA)/Waldholtz (UT)--
Title I-states may not require an individual to participate in 
work activities unless affordable child care is provided. (en 
bloc)
    146. Johnson (CT)/Pryce (OH)/Dunn (WA)/Waldholtz (UT)--
Title II-Authorized amount of money for the child care block 
grant is increased by $160 million each year for fiscal years 
1996-2000, for a total increase in authorization of $800 
million over 5 years. (en bloc)
    147. Rangel (NY)--Prohibits the use of federal funds to 
displace currently employed workers from their jobs.
    148. Rangel (NY)--Establishes an annual review by the 
Secretary of HHS for states which have an abnormally high 
amount of state directed child abuse cases.
    149. Bass (NH)--Changes the eligibility period for those 
disabled adults and children on SSI. (Revised--Withdrawn)
    150. Roemer (IN)--Eliminate the 20% transfer authority 
provisions of the bill. (Revised)
    151. Roemer (IN)--Eliminate the 20% transfer authority for 
States that have been penalized by the federal government for 
failing to meet the bill's work requirements. (Revised)
    152. Tucker (CA)--No person meeting certain criteria may be 
denied welfare benefits without an appeal to the Department of 
HHS. (Revised)
    153. Deal (GA)--Substitute. Similar to the text of H.R. 
982, The Individual Responsibility Act of 1995. (Revised)
    154. Roukema (NJ)--Requires States to carry out cost-
containment systems for infant formula included in food 
packages provided under the Family nutrition block grant.
    155. Roukema (NJ)--Prohibits any State that has an 
unemployment rate above 6% from transferring block grant funds 
to any other title under H.R. 1214 except between the school-
based nutrition block grant and the Family nutrition block 
grant.
    156. Roukema (NJ)--Appropriates an additional amount of up 
to 1.5% of the amount appropriated for the school-based 
nutrition block grant for each fiscal year 1996 through 2000; 
authorizes an additional amount of up to 1.5% of the amount 
authorized for the Family nutrition block grant for each fiscal 
year 1996 through 2000.
    157. Roemer (IN)--Eliminates the bill's provisions that 
permit a State to transfer 20% of its (A) Family Nutrition 
Block Grant and (B) School-Based Nutrition Block Grant into 
other block grants, established by the bill, that it may 
receive. (Revised)
    158. Armey (TX)--Identical to the text of H.R. 4605 from 
the 103rd Congress, the Clinton Welfare Reform Bill.
    159. Berman (CA)--Strikes section of the bill that exempts 
non-immigrant temporary agricultural workers from denial of 
certain benefits. (Late)
    160. Maloney (NY)--Allows parents to choose standby 
guardians without losing parental rights; guardians could be 
pre-approved by the courts and take on the responsibility of 
caring for the children immediately upon the death or 
incapacitation of the ill parent. (Late)
    161. Woolsey (CA)--Relocates the authority for the 
Clearinghouse and Hotline on Missing and Runaway Children back 
to the agency where it currently exists. (Late)
                  Amendments Made in Order by the Rule

 1. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Archer of Texas or a 
            Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

  Page 4, strike the item relating to section 592 and insert 
the following:

Sec. 592. Sense of the Congress.

  Page 18, strike line 19 and all that follows through line 5 
on page 19 and insert the following:
          ``(3) For failure to participate in the income and 
        eligibility verification system.--If the Secretary 
        determines that a State program funded under this part 
        is not participating during a fiscal year in the income 
        and eligibility verification system required by section 
        1137, the Secretary shall reduce by 1 percent the 
        amount of the grant that would (in the absence of this 
        subsection, subsection (a)(1)(B) of this section, and 
        section 404(c)(2)) be payable to the State under 
        subsection (a)(1)(A) for the fiscal year.
  Page 32, line 20, strike ``subsection (c)(1)'' and insert 
``section 403(c)(1)''.
  Page 32, line 24, strike ``, unless'' and all that follows 
through line 13 on page 33 and insert ``except consistent with 
title IV of the Personal Responsibility Act of 1995.''.
  Page 33, line 16, strike ``a State'' and insert ``A State''.
  Page 35, beginning on line 16, strike ``subsection (c)(1)'' 
and insert ``section 403(c)(1)''.
  Page 36, line 3, strike ``subsection (c)(1)'' and insert 
``section 403(c)(1)''.
  Page 84, line 18, insert ``(42 U.S.C. 13001-13004)'' after 
``1990''.
  Page 123, line 23, strike ``amount appropriated'' and insert 
``school-based nutrition amount''.
  Page 124, line 6, strike ``amount appropriated'' and insert 
``school-based nutrition amount''.
  Page 125, beginning on line 22, strike ``amount 
appropriated'' and insert ``school-based nutrition amount''.
  Page 125, line 25, strike ``amount appropriated'' and insert 
``school-based nutrition amount''.
  Page 126, beginning on line 6, strike ``amount appropriated'' 
and insert ``school-based nutrition amount''.
  Page 126, line 9, strike ``amount appropriated'' and insert 
``school-based nutrition amount''.
  Page 126, beginning on line 22, strike ``amount 
appropriated'' and insert ``school-based nutrition amount''.
  Page 127, beginning on line 3, strike ``amount appropriated'' 
and insert ``school-based nutrition amount''.
  Page 127, beginning on line 11, strike ``amount 
appropriated'' and insert ``school-based nutrition amount''.
  Page 127, beginning on line 16, strike ``amount 
appropriated'' and insert ``school-based nutrition amount''.
  Page 131, line 9, strike ``620'' and insert ``621''.
  Page 153, strike lines 8 through 14.
  Page 153, line 15, strike ``(4)'' and insert ``(3)''.
    Page 154, strike the parenthetical phrase beginning on line 
20.
    Page 154, line 18, strike ``subsections (b) and (c)'' and 
insert ``subsection (b)''.
    Page 159, line 13, insert ``or section 412'' after ``this 
section''.
    Page 159, strike the parenthetical phrase beginning on line 
16.
    Page 167, line 10, strike ``individual'' and insert 
``alien''.
    Page 169, line 9, insert ``(a) Limitations on Assistance.--
'' before ``Section''.
    Page 170, after line 12, insert the following:
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 501(h)) of the Housing 
Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1471(h)) is amended--
          (1) by striking ``(1)'';
          (2) by striking ``by the Secretary of Housing and 
        Urban Development''; and
          (3) by striking paragraph (2).
    Page 193, line 4, insert ``of title II'' after ``subtitle 
C''.
    Page 203, line 3, strike ``Section (3)(o)'' and insert 
``Section 3(o)''.
    Page 204, line 21, strike the comma after ``households''.
    Page 210, line 16, strike ``42'' and insert ``7''.
    Page 217, line 17, strike ``2015(i)(6)'' and insert 
``2016(i)(6)''.
    Page 217, line 18, strike ``17(e)'' and insert ``section 
17(e)''.
    Page 221, line 25, strike ``the''.
    Page 222, line 1, strike ``year'' and insert ``years''.
    Page 228, beginning on line 25, strike ``Food Stamp 
Simplification and Reform'' and insert ``Personal 
Responsibility''.
    Page 229, line 5, strike ``Food Stamp Simplification and 
Reform'' and insert ``Personal Responsibility''.
    Page 231, line 10, strike ``, wherever possible,'' and on 
line 11, insert ``wherever possible,'' after ``Agriculture,''.
    Page 236, line 4, strike ``and (c)''.
    Page 236, strike lines 7 and 8.
    Page 236, line 9, strike ``(c)'' and insert ``(b)'' and 
strike ``section 560'' and insert ``section 559''.
    Page 242, line 4, strike ``601(d)(1)'' and insert 
``601(d)(1)(A)''.
    Page 245, line 10, strike ``indivdiuals'' and insert 
``individuals''.
    Page 255, strike lines 19 and 20 and insert the following: 
``and for whom, for the month preceding the month in which the 
individual attained such age, a determination was in effect 
that the individual is a qualifying child under section 
1646(3).''.
    Page 262, line 9, insert ``by reason of disability'' after 
``Act,''.
    Page 323, line 24, strike ``(c)'' and insert ``(b)''.
    Page 368, line 20, strike ``subparagraphs (A) and (B)'' and 
insert ``paragraphs (1) and (2)''.
    Page 387, line 25, strike ``by an administrative 
adjudicator'' and insert ``through an administrative process 
established under State law''.
    Page 393, strike line 4 and all that follows through line 
7.
    Page 393, line 5, strike ``(b) Technical Amendment.--''.
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2. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Talent of Missouri or 
           a Designee, Debatable for Not to Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 6, after line 3, insert the following:

SEC. 100. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of the Congress that--
          (1) marriage is the foundation of a successful 
        society;
          (2) marriage is an essential social institution which 
        promotes the interests of children and society at 
        large;
          (3) the negative consequences of an out-of-wedlock 
        birth on the child, the mother, and society are well 
        documented as follows:
                  (A) the illegitimacy rate among black 
                Americans was 26 percent in 1965, but today the 
                rate is 68 percent and climbing;
                  (B) the illegitimacy rate among white 
                Americans has risen tenfold, from 2.29 percent 
                in 1960 to 22 percent today;
                  (C) the total of all out-of-wedlock births 
                between 1970 and 1991 has risen from 10 percent 
                to 30 percent and if the current trend 
                continues, 50 percent of all births by the year 
                2015 will be out-of-wedlock;
                  (D) \3/4\ of illegitimate births among whites 
                are to women with a high school education or 
                less;
                  (E) the 1-parent family is 6 times more 
                likely to be poor than the 2-parent family;
                  (F) children born into families receiving 
                welfare assistance are 3 times more likely than 
                children not born into families receiving 
                welfare to be on welfare when they reach 
                adulthood;
                  (G) teenage single parent mothering is the 
                single biggest contributor to low birth weight 
                babies;
                  (H) children born out-of-wedlock are more 
                likely to experience low verbal cognitive 
                attainment, child abuse, and neglect;
                  (I) young people from single parent or 
                stepparent families are 2 to 3 times more 
                likely to have emotional or behavioral problems 
                than those from intact families;
                  (J) young white women who were raised in a 
                single parent family are more than twice as 
                likely to have children out-of-wedlock and to 
                become parents as teenagers, and almost twice 
                as likely to have their marriages end in 
                divorce, as are children from 2-parent 
                families;
                  (K) the younger the single parent mother, the 
                less likely she is to finish high school;
                  (L) young women who have children before 
                finishing high school are more likely to 
                receive welfare assistance for a longer period 
                of time;
                  (M) between 1985 and 1990, the public cost of 
                births to teenage mothers under the aid to 
                families with dependent children program, the 
                food stamp program, and the medicaid program 
                has been estimated at $120,000,000,000;
                  (N) the absence of a father in the life of a 
                child has a negative effect on school 
                performance and peer adjustment;
                  (O) the likelihood that a young black man 
                will engage in criminal activities doubles if 
                he is raised without a father and triples if he 
                lives in a neighborhood with a high 
                concentration of single parent families; and
                  (P) the greater the incidence of single 
                parent families in a neighborhood, the higher 
                the incidence of violent crime and burglary; 
                and
          (4) in light of this demonstration of the crisis in 
        our Nation, the reduction of out-of-wedlock births is 
        an important government interest and the policy 
        contained in provisions of this title address the 
        crisis.
    Amend the table of contents accordingly.
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3. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Talent of Missouri or 
           a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 7, strike line 24 and all that follows through line 3 
on page 8 and insert the following:
                  ``(B)(i) Require all adult recipients in a 1-
                parent family which includes only children age 
                5 or older and who have received benefits for 
                more than 24 months (whether or not 
                consecutive) under the program to engage in 
                work activities (as defined in section 
                404(a)(1)(C)(iii)) for at least 30 hours per 
                week. If a State classifies a family as such a 
                1-parent family on or after the date which is 
                10 months after the date of enactment of the 
                Personal Responsibility Act of 1995, the family 
                shall continue to be so classified regardless 
                of whether an additional child under age 5 
                becomes a member of the family.
                  ``(ii) Provide exemptions at the option of 
                the State for not more than 20 percent of the 
                adult recipients of assistance under the 
                program who are described in clause (i) from 
                the requirement set forth in clause (i) for 
                reasons set forth by the State.
                  ``(C)(i) Require 1 adult recipient in any 2-
                parent family who has received assistance under 
                the program for more than 24 months (whether or 
                not consecutive) to engage in work activities 
                (as defined in section 404(a)(1)(C)(iii)) for 
                at least 30 hours per week.
                  ``(ii) States may exempt up to 10 percent of 
                the adult recipients described in clause (i) 
                from the requirement set forth in clause (i) 
                for reasons determined by the State.
      Page 8, line 4, strike ``(C)'' and insert ``(D)''.
      Page 8, line 7, strike ``(D)'' and insert ``(E)''.
      Page 8, line 10, strike ``(E)'' and insert ``(F)''.
      Page 8, line 14, strike ``(F)'' and insert ``(G)''.
      Page 8, line 22, strike ``(G)'' and insert ``(H)''.
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4. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Hyde of Illinois or a 
            Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 8, line 15, strike ``births'', and insert 
``pregnancies.''
    Page 8, strike lines 22-25.
    Page 14, line 18, strike ``costs.'' and insert ``costs. Not 
withstanding any other provision of this act, a state to which 
a grant is made under section 403 may not use any part of the 
grant to provide medical services.''
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 5. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Kleczka of Wisconsin 
         or a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 16, strike line 8 and all that follows through line 
15.
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6. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Talent of Missouri or 
           a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 22, strike the table that begins after line 2 and 
insert the following:

                                                             The minimum
``If the fiscal year is:                          participation rate is:
    1996......................................................        10
    1997......................................................        15
    1998......................................................        20
    1999......................................................        25
    2000......................................................        27
    2001......................................................        29
    2002......................................................        40
    2003 or thereafter........................................       50.
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7. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Talent of Missouri or 
           a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 33, after line 25, insert the following:
    (C) State option.--Nothing in subparagraph (A) shall be 
construed to prohibit state from using funds provided by 
section 403 from providing aid in the form of vouchers that may 
be used only to pay for particular goods and services specified 
by the state as suitable for the care of the child such as 
diapers, clothing, and school supplies.
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8. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Smith of New Jersey or 
           a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes
  Page 34, strike line 1 and all that follows through line 15 
and insert the following:
          ``(5) No additional cash assistance for children born 
        to families receiving assistance.--
                  ``(A) General rule.--A State to which a grant 
                is made under section 403 may not use any part 
                of the grant to provide cash benefits for a 
                minor child who is born to--
                          ``(i) a recipient of benefits under 
                        the program operated under this part; 
                        or
                          ``(ii) a person who received such 
                        benefits at any time during the 10-
                        month period ending with the birth of 
                        the child.
                  ``(B) Exception for vouchers.--Subparagraph 
                (A) shall not apply to vouchers which are 
                provided in lieu of cash benefits and which may 
                be used only to pay for particular goods and 
                services specified by the State as suitable for 
                the care of the child involved.
                  ``(C) Exception for rape or incest.--
                Subparagraph (A) shall not apply with respect 
                to a child who is born as a result of rape or 
                incest.
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 9. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Wyden of Oregon or a 
            Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 60, line 8, insert ``, using adult relatives as the 
preferred placement for children separated from their parents 
if such relatives meet all State child protection standards'' 
before the semicolon.
    Page 72, line 4, insert ``(a) In General.--'' before ``Each 
State''.
    Page 72, after line 20, insert the following:
    ``(b) Placement of Children with Relatives.--A State to 
which a grant is made under this part may consider--
          ``(1) establishing a new type of foster care 
        placement, which could be considered a permanent 
        placement, for children who are separated from their 
        parents (in this subsection referred to as `kinship 
        care') under which--
                  ``(A) adult relatives of such children would 
                be the preferred placement option if such 
                relatives meet all relevant child protection 
                standards established by the State;
                  ``(B) the State would make a needs-based 
                payment and provide supportive services, as 
                appropriate, with respect to children placed in 
                a kinship care arrangement; and
          ``(2) in placing children for adoption, giving 
        preference to adult relatives who meet applicable 
        adoption standards (including those acting as foster 
        parents of such children).
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 10. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Smith of Texas or a 
            Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 65, line 2, insert after the period: ``The Secretary 
may not require a state to alter its child protection law 
regarding determination of the adequacy, type and timing of 
health care (whether medical, non-medical or spiritual).''.
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11. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Woolsey of California 
         or a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 74, line 8, strike ``Secretary'' and insert ``Attorney 
General of the United States''.
    Page 74, line 9, insert ``by contract'' after ``operate''.
    Page 74, line 15, strike ``Secretary'' and insert 
``Attorney General of the United States''.
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12. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Burton of Indiana or 
           a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 85, after line 15, insert the following:

SEC. 205. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS REGARDING TIMELY ADOPTION OF CHILDREN.

    It is the sense of the Congress that--
          (1) too many children who wish to be adopted are 
        spending inordinate amounts of time in foster care;
          (2) there is an urgent need for States to increase 
        the number of waiting children being adopted in a 
        timely and lawful manner;
          (3) States should allocate sufficient funds under 
        this title for adoption assistance and medical 
        assistance to encourage more families to adopt children 
        who otherwise would languish in the foster care system 
        for a period that many experts consider detrimental to 
        their development;
          (4) when it is necessary for a State to remove a 
        child from the home of the child's biological parents, 
        the State should strive--
                  (A) to provide the child with a single foster 
                care placement and a single coordinated case 
                team; and
                  (B) to conclude an adoption of the child, 
                when adoption is the goal of the child and the 
                State, within one year of the child's placement 
                in foster care; and
          (5) States should participate in local, regional, or 
        national programs to enable maximum visibility of 
        waiting children to potential parents.
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     13. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Johnson of 
   Connecticut or a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 87, line 3, strike ``$1,943,000,000'' and insert 
``$2,093,000,000''.
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    14. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Cunningham of 
    California or a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

  Page 114, strike line 4, and insert the following:
  ``(b) Additional Requirements With Respect To Assistance for 
Pregnant, Postpartum, and Breastfeeding Women, Infants, and 
Children.--
          ``(1) Minimum amount of assistance.--The State shall
  Page 114, after line 11, insert the following (and make 
appropriate conforming amendments):
          ``(2) Assistance for members of the armed forces and 
        their dependents.--The State shall ensure that 
        assistance described in subsection (a)(1) is provided 
        to members of the Armed Forces and dependents of such 
        members (regardless of the State of residence of such 
        members or dependents) who meet the requirements of 
        such subsection on an equitable basis with assistance 
        provided to all other individuals under such subsection 
        in such State.
  ``(c) Additional Requirement With Respect To Child Care 
Assistance on Military Installations.--
          ``(1) In general.--To the extent consistent with the 
        number of children who are receiving assistance under 
        child care programs established and carried out on 
        military installations in such State by the Department 
        of Defense, the State, after timely and appropriate 
        consultation with representatives of such programs, 
        shall provide assistance to such programs for such 
        children (regardless of the State of residence of such 
        children) in accordance with subsection (a)(3) on an 
        equitable basis with assistance provided in accordance 
        with such subsection to all other child care programs 
        carried out in such State.
          ``(2) Limitation.--In providing assistance to a child 
        care program established and carried out on a military 
        installation under paragraph (1), a State shall not 
        require that such program be licensed under State law 
        if such program is licensed by the Department of 
        Defense.
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15. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Roukema of New Jersey 
         or a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

  Page 114, strike line 4, and insert the following:
  ``(b) Additional Requirements With Respect To Assistance for 
Pregnant, Postpartum, and Breastfeeding Women, Infants, and 
Children.--
          ``(1) Minimum amount of assistance.--The State shall
  Page 114, after line 11, insert the following paragraph:
          ``(2) Cost containment measures regarding procurement 
        of infant formula.--
                  ``(A) In general.--The State shall, with 
                respect to the provision of food assistance to 
                economically disadvantaged pregnant women, 
                postpartum women, breastfeeding women, infants, 
                and young children under subsection (a)(1), 
                establish and carry out a cost containment 
                system for the procurement of infant formula.
                  ``(B) Use of amounts resulting from 
                savings.--The State shall use amounts available 
                to the State as result of savings in costs to 
                the State from the implementation of the cost 
                containment system described in subparagraph 
                (A) for the purpose of providing the assistance 
                described in paragraphs (1) through (5) of 
                subsection (a).
                  ``(C) Annual reports.--The State shall submit 
                to the Secretary for each fiscal year a report 
                containing--
                          ``(i) a description of the cost 
                        containment system for infant formula 
                        implemented by the State in accordance 
                        with subparagraph (A) for such fiscal 
                        year; and
                          ``(ii) the estimated amount of 
                        savings in costs derived by the State 
                        in providing food assistance described 
                        in such subparagraph under such cost 
                        containment system for such fiscal year 
                        as compared to the amount of such 
                        savings derived by the State under the 
                        cost containment system for the 
                        preceding fiscal year, where 
                        appropriate.
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    16. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Gunderson of 
    Wisconsin or a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 116, beginning on line 19, strike ``the Secretary 
determines to be appropriate'' and insert ``which can be 
reasonably required by the Secretary''.
    Page 135, beginning on line 4, strike ``the Secretary 
determines to be appropriate'' and insert ``which can be 
reasonably required by the Secretary''.
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    17. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Cunningham of 
    California or a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

  Page 157, after line 4, insert the following:
          (6) Approved applicants for naturalization.--
        Subsection (a) shall not apply to an alien who--
                  (A) has been lawfully admitted to the United 
                States for permanent residence; and
                  (B) has an approved application for 
                naturalization under the Immigration and 
                Nationality Act.
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   18. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Ros-Lehtinen of 
     Florida or a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

  Page 157, after line 4, insert the following new paragraph:
          (6) Certain permanent resident and disabled aliens.--
        Subsection (a) shall not apply to an alien who--
                  (A) has been lawfully admitted to the United 
                States for permanent residence; and
                  (B) is unable because of physical or 
                developmental disability or mental impairment 
                (including Alzheimer's disease) to comply with 
                the naturalization requirements of section 
                312(a) of the Immigration and Naturalization 
                Act.
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   19. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Ros-Lehtinen of 
     Florida or a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 161, after line 14, insert the following new 
paragraph:
          (6) Certain permanent resident and disabled aliens.--
        Subsection (a) shall not apply to an alien who--
                  (A) has been lawfully admitted to the United 
                States for permanent residence; and
                  (B) is unable because of physical or 
                developmental disability or mental impairment 
                (including Alzheimer's disease) to comply with 
                the naturalization requirements of section 
                312(a) of the Immigration and Naturalization 
                Act.
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20. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Moran of Virginia or 
           a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

  Page 170, after line 12, insert the following new section:
SEC. 442. PREFERENCE FOR FEDERAL HOUSING BENEFITS FOR FAMILIES 
                    PARTICIPATING IN WELFARE ASSISTANCE WORK PROGRAMS.

  Section 2 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437) is amended--
          (1) by striking the section heading and inserting the 
        following new section heading:

        ``declaration of policy and preference for assistance'';

          (2) by inserting ``(a) Declaration of Policy.--'' 
        after ``Sec. 2''; and
          (3) by adding at the end the following new 
        subsection:
  ``(b) Preference for Families Participating in Welfare 
Assistance Work Programs.--
          ``(1) In general.--In selecting eligible families for 
        available dwelling units in public housing and for 
        available assistance under section 8, each public 
        housing agency shall give preference to any family who, 
        at the time that such occupancy or assistance is 
        initially provided for the family--
                  ``(A)(i) is participating in a work or job-
                training program that is a condition for the 
                receipt of welfare or public assistance 
                benefits for which the family is otherwise 
                eligible, or (ii) is eligible for and has 
                agreed to participate in such a program as a 
                condition for receipt of such assistance; and
                  ``(B) has agreed, as the Secretary shall 
                require, to maintain and complete such 
                participation and to occupancy or assistance 
                subject to the limitations under paragraph (3).
          ``(2) Precedence over other federal and local 
        preferences.--Occupancy in public housing dwelling 
        units and assistance under section 8 shall be made 
        available to eligible families qualifying for the 
        preference under paragraph (1) before such occupancy or 
        assistance is made available pursuant to any preference 
        under section 6(c)(4)(A) or 8(d)(1)(A), respectively.
          ``(3) 5-year limitation on assistance.--
        Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 
        occupancy of any family in public housing or the 
        provision of assistance under section 8, pursuant to 
        the preference under paragraph (1), shall be terminated 
        upon the expiration of the 5-year period that begins 
        upon the initial provision of such occupancy or 
        assistance to the family.
          ``(4) Failure to participate.--If the applicable 
        public housing agency determines that any family who is 
        provided occupancy in public housing or assistance 
        under section 8, pursuant to the preference under 
        paragraph (1), has ceased participating in the program 
        referred to in paragraph (1)(A) before completion of 
        the program or failed substantially to comply with the 
        requirements of the program, such cessation or failure 
        shall be considered adequate cause for the termination 
        of the tenancy or the assistance for the family and the 
        public housing agency shall immediately take action to 
        terminate the tenancy of such family in public housing 
        or the provision of assistance under section 8 on 
        behalf of family, as applicable.
          ``(5) Limitation on availability of preference.--The 
        preference under paragraph (1) shall not apply to any 
        family that includes a member who--
                  ``(A) has occupied a public housing dwelling 
                unit or received assistance under section 8 as 
                a member of a family provided preference 
                pursuant to paragraph (1), which occupancy or 
                assistance has been terminated pursuant to 
                paragraph (3) or (4); and
                  ``(B) was personally required to participate 
                in the program referred to in paragraph 
                (1)(A).''.
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21. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Traficant of Ohio or 
           a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    In section 7(i)(1)(B) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 2016(i)), as added by section 556 of the bill, insert 
``, except that each electronic benefit transfer card shall 
bear a photograph of the members of the household to which such 
card is issued'' before the period.
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22. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Coburn of Oklahoma or 
           a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

  In section 556(a) of the bill, strike paragraph (2) and 
insert the following:
          (2) in paragraph (2)--
                  (A) by striking ``effective no later than 
                April 1, 1992,'';
                  (B) by striking ``the approval of'';
                  (C) in subparagraph (A) by striking ``, in 
                any 1 year,''; and
                  (D) by amending subparagraph (D) to read as 
                follows:
          ``(D)(i) measures to maximize the security of such 
        system using the most recent technology available that 
        the State considers appropriate and cost-effective and 
        which may include (but is not limited to) personal 
        identification numbers (PIN), photographic 
        identification on electronic benefit transfer cards, 
        and other measures to protect against fraud and abuse; 
        and
          ``(ii) effective not later than 2 years after the 
        date of the enactment of the Food Stamp Simplification 
        and Reform Act of 1995, measures that permit such 
        system to differentiate items of food that may be 
        acquired with an allotment from items of food that may 
        not be acquired with an allotment.''; and
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23. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Roberts of Kansas or 
           a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 232, strike lines 23 and 24 and insert the following:
    ``Section 15 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2024) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:''.
    Page 232, line 25, strike ``(g)(1) and insert ``(h)(1)''.
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24. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Upton of Michigan or 
           a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    At the end of subtitle B of title V, insert the following 
(and make such technical and conforming changes as may be 
appropriate):

SEC. 581. DISQUALIFICATION RELATING OF CHILD SUPPORT ARREARS.

    Section 6 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2015) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(i) No individual is eligible to participate in the food 
stamp program as a member of any household during any period 
such individual has any unpaid liability under a court order 
for the support of a child of such individual.''.
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25. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Hostettler of Indiana 
         or a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes
  In title V of the bill, strike subtitle B and insert the 
following:

           Subtitle B--Consolidating Food Assistance Programs

SEC. 531. FOOD STAMP BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM.

    (a) Authority To Make Block Grants.--The Secretary of 
Agriculture shall make grants in accordance with this section 
to States to provide food assistance to individuals who are 
economically disadvantaged and to individuals who are members 
of economically disadvantaged families.
    (b) Distribution of Funds.--The funds appropriated to carry 
out this section for any fiscal year shall be allotted among 
the States as follows:
          (1) Of the aggregate amount to be distributed under 
        this section, .21 percent shall be reserved for grants 
        to Guam, the Virgin Islands of the United States, 
        American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern 
        Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 
        the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau.
          (2) Of the aggregate amount to be distributed under 
        this section, .24 percent shall be reserved for grants 
        to tribal organizations that have governmental 
        jurisdiction over geographically defined areas and 
        shall be allocated equitably by the Secretary among 
        such organizations.
          (3) The remainder of such aggregate amount shall be 
        allocated among the remaining States. The amount 
        allocated to each of the remaining States shall bear 
        the same proportion to such remainder as the number of 
        resident individuals in such State who are economically 
        disadvantaged separately or as members of economically 
        disadvantaged families bears to the aggregate number of 
        resident individuals in all such remaining States who 
        are economically disadvantaged separately or as members 
        of economically disadvantaged families.
  (c) Eligibility To Receive Grants.--To be eligible to receive 
a grant in the amount allotted to a State for a fiscal year, 
such State shall submit to the Secretary an application in such 
form, and containing such information and assurances, as the 
Secretary may require by rule, including--
          (1) an assurance that such grant will be expended by 
        the State to provide food assistance to resident 
        individuals in such State who are economically 
        disadvantaged separately or as members of economically 
        disadvantaged families,
          (2) an assurance that not more than 5 percent of such 
        grant will be expended by the State for administrative 
        costs incurred to provide assistance under this 
        section, and
          (3) an assurance that an individual who has not 
        worked 32 hours in a calendar month shall be ineligible 
        to received food assistance under this subtitle during 
        the succeeding month unless such individual is--
                  (A) disabled,
                  (B) has attained 60 years of age, or
                  (C) residing with one or more of such 
                individual's children who have not attained 18 
                years of age, but is not residing with any 
                other parent of any of such children, unless 
                that other parent is disabled.
  (d) Annual Report.--Each State that receives funds 
appropriated to carry out this section for a fiscal year shall 
submit the Secretary, not later than May 1 following such 
fiscal year, a report--
          (1) specifying the number of families who received 
        food assistance under this section provided by such 
        State in such fiscal year;
          (2) specifying the number of individuals who received 
        food assistance under this section provided by such 
        State in such fiscal year;
          (3) the amount of such funds expended in such fiscal 
        year by such State to provide food assistance; and
          (4) the administrative costs incurred in such fiscal 
        year by such State to provide food assistance.
  (e) Limitation.--No State or political subdivision of a State 
that receives funds provided under this title shall replace any 
employed worker with an individual who is participating in a 
work program for the purpose of complying with subsection 
(c)(3). Such an individual may be placed in any position 
offered by the State or political subdivision that--
          (A) is a new position,
          (B) is a position that became available in the normal 
        course of conducting the business of the State or 
        political subdivision,
          (C) involves performing work that would otherwise be 
        performed on an overtime basis by a worker who is not 
        an individual participating in such program, or
          (D) that is a position which became available by 
        shifting a current employee to an alternate position.
  (f) Authorization of Appropriations.--(1) There are 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$26,245,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 
1999, and 2000.
  (2) For the purpose of affording adequate notice of funding 
available under this section, an appropriation to carry out 
this section is authorized to be included in an appropriation 
Act for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which 
such appropriation is available for obligation.

SEC. 532. AVAILABILITY OF FEDERAL COUPON SYSTEM TO STATES.

  (a) Issuance, Purchase, and Use of Coupons.--The Secretary 
shall issue, and make available for purchase by States, coupons 
for the retail purchase of food from retail food stores that 
are approved in accordance with subsection (b). Coupons issued, 
purchased, and used as provided in this section shall be 
redeemable at face value by the Secretary through the 
facilities of the Treasury of the United States. The purchase 
price of each coupon issued under this subsection shall be the 
face value of such coupon.
  (b) Approval of Retail Food Stores and Wholesale Food 
Concerns.--(1) Regulations issued pursuant to this section 
shall provide for the submission of applications for approval 
by retail food stores and wholesale food concerns which desire 
to be authorized to accept and redeem coupons under this 
section. In determining the qualifications of applicants, there 
shall be considered among such other factors as may be 
appropriate, the following:
          (A) The nature and extent of the food business 
        conducted by the applicant.
          (B) The volume of coupon business which may 
        reasonably be expected to be conducted by the applicant 
        food store or wholesale food concern.
          (C) The business integrity and reputation of the 
        applicant.
Approval of an applicant shall be evidenced by the issuance to 
such applicant of a nontransferable certificate of approval. 
The Secretary is authorized to issue regulations providing for 
a periodic reauthorization of retail food stores and wholesale 
food concerns.
  (2) A buyer or transferee (other than a bona fide buyer or 
transferee) of a retail food store or wholesale food concern 
that has been disqualified under subsection (d) may not accept 
or redeem coupons until the Secretary receives full payment of 
any penalty imposed on such store or concern.
  (3) Regulations issued pursuant to this section shall require 
an applicant retail food store or wholesale food concern to 
submit information which will permit a determination to be made 
as to whether such applicant qualifies, or continues to 
qualify, for approval under this section or the regulations 
issued pursuant to this section. Regulations issued pursuant to 
this section shall provide for safeguards which limit the use 
or disclosure of information obtained under the authority 
granted by this subsection to purposes directly connected with 
administration and enforcement of this section or the 
regulations issued pursuant to this section, except that such 
information may be disclosed to and used by States that 
purchase such coupons.
  (4) Any retail food store or wholesale food concern which has 
failed upon application to receive approval to participate in 
the program under this section may obtain a hearing on such 
refusal as provided in subsection (f).
  (c) Redemption of Coupons.--Regulations issued under this 
section shall provide for the redemption of coupons accepted by 
retail food stores through approved wholesale food concerns or 
through financial institutions which are insured by the Federal 
Deposit Insurance Corporation, or which are insured under the 
Federal Credit Union Act (12 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.) and have 
retail food stores or wholesale food concerns in their field of 
membership, with the cooperation of the Treasury Department, 
except that retail food stores defined in section 533(9)(D) 
shall be authorized to redeem their members' food coupons prior 
to receipt by the members of the food so purchased, and 
publicly operated community mental health centers or private 
nonprofit organizations or institutions which serve meals to 
narcotics addicts or alcoholics in drug addiction or alcoholic 
treatment and rehabilitation programs, public and private 
nonprofit shelters that prepare and serve meals for battered 
women and children, public or private nonprofit group living 
arrangements that serve meals to disabled or blind residents, 
and public or private nonprofit establishments, or public or 
private nonprofit shelters that feed individuals who do not 
reside in permanent dwellings and individuals who have no fixed 
mailing addresses shall not be authorized to redeem coupons 
through financial institutions which are insured by the Federal 
Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Federal Credit Union Act. 
No financial institution may impose on or collect from a retail 
food store a fee or other charge for the redemption of coupons 
that are submitted to the financial institution in a manner 
consistent with the requirements, other than any requirements 
relating to cancellation of coupons, for the presentation of 
coupons by financial institutions to the Federal Reserve banks.
  (d) Civil Money Penalties and Disqualification of Retail Food 
Stores and Wholesale Food Concerns.--(1) Any approved retail 
food store or wholesale food concern may be disqualified for a 
specified period of time from further participation in the 
coupon program under this section, or subjected to a civil 
money penalty of up to $10,000 for each violation if the 
Secretary determines that its disqualification would cause 
hardship to individuals who receive coupons, on a finding, made 
as specified in the regulations, that such store or concern has 
violated this section or the regulations issued pursuant to 
this section.
    (2) Disqualification under paragraph (1) shall be--
          (A) for a reasonable period of time, of no less than 
        6 months nor more than 5 years, upon the first occasion 
        of disqualification,
          (B) for a reasonable period of time, of no less than 
        12 months nor more than 10 years, upon the second 
        occasion of disqualification, and
          (C) permanent upon--
                  (i) the third occasion of disqualification,
                  (ii) the first occasion or any subsequent 
                occasion of a disqualification based on the 
                purchase of coupons or trafficking in coupons 
                by a retail food store or wholesale food 
                concern, except that the Secretary shall have 
                the discretion to impose a civil money penalty 
                of up to $20,000 for each violation (except 
                that the amount of civil money penalties 
                imposed for violations occurring during a 
                single investigation may not exceed $40,000) in 
                lieu of disqualification under this 
                subparagraph, for such purchase of coupons or 
                trafficking in coupons that constitutes a 
                violation of this section or the regulations 
                issued pursuant to this section, if the 
                Secretary determines that there is substantial 
                evidence (including evidence that neither the 
                ownership nor management of the store or food 
                concern was aware of, approved, benefited from, 
                or was involved in the conduct or approval of 
                the violation) that such store or food concern 
                had an effective policy and program in effect 
                to prevent violations of this section and such 
                regulations, or
                  (iii) a finding of the sale of firearms, 
                ammunition, explosives, or controlled substance 
                (as defined in section 802 of title 21, United 
                States Code) for coupons, except that the 
                Secretary shall have the discretion to impose a 
                civil money penalty of up to $20,000 for each 
                violation (except that the amount of civil 
                money penalties imposed for violations 
                occurring during a single investigation may not 
                exceed $40,000) in lieu of disqualification 
                under this subparagraph if the Secretary 
                determines that there is substantial evidence 
                (including evidence that neither the ownership 
                nor management of the store or food concern was 
                aware of, approved, benefited from, or was 
                involved in the conduct or approval of the 
                violation) that the store or food concern had 
                an effective policy and program in effect to 
                prevent violations of this section.
    (3) The action of disqualification or the imposition of a 
civil money penalty shall be subject to review as provided in 
subsection (f).
    (4) As a condition of authorization to accept and redeem 
coupons issued under subsection (a), the Secretary may require 
a retail food store or wholesale food concern which has been 
disqualified or subjected to a civil penalty pursuant to 
paragraph (1) to furnish a bond to cover the value of coupons 
which such store or concern may in the future accept and redeem 
in violation of this section. The Secretary shall, by 
regulation, prescribe the amount, terms, and conditions of such 
bond. If the Secretary finds that such store or concern has 
accepted and redeemed coupons in violation of this section 
after furnishing such bond, such store or concern shall forfeit 
to the Secretary an amount of such bond which is equal to the 
value of coupons accepted and redeemed by such store or concern 
in violation of this section. Such store or concern may obtain 
a hearing on such forfeiture pursuant to subsection (f).
    (5)(A) In the event any retail food store or wholesale food 
concern that has been disqualified under paragraph (1) is sold 
or the ownership thereof is otherwise transferred to a 
purchaser or transferee, the person or persons who sell or 
otherwise transfer ownership of the retail food store or 
wholesale food concern shall be subjected to a civil money 
penalty in an amount established by the Secretary through 
regulations to reflect that portion of the disqualification 
period that has not yet expired. If the retail food store or 
wholesale food concern has been disqualified permanently, the 
civil money penalty shall be double the penalty for a 10-year 
disqualification period, as calculated under regulations issued 
by the Secretary. The disqualification period imposed under 
paragraph (2) shall continue in effect as to the person or 
persons who sell or otherwise transfer ownership of the retail 
food store or wholesale food concern notwithstanding the 
imposition of a civil money penalty under this paragraph.
    (B) At any time after a civil money penalty imposed under 
subparagraph (A) has become final under subsection (f)(1), the 
Secretary may request the Attorney General of the United States 
to institute a civil action against the person or persons 
subject to the penalty in a district court of the United States 
for any district in which such person or persons are found, 
reside, or transact business to collect the penalty and such 
court shall have jurisdiction to hear and decide such action. 
In such action, the validity and amount of such penalty shall 
not be subject to review.
    (C) The Secretary may impose a fine against any retail food 
store or wholesale food concern that accepts coupons that are 
not accompanied by the corresponding book cover, other than the 
denomination of coupons used for making change as specified in 
regulations issued under this section. The amount of any such 
fine shall be established by the Secretary and may be assessed 
and collected separately in accordance with regulations issued 
under this section or in combination with any fiscal claim 
established by the Secretary. The Attorney General of the 
United States may institute judicial action in any court of 
competent jurisdiction against the store or concern to collect 
the fine.
    (6) The Secretary may impose a fine against any person not 
approved by the Secretary to accept and redeem coupons who 
violates this section or a regulation issued under this 
section, including violations concerning the acceptance of 
coupons. The amount of any such fine shall be established by 
the Secretary and may be assessed and collected in accordance 
with regulations issued under this section separately or in 
combination with any fiscal claim established by the Secretary. 
The Attorney General of the United States may institute 
judicial action in any court of competent jurisdiction against 
the person to collect the fine.
    (e) Collection and Disposition of Claims.--The Secretary 
shall have the power to determine the amount of and settle and 
adjust any claim and to compromise or deny all or part of any 
such claim or claims arising under this section or the 
regulations issued pursuant to this section, including, but not 
limited to, claims arising from fraudulent and nonfraudulent 
overissuances to recipients, including the power to waive 
claims if the Secretary determines that to do so would serve 
the purposes of this section. Such powers with respect to 
claims against recipients may be delegated by the Secretary to 
State agencies.
    (f) Administrative and Judicial Review.--(1) Whenever--
          (A) an application of a retail food store or 
        wholesale food concern for approval to accept and 
        redeem coupons issued under subsection (a) is denied 
        pursuant to this section,
          (B) a retail food store or wholesale food concern is 
        disqualified or subjected to a civil money penalty 
        under subsection (d),
          (C) all or part of any claim of a retail food store 
        or wholesale food concern is denied under subsection 
        (e), or
          (D) a claim against a State is stated pursuant to 
        subsection (e),
notice of such administrative action shall be issued to the 
retail food store, wholesale food concern, or State involved. 
Such notice shall be delivered by certified mail or personal 
service. If such store, concern, or State is aggrieved by such 
action, it may, in accordance with regulations promulgated 
under this section, within 10 days of the date of delivery of 
such notice, file a written request for an opportunity to 
submit information in support of its position to such person or 
persons as the regulations may designate. If such a request is 
not made or if such store, concern, or State fails to submit 
information in support of its position after filing a request, 
the administrative determination shall be final. If such 
request is made by such store, concern, or State such 
information as may be submitted by such store, concern, or 
State as well as such other information as may be available, 
shall be reviewed by the person or persons designated by the 
Secretary, who shall, subject to the right of judicial review 
hereinafter provided, make a determination which shall be final 
and which shall take effect 30 days after the date of the 
delivery or service of such final notice of determination. If 
such store, concern, or State feels aggrieved by such final 
determination, it may obtain judicial review thereof by filing 
a complaint against the United States in the United States 
court for the district in which it resides or is engaged in 
business, or, in the case of a retail food store or wholesale 
food concern, in any court of record of the State having 
competent jurisdiction, within 30 days after the date of 
delivery or service of the final notice of determination upon 
it, requesting the court to set aside such determination. The 
copy of the summons and complaint required to be delivered to 
the official or agency whose order is being attacked shall be 
sent to the Secretary or such person or persons as the 
Secretary may designate to receive service of process. The suit 
in the United States district court or State court shall be a 
trial de novo by the court in which the court shall determine 
the validity of the questioned administrative action in issue. 
If the court determines that such administrative action is 
invalid, it shall enter such judgment or order as it determines 
is in accordance with the law and the evidence. During the 
pendency of such judicial review, or any appeal therefrom, the 
administrative action under review shall be and remain in full 
force and effect, unless on application to the court on not 
less than ten days' notice, and after hearing thereon and a 
consideration by the court of the applicant's likelihood of 
prevailing on the merits and of irreparable injury, the court 
temporarily stays such administrative action pending 
disposition of such trial or appeal.
  (g) Violations and Enforcement.--(1) Subject to paragraph 
(2), whoever knowingly uses, transfers, acquires, alters, or 
possesses coupons in any manner contrary to this section or the 
regulations issued pursuant to this section shall, if such 
coupons are of a value of $5,000 or more, be guilty of a felony 
and shall be fined not more than $250,000 or imprisoned for not 
more than 20 years, or both, and shall, if such coupons are of 
a value of $100 or more, but less than $5,000, be guilty of a 
felony and shall, upon the first conviction thereof, be fined 
not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than 5 years, 
or both, and, upon the second and any subsequent conviction 
thereof, shall be imprisoned for not less than 6 months nor 
more than 5 years and may also be fined not more than $10,000 
or, if such coupons are of a value of less than $100, shall be 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon the first conviction 
thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for 
not more than one year, or both, and upon the second and any 
subsequent conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned for not more 
than one year and may also be fined not more than $1,000.
  (2) In the case of any individual convicted of an offense 
under paragraph (1), the court may permit such individual to 
perform work approved by the court for the purpose of providing 
restitution for losses incurred by the United States and the 
State as a result of the offense for which such individual was 
convicted. If the court permits such individual to perform such 
work and such individual agrees thereto, the court shall 
withhold the imposition of the sentence on the condition that 
such individual perform the assigned work. Upon the successful 
completion of the assigned work the court may suspend such 
sentence.
  (3) Whoever presents, or causes to be presented, coupons for 
payment or redemption of the value of $100 or more, knowing the 
same to have been received, transferred, or used in any manner 
in violation of this section or the regulations issued under 
this section, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon the first 
conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $20,000 or 
imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both, and, upon the 
second and any subsequent conviction thereof, shall be 
imprisoned for not less than one year nor more than 5 years and 
may also be fined not more than $20,000, or, if such coupons 
are of a value of less than $100, shall be guilty of a 
misdemeanor and, upon the first conviction thereof, shall be 
fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one 
year, or both, and, upon the second and any subsequent 
conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned for not more than one 
year and may also be fined not more than $1,000.

SEC. 533. DEFINITIONS.

  For purposes of this subtitle--
          (1) the term ``coupon'' means any coupon, stamp, or 
        type of certificate, but does not include currency,
          (2) the term ``economically disadvantaged'' means an 
        individual or a family, as the case may be, whose 
        income does not exceed the most recent lower living 
        standard income level published by the Department of 
        Labor,
          (3) the term ``elderly or disabled individual'' means 
        an individual who--
                  (A) is 60 years of age or older,
                  (B)(i) receives supplemental security income 
                benefits under title XVI of the Social Security 
                Act (42 U.S.C. 1381 et seq.), or Federally or 
                State administered supplemental benefits of the 
                type described in section 212(a) of Public Law 
                93-66 (42 U.S.C. 1382 note), or
                  (ii) receives Federally or State administered 
                supplemental assistance of the type described 
                in section 1616(a) of the Social Security Act 
                (42 U.S.C. 1382e(a)), interim assistance 
                pending receipt of supplemental security 
                income, disability-related medical assistance 
                under title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 
                U.S.C. 1396 et seq.), or disability-based State 
                general assistance benefits, if the Secretary 
                determines that such benefits are conditioned 
                on meeting disability or blindness criteria at 
                least as stringent as those used under title 
                XVI of the Social Security Act,
                  (C) receives disability or blindness payments 
                under title I, II, X, XIV, or XVI of the Social 
                Security Act (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) or 
                receives disability retirement benefits from a 
                governmental agency because of a disability 
                considered permanent under section 221(i) of 
                the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 421(i)),
                  (D) is a veteran who--
                          (i) has a service-connected or non-
                        service-connected disability which is 
                        rated as total under title 38, United 
                        States Code, or
                          (ii) is considered in need of regular 
                        aid and attendance or permanently 
                        housebound under such title,
                  (E) is a surviving spouse of a veteran and--
                          (i) is considered in need of regular 
                        aid and attendance or permanently 
                        housebound under title 38, United 
                        States Code, or
                          (ii) is entitled to compensation for 
                        a service-connected death or pension 
                        benefits for a non-service-connected 
                        death under title 38, United States 
                        Code, and has a disability considered 
                        permanent under section 221(i) of the 
                        Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 421(i)),
                  (F) is a child of a veteran and--
                          (i) is considered permanently 
                        incapable of self-support under section 
                        414 of title 38, United States Code, or
                          (ii) is entitled to compensation for 
                        a service-connected death or pension 
                        benefits for a non-service-connected 
                        death under title 38, United States 
                        Code, and has a disability considered 
                        permanent under section 221(i) of the 
                        Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 421(i)), 
                        or
                  (G) is an individual receiving an annuity 
                under section 2(a)(1)(iv) or 2(a)(1)(v) of the 
                Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 (45 U.S.C. 
                231a(a)(1)(iv) or 231a(a)(1)(v)), if the 
                individual's service as an employee under the 
                Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, after December 
                31, 1936, had been included in the term 
                ``employment'' as defined in the Social 
                Security Act (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.), and if an 
                application for disability benefits had been 
                filed,
          (4) the term ``food'' means, for purposes of section 
        532(a) only--
                  (A) any food or food product for home 
                consumption except alcoholic beverages, 
                tobacco, and hot foods or hot food products 
                ready for immediate consumption other than 
                those authorized pursuant to subparagraphs (C), 
                (D), (E), (G), (H), and (I),
                  (B) seeds and plants for use in gardens to 
                produce food for the personal consumption of 
                the eligible individuals,
                  (C) in the case of those persons who are 60 
                years of age or over or who receive 
                supplemental security income benefits or 
                disability or blindness payments under title I, 
                II, X, XIV, or XVI of the Social Security Act 
                (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.), and their spouses, 
                meals prepared by and served in senior 
                citizens' centers, apartment buildings occupied 
                primarily by such persons, public or private 
                nonprofit establishments (eating or otherwise) 
                that feed such persons, private establishments 
                that contract with the appropriate agency of 
                the State to offer meals for such persons at 
                concessional prices, and meals prepared for and 
                served to residents of federally subsidized 
                housing for the elderly,
                  (D) in the case of persons 60 years of age or 
                over and persons who are physically or mentally 
                handicapped or otherwise so disabled that they 
                are unable adequately to prepare all of their 
                meals, meals prepared for and delivered to them 
                (and their spouses) at their home by a public 
                or private nonprofit organization or by a 
                private establishment that contracts with the 
                appropriate State agency to perform such 
                services at concessional prices,
                  (E) in the case of narcotics addicts or 
                alcoholics, and their children, served by drug 
                addiction or alcoholic treatment and 
                rehabilitation programs, meals prepared and 
                served under such programs,
                  (F) in the case of eligible individuals 
                living in Alaska, equipment for procuring food 
                by hunting and fishing, such as nets, hooks, 
                rods, harpoons, and knives (but not equipment 
                for purposes of transportation, clothing, or 
                shelter, and not firearms, ammunition, and 
                explosives) if the Secretary determines that 
                such individuals are located in an area of the 
                State where it is extremely difficult to reach 
                stores selling food and that such individuals 
                depend to a substantial extent upon hunting and 
                fishing for subsistence,
                  (G) in the case of disabled or blind 
                recipients of benefits under title I, II, X, 
                XIV, or XVI of the Social Security Act (42 
                U.S.C. 301 et seq.), or are individuals 
                described in subparagraphs (B) through (G) of 
                paragraph (4), who are residents in a public or 
                private nonprofit group living arrangement that 
                serves no more than 16 residents and is 
                certified by the appropriate State agency or 
                agencies under regulations issued under section 
                1616(e) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
                1382e(e)) or under standards determined by the 
                Secretary to be comparable to standards 
                implemented by appropriate State agencies under 
                such section, meals prepared and served under 
                such arrangement,
                  (H) in the case of women and children 
                temporarily residing in public or private 
                nonprofit shelters for battered women and 
                children, meals prepared and served, by such 
                shelters, and
                  (I) in the case of individuals that do not 
                reside in permanent dwellings and individuals 
                that have no fixed mailing addresses, meals 
                prepared for and served by a public or private 
                nonprofit establishment (approved by an 
                appropriate State or local agency) that feeds 
                such individuals and by private establishments 
                that contract with the appropriate agency of 
                the State to offer meals for such individuals 
                at concessional prices,
          (5) the term ``retail food store'' means--
                  (A) an establishment or recognized department 
                thereof or house-to-house trade route, over 50 
                percent of whose food sales volume, as 
                determined by visual inspection, sales records, 
                purchase records, or other inventory or 
                accounting recordkeeping methods that are 
                customary or reasonable in the retail food 
                industry, consists of staple food items for 
                home preparation and consumption, such as meat, 
                poultry, fish, bread, cereals, vegetables, 
                fruits, dairy products, and the like, but not 
                including accessory food items, such as coffee, 
                tea, cocoa, carbonated and uncarbonated drinks, 
                candy, condiments, and spices,
                  (B) an establishment, organization, program, 
                or group living arrangement referred to in 
                subparagraph (C), (D), (E), (G), (H), or (I) of 
                paragraph (5),
                  (C) a store purveying the hunting and fishing 
                equipment described in paragraph (5)(F), or
                  (D) any private nonprofit cooperative food 
                purchasing venture, including those in which 
                the members pay for food purchased prior to the 
                receipt of such food,
          (6) the term ``school'' means an elementary, 
        intermediate, or secondary school,
          (7) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of 
        Agriculture,
          (8) the term ``State'' means any of the several 
        States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of 
        Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands of the United 
        States, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the 
        Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall 
        Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, or 
        a tribal organization that exercises governmental 
        jurisdiction over a geographically defined area, and
          (9) the term ``tribal organization'' has the meaning 
        given it in section 4(l) of the Indian Self-
        Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 
        450b(l)).

SEC. 534. REPEALER.

  The Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) is 
repealed.
  Strike section 591 of the bill and insert the following:
SEC. 591. EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION OF REPEALER.

  (a) Effective Dates.--
          (1) General effective date of subtitle A.--Subtitle A 
        shall take effect on October 1, 1995.
          (2) General effective date of subtitle B.--Except as 
        provided in subsection (b), subtitle B and the repeal 
        made by section 534 shall take effect on the date of 
        the enactment of this Act.
          (3) Special effective date.--The repeal made by 
        section 534 shall not take effect until the first day 
        of the first fiscal year for which funds are 
        appropriated more than 180 days in advance of such 
        fiscal year to carry out section 531.
  (b) Application of Repealer.--The repeal made by section 534 
shall not apply with respect to--
          (1) powers, duties, functions, rights, claims, 
        penalties, or obligations applicable to financial 
        assistance provided under the Food Stamp Act of 1977 
        before the effective date of such repeal, and
          (2) administrative actions and proceedings commenced 
        before such date, or authorized before such date to be 
        commenced, under such Act.
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      26. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Blute of 
   Massachusetts or Representative Lipinski of Illinois a Designee, 
                 Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 37, after line 21, insert the following:
          ``(11) Denial of assistance for fugitive felons and 
        probation and parole violators.--
                  ``(A) In general.--A State to which a grant 
                is made under section 403 may not use any part 
                of the grant to provide assistance to any 
                individual who is--
                          ``(i) fleeing to avoid prosecution, 
                        or custody or confinement after 
                        conviction, under the laws of the place 
                        from which the individual flees, for a 
                        crime, or an attempt to commit a crime, 
                        which is a felony under the laws of the 
                        place from which the individual flees, 
                        or which, in the case of the State of 
                        New Jersey, is a high misdemeanor under 
                        the laws of such State; or
                          ``(ii) violating a condition of 
                        probation or parole imposed under 
                        Federal or State law.
                  ``(B) Exchange of information with law 
                enforcement agencies.--If a State to which a 
                grant is made under section 403 establishes 
                safeguards against the use or disclosure of 
                information about applicants or recipients of 
                assistance under the State program funded under 
                this part, the safeguards shall not prevent the 
                State agency administering the program from 
                furnishing a Federal, State, or local law 
                enforcement officer, upon the request of the 
                officer, with the current address of any 
                recipient if the officer furnishes the agency 
                with the name of the recipient and notifies the 
                agency that such recipient is fleeing to avoid 
                prosecution, or custody or confinement after 
                conviction, under the laws of the place from 
                which the recipient flees, for a crime, or an 
                attempt to commit a crime, which is a felony 
                under the laws of the place from which the 
                recipient flees, or which, in the case of the 
                State of New Jersey, is a high misdemeanor 
                under the laws of such State, or is violating a 
                condition of probation or parole imposed under 
                Federal or State law, or has information that 
                is necessary for the officer to conduct the 
                official duties of the officer, that the 
                location or apprehension of the recipient is 
                within such official duties.
    Page 37, after line 21, insert the following:
          ``(11) Denial of assistance for minor children who 
        are absent from the home for a significant period.--
                  ``(A) In general.--A State to which a grant 
                is made under section 403 may not use any part 
                of the grant to provide assistance for a minor 
                child who has been, or is expected by a parent 
                (or other caretaker relative) of the child to 
                be, absent from the home for a period of 45 
                consecutive days or, at the option of the 
                State, such period of not less than 30 and not 
                more than 90 consecutive days as the State may 
                provide for in the State plan submitted 
                pursuant to section 402.
                  ``(B) State authority to establish good cause 
                exceptions.--The State may establish such good 
                cause exceptions to subparagraph (A) as the 
                State considers appropriate if such exceptions 
                are provided for in the State plan submitted 
                pursuant to section 402.
                  ``(C) Denial of assistance for relative who 
                fails to notify state agency of absence of 
                child.--A State to which a grant is made under 
                section 403 may not use any part of the grant 
                to provide assistance for an individual who is 
                a parent (or other caretaker relative) of a 
                minor child and who fails to notify the agency 
                administering the State program funded under 
                this part, of the absence of the minor child 
                from the home for the period specified in or 
                provided for under subparagraph (A), by the end 
                of the 5-day period that begins with the date 
                that it becomes clear to the parent (or 
                relative) that the minor child will be absent 
                for such periods so specified or provided for.
    Page 235, after line 24, insert the following (and make 
such technical and conforming changes as may be appropriate):

SEC. 581. ELIMINATION OF FOOD STAMP BENEFITS WITH RESPECT TO FUGITIVE 
                    FELONS AND PROBATION AND PAROLE VIOLATORS.

    (a) Ineligibility for Food Stamps.--Section 6 of the Food 
Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2015), as amended by section 555, 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(j) No member of a household who is otherwise eligible to 
participate in the food stamp program shall be eligible to 
participate in the program as a member of that or any other 
household while the individual is--
          ``(1) fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody or 
        confinement after conviction, under the laws of the 
        place from which he flees, for a crime, or an attempt 
        to commit a crime, which is a felony under the laws of 
        the place from which he flees, or which, in the case of 
        the State of New Jersey, is a high misdemeanor under 
        the laws of such State; or
          ``(2) violating a condition of probation or parole 
        imposed under Federal or State law.''.
    (2) Exchange of Information With Law Enforcement 
Officers.--Section 11(e)(8) of such Act (7 U.S.C. 2020(e)(8)) 
is amended--
          (1) by striking ``and (C)'' and inserting ``(C)''; 
        and
          (2) by inserting before the semicolon at the end the 
        following: ``, (D) notwithstanding any other provision 
        of law, the address of a member of a household shall be 
        made available, on request, to a Federal, State, or 
        local law enforcement officer if the officer furnishes 
        the State agency with the name of the member and 
        notifies the agency that (i) the member (I) is fleeing 
        to avoid prosecution, or custody or confinement after 
        conviction, under the laws of the place from which he 
        flees, for a crime, or an attempt to commit a crime, 
        which is a felony under the laws of the place from 
        which he flees, or which, in the case of the State of 
        New Jersey, is a high misdemeanor under the laws of 
        such State, or is violating a condition of probation or 
        parole imposed under Federal or State law, or (II) has 
        information that is necessary for the officer to 
        conduct the officer's official duties, (ii) the 
        location or apprehension of the member is within the 
        official duties of the officer, and (iii) the request 
        is made in the proper exercise of the duties, and''.
    Page 266, after line 15, insert the following:

SEC. 606. DENIAL OF SSI BENEFITS FOR FUGITIVE FELONS AND PROBATION AND 
                    PAROLE VIOLATORS.

    (a) In General.--Section 1611(c) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1382(e)), as amended by section 601(b)(1) of this 
Act, is amended by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:
          ``(3) A person shall not be an eligible individual or 
        eligible spouse for purposes of this title with respect 
        to any month if, throughout the month, the person is--
                ``(A) fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody 
                or confinement after conviction, under the laws 
                of the place from which the person flees, for a 
                crime, or an attempt to commit a crime, which 
                is a felony under the laws of the place from 
                which the person flees, or which, in the case 
                of the State of New Jersey, is a high 
                misdemeanor under the laws of such State; or
                  ``(B) violating a condition of probation or 
                parole imposed under Federal or State law.''.
    (b) Exchange of Information with law enforcement 
agencies.--Section 1631(e) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1383(e)) is 
amended by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
    ``(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Commissioner shall furnish any Federal, State, or local law 
enforcement officer, upon the request of the officer, with the 
current address of any recipient of benefits under this title, 
if the officer furnishes the agency with the name of the 
recipient name and notifies the agency that--
          ``(A) the recipient--
                  ``(i) is fleeing to avoid prosecution, or 
                custody or confinement after conviction, under 
                the laws of the place from which the person 
                flees, for a crime, or an attempt to commit a 
                crime, which is a felony under the laws of the 
                place from which the person flees, or which, in 
                the case of the State of New Jersey, is a high 
                misdemeanor under the laws of such State;
                  ``(ii) is violating a condition of probation 
                or parole imposed under Federal or State law; 
                or
                  ``(iii) has information that is necessary for 
                the officer to conduct the officer's duties;
          ``(B) the location or apprehension of the recipient 
        is within the official duties of the officer; and
          ``(C) the request is made in the proper exercise of 
        such duties.''.
    Amend the table of contents accordingly.
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27. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Zimmer of New Jersey 
         or a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 37, line 11, strike ``CONVICTED OF'' and insert 
``FOUND TO HAVE''.
    Page 37, line 12, strike ``REPRESENTING'' and insert 
``REPRESENTED''.
    Page 37, line 12, strike ``TO A WELFARE PROGRAM'' and 
insert ``IN ORDER TO OBTAIN BENEFITS IN 2 OR MORE STATES'' 
after ``RESIDENCE''.
    Page 37, line 13, 14 and 15, strike ``A State to which a 
grant is made under section 403 may not use any part of the 
grant to provide assistance to an individual'' and insert ``An 
individual shall not be considered an eligible individual for 
the purposes of this title'' before ``during'' on line 15.
    Page 37, line 16, insert ``found by a State to have made, 
or is'' after ``is''.
    Page 37, line 17, strike ``of making'' and insert ``of 
having made,''.
    Page 37, line 20, strike ``under 2 or more'' and insert 
``simultaneously from 2 or more States under''.
    Page 37, line 21, insert ``, title XIX, or the Food Stamp 
Act of 1977, or benefits in 2 or more States under the 
supplemental security income program under title XIV'' before 
the period.
    Page 266, after line 15, insert the following:

SEC. 606. DENIAL OF SSI BENEFITS FOR 10 YEARS TO INDIVIDUALS FOUND TO 
                    HAVE FRAUDULENTLY MISREPRESENTED RESIDENCE IN ORDER 
                    TO OBTAIN BENEFITS SIMULTANEOUSLY IN 2 OR MORE 
                    STATES.

    Section 1614(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1382c(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(5) An individual shall not be considered an eligible 
individual for purposes of this title during the 10-year period 
beginning on the date the individual is found by a State to 
have made, or is convicted in Federal or State court of having 
made, a fraudulent statement or representation with respect to 
the place of residence of the individual in order to receive 
benefits simultaneously from 2 or more States under programs 
that are funded under part A of title IV, title XIX, or the 
Food Stamp Act of 1977, or benefits in 2 or more States under 
the supplemental security income program under title XVI.''
    At the end of subtitle B of title V, insert the following 
(and make such technical and conforming changes as may be 
appropriate):

SEC. 581. DENIAL OF FOOD STAMP BENEFITS FOR 10 YEARS TO INDIVIDUALS 
                    FOUND TO HAVE FRAUDULENTLY MISREPRESENTED RESIDENCE 
                    IN ORDER TO OBTAIN BENEFITS SIMULTANEOUSLY IN 2 OR 
                    MORE STATES.

    Section 6 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2015) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(I) An individual shall be ineligible to participate in 
the food stamp program as a member of any household during the 
10-year period beginning on the date the individual is found by 
a State to have made, or is convicted in Federal or State court 
of having made, a fraudulent statement or representation with 
respect to the place of residence of the individual in order to 
receive benefits simultaneously from 2 or more States under the 
food stamp program or under programs that are funded under part 
A of title IV, title XIX, or benefits in 2 or more States under 
the supplemental security income program under title XVI.''
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28. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Shaw of Florida or a 
            Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 282, line 13, after the period insert the following: 
``The Secretary must agree that the system will not cost more 
nor take more time to establish than a centralized system. In 
addition, employers shall be given 1 location to which income 
withholding is sent.''.
    Page 322, strike line 23 and all that follows through line 
23 on page 323.
    Page 323, line 24, strike ``(c)'' and insert ``(b)''.
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29. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Dunn of Washington or 
          a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed  20 Minutes

    Page 307, line 4, strike ``and''.
    Page 307, line 8, strike ``matter.'.'' and insert ``matter; 
and ''.
    Page 307, after line 8, insert the following:
                  ``(C) any individual who has died be placed 
                in the records relating to the death and be 
                recorded on the death certificate.''.
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30. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Salmon of Arizona or 
 Representative Waldholtz of Utah or a Designee, Debatable for Not To 
                           Exceed  20 Minutes

    Page 387, after line 10, insert the following:

SEC. 768. LIENS.

    Section 466(a)(4) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)(4)) is amended to read 
as follows:
          ``(4) Procedures under which--
                  ``(A) liens arise by operation of law against 
                real and personal property for amounts of 
                overdue support owed by an absent parent who 
                resides or owns property in the State; and
                  ``(B) the State accords full faith and credit 
                to liens described in subparagraph (A) arising 
                in another State, without registration of the 
                underlying order.''.
    Amend the table of contents accordingly.
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31. The Amendment To Be Offered by Representative Roukema of New Jersey 
         or a Designee, Debatable for Not To Exceed 20 Minutes

    Page 387, after line, 10, insert the following:

SEC. 768. STATE LAW AUTHORIZING SUSPENSION OF LICENSES.

    Section 466(a) (42 U.S.C. 666(a)), as amended by sections 
715, 717(a), and 723 of this Act, is amended by adding at the 
end the following:
          ``(15) Authority to withhold or suspend licenses.--
        Procedures under which the State has (and uses in 
        appropriate cases) authority to withhold or suspend, or 
        to restrict the use of driver's licenses, professional 
        and occupational licenses, and recreational licenses of 
        individuals owing overdue support or failing, after 
        receiving appropriate notice, to comply with subpoenas 
        or warrants relating to paternity or child support 
        proceedings.''.