HR 4671 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Social Security Widow's Benefit Guarantee Act of 2002

Introduced May 7, 2002 Originated House Sponsor Robert T. Matsui D-CA

Latest action · May 17, 2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.

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

Social Security Widow's Benefit Guarantee Act of 2002 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) provide for an increase in widow's and widower's insurance benefits; (2) repeal the seven year restriction on eligibility for widow's and widower's insurance benefits based on disability; (3) waive the two-year waiting period for a divorced spouse's benefits upon the other spouse's remarriage; and (4) disregard months ending after a deceased individual's death in applying early retirement rules with respect to the deceased individual for purposes of the limitation on widow's and widower's benefits.

Amends SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) to provide that an eligible widow or widower who is entitled to a widow's or widower's insurance benefit for any month under OASDI, but is not eligible for benefits under SSI in that month, shall be deemed for purposes of SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to be an individual with respect to whom SSI benefits are paid in that month, if he or she: (1) has been continuously entitled to such widow's or widower's insurance benefits from the first month for which the increase in widow's or widower's insurance benefits resulting from this Act is reflected in such benefits through the month involved; and (2) would be eligible for benefits under SSI in the month involved if the amount of the increase in his or her widow's or widower's insurance benefits were disregarded.

Cosponsors 139

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 7, 2002 to Sep 4, 2002; 60 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	May 7, 2002
D-MD	Benjamin L. Cardin	Original	May 7, 2002
D-MN	Betty McCollum	Original	May 7, 2002
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.	Original	May 7, 2002
D-CA	Bob Filner	Original	May 7, 2002
D-WA	Brian Baird	Original	May 7, 2002
D-MI	Carolyn C. Kilpatrick	Original	May 7, 2002
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel	Original	May 7, 2002
D-TX	Ciro D. Rodriguez	Original	May 7, 2002
D-FL	Corrine Brown	Original	May 7, 2002
D-GA	Cynthia A. McKinney	Original	May 7, 2002
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee	Original	May 7, 2002
D-IL	Danny K. Davis	Original	May 7, 2002
D-MI	David E. Bonior	Original	May 7, 2002
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich	Original	May 7, 2002
D-CA	Diane E. Watson	Original	May 7, 2002
D-ND	Earl Pomeroy	Original	May 7, 2002
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	May 7, 2002
D-NC	Eva M. Clayton	Original	May 7, 2002
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark	Original	May 7, 2002
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.	Original	May 7, 2002
D-WI	Gerald D. Kleczka	Original	May 7, 2002
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman	Original	May 7, 2002
D-CT	James H. Maloney	Original	May 7, 2002
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	May 7, 2002
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler	Original	May 7, 2002
D-WA	Jim McDermott	Original	May 7, 2002
D-MI	John D. Dingell	Original	May 7, 2002
D-GA	John Lewis	Original	May 7, 2002
D-PA	John P. Murtha	Original	May 7, 2002
D-CA	Juanita Millender-McDonald	Original	May 7, 2002
D-FL	Karen L. Thurman	Original	May 7, 2002
D-MO	Karen McCarthy	Original	May 7, 2002
D-TX	Ken Bentsen	Original	May 7, 2002
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett	Original	May 7, 2002
D-CA	Lois Capps	Original	May 7, 2002
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter	Original	May 7, 2002
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey	Original	May 7, 2002
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur	Original	May 7, 2002
D-MA	Martin T. Meehan	Original	May 7, 2002
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey	Original	May 7, 2002
D-TX	Max Sandlin	Original	May 7, 2002
D-NY	Michael R. McNulty	Original	May 7, 2002
D-CA	Mike Thompson	Original	May 7, 2002
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey	Original	May 7, 2002
D-PA	Paul E. Kanjorski	Original	May 7, 2002
D-MA	Richard E. Neal	Original	May 7, 2002
D-NJ	Robert Menendez	Original	May 7, 2002
D-WI	Ron Kind	Original	May 7, 2002
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro	Original	May 7, 2002
D-CA	Sam Farr	Original	May 7, 2002
D-MI	Sander M. Levin	Original	May 7, 2002
D-NV	Shelley Berkley	Original	May 7, 2002
D-OH	Sherrod Brown	Original	May 7, 2002
D-OH	Stephanie Tubbs Jones	Original	May 7, 2002
D-CA	Susan A. Davis	Original	May 7, 2002
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin	Original	May 7, 2002
D-PA	Tim Holden	Original	May 7, 2002
D-CA	Xavier Becerra	Original	May 7, 2002
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren	Original	May 7, 2002
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		May 9, 2002
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson		May 9, 2002
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		May 9, 2002
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		May 9, 2002
D-CA	Hilda L. Solis		May 9, 2002
D-MA	James P. McGovern		May 9, 2002
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		May 9, 2002
D-IN	Julia Carson		May 9, 2002
D-IL	Lane Evans		May 9, 2002
D-TX	Martin Frost		May 9, 2002
D-HI	Patsy T. Mink		May 9, 2002
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		May 9, 2002
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		May 9, 2002
D-IL	Rod R. Blagojevich		May 9, 2002
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		May 9, 2002
D-OH	Tony P. Hall		May 9, 2002
D-PA	William J. Coyne		May 9, 2002
D-LA	William J. Jefferson		May 9, 2002
D-WV	Alan B. Mollohan		May 14, 2002
D-MD	Albert Russell Wynn		May 14, 2002
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		May 14, 2002
D-NY	Anthony D. Weiner		May 14, 2002
D-TN	Bart Gordon		May 14, 2002
D-MA	Bill Delahunt		May 14, 2002
D-NC	Bob Etheridge		May 14, 2002
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		May 14, 2002
D-OK	Brad Carson		May 14, 2002
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		May 14, 2002
D-FL	Carrie P. Meek		May 14, 2002
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		May 14, 2002
D-NC	David E. Price		May 14, 2002
D-CO	Diana DeGette		May 14, 2002
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		May 14, 2002
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen		May 14, 2002
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		May 14, 2002
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		May 14, 2002
D-AS	Eni F. H. Faleomavaega		May 14, 2002
D-PA	Frank Mascara		May 14, 2002
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		May 14, 2002
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		May 14, 2002
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		May 14, 2002
D-RI	James R. Langevin		May 14, 2002
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		May 14, 2002
D-CT	John B. Larson		May 14, 2002
D-ME	John Elias Baldacci		May 14, 2002
D-MA	John F. Tierney		May 14, 2002
D-NY	John J. LaFalce		May 14, 2002
D-MA	John W. Olver		May 14, 2002
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		May 14, 2002
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		May 14, 2002
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		May 14, 2002
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		May 14, 2002
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		May 14, 2002
D-MI	Lynn N. Rivers		May 14, 2002
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		May 14, 2002
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		May 14, 2002
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		May 14, 2002
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		May 14, 2002
D-CA	Nancy Pelosi		May 14, 2002
D-HI	Neil Abercrombie		May 14, 2002
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		May 14, 2002
D-TX	Nick Lampson		May 14, 2002
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks		May 14, 2002
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		May 14, 2002
D-MO	Richard A. Gephardt		May 14, 2002
D-PA	Robert A. Borski		May 14, 2002
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		May 14, 2002
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		May 14, 2002
D-FL	Robert Wexler		May 14, 2002
D-MS	Ronnie Shows		May 14, 2002
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		May 14, 2002
D-TX	Solomon P. Ortiz		May 14, 2002
D-MD	Steny H. Hoyer		May 14, 2002
D-OH	Ted Strickland		May 14, 2002
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		May 23, 2002
D-TX	Gene Green		May 23, 2002
D-CA	Joe Baca		May 23, 2002
D-NJ	Rush Holt		May 23, 2002
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Sep 4, 2002

Committees 2

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
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred May 7, 2002
	Health Subcommittee	Referred May 17, 2002

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

May 17, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
May 7, 2002Introduced in House
May 7, 2002Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E736-737)
May 7, 2002Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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.

In the Congressional Record 2

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 E878	Ron Kind D-WI	May 22, 2002
Extensions	Debate and remarks E736	Robert T. Matsui D-CA	May 7, 2002

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title II of the Social Security Act to improve benefits for aged survivors, disabled survivors, and divorced spouses, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Social Security Widow's Benefit Guarantee Act of 2002

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

May 7, 2002Introduced in House

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