Building on Welfare Success Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1443
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2003-07-22 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Adoption
Age discrimination
Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Aliens
American Samoa
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Block grants
Books
Business and social problems
Cash welfare block grants
Child support
Child welfare
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Collection of accounts
College costs
Commerce
Commuting
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Contraceptives
Crime and Law Enforcement
Day care
Demography
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Discrimination against the disabled
Earned income tax credit
Earnings
Economic conditions
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Employee training
Employment of the disabled
Employment subsidies
Energy
Energy assistance for the poor
English language
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family planning and birth control
Family violence
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Food stamps
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Group homes
Guam
Health
Health insurance
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Illiteracy
Immigrant health
Immigrants
Immigration
Income
Income tax
Indian children
Internet
Labor and Employment
Law
Learning disabilities
Low-income housing
Marriage
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Minorities
Nonmarital births
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Part-time employment
Passports
Poor children
Poverty
Pregnant women
Public-private partnerships
Puerto Rico
Rural conditions
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex education
Social work
State employees
State laws
Supplemental security income program
Surveys
Tax refunds
Taxation
Teenage pregnancy
Territories (U.S.)
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Unemployment
Veterans' disability compensation
Victims of crimes
Virgin Islands
Visas
Vocational and technical education
Web sites
Welfare eligibility
Welfare waivers
Welfare work participation
Women
Working poor

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-22
text: 
Building on Welfare Success Act of 2003 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to revise, reauthorize, and extend the TANF program, with changes including the addition of grants to States for healthy marriage promotion programs.
 
Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 with respect to establishing national goals to prevent teen pregnancy. 
 
Amends SSA title IV Part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to make various changes including providing for expanded enforcement.
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to make nonimmigrant aliens who fail to pay child support by more than $2,500 ineligible to receive visas and excluded from admission to the United States.
 
Provides for responsible fatherhood grants under SSA title IV part D.
 
Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to give States the option to assist legal immigrant families.
 
Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to provide for: (1) optional coverage of legal immigrants under Medicaid and SCHIP (SSA title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP); and (2) a five year extension, and revision, of the transitional medical assistance program. 
 
Provides authority under TANF for the use of TANF funds for housing benefits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3440)
action_date: 2003-07-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9720-9736)
action_date: 2003-07-22
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9718-9720)
action_date: 2003-07-22
text: Introduced in Senate