(a)(2)(B) of this section shall apply to application
for benefits filed on or after such date as the Attor-
ney General specifies in regulations under paragraph
(2) of this subsection. Such date shall be at least 60
days, and not more than 90 days, after the date the
Attorney General first issues such regulations.
(2) REGULATIONS.—The Attorney General (in
consultation with the heads of other appropriate
agencies) shall first issue regulations to carry out
the amendment made by subsection (a)(2)(B) of this
section not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act. Such regulations shall be ef-
fective on an interim basis, pending change after op-
portunity for public comment.
SEC. 605. PROHIBITION OF SANCTIONS AGAINST ENTITIES
MAKING 
FINANCIAL 
ASSISTANCE 
ELIGI-
BILITY DETERMINATIONS.
Section 214(e) of the Housing and Community Devel-
opment Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 1436a(e)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘or’’ after
the comma at the end;
(2) in paragraph (3), by inserting after ‘‘, or’’
at the end the following: ‘‘the response from the Im-
migration and Naturalization Service to the appeal
of such individual.’’; and
(3) by striking paragraph (4).
SEC. 606. REGULATIONS.
(a) ISSUANCE.—Not later than the expiration of the
60-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment shall issue any regulations necessary to implement
the amendments made by this subtitle. Such regulations
shall be issued in the form of an interim final rule, which
shall take effect upon issuance and shall not be subject
to the provisions of section 533 of title 5, United States
Code, regarding notice or an opportunity for comment.
(b) FAILURE TO ISSUE.—If the Secretary fails to
issue the regulations required under subsection (a) before
the expiration of the period referred to in such subsection,
the regulations relating to restrictions on assistance to
noncitizens, contained in the final rule issued by the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development in RIN 2501–
AA63 (Docket No. R-95–1409; FR–2383–F–050), pub-
lished in the Federal Register of March 20, 1995 (Vol.
60., No. 53; pp. 14824–14861), shall not apply after the
expiration of such period.
SEC. 607. REPORT ON HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development shall submit a report to the Committee on
the Judiciary and the Committee on Banking, Housing,
and Urban Affairs of the Senate, and the Committee on
the Judiciary and the Committee on Banking and Finan-
cial Services of the House of Representatives, describing
the manner in which the Secretary is enforcing section
214 of the Housing and Community Development Act of
1980 and containing statistics with respect to the number
of individuals denied financial assistance under such sec-
tion.
TITLE VII—MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
SEC. 701. UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.
(a) ELIMINATION
OF
CREDITING
EMPLOYMENT
MERELY
ON
BASIS
OF
PRUCOL STATUS.—Section
3304(a)(14)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is
amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘, was lawfully’’ and inserting
‘‘or was lawfully’’, and
(2) by striking ‘‘, or was permanently’’ and all
that follows up to the comma at the end.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to certifications of
States for 1998 and subsequent years, or for 1999 and
subsequent years in the case of States the legislatures of
which do not meet in a regular session which closes in
the calendar year 1997.
(c) REPORT.—The Secretary of Labor, in consulta-
tion with the Attorney General, shall provide for a study
of the impact of limiting eligibility for unemployment com-
pensation only to individuals who are citizens or nationals
of the United States or qualified aliens (as defined in sec-
tion 431(b) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Op-
portunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, 8 U.S.C. 1641(b))).
Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment
of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report on such
study to the Committee on the Judiciary and the Commit-
tee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and
the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on
Economic and Educational Opportunities of the House of
Representatives.
SEC. 702. REPEAL OF FOOD STAMP TRANSITION PROVI-
SION.
Section 510 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and
Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 is repealed and the
provisions of law, as amended by subsection section, are
restored as if such section had not been enacted.
SEC. 703. COMPUTATION OF TARGETED ASSISTANCE.
(a) IN
GENERAL.—Section 412(c)(2) (8 U.S.C.
1522(c)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following
new subparagraph:
‘‘(C) All grants made available under this paragraph
for a fiscal year (other than the Targeted Assistance Ten
Percent Discretionary Program) shall be allocated by the
Office of Resettlement in a manner that ensures that each
qualifying county shall receive the same amount of assist-
ance for each refugee and entrant residing in the county
as of the beginning of the fiscal year who arrived in the
United States not more than 60 months prior to such fis-
cal year.’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
subsection (a) shall be effective for fiscal years after fiscal
year 1996.
SEC. 704. ADDITION TO REPORTS.
Section 565 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and
Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 is amended by add-
ing at the end the following:
‘‘(4) VERIFICATIONS
OF
ELIGIBILITY.—The
number of situations in which a Federal or State
agency fails to respond within 10 days to a request
for verification of eligibility under section 432(d)(2)
of the Personal Responsibility and Work Oppor-
tunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, including the rea-
sons for, and the circumstances of, each such fail-
ure.’’.
TITLE VIII—GENERAL
PROVISIONS
SEC. 801. EFFECTIVE DATES.
Except as provided in this Act, this Act and the
amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the date
of the enactment of this Act.
SEC. 802. NOT APPLICABLE TO FOREIGN ASSISTANCE.
This Act does not apply to any Federal, State, or
local governmental program, assistance, or benefits pro-
vided to an alien under any program of foreign assistance
as determined by the Secretary of State in consultation
with the Attorney General.
SEC. 803. NOTIFICATION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each agency of the Federal Gov-
ernment or a State or political subdivision that admin-
isters a program affected by the provisions of this Act,
shall, directly or through the States, provide general noti-
fication to the public and to program recipients of the
changes regarding eligibility for any such program pursu-
ant to this Act.
(b) FAILURE TO GIVE NOTICE.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed to require or authorize continu-
ation of eligibility if the notice under this section is not
provided.
SEC. 804. DEFINITIONS.
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, for purposes
of this Act—
(1) the terms ‘‘alien’’, ‘‘Attorney General’’, ‘‘na-
tional’’, ‘‘naturalization’’, ‘‘State’’, and ‘‘United
States’’ shall have the meaning given such terms in
section 101(a) of the Immigration and Nationality
Act; and
(2) the term ‘‘child’’ shall have the meaning
given such term in section 101(c) of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act.
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