A bill to permit a State which no longer qualifies for hold harmless treatment under the supplemental security income program to elect to remain a food stamp cash-out State upon condition that it pass though a part of the 1976 cost-of-living increase in SSI benefits and all of any subsequent increases in such benefits.
PL 94-379 (H.R.14514), enacted 08/10/1976

PUBLIC LAW 94-379—AUG. 10, 1976 
90 STAT. 1111 
Public Law 94-379 
94th Congress 
An Act 
To permit a State which no longer qualifies for hold harmless treatment under 
the supplemental security income program to elect to remain a food stamp 
cashout State upon condition that it pass through a part of the 1976 cost-of-
living increase in SSI benefits and all of any subsequent increases in such 
benefits. 
Be It enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) section 8 
of Public Law 93-233 is amended by redesignating subsections (d) and 
(e) as subsections (e) and (f), respectively, and by inserting after 
subsection (c) the following new subsection: 
"(d) Upon the request of the State of California the Secretary 
shall find, for purposes of the provisions specified in subsection (c) of 
this section, that the level of such State's supplementary payments of 
the type described in section 1616(a) of the Social Security Act has 
been specifically increased for any month after June 1976 so as to 
include the bonus value of food stamps if— 
"(1) the State law as in effect for such month specifically pro-
vides for increases in such payments on account of increases in 
the level of benefits payable under title XVI of the Social Security 
Act in a manner designed to assure that, whenever a cost-of-living 
increase in the level of benefits payable under such title XVI 
becomes effective for any month after June 1976, the amount of 
the State supplementary payment payable, for each month with 
respect to which such cost-of-living increase is effective, to any 
individual or to any individual with an eligible spouse, will be 
increased by such amount as is necessary to assure that— 
"(A) the aggregate of (i) the amount payable for such 
month to such individual, or to such individual with an 
eligible spouse, under such title XVI, and (ii) the amount 
payable for such month to such individual, or to such indi-
vidual with an eligible spouse, under the State's supple-
mentary payments program, 
will exceed, by an amount which is not less than the monthly 
amount of such cost-of-living increase (plus the monthly amount 
of any previous cost-of-living increases in the level of benefits 
payable under title XVI of the Social Security Act which became 
effective for months after June 1976) — 
"(B) the aggregate of the amounts which would otherwise 
have been payable, to such individual (or to such individual 
with an eligible spouse), under such title XVI and under the 
State's supplementary payments program for such month 
under the law as in effect on June 1,1976; and 
"(2) such month is (A) the month of July 1976, or (B) a 
month thereafter which is in a period of consecutive months the 
first of which is July 1976 and each of which is a month with 
respect to which the conditions of paragraph (1) are met. 
As used in this subsection, the term 'cost-of-living increase in the level 
of benefits payable under title XVI of the Social Security Act' means 
an increase in benefits payable under such title XVI by reason of the 
Aus- 10, 1976 
[H.R. 14514] 
SSI program. 
California 
supplementary 
payment level. 
42 u s e 1382e 
notes. 
42 u s e 1382e. 
Definition. 
90 STAT. 1112 
PUBLIC LAW 94-379—AUG. 10, 1976 
42 use 1382f. 
operation of section 1617 of such Act; except that the cost-of-living 
42 use 1381. 
increase in the level of benefits payable under such title XVI which 
became effective for the month oi July 1976 shall be deemed (for 
purposes of determining the amount of the required excess referred to 
in the matter following subparagraph (A) and preceding subpara-
graph (B) in paragraph (1)) to have provided an increase of $3.00 
per month in the case of an individual without an eligible spouse and 
$4.50 per month in the case of an individual with an eligible spouse.". 
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(b) The provision of section 8 of Public Law 93-233 redesignated 
"°t^- 
as subsection (f) by subsection (a) of this section is amended by strik-
ing out "subsection (d)" and inserting in lieu thereof "subsection (e)". 
Approved August 10, 1976. 
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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 94-1310 (eomm. on Ways and Means). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 122 (1976): 
July 29, considered and passed House and Senate. 
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 12, No. 33: 
Aug. 11, Presidential statement.