Congress 107 - HR 4700 - Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2002

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Academic performance Adoption Agriculture and Food Aid to dependent children Appropriations Armed Forces and National Security Auditing Blind Block grants California Caregivers Cash welfare block grants Census Child abuse Child care block grants Child development Child health Child support Child support enforcement Child welfare Church and social problems Commerce Computer matching Congress Congressional investigations Congressional reporting requirements Consumer credit Crime and Law Enforcement Day care Delinquency prevention Directories Disability evaluation Disabled Drug abuse Drug abuse counseling Drug abuse treatment Drugs and youth Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Employment subsidies Evaluation research (Social action programs) Families Fathers Federal aid to child health services Federal aid to child welfare Federal aid to Indians Federal aid to maternal health services Federal aid to territories Federal-state relations Finance and Financial Sector Food relief Food stamps Foster home care Government contractors Government lending Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Health Identification devices Income tax Indian children Interest Job hunting Labor and Employment Marriage Married people Medicaid Mentoring Minorities Nonmarital births Nonprofit organizations Performance measurement Personal income tax Premarital sex Preschool education Public-private partnerships Recruiting of employees Religion School-age child care Science, Technology, Communications Sex education Sexual abstinence Social security numbers Social surveys Social Welfare Suicide Supplemental security income program Tax administration Tax exclusion Tax refunds Taxation Teenage pregnancy Unemployed Unemployment insurance Unmarried couples Unmarried fathers User charges Veterans' disability compensation Wages Welfare eligibility Welfare work participation Welfare-to-work Wisconsin Women Youth

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Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2002 - Amends title IV (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to reauthorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to award state family assistance grants.

Authorizes States to use grants for marriage promotion activities and requires the Secretary to make bonus grants to each state that has achieved formulated employment goals.

Revises requirements for the consideration of certain child care expenditures in determining State compliance with contingency fund requirements.

Revises State work participation requirements, incorporating a 40-hour work week standard, and creating a State superachiever participation rate credit.

Revises requirements for the use of TANF grants. Repeals the Secretary's authority to make loans to State welfare programs and revises State work participation requirements.

Authorizes the Secretary to establish TANF performance goals and plans. Makes appropriations for research, demonstrations and technical assistance. Repeals waiver continuation authority.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit community entities for demonstration projects to test the effectiveness of various approaches to create a Fatherhood Program.

Permits States the option to make TANF programs mandatory partners with one-stop employment training centers.

Caring for Children Act of 2002 - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to specify consumer education information States are required to collect and disseminate. Amends income tax benefits and reporting requirements.

Reauthorizes funding for State child care entitlement programs and revises State requirements for child support payments.

Amends SSA title XI (General Provisions) to eliminate specified limitations on the Secretary's authority to approve demonstration projects and grant waivers.

Amends SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) to require the Commissioner of Social Security to review State agency blindness and disability determinations.

Authorizes the administering Secretary to authorize innovative State demonstration projects involving individual programs, or integrating multiple public assistance, employment security, and other programs to support working families.

Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require the Secretary to establish a program to make grants to States to provide food assistance and funds to operate employment and training programs for needy individuals.

Extends abstinence education funding and reauthorizes transitional medical assistance.

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Sep 25, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
May 17, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
May 14, 2002

Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
May 9, 2002

Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and the Workforce, Agriculture, and Financial Services, 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.
May 9, 2002

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