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Poverty Data Correction Act of 1993

Introduced: August 4, 1993 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Aug 12, 1993
Referred to the Subcommittee on Census, Statistics and Postal Personnel.
Aug 4, 1993
Referred to the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.
Aug 4, 1993
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1965-1966)
Aug 4, 1993
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Poverty Data Correction Act of 1993 - Requires any data relating to the incidence of poverty produced or published by or for the Secretary of Commerce for subnational areas to be corrected for differences in the cost of living and data produced for State and sub-State areas to be corrected for differences in the cost of living for at least all States of the United States. Requires such corrected data to be published in 1995 and biennially thereafter.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop or cause to be developed a Sate cost-of-living index which ranks and assigns an index value to each State using data on wage, housing, and other costs relevant to the cost of living; and (2) multiply the Federal Government's statistical poverty thresholds by the index value for each State's cost of living to produce State poverty thresholds for each State. Requires the State cost-of-living index and resulting State poverty thresholds to be published before September 30, 1994, for calendar year 1993 and to be updated annually thereafter.

What's happening now August 12, 1993

Referred to the Subcommittee on Census, Statistics and Postal Personnel.

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