session, each year of the session shall be treated as a sepa-
rate regular session of the State legislature.
TITLE III—WELFARE
RESTRICTIONS FOR ALIENS
SEC. 301. ELIGIBILITY OF CERTAIN ALIENS FOR CERTAIN
FEDERAL BENEFITS.
(a) 
PROVISIONS
RELATING
TO
UNLAWFUL
ALIENS.—
(1) DIRECT FEDERAL FINANCIAL BENEFITS.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—On and after the date
of the enactment of this Act, notwithstanding
any other provision of law, no benefits shall be
available under the programs described in sub-
paragraph (B) to an unlawful alien (as defined
in subsection (c)(2)) except pursuant to a provi-
sion of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
(B) PROGRAMS
DESCRIBED.—The pro-
grams described in this subparagraph are the
following:
(i) The aid to families with dependent
children program under title IV of the So-
cial Security Act.
(ii) The medicaid program under title
XIX of the Social Security Act (except for
care and services for the treatment of an
emergency medical condition under section
1903(v) of the Social Security Act).
(iii) The food stamp program under
the Food Stamp Act of 1977.
(iv) The supplemental security income
program under title XVI of the Social Se-
curity Act.
(v) Any Federal unemployment com-
pensation program.
(2) NOTIFICATION
OF
ALIENS.—The Federal
agency administering a program referred to in para-
graph (1)(B) shall, directly or through the States,
notify any unlawful alien (as defined in subsection
(c)(2)) who is receiving benefits under the program
on the date of the enactment of this Act and whose
eligibility for the program is or will be terminated by
reason of this subsection.
(b) PROVISIONS RELATING TO LAWFUL ALIENS.—
(1) REPORTING BY FEDERAL AGENCIES.—On
and after the date of the enactment of this Act, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, any lawful
alien (as defined in subsection (c)(1)) who receives
benefits under a program described in subsection
(a)(1)(B) for more than 12 months shall be reported
to the Immigration and Naturalization Service and
shall be treated as a public charge for purposes of
section 241(a)(5) of the Immigration and National-
ity Act.
(2) ATTRIBUTION OF SPONSOR’S INCOME AND
RESOURCES TO FAMILY PREFERENCE ALIENS.—On
and after the date of the enactment of this Act, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, for pur-
poses of determining eligibility of, and the amount
of benefits for, a lawful alien (as defined in sub-
section (c)(1)) under a program described in sub-
section (a)(1)(B)—
(A) the income and resources of any per-
son who, as a sponsor of such alien’s entry into
the United States, executed an affidavit of sup-
port or similar agreement with respect to such
alien, and
(B) the income and resources of such
sponsor’s spouse,
shall be deemed to be the unearned income and re-
sources of such alien until such time as the alien
achieves United States citizenship through natu-
ralization pursuant to chapter 2 of title 3 of the Im-
migration and Nationality Act.
(c) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section:
(1) LAWFUL ALIEN.—
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘‘lawful
alien’’ means an individual who is described in
subparagraph (B) at the time the individual ap-
plies for, receives, or attempts to receive any
Federal benefit.
(B) INDIVIDUALS
DESCRIBED.—An indi-
vidual described in this subparagraph is—
(i) a national of the United States,
(ii) an alien lawfully admitted for per-
manent residence,
(iii) an asylee,
(iv) a refugee,
(v) an alien whose deportation has
been withheld under section 243(h) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act, or
(vi) a parolee who has been paroled
for a period of 1 year or more.
(2) UNLAWFUL
ALIEN.—The term ‘‘unlawful
alien’’ means an individual who is not—
(A) a United States citizen; or
(B) an individual described in paragraph
(1)(B) at the time the individual applies for, re-
ceives, or attempts to receive any Federal bene-
fit.
SEC. 302. STATE AFDC AGENCIES REQUIRED TO PROVIDE
INFORMATION ON ILLEGAL ALIENS TO THE
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERV-
ICE.
(a) IN
GENERAL.—Section 402(a) (42 U.S.C.
602(a)), as amended by sections 102(g)(1), 108(a), and
109(a) of this Act, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph
(47);
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (48) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (48) the fol-
lowing new paragraph:
‘‘(49) require the State agency to provide to the
Immigration and Naturalization Service the name,
address, and other identifying information that the
agency has with respect to any individual unlawfully
in the United States any of whose children is a citi-
zen of the United States.’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), the amendment made by subsection (a)
shall take effect on the first day of the first fiscal
year beginning after the date of the enactment of
this Act.