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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 781
To require a preference for Federal contractors that hire welfare recipients,
to authorize appropriations for job access and reverse commute grants,
to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide guaran-
tees of State loans to welfare recipients, making appropriations for the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and to
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore certain business-
related deductions.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 23, 1999
Mr. ANDREWS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on
Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, and Commerce, for
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned
A BILL
To require a preference for Federal contractors that hire
welfare recipients, to authorize appropriations for job
access and reverse commute grants, to allow the Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services to provide guaran-
tees of State loans to welfare recipients, making appro-
priations for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration, and to amend the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 to restore certain business-related
deductions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Job Access and Work
Incentives Act’’.
TITLE 
I—PREFERENCE 
FOR
CONTRACTORS 
THAT 
HIRE
WELFARE RECIPIENTS
SEC. 101. PREFERENCE FOR CONTRACTORS THAT HIRE
WELFARE RECIPIENTS.
(a) PREFERENCE.—In awarding a contract covered
by this section, the head of a department or agency of
the Federal Government shall give preference to an entity
that agrees to hire welfare recipients for jobs created to
carry out the contract.
(b) EVALUATION.—To carry out subsection (a), the
head of a department or agency shall develop a system
under which, in the evaluation of an offer from an entity
for a contract, the preference given to the entity will be
greater as the number of welfare recipients that the offer-
or agrees to hire increases.
(c) EXCEPTIONS.—The requirement of subsection (a)
shall not apply in the evaluation of offers for a contract
if—
(1) the Secretary of Defense determines that
the subsection should not apply for national security
reasons; or
(2) the head of the department or agency deter-
mines that no entry-level jobs are expected to be cre-
ated to carry out the contract.
(d) COVERED CONTRACTS.—This section applies to
any contract in an amount in excess of $500,000 entered
into after the date of the enactment of this Act by a de-
partment or agency of the Federal Government using com-
petitive procedures.
(e) WELFARE RECIPIENT.—The term ‘‘welfare recip-
ient’’ means a recipient of assistance under a State pro-
gram funded under part A of title IV of the Social Secu-
rity Act.
TITLE II—JOB ACCESS AND
REVERSE COMMUTE GRANTS
SEC. 201. JOB ACCESS AND REVERSE COMMUTE GRANTS.
Section 3037(l)(1) of the Transportation Equity Act
for the 21st Century (49 U.S.C. 5309 note; 112 Stat. 391)
is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A) by striking clauses (ii)
through (v) and inserting the following:
‘‘(ii) $500,000,000 for fiscal year
2000;
‘‘(iii) $500,000,000 for fiscal year
2001;
‘‘(iv) $500,000,000 for fiscal year
2002;
‘‘(v) $500,000,000 for fiscal year
2003; and
‘‘(vi) $500,000,000 for fiscal year
2004.’’;
(2) in subparagraph (B) by striking ‘‘this sec-
tion’’ and all that follows through the period at the
end and inserting ‘‘this section $10,000,000 for fis-
cal year 1999.’’; and
(3) in subparagraph (C) by striking ‘‘this sec-
tion’’ and all that follows through the period at the
end and inserting ‘‘this section $100,000,000 for fis-
cal year 1999.’’.
TITLE 
III—GUARANTEES 
OF
LOANS MADE BY STATES TO
CURRENT OR RECENT WEL-
FARE RECIPIENTS
SEC. 301. GUARANTEES OF LOANS MADE BY STATES TO
CURRENT OR RECENT WELFARE RECIPIENTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and
Human Services may provide loan guarantees to States
in accordance with this section.
(b) LIMITATION
ON ANNUAL AMOUNT
OF LOAN
GUARANTEES.—The total dollar amount of loan guaran-
tees that may be provided under this section in a fiscal
year shall not exceed $50,000,000.
(c) LIMITATION
ON ANNUAL AMOUNT
OF LOAN
GUARANTEES PER STATE.—The total dollar amount of
loan guarantees that may be provided to a State under
this section in a fiscal year is the amount that bears the
same ratio to $50,000,000 as the total dollar amount pay-
able to the State under section 403(a)(1) of the Social
Security Act for the fiscal year (determined without re-
gard to any penalty imposed under section 409 of such
Act) bears to the total dollar amount payable to all States
under such section 403(a)(1) for the fiscal year (as so de-
termined).
(d) LOANS THAT MAY BE GUARANTEED.—The Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services may provide a loan
guarantee under this section with respect to a loan if—
(1) the loan is made by a State;
(2) the borrower is a recipient of assistance
under a State program funded under part A of title
IV of the Social Security Act;
(3) the principal amount of the loan is not less
than $20 and not more than $5,000; and
(4) the loan bears interest at an annual rate
that does not exceed the rate at which interest is
payable annually on bonds most recently issued by
the smallest political subdivision of the State in
which the borrower resides that has borrowing au-
thority.
(e) DEFINITION OF STATE.—In this section, the term
‘‘State’’ has the meaning given such term in section
419(5) of the Social Security Act.
(f) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall prescribe such regulations as may
be necessary to carry out this section.
TITLE IV—SUBSTANCE ABUSE
AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
SEC. 401. APPROPRIATIONS FOR PROGRAMS AND ACTIVI-
TIES OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL
HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION.
For carrying out titles V and XIX of the Public
Health Service Act with respect to substance abuse and
mental health services, there is appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
$2,730,000,000 for fiscal year 2000.
TITLE V—RESTORATION OF
DEDUCTIONS
SEC. 501. RESTORATION OF DEDUCTION FOR BUSINESS
MEALS 
AND 
ENTERTAINMENT 
AND 
FOR
TRAVEL EXPENSES OF SPOUSES AND OTHERS
ACCOMPANYING THE TAXPAYER ON BUSI-
NESS.
(a) RESTORATION OF DEDUCTION FOR BUSINESS
MEALS AND ENTERTAINMENT.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Subsection (n) of section
274 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating
to only 50 percent of meal and entertainment ex-
penses allowed as deduction) is hereby repealed.
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made
by this subsection shall apply to taxable years begin-
ning after December 31, 1999.
(b) REPEAL OF SPECIAL LIMITATION ON DEDUCTION
FOR TRAVEL EXPENSES OF SPOUSES, ETC.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Subsection (m) of section
274 of such Code is amended by striking paragraph
(3).
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made
by this subsection shall apply to amounts paid or in-
curred after December 31, 1999.
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