Personal Responsibility and work Opportunity Reconcilliation Act of 1996

Personal Resp and Work Opportunity Act of 1996.txt

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Public Law 104-193
104th Congress
An Act

To provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201(a)(l) of the
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1997. <>
.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress <> assembled,
SECTION 1. <> SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the "Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996".
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
TITLE I--BLOCK GRANTS FOR TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES
Sec. 101. Findings.
Sec. 102. Reference to Social Security Act.
Sec. 103. Block grants to States.
Sec. 104. Services provided by charitable, religious, or private
organizations.
Sec. 105. Census data on grandparents as primary caregivers for their
grandchildren.
Sec. 106. Report on data processing.
Sec. 107. Study on alternative outcomes measures.
Sec. 108. Conforming amendments to the Social Security Act.
Sec. 109. Conforming amendments to the Food Stamp Act of 1977 and
related provisions.
Sec. 110. Conforming amendments to other laws.
Sec. 111. Development of prototype of counterfeit-resistant Social
Security card required.
Sec. 112. Modifications to the job opportunities for certain low-income
individuals program.
Sec. 113. Secretarial submission of legislative proposal for technical
and conforming amendments.
Sec. 114. Assuring medicaid coverage for low-income families.
Sec. 115. Denial of assistance and benefits for certain drug-related
convictions.
Sec. 116. Effective date; transition rule.
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Sec. 431. Definitions.
Sec. 432. Verification of eligibility for Federal public benefits.
Sec. 433. Statutory construction.
Sec. 434. Communication between State and local government agencies and
the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Sec. 435. Qualifying quarters.
Subtitle E--Conforming Amendments Relating to Assisted Housing
Sec. 441. Conforming amendments relating to assisted housing.
Subtitle F--Earning Income Credit Denied to Unauthorized Employees
Sec. 451. Earned income credit denied to individuals not authorized to
be employed in the United States.
TITLE V--CHILD PROTECTION
Sec. 501. Authority of States to make foster care maintenance payments
on behalf of children in any private child care institution.
Sec. 502. Extension of enhanced match for implementation of statewide
automated child welfare information systems.
Sec. 503. National random sample study of child welfare.
Sec. 504. Redesignation of section 1123.
Sec. 505. Kinship care.
TITLE VI--CHILD CARE
Sec. 601. Short title and references.
Sec. 602. Goals.
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Sec. 603. Authorization of appropriations and entitlement authority.
Sec. 604. Lead agency.
Sec. 605. Application and plan.
Sec. 606. Limitation on State allotments.
Sec. 607. Activities to improve the quality of child care.
Sec. 608. Repeal of early childhood development and before- and afterschool care requirement.
Sec. 609. Administration and enforcement.
Sec. 610. Payments.
Sec. 61 1. Annual report and audits.
Sec. 612. Report by the Secretary.
Sec. 613. Allotments.
Sec. 614. Definitions.
Sec. 615. Effective date.
TITLE VII--CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS
Subtitle A--National School Lunch Act
Sec. 701. State disbursement to schools.
Sec. 702. Nutritional and other program requirements.
Sec. 703. Free and reduced price policy statement.
Sec. 704. Special assistance.
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SEC. 432. <> VERIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR
FEDERAL
PUBLIC
BENEFITS.
(a) In General.--Not later than 18 months after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Attorney General of the United States, after
consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall
promulgate regulations requiring verification that a person applying for
a Federal public benefit (as defined in section 401(c)), to which the
limitation under section 401 applies, is a qualified alien and is
eligible to receive such benefit. Such regulations shall, to the extent
feasible, require that information requested and exchanged be similar in
form and manner to information requested and exchanged under section
1137 of the Social Security Act.
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(b) State Compliance.--Not later than 24 months after the date the
regulations described in subsection (a) are adopted, a State that
administers a program that provides a Federal public benefit shall have
in effect a verification system that complies with the regulations.
(c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be
appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of
this section.