MORE Act

Bill: 109-s-6
Sponsor: Sen. Santorum, Rick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2005-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Abandonment of family
Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Animals
Armed Forces and National Security
Art
Arts, Culture, Religion
Bank accounts
Blind
Block grants
Blood banks
Books
Capital gains tax
Caregivers
Cash welfare block grants
Charitable contributions
Child support
Churches
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Community organization
Computer matching
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Dual-career families
Earnings
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Excise tax
Fathers
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Fishery management
Food relief
Forest conservation
Foster home care
Foundations
Garnishment
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Group homes
Health
Health insurance
Immigration
Income tax
Indian children
Individual retirement accounts
Insurance
Internal revenue law
Internet
Inventories
Job hunting
Judicial opinions
Labor and Employment
Law
Lobbying
Longshoremen
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marriage
Married people
Maternal and infant welfare
Medically uninsured
Minorities
Music
Nonmarital births
Nonprofit organizations
Nursing homes
Parents
Passports
Poverty
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public service advertising
Puerto Rico
Religion
Retirement communities
Saving and investment
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Single-parent families
Small business
Social Welfare
Stocks
Supplemental security income program
Surveys
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Tax penalties
Tax preparers
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Tax returns
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Teenage pregnancy
Travel costs
Trusts and trustees
Unemployment insurance
Unrelated business income tax
Urban affairs
Veterans' disability compensation
Vocational and technical education
Volunteer workers
Web sites
Welfare eligibility
Welfare work participation
Wildlife conservation
Women
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: 
 Marriage, Opportunity, Relief, and Empowerment Act of 2005 or the MORE Act - Makes permanent specified provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 relating to tax benefits for children and marriage penalty relief. 
 
Personal Responsibility and Individual Development for Everyone Act or the PRIDE Act - Amends the Social Security Act to: (1) revise the program of grants to States for temporary aid to needy families (TANF) to, among other things, extend the authority for family assistance grants, promote family employment and self-sufficiency programs, and establish a responsible fatherhood program; (2) extend the authority for the sexual abstinence education program; (3) revise child support enforcement requirements; (4) extend the authority for approving certain child welfare demonstration projects; and (5) extend the Transitional Medical Assistance Program (TMA).
 
CARE Act of 2005 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to charitable giving, including to: (1) allow nonitemizing taxpayers to claim a tax deduction for charitable contributions; (2) permit tax-free distributions from individual retirement accounts (IRAs) for charitable purposes; and (3) allow individual taxpayers to claim a tax deduction for contributions of food and book inventories. Revises various disclosure and oversight requirements relating to tax-exempt organizations.
 
Restores and increases funding for the Social Services Block Grant Program.
 
Savings for Working Families Act of 2005 - Allows certain low income individuals to establish individual development accounts for accumulating assets for homeownership, education, business startup and other purposes. Allows an investment tax credit for contributions to an individual development account. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to award grants to and enter into cooperative agreements with nongovernmental organizations to assist nonprofit community-based organizations in delivering social services.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to contract for an evaluation of maternity group homes under the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-07
text: Star Print ordered on on the bill.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2005-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate