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To encourage States to engage more TANF recipients in activities leading to employment and self-sufficiency, and to simplify State administration of TANF work requirements.

USA115th CongressHR-1352| House 
| Updated: 3/15/2017
James B. Renacci

James B. Renacci

Republican Representative

Ohio

Cosponsors (6)
Adrian Smith (Republican)Derek Kilmer (Democratic)Patrick Meehan (Republican)Patrick J. Tiberi (Republican)Daniel Webster (Republican)Larry Bucshon (Republican)

Ways and Means Committee, Work and Welfare Subcommittee, Education and Workforce Committee

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
Preparing More Welfare Recipients for Work Act This bill revises mandatory work requirements under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Specifically, for purposes of counting work activities toward the satisfaction of such requirements, the bill: eliminates the distinction between core work activities and other specified work activities related to training and education; in general, eliminates separate requirements for two-parent families and other families; allows partial credit with respect to families that participate in work activities for fewer hours than required; allows states to request approval for an alternative work-participation rate calculation; limits, after three months of participation, the extent to which job-search activities shall be counted as work activities; modifies requirements for counting secondary-school attendance as work participation; removes from the definition of "work activities" the provision of child-care services to an individual who is participating in a community service program; and increases, from 12 to 24 months, the maximum period for which vocational educational training counts a work activities.
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Timeline
Mar 2, 2017
Introduced in House
Mar 2, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
Mar 15, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
  • March 2, 2017
    Introduced in House


  • March 2, 2017
    Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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.


  • March 15, 2017
    Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.

Social Welfare

Child care and developmentElementary and secondary educationEmployment and training programsPoverty and welfare assistanceVocational and technical education

To encourage States to engage more TANF recipients in activities leading to employment and self-sufficiency, and to simplify State administration of TANF work requirements.

USA115th CongressHR-1352| House 
| Updated: 3/15/2017
Preparing More Welfare Recipients for Work Act This bill revises mandatory work requirements under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Specifically, for purposes of counting work activities toward the satisfaction of such requirements, the bill: eliminates the distinction between core work activities and other specified work activities related to training and education; in general, eliminates separate requirements for two-parent families and other families; allows partial credit with respect to families that participate in work activities for fewer hours than required; allows states to request approval for an alternative work-participation rate calculation; limits, after three months of participation, the extent to which job-search activities shall be counted as work activities; modifies requirements for counting secondary-school attendance as work participation; removes from the definition of "work activities" the provision of child-care services to an individual who is participating in a community service program; and increases, from 12 to 24 months, the maximum period for which vocational educational training counts a work activities.
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Timeline
Mar 2, 2017
Introduced in House
Mar 2, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
Mar 15, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
  • March 2, 2017
    Introduced in House


  • March 2, 2017
    Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 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.


  • March 15, 2017
    Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
James B. Renacci

James B. Renacci

Republican Representative

Ohio

Cosponsors (6)
Adrian Smith (Republican)Derek Kilmer (Democratic)Patrick Meehan (Republican)Patrick J. Tiberi (Republican)Daniel Webster (Republican)Larry Bucshon (Republican)

Ways and Means Committee, Work and Welfare Subcommittee, Education and Workforce Committee

Social Welfare

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
Child care and developmentElementary and secondary educationEmployment and training programsPoverty and welfare assistanceVocational and technical education