Preserving Welfare for Needs Not Weed Act

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Preserving Welfare for Needs Not Weed Act - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require a state receiving a TANF grant to maintain policies and practices necessary to prevent assistance under the TANF program from being used in any electronic benefit transfer (via a card) at any establishment that offers marijuana for sale.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4137 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4137

 To prohibit assistance provided under the program of block grants to 
States for temporary assistance for needy families from being accessed 
  through the use of an electronic benefit transfer card at any store 
                    that offers marijuana for sale.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 4, 2014

 Mr. Reichert (for himself, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Tipton, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. 
Coffman, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Griffin of Arkansas, Mr. Gosar, 
Mrs. Black, Mr. Young of Indiana, Mr. Smith of Nebraska, and Mr. Reed) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit assistance provided under the program of block grants to 
States for temporary assistance for needy families from being accessed 
  through the use of an electronic benefit transfer card at any store 
                    that offers marijuana for sale.

    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 ``Preserving Welfare for Needs Not 
Weed Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF ELECTRONIC BENEFIT TRANSFER CARD TO 
              ACCESS TANF ASSISTANCE AT ANY STORE THAT OFFERS MARIJUANA 
              FOR SALE.

    (a) Prohibition.--Section 408(a)(12)(A) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 608(a)(12)(A)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``or'' at the end of clause (ii);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of clause (iii) and 
        inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iv) any establishment that offers 
                        marihuana (as defined in section 102(16) of the 
                        Controlled Substances Act) for sale.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the date that is 2 years after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
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