Racial Equity and Fair Treatment Act of 2002
Latest action · May 7, 2002 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
- IntroducedMay 7, 2002
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for assessments and work activities for TANF recipients.
Requires: (1) interpretation and translation services in certain cases for TANF recipients; (2) an expedited process for discrimination complaints; (3) provision of notice of rights of TANF recipients; (3) training of TANF program personnel in respecting such rights; (4) standardized sanction process; and (5) opportunity for TANF applicants or recipients to appeal adverse decisions.
Modifies penalties against individuals for violating mandatory work requirements, creating additional exceptions, including those for child care and discrimination.
Prohibits States from diverting potential TANF applicants.
Bans States from penalizing the entire family for the misconduct of one family member.
Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to repeal provisions for denial of assistance and benefits for certain drug-related convictions.
Makes various changes under the TANF program concerning: (1) the five-year time limit on assistance; and (2) treatment of aliens.
Permits participation in English-as-a-second language programs as a work activity.
Prescribes requirements encouraging racial equality.
Cosponsors 43
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 7, 2002 to Jul 25, 2002; 13 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | May 7, 2002 |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Original | May 7, 2002 |
| D-MI | Carolyn C. Kilpatrick | Original | May 7, 2002 |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Original | May 7, 2002 |
| D-GA | Cynthia A. McKinney | Original | May 7, 2002 |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Original | May 7, 2002 |
| D-AL | Earl F. Hilliard | Original | May 7, 2002 |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | Original | May 7, 2002 |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Original | May 7, 2002 |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Original | May 7, 2002 |
| D-CA | Maxine Waters | Original | May 7, 2002 |
| D-NY | Nydia M. Velázquez | Original | May 7, 2002 |
| D-IL | Rod R. Blagojevich | Original | May 7, 2002 |
| D-MI | David E. Bonior | May 8, 2002 | |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | May 8, 2002 |
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 May 7, 2002 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 7, 2002Introduced in House
- May 7, 2002Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide for racial equity and fair treatment under the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Racial Equity and Fair Treatment Act of 2002
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Social Welfare.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Agriculture and Food
- Aid to dependent children
- Alcoholism treatment
- Aliens
- Asian American ethnic groups
- Blacks
- Business cycles
- Caregivers
- Case management
- Cash welfare block grants
- Child care block grants
- Child support enforcement
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Compensatory education
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Counseling
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Data banks
- Day care
- Disability evaluation
- Disabled
- Disabled children
- Discrimination
- Discrimination in employment
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse treatment
- Earned income tax credit
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Educational statistics
- Electronic data interchange
- Electronic mail systems
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee training
- Energy
- Energy assistance for the poor
- English language
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)
- Evidence (Law)
- Ex-offenders
- Facsimile transmission
- Families
- Family services
- Family violence
- Federal aid to child health services
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fines (Penalties)
- Food relief
- Food stamps
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Government statistics
- Governmental investigations
- Grants-in-aid
- Grievance procedures
- Health
- Health insurance
- Higher education
- Hispanic Americans
- Homeless
- Housing and Community Development
- Immigrants
- Income statistics
- Income tax
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations
- Internet
- Labor and Employment
- Labor statistics
- Language and languages
- Law
- Literacy programs
- Marriage
- Medicaid
- Medically uninsured
- Mental health services
- Mental illness
- Mentally ill
- Minimum wages
- Minorities
- Native Americans
- Nonprofit organizations
- Performance measurement
- Personal income tax
- Poor children
- Postal service
- Poverty
- Racial discrimination
- Rape
- Rape victim services
- Right of privacy
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sex discrimination
- Shelters for the homeless
- Social Welfare
- State laws
- Student employment
- Supplemental security income program
- Surveys
- Taxation
- Telephone
- Translating and interpreting
- Transportation and Public Works
- Unemployment
- Victims of crimes
- Vocational and technical education
- Vocational rehabilitation
- Volunteer workers
- Wages
- Welfare eligibility
- Welfare recipients
- Welfare work participation
- Welfare-to-work
- WIC program
- Wife abuse
- Women
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 7, 2002Introduced in House
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