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HR 513 104th Congress House Social Welfare Aid to dependent children Block grants Cost control Economics and Public Finance Families Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government spending reductions Labor and Employment Manpower training programs Paternity Public assistance programs Social security eligibility Support of dependents Teenage pregnancy

Welfare and Teenage Pregnancy Reduction Act

Introduced: January 13, 1995 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 24, 1995
See H.R.4.
Feb 1, 1995
Referred to the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning.
Jan 20, 1995
Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
Jan 13, 1995
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jan 13, 1995
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Welfare and Teenage Pregnancy Reduction Act - Amends title IV of the Social Security Act to repeal part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) and replace it with a program of block grants to States for such families.

Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for such grants.

Prohibits the use of grant funds to provide assistance with respect to a dependent child if: (1) the mother or father has not reached age 19; or (2) the paternity or maternity of such child has not been established.

Declares that, during the first year following arrival in a State from another State of a family with a dependent child, the State may apply its own rules or the rules of that other State.

Authorizes the Secretary to suspend or withhold part or all of a grant to a State for a fiscal year if, after reviewing the State's annual report on its program, the Secretary determines that the State program has not, during the immediately preceding fiscal year, adequately met the needs of such families.

Directs the Secretary to take necessary action to ensure that, for each fiscal year, the total administrative costs of the AFDC program, as revised by this Act, shall not exceed half of the total administrative costs of the AFDC program as in effect for FY 1994.

What's happening now March 24, 1995

See H.R.4.

 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Republican 2