I
104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 819
To amend title IV of the Social Security Act to provide welfare families
with the education, training, job search, and work experience needed
to prepare them to leave welfare within 2 years, to increase the rate
of paternity establishment for children receiving welfare benefits, to pro-
vide States with greater flexibility in providing welfare, and to authorize
States to conduct demonstration projects to test the effectiveness of
policies designed to help people leave welfare and increase their financial
security.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 3, 1995
Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Ways and Means and, in addition, to the Committee
on Economic and Educational Opportunities, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To amend title IV of the Social Security Act to provide
welfare families with the education, training, job search,
and work experience needed to prepare them to leave
welfare within 2 years, to increase the rate of paternity
establishment for children receiving welfare benefits, to
provide States with greater flexibility in providing wel-
fare, and to authorize States to conduct demonstration
projects to test the effectiveness of policies designed to
help people leave welfare and increase their financial
security.
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 ‘‘Welfare to Work Act
of 1995’’.
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
TITLE I—AFDC TRANSITION AND WORK PROGRAM
Sec. 101. AFDC transition and work program.
Sec. 102. Community work experience program amendments.
Sec. 103. Work supplementation program amendments.
Sec. 104. Work requirement for noncustodial parents with child support arrear-
ages.
Sec. 105. Requirement that minor noncustodial parents who fail to provide
child or spousal support participate in work, job training,
money management and parenting classes, and career counsel-
ing.
Sec. 106. Effective date; regulations.
TITLE II—PATERNITY ESTABLISHMENT
Sec. 201. Cooperation requirement and good cause exception.
Sec. 202. Teens receiving AFDC required to live at home.
Sec. 203. Increase in paternity establishment percentage.
Sec. 204. Effective date.
TITLE III—EXPANSION OF STATUTORY FLEXIBILITY OF STATES
Sec. 301. Option to convert AFDC into a block grant program.
Sec. 302. Option to deny AFDC to minor unmarried parents.
Sec. 303. Option to treat interstate immigrants under rules of former State.
Sec. 304. Option to impose penalty for failure to attend school.
Sec. 305. Option to deny AFDC for additional children.
Sec. 306. Option to modify certain AFDC income disregard rules.
Sec. 307. Option to provide married couple transition benefit.
Sec. 308. Option to disregard income and resources designated for education,
training, and employability, or related to self-employment.
Sec. 309. Option to require attendance at parenting and money managment
classes, and prior approval of any action that would result in
a change of school for a dependent child.
Sec. 310. Effective date.
TITLE IV—EXPANSION OF STATE AND LOCAL FLEXIBILITY
Sec. 401. Interagency Waiver Request Board.
Sec. 402. Application to implement assistance plans.
Sec. 403. Review and approval of applications; waivers.
Sec. 404. Implementation of assistance plans; evaluations.
Sec. 405. Public-Private Partnership Committees.
Sec. 406. Definitions.
Sec. 407. Reports.
Sec. 408. Sunset.
TITLE V—MISCELLANEOUS
Sec. 501. AFDC recipients required to undergo necessary substance abuse
treatment as a condition of receiving AFDC.
Sec. 502. Evaluation of education and training programs.
Sec. 503. Job search required while AFDC application is pending.
Sec. 504. Fraud and administrative efficiency.
Sec. 505. Required immunizations for children.
TITLE I—AFDC TRANSITION AND
WORK PROGRAM
SEC. 101. AFDC TRANSITION AND WORK PROGRAM.
(a) PURPOSE.—Section 481(a) of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 681(a)) is amended by striking all that
follows ‘‘and’’ and inserting ‘‘work experience needed to
prepare them for a life without welfare.’’.
(b) ESTABLISHMENT
AND
OPERATION
OF
PRO-
GRAM.—
(1) TRANSITION
AND
WORK
COMPONENTS.—
Section 482 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 682) is amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(j) The program under this part must include—
‘‘(1) a transition component that—
‘‘(A) must include the job search program
established by the State under subsection (g);
and