TANF Marriage Penalty Elimination Act

TANF Marriage Penalty Elimination Act - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to eliminate the separate work participation rate requirements for two-parent families.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3188 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3188

 To eliminate the separate work participation rate requirements for 2-
    parent families under the program of block grants to States for 
                temporary assistance for needy families.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 26, 2007

   Mr. Weller of Illinois (for himself, Mr. Herger, and Mr. Camp of 
  Michigan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on 
Education and Labor, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To eliminate the separate work participation rate requirements for 2-
    parent families under the program of block grants to States for 
                temporary assistance for needy families.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``TANF Marriage Penalty Elimination 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF SEPARATE PARTICIPATION RATE REQUIREMENTS FOR 2-
              PARENT FAMILIES.

    (a) In General.--Section 407 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
607) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking all through ``A State'' and 
                inserting the following:
    ``(a) Participation Rate Requirements.--A State''; and
                    (B) by striking paragraph (2);
            (2) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking ``(a)(1)'' and 
                inserting ``(a)'';
                    (B) by striking paragraph (2) and redesignating 
                paragraphs (3) through (5) as paragraphs (2) through 
                (4), respectively;
                    (C) in paragraph (3) (as so redesignated), by 
                striking ``paragraphs (1)(B) and (2)(B)'' and inserting 
                ``paragraph (1)(B)''; and
                    (D) in paragraph (4) (as so redesignated), by 
                striking ``rates'' and inserting ``rate''; and
            (3) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by striking all through ``For purposes 
                        of subsection (b)(1)(B)(i)'' and inserting the 
                        following:
            ``(1) General rules.--For purposes of subsection 
        (b)(1)(B)(i)''; and
                            (ii) by striking subparagraph (B); and
                    (B) in paragraph (2)(D)--
                            (i) by striking ``paragraphs (1)(B)(i) and 
                        (2)(B) of subsection (b)'' and inserting 
                        ``subsection (b)(1)(B)(i)''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``in all families and in 
                        2-parent families, respectively,''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The paragraph heading for section 
409(a)(3) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 609(a)(3)) is amended by striking 
``rates'' and inserting ``rate''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall be applied and administered 
as if the amendments had taken effect on October 1, 2006.
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