SUMMARY AS OF:
5/14/2002--Introduced.
Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2002 - 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 the consideration of certain child care expenditures
in determining State compliance with contingency fund requirements.
Revises State work participation requirements, incorporating a 40-hour work
week standard, and creating a State superachiever participation rate credit.
Revises requirements for the use of TANF grants. Repeals the Secretary's
authority to make loans to State welfare programs and revises State work
participation requirements.
Authorizes the Secretary to establish TANF performance goals and plans. Makes
appropriations for research, demonstrations, and technical assistance. Repeals
waiver continuation authority.
Authorizes 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 2002 - Amends the Child Care and Development Block
Grant Act of 1990 to specify consumer education information States are required
to collect and disseminate. Amends income tax benefits and reporting
requirements.
Reauthorizes funding for State child care entitlement programs and revises
State requirements for child support payments.
Amends SSA title XI (General Provisions) to eliminate specified limitations
on the Secretary's authority to approve demonstration projects and grant
waivers.
Amends 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.
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require the Secretary to establish a
program to make grants to States to provide food assistance and funds to operate
employment and training programs for needy individuals.
Extends abstinence education funding and reauthorizes transitional medical
assistance.