HR 2166 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Child Poverty Reduction Act

Introduced Jun 13, 2001 Originated House Sponsor Fortney Pete Stark D-CA

Latest action · Jun 20, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedJun 13, 2001
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Child Poverty Reduction Act -Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to: (1) make it an additional purpose of TANF to reduce poverty of families with children in the United States; and (2) require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make child poverty reduction bonus grants to any State whose child poverty rate for a completed calendar year is less than the rate the State achieved during the preceding calendar year.

Cosponsors 45

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 13, 2001 to Nov 16, 2001; 15 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez	Original	Jun 13, 2001
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich	Original	Jun 13, 2001
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Jun 13, 2001
D-CA	George Miller	Original	Jun 13, 2001
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks	Original	Jun 13, 2001
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman	Original	Jun 13, 2001
D-NY	John J. LaFalce	Original	Jun 13, 2001
D-MO	Karen McCarthy	Original	Jun 13, 2001
D-NY	Major R. Owens	Original	Jun 13, 2001
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur	Original	Jun 13, 2001
D-HI	Patsy T. Mink	Original	Jun 13, 2001
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee	Original	Jun 13, 2001
D-OH	Sherrod Brown	Original	Jun 13, 2001
D-OH	Tony P. Hall	Original	Jun 13, 2001
D-PA	William J. Coyne	Original	Jun 13, 2001
I-VT	Bernard Sanders		Jun 19, 2001
D-MI	David E. Bonior		Jun 19, 2001
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		Jun 28, 2001
D-CA	Maxine Waters		Jun 28, 2001
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Jun 28, 2001
D-WI	Thomas M. Barrett		Jun 28, 2001
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen		Jul 10, 2001
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Jul 10, 2001
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Jul 10, 2001
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee		Jul 17, 2001
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jul 17, 2001
D-CA	Robert T. Matsui		Jul 17, 2001
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Jul 17, 2001
D-LA	William J. Jefferson		Jul 17, 2001
D-CA	Nancy Pelosi		Jul 23, 2001
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Jul 25, 2001
D-TX	Ciro D. Rodriguez		Jul 27, 2001
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Aug 2, 2001
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Aug 2, 2001
D-FL	Karen L. Thurman		Aug 2, 2001
D-NY	Michael R. McNulty		Aug 2, 2001
D-CA	Bob Filner		Sep 10, 2001
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Sep 10, 2001
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Nov 1, 2001
D-GA	John Lewis		Nov 1, 2001
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Nov 6, 2001
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Nov 6, 2001
D-CA	Hilda L. Solis		Nov 7, 2001
D-TN	Harold E. Ford Jr.		Nov 8, 2001
D-GA	Cynthia A. McKinney		Nov 16, 2001

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Jun 13, 2001
	Work and Welfare Subcommittee	Referred Jun 20, 2001

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jun 20, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
Jun 13, 2001Introduced in House
Jun 13, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1092)
Jun 13, 2001Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
Extensions	Debate and remarks E1092	Fortney Pete Stark D-CA	Jun 13, 2001

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 1027	Child Poverty Reduction Act	Identical bill	Jun 20, 2001

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To expand the purposes of the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families to include poverty reduction, and to make grants available under the program for that purpose.
Short Titles as Introduced: Child Poverty Reduction Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Social Welfare.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jun 13, 2001Introduced in House

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