A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of Family Assistance of the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services relating to waiver and expenditure authority under section 1115 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1315) with respect to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.

Bill: 113-sjres-9
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2013-03-04
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Congressional oversight

Department of Health and Human Services

Poverty and welfare assistance
Latest action: action_date: 2013-03-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-03-04
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Disapproves of the rule submitted by the Office of Family Assistance of the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) relating to waiver and expenditure authority under the Social Security Act with respect to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Declares that the rule shall have no force or effect.</p>

tv_txt: IIA 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. J. RES. 9 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 4, 2013 Mr. Hatch (for himself, Mr. Burr , Mr. Thune , Mr. Grassley , Mr. Roberts , Mr. Enzi , Mr. Cornyn , Mr. Isakson , Mr. Toomey , and Mr. Crapo ) introduced the following joint resolution; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Office of Family Assistance of the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services relating to waiver and expenditure authority under section 1115 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1315 ) with respect to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.

That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Office of Family Assistance of the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services relating to waiver and expenditure authority under section 1115 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1315) with respect to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (issued July 12, 2012, as the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Information Memorandum Transmittal No. TANF–ACF–IM–2012–03, and printed in the Congressional Record on September 10, 2012, on pages S6047–S6050 and on February 14, 2013, on pages S758–S761, along with a letter of opinion from the Government Accountability Office dated September 4, 2012, that the Information Memorandum is a rule under the Congressional Review Act), and such rule shall have no force or effect.