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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2399
To provide assistance for low-income working families.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 4, 1997
Mrs. CLAYTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Education and the Workforce
A BILL
To provide assistance for low-income working families.
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 ‘‘Family Investment
Package’’.
SEC. 2. ASSISTANCE FOR LOW-INCOME WORKING FAMILIES.
(a) BLOCK GRANTS.—Section 658B of the Child
Care Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C.
9858) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘SEC. 658B. FUNDING OF GRANTS.
‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Except
as provided in subsection (b), there is authorized to be
appropriated to carry out this subchapter $2,000,000,000
for each of fiscal years 1997 through 2002.
‘‘(b) APPROPRIATION.—The Secretary shall pay,
from funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
$1,400,000,000 for fiscal years 1997 through 2002,
through the awarding of grants to States under this sub-
chapter for the purpose of providing child care services
for families who have left the State program of assistance
under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act because
of employment, families that are at risk of becoming de-
pendent on such assistance program, and low-income
working families described in section 658E(c)(3)(D).
Funds shall be paid under this subsection to the States
in the same manner, and subject to the same requirements
and limitations, as funds are paid to the States under sec-
tion 418 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 618).’’.
(b) GRANTS
FOR CHILD CARE SUPPLY SHORT-
AGES.—Section 658E(c)(3) of the Child Care Develop-
ment Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858c(c)(3))
is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(E) CHILD CARE SUPPLY SHORTAGES.—
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—A State shall en-
sure that 100 percent of amounts paid to
the State out of funds appropriated under
section 658B(a)(2) with respect to each of
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Section 658B(a) of the
Child Care Development Block Grant Act of 1990
(42 U.S.C. 9858(a)), as amended by subsection (f),
is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘Except as provided in’’
and inserting the following:
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2) and’’; and
(B) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(2) CHILD CARE SUPPLY SHORTAGES.—There
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out section
658E(c)(3)(E), $500,000,000 for each of fiscal
years 1997 through 2002.’’.
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section
658(c)(3)(A) of the Child Care Development Block
Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858c(c)(3)(A)) is
amended by striking ‘‘(D)’’ and inserting ‘‘(E)’’.
(d) REPORT ON ACCESS TO CHILD CARE BY LOW-
INCOME WORKING FAMILIES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 658K(a)(2) of the
Child Care Development Block Grant Act of 1990
(42 U.S.C. 9858i(a)(2)) is amended—
(A) in subparagraph (D), by striking
‘‘and’’ at the end; and
(B) by inserting after subparagraph (E),
the following:
‘‘(F) the total number of families described
in section 658B(b) that were eligible for but did
not receive assistance under this subchapter or
under section 418 of the Social Security Act
and a description of the obstacles to providing
such assistance; and
‘‘(G) the total number of families described
in section 658B(b) that received assistance pro-
vided under this subchapter or under section
418 of the Social Security Act and a description
of the manner in which that assistance was pro-
vided;’’.
(2) SECRETARIAL REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—
Section 658L of the Child Care Development Block
Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9858j) is amended by
inserting ‘‘, with particular emphasis on access of
low-income working families,’’ after ‘‘public’’.
(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall take effect as if included in the enact-
ment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Oppor-
tunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–193,
110 Stat. 2105).
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