Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2005
Latest action. Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the yeas and naysThe constitutional right of one-fifth of those present to force every member's vote onto the public record. The mechanism behind every roll call you can look up.Read the full definition (opens a new tab): 23 - 20.
Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2005 - Amends title IV (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to reauthorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to award state family assistance grants.
Authorizes States to use grants for marriage promotion activities and requires the Secretary to make bonus grants to each State that has achieved formulated employment goals.
Revises requirements for: (1) the consideration of certain child care expenditures in determining State compliance with contingency fund requirements; (2) State work participation standards, incorporating a 40-hour work week standard, and creating a State superachiever participation rate credit; and (3) the use of TANF grants.
Replaces personal responsibility plans with family self-sufficiency plans.
Authorizes the Secretary to establish TANF performance goals and plans. Makes appropriations for research, demonstrations, and technical assistance.
Promotion and Support of Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Marriage Act of 2005 - Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to authorize the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit community entities for demonstration projects to test the effectiveness of various approaches to create a Fatherhood Program.
Permits States the option to make TANF programs mandatory partners with one-stop employment training centers.
Caring for Children Act of 2005 - Amends the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to specify consumer education information States are required to collect and disseminate.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to income tax benefits.
Reauthorizes funding for State child care entitlement programs and revises State requirements for child support payments.
Amends: (1) SSA title XI (General Provisions) to eliminate specified limitations on the Secretary's authority to approve demonstration projects and grant waivers; and (2) SSA title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) to require the Commissioner of Social Security to review State agency blindness and disability determinations.
Authorizes the administering Secretary to authorize innovative State demonstration projects involving individual programs, or integrating multiple public assistance, employment security, and other programs to support working families.
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Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 20.
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In the 109th Congress (2005-06), 482 of the 10,701 bills and joint resolutions introduced became law, about 4.5 percent. That count covers every measure at every stage, including the many that never left committee.
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Who is behind it?
DEBORAH PRYCE (R-OH) introduced it on January 4, 2005, and 19 members have since signed on as cosponsors.
They are 19 Republicans.
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How long has it been in play?
It was introduced on January 4, 2005, 7919 days ago. The most recent recorded action was 7630 days ago, on October 20, 2005.
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Vote history
- HouseOrdered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 20.
- SenateNot stated in the latest action
- PresidentNot stated in the latest action