Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act Amendments of 2003

Key: what the circles and colors mean

Each circle is a bill. The ring fills as it moves through Congress:

IntroducedPassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law (gold)Resolution agreed to (full, dark)Failed or vetoed (gray)

Under the number: the Yea · Nay count of its final (or latest) recorded vote. On a member's page, the small badge is how that member voted: Y Yea / Aye, N Nay / No, P Present, – Not voting.

Gold and violet are only for Yea and Nay; they never mean a party. A member's party is the letter on their photo.

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 108th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

D RockefellerSponsor

No cosponsors.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Feb 12, 2003

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act Amendments of 2003 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) reauthorize State family assistance grants and provide for their annual adjustment; (2) revise contingency fund requirements; (3) provide for bonuses for States that reduce child poverty; (4) repeal authority for Federal loans for State welfare programs; (5) replace the caseload reduction credit with employment credit to reward States in which families leave welfare for work; (6) increase guaranteed funding for child care; (7) authorize States to establish a parents as scholars program; (8) modify requirements with respect to vocational educational training and other preemployment activities; (9) eliminate the separate work participation rate for two parent families; (10) prohibit State imposition of stricter eligibility criteria for two-parent families; (11) establish grants to States for programs encouraging two-parent families and reducing teenage pregnancies; (12) require a child well-being plan as part of the individual responsibility plan; (13) exclude victims of domestic violence from the 20 percent limitation on hardship exception; (14) provide for continuation of certain pre-TANF waivers for States that elect to continue to operate under such a waiver; (15) authorize States to cover legal immigrants under SSA titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP); (16) establish grants for second chance homes; and (17) authorize transfer of TANF funds to carry out an access to jobs or a reverse commute project.

Restores SCHIP funding for the social services block grant.

Directs the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and of Labor to award grants for projects related to promoting business linkages and providing for transitional jobs programs.

Amends SSA title IV part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) to authorize States to align foster care and adoption assistance eligibility with TANF eligibility.

Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to exclude State TANF assistance from the five year waiting period for legal immigrants.

Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to revise and extend the transitional medical assistance (TMA) program.

Prohibits use of TANF funds to displace public employees.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act Amendments of 2003

Latest action (Feb 12, 2003): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Policy area: Social Welfare · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Feb 12, 2003

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.