Work, Family, and Opportunity Promotion Act

Bill: 109-hr-751
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2005-02-10 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Adult education
Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Aliens
American Samoa
Appropriations
Authorization
Block grants
Cash welfare block grants
Child health
Child support
Child welfare
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Collection of accounts
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost of living adjustments
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Day care
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Discrimination in employment
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Earned income tax credit
Earnings
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee rights
Employment subsidies
Energy
Energy assistance for the poor
Families
Family services
Family violence
Federal aid to child health services
Federal-state relations
Food stamps
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Guam
Health
Health insurance
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Immigrants
Immigration
Income tax
Indian children
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Literacy programs
Low-income housing
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
Minorities
Native Americans
Northern Mariana Islands
Part-time employment
Performance measurement
Policy sciences
Poor children
Poverty
Pregnant women
Public housing
Puerto Rico
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Sunset legislation
Supplemental security income program
Surveys
Taxation
Teenage pregnancy
Unemployment
Virgin Islands
Vocational and technical education
WIC program
Welfare eligibility
Welfare waivers
Welfare work participation
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: 
Work, Family, and Opportunity Promotion Act - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act (SSA), including with respect to: (1) modification of individual responsibility plans; (2) elimination of the caseload reduction rate under mandatory work requirements; (3) the State option to select a job entry rate requirement in lieu of the work participation rate requirement; (4) work rates; (5) employment credit; (6) the effect of wage subsidies on the five-year limit of assistance; (7) workplace discrimination laws; (8) the funding for child care; (9) extension of supplemental grants; (10) additional grants for States with low Federal funding per poor child; (11) the bonus to reward high performance States; (12) contingency fund grants; (13) eligibility of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, and Guam for the supplemental grant for population increases, the contingency fund, and mandatory child care funding; (14) education and training; (15) poverty reduction; (16) the family formation fund; (17) two-parent eligibility; (18) treatment of aliens under the TANF program; (19) the authority of States to use TANF funds carried over from prior years to provide TANF benefits and services; (20) funding for tribal TANF programs; and (21) the ban on using Federal TANF funds to replace State and local spending that does not meet the definition of qualified State expenditures.
 
Amends SSA title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) to provide for the restoration of funds for the social services block grant.
 
Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to provide for a five-year extension and modification of the transitional medical assistance program.
 
Amends SSA title XIX and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) to provide for optional coverage of legal immigrants under Medicaid and SCHIP.
 
Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 with respect to: (1) treatment of aliens under the TANF program; (2) the eligibility of disabled children who are qualified aliens for SSI (SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income)); and (3) an SSI extension for humanitarian immigrants. 
 
Amends SSA title XI to provide for an increase in the mandatory ceiling amount with respect to funding for families assisted by a territory program. 
 
Extends the TANF program and related authorities through FY 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-03-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-10
text: Introduced in House