SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Personal Responsi-
bility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2003’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
Sec. 3. References. 
Sec. 4. Findings. 
TITLE I—TANF 
Sec. 101. Purposes. 
Sec. 102. Family assistance grants. 
Sec. 103. Promotion of family formation and healthy marriage. 
Sec. 104. Supplemental grant for population increases in certain States. 
Sec. 105. Bonus to reward employment achievement. 
Sec. 106. Contingency fund. 
Sec. 107. Use of funds. 
Sec. 108. Repeal of Federal loan for State welfare programs. 
Sec. 109. Universal engagement and family self-sufficiency plan requirements. 
Sec. 110. Work participation requirements. 
Sec. 111. Maintenance of effort. 
Sec. 112. Performance improvement. 
Sec. 113. Data collection and reporting. 
Sec. 114. Direct funding and administration by Indian tribes. 
Sec. 115. Research, evaluations, and national studies. 
Sec. 116. Studies by the Census Bureau and the General Accounting Office. 
Sec. 117. Definition of assistance. 
Sec. 118. Technical corrections. 
Sec. 119. Fatherhood program. 
Sec. 120. State option to make TANF programs mandatory partners with one-
stop employment training centers. 
Sec. 121. Sense of the Congress. 
Sec. 122. Extension through fiscal year 2003. 
TITLE II—CHILD CARE 
Sec. 201. Short title. 
Sec. 202. Goals. 
Sec. 203. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 204. Application and plan. 
Sec. 205. Activities to improve the quality of child care. 
Sec. 206. Report by secretary. 
Sec. 207. Definitions. 
Sec. 208. Entitlement funding. 
TITLE III—CHILD SUPPORT 
Sec. 301. Federal matching funds for limited pass through of child support 
payments to families receiving TANF.
Sec. 302. State option to pass through all child support payments to families 
that formerly received TANF. 
Sec. 303. Mandatory review and adjustment of child support orders for families 
receiving TANF. 
Sec. 304. Mandatory fee for successful child support collection for family that 
has never received TANF. 
Sec. 305. Report on undistributed child support payments. 
Sec. 306. Use of new hire information to assist in administration of unemploy-
ment compensation programs. 
Sec. 307. Decrease in amount of child support arrearage triggering passport 
denial. 
Sec. 308. Use of tax refund intercept program to collect past-due child support 
on behalf of children who are not minors. 
Sec. 309. Garnishment of compensation paid to veterans for service-connected 
disabilities in order to enforce child support obligations. 
Sec. 310. Improving Federal debt collection practices. 
Sec. 311. Maintenance of technical assistance funding. 
Sec. 312. Maintenance of Federal Parent Locator Service funding. 
TITLE IV—CHILD WELFARE 
Sec. 401. Extension of authority to approve demonstration projects. 
Sec. 402. Elimination of limitation on number of waivers. 
Sec. 403. Elimination of limitation on number of States that may be granted 
waivers to conduct demonstration projects on same topic. 
Sec. 404. Elimination of limitation on number of waivers that may be granted 
to a single State for demonstration projects. 
Sec. 405. Streamlined process for consideration of amendments to and exten-
sions of demonstration projects requiring waivers. 
Sec. 406. Availability of reports. 
Sec. 407. Technical correction. 
TITLE V—SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME 
Sec. 501. Review of State agency blindness and disability determinations. 
TITLE VI—STATE AND LOCAL FLEXIBILITY 
Sec. 601. Program coordination demonstration projects. 
Sec. 602. State food assistance block grant demonstration project. 
TITLE VII—ABSTINENCE EDUCATION 
Sec. 701. Extension of abstinence education program. 
TITLE VIII—TRANSITIONAL MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 
Sec. 801. Extension of medicaid transitional medical assistance program 
through fiscal year 2004. 
Sec. 802. Adjustment to payments for medicaid administrative costs to prevent 
duplicative payments and to fund extension of transitional 
medical assistance. 
TITLE IX—EFFECTIVE DATE 
Sec. 901. Effective date.
SEC. 3. REFERENCES. 
Except as otherwise expressly provided, wherever in 
this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms 
of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provi-
sion, the amendment or repeal shall be considered to be 
made to a section or other provision of the Social Security 
Act. 
SEC. 4. FINDINGS. 
The Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) The Temporary Assistance for Needy Fami-
lies (TANF) Program established by the Personal 
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation 
Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–193) has succeeded in 
moving families from welfare to work and reducing 
child poverty. 
(A) There has been a dramatic increase in 
the employment of current and former welfare 
recipients. The percentage of working recipients 
reached an all-time high in fiscal year 1999 and 
continued steady in fiscal years 2000 and 2001. 
In fiscal year 2001, 33 percent of adult recipi-
ents were working, compared to less than 7 per-
cent in fiscal year 1992, and 11 percent in fis-
cal year 1996. All States met the overall par-
ticipation rate standard in fiscal year 2001, as 
did the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
(B) Earnings for welfare recipients re-
maining on the rolls have also increased signifi-
cantly, as have earnings for female-headed 
households. The increases have been particu-
larly large for the bottom 2 income quintiles, 
that is, those women who are most likely to be 
former or present welfare recipients. 
(C) Welfare dependency has plummeted. 
As of June 2002, 2,025,000 families and 
5,008,000 individuals were receiving assistance. 
Accordingly, the number of families in the wel-
fare caseload and the number of individuals re-
ceiving cash assistance declined 54 percent and 
58 percent, respectively, since the enactment of 
TANF. These declines have persisted even as 
unemployment rates have increased: unemploy-
ment rates nationwide rose 50 percent, from 
3.9 percent in September 2000 to 6 percent in 
November 2002, while welfare caseloads contin-
ued to decline. 
(D) The child poverty rate continued to de-
cline between 1996 and 2001, falling 20 percent 
from 20.5 to 16.3 percent. The 2001 child pov-
erty rate remains at the lowest level since 1979. 
Child poverty rates for African-American and