CSA OPPORTUNITY Act
Latest action · Dec 19, 2014 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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.
- IntroducedDec 3, 2014
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Children's Savings Accounts Offer Parents Plenty of Reasons to Understand and Invest in Tuition Yearly Act or the CSA OPPORTUNITY Act - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct a state receiving a TANF grant to disregard the value of any interest in, or distribution from, a qualified tuition program, as well as the value of a child's savings account, in determining individual or family TANF eligibility or the amount or type of assistance.
Amends SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) to exclude from an individual's resources for SSI eligibility or benefit purposes the value of any interest in, or distribution from, a qualified tuition program as well as the value of a child's savings account.
Amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to exclude any child's savings accounts from resources for eligibility and benefit purposes under the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP, formerly the food stamp program).
Amends the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to exclude from household income any child's savings accounts from resources for eligibility and benefit purposes under the low-income home energy assistance program.
Prescribes penalties for noncompliance.
Cosponsors 10
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 3, 2014 to Dec 9, 2014, with 8 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Original | Dec 3, 2014 |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Original | Dec 3, 2014 |
| D-PA | Allyson Y. Schwartz | Original | Dec 3, 2014 |
| D-NV | Dina Titus | Original | Dec 3, 2014 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Dec 3, 2014 |
| D-MA | Niki Tsongas | Original | Dec 3, 2014 |
| R-WI | Reid J. Ribble | Original | Dec 3, 2014 |
| D-TX | Ruben Hinojosa | Original | Dec 3, 2014 |
| D-OH | Marcia L. Fudge | Dec 8, 2014 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Dec 9, 2014 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 19, 2014Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Dec 3, 2014Introduced in House
- Dec 3, 2014Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce, 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.
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Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 3, 2014Introduced in House
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