Support for Working Families Extension Act

Support for Working Families Extension Act - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to extend through FY2012 the Emergency Contingency Fund for State Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Programs.

Increases the amount of the quarterly grant to a state from the Emergency Fund for subsidized employment expenditures.

Establishes new Emergency Fund grants to states for work support services expenditures.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4623 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4623

    To extend for 2 years the Emergency Contingency Fund for State 
    Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Programs, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 9, 2010

  Mr. Sestak introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
    To extend for 2 years the Emergency Contingency Fund for State 
    Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Programs, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Support for Working Families 
Extension Act''.

SEC. 2. 2-YEAR EXTENSION OF THE EMERGENCY CONTINGENCY FUND FOR STATE 
              TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--Section 403(c) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 603(c)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)(B)--
                    (A) by striking ``2010'' the 1st place it appears 
                and inserting ``2012''; and
                    (B) by striking ``and 2010'' and inserting 
                ``through 2012'';
            (2) in paragraph (2)(C), by striking ``2010'' and inserting 
        ``2012'';
            (3) in clause (i) of each of subparagraphs (A), (B), and 
        (C) of paragraph (3), by striking ``year 2009 or 2010'' and 
        inserting ``years 2009 through 2012'';
            (4) in paragraph (3)(C)(iii), by striking ``80'' and 
        inserting ``90'';
            (5) by adding at the end of paragraph (3) the following:
                    ``(D) Grant related to increased expenditures for 
                work support services.--
                            ``(i) In general.--For each calendar 
                        quarter in fiscal years 2010 through 2012, the 
                        Secretary shall make a grant from the Emergency 
                        Fund to each State that--
                                    ``(I) requests a grant under this 
                                subparagraph for the quarter; and
                                    ``(II) meets the requirement of 
                                clause (ii) for the quarter.
                            ``(ii) Work support services expenditure 
                        requirement.--A State meets the requirement of 
                        this clause for a quarter if the total 
                        expenditures of the State for work support 
                        services in the quarter, whether under the 
                        State program funded under this part or as 
                        qualified State expenditures, exceeds the total 
                        such expenditures of the State in the 
                        corresponding quarter in the emergency fund 
                        base year of the State.
                            ``(iii) Amount of grant.--Subject to 
                        paragraph (5), the amount of the grant to be 
                        made to a State under this subparagraph for a 
                        quarter shall be an amount equal to 80 percent 
                        of the excess described in clause (ii).'';
            (6) by adding at the end of paragraph (5) the following: 
        ``The total amount payable to a single State under subsection 
        (b) and this subsection for fiscal years 2011 and 2012 shall 
        not exceed 75 percent of the annual State family assistance 
        grant.''; and
            (7) in paragraph (9)--
                    (A) by adding at the end of subparagraph (B)(ii) 
                the following:
                                    ``(IV) The total expenditures of 
                                the State for work support services, 
                                whether under the State program funded 
                                under this part or as qualified State 
                                expenditures.''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) Work support services.--The term `work 
                support services' means services designed to help an 
                individual begin, remain, or advance in employment, as 
                indicated by any guidance that the Secretary may 
                provide.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 2101 of division B of the 
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(2)--
                    (A) by striking ``2010'' and inserting ``2012''; 
                and
                    (B) by striking all that follows ``repealed'' and 
                inserting a period; and
            (2) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ``2010'' and 
        inserting ``2012''.
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