Promoting Assistance with Transitional Help Act

Bill: 113-hr-3151
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Reed, Tom [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2013-09-19
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Child care and development

Child safety and welfare

Energy assistance for the poor and aged

Food assistance and relief

Housing finance and home ownership

Intergovernmental relations

Low- and moderate-income housing

Poverty and welfare assistance

Separation, divorce, custody, support

State and local finance
Latest action: action_date: 2013-09-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-09-19
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Promoting Assistance with Transitional Help Act - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act, with respect to the state maintenance of effort required to avoid a reduction in its TANF grant, to include as qualified state expenditures transitional cash assistance provided for up to one year to otherwise eligible families who have exceeded the five-year limitation on TANF assistance.</p> <p>Specifies as transitional cash assistance an amount necessary to replace the loss of any food assistance, rent assistance, low-income energy assistance, and childcare assistance lost as a result of increased family income from earnings or child support payments.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3151 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 19, 2013 Mr. Reed (for himself, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania , Mr. Young of Indiana , and Mr. Griffin of Arkansas ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To amend title IV of the Social Security Act to modify the State maintenance of effort requirement, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Promoting Assistance with Transitional Help Act . 2. Modification of State maintenance of effort requirement (a) In general Section 409(a)(7)(B)(i)(I) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 609(a)(7)(B)(i)(I) ) is amended— (1) in item (aa), by inserting before the period at the end the following: , but not including (except as provided in item (dd)) cash assistance provided to families that would be eligible for assistance under the State program funded under this part but for the application of section 408(a)(7) ; and (2) by redesignating items (dd) and (ee) as items (ee) and (ff) and inserting after item (cc) the following: (dd) Transitional assistance provided to families that would be eligible for assistance under the State program funded under this part but for the application of section 408(a)(7) in an amount not more than the amount necessary to replace the loss of any food assistance, rent assistance, low-income energy assistance, and childcare assistance lost as a result of increased family income from earnings or child support payments, for not more than 1 year after such loss. . (b) Effective date The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to qualified State expenditures made by a State in any fiscal year that begins on or after October 1, 2014.