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Poverty Data Correction Act

Introduced: January 17, 1995 Introduced by: Schumer, Charles E. Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 25, 1995
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs and Criminal Justice.
Jan 17, 1995
Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight.
Jan 17, 1995
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Poverty Data Correction Act - 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 1997 and biennially thereafter.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop or cause to be developed a State 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, 1996, for calendar year 1995 and to be updated annually thereafter.

What's happening now January 25, 1995

Referred to the Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs and Criminal Justice.

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