Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2005

Bill: 109-s-105
Sponsor: Sen. Talent, Jim [R-MO]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Academic performance
Adoption
Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Alimony
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Auditing
Automobiles
Blind
Block grants
California
Caregivers
Cash welfare block grants
Census
Child abuse
Child development
Child health
Child support
Child welfare
Church and social problems
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Commuting
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer credit
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Day care
Directories
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Dropouts
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs and youth
Earnings
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employment subsidies
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family services
Fathers
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to child health services
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Food relief
Food stamps
Foster home care
Gambling
Garnishment
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health
Health counseling
Health insurance
Identification devices
Immigration
Income tax
Indian children
Insurance
Interest
Interstate banking
Interstate relations
Job hunting
Jurisdiction
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Longshoremen
Marriage
Married people
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Mentoring
Minorities
Nonmarital births
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Parents
Passports
Performance measurement
Personal budgets
Poor children
Premarital sex
Preschool education
Public service advertising
Public-private partnerships
Puerto Rico
Recruiting of employees
Religion
School-age child care
Searches and seizures
Sex education
Sexual abstinence
Single people
Social surveys
Sports and Recreation
State courts
Suicide
Supplemental security income program
Tax refunds
Taxation
Teenage pregnancy
Territories (U.S.)
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Unemployment
Unmarried couples
User charges
Veterans' disability compensation
Vocational and technical education
Wages
Welfare eligibility
Welfare work participation
Wisconsin
Women
Workers' compensation
Youth

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2005 - Amends title IV (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to reauthorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to award state family assistance grants.
 
Authorizes States to use grants for marriage promotion activities and requires the Secretary to make bonus grants to each State that has achieved formulated employment goals.
 
Revises requirements for: (1) the consideration of certain child care expenditures in determining State compliance with contingency fund requirements; (2) State work participation standards (including minimum participation rate floors), incorporating a 40-hour work week standard, and creating a State superachiever participation rate credit; and (3) the use of TANF grants.
 
Replaces personal responsibility plans with family self-sufficiency plans.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to establish TANF performance goals and plans. Makes appropriations for research, demonstrations, and technical assistance.
 
Promotion and Support of Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage Act of 2005 - Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to authorize the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit community entities for demonstration projects to test the effectiveness of various approaches to create a Fatherhood Program.
 
Permits States the option to make TANF programs mandatory partners with one-stop employment training centers.
 
Caring for Children Act of 2005 - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to specify consumer education information States are required to collect and disseminate.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to income tax benefits.
 
Reauthorizes funding for State child care entitlement programs and revises State requirements for child support payments.
 
Amends: (1) SSA title XI (General Provisions) to eliminate specified limitations on the Secretary's authority to approve demonstration projects and grant waivers; and (2) SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) to require the Commissioner of Social Security to review State agency blindness and disability determinations.
 
Authorizes the administering Secretary to authorize innovative State demonstration projects involving individual programs, or integrating multiple public assistance, employment security, and other programs to support working families.
 
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require the Secretary to establish a program to make grants to States to provide food assistance and funds to operate employment and training programs for needy individuals.
 
Extends abstinence education funding and reauthorizes transitional medical assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S264-278)
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate