To require those applying for, and renewing, SCHIP, TAA, and ATAA benefits to present documentation proving both citizenship and identity in order to receive those benefits.
Latest action · Nov 19, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Progress
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- IntroducedNov 9, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Requires any applicant for benefits under title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act, the trade adjustment assistance (TAA) program under the Trade Act of 1974 (TA74), or the alternative trade adjustment assistance program (ATAA) under TA74 to present satisfactory documentation providing both citizenship and identity as a condition of receiving benefits under such programs.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 19, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
- Nov 9, 2007Introduced in House
- Nov 9, 2007Referred 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.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Social Welfare.
- Citizenship
- Economics and Public Finance
- Families
- Federal aid to child health services
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Health
- Health insurance
- Identification devices
- Immigration
- Job hunting
- Labor and Employment
- Medically uninsured
- Occupational retraining
- Poor children
- Relocation
- Social Welfare
- Trade adjustment assistance
- Welfare eligibility
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 9, 2007Introduced in House
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