Open Congress : Human Resources - Major Bill Actions

Bill Introduced: H.R.4010 Low-Income Gasoline Assistance Program Act

2005-10-06T00:00:00Z

To provide emergency assistance for families receiving assistance under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act and low-income working families.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3860 Protecting Our Children Act of 2005

2005-09-22T00:00:00Z

To make improvements to the national sex offender registration program, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3774 Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2005

2005-09-14T00:00:00Z

To provide for unemployment benefits for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3758 Fostering Our Future Act of 2005

2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

To improve foster care court capacity through grants, loan forgiveness, and performance measurement.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3711 Emergency Action for Vulnerable Children Act

2005-09-08T00:00:00Z

To ensure that foster children affected or displaced by Hurricane Katrina receive the critical assistance they need and deserve.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3663 To amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide a State option to extend current waivers and create additional waiver authority under the temporary assistance for needy families program.

2005-09-06T00:00:00Z

To amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide a State option to extend current waivers and create additional waiver authority under the temporary assistance for needy families program.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3576 Leave No Abused or Neglected Child Behind Act

2005-07-28T00:00:00Z

To improve outcomes for vulnerable children by investing in families, improving accountability in the child welfare system, and finding safe, stable, and permanent homes for foster children.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3470 Accountability in Foster Care Act

2005-07-27T00:00:00Z

To strengthen the accountability of the child welfare system in its mandate to ensure the safety, permanence, and well-being of children who are victims of abuse and neglect.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3471 Strengthening the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program Act

2005-07-27T00:00:00Z

To help children make the transition from foster care to self-sufficiency by addressing weaknesses in the implementation of the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3380 Guardianship Assistance Promotion and Kinship Support Act

2005-07-21T00:00:00Z

To amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide Federal support and assistance to children living with guardians and kinship caregivers, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3379 Stronger Families Act

2005-07-21T00:00:00Z

To amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to promote safe and permanent homes for foster children.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3171 VAWA 2005 Reauthorization Act

2005-06-30T00:00:00Z

To reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3188 Immigrant Victims of Violence Protection Act of 2005

2005-06-30T00:00:00Z

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide protection for immigrant victims of violence.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3185 Security and Financial Empowerment Act

2005-06-30T00:00:00Z

To promote the economic security and safety of victims of domestic and sexual violence, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3129 Foster Child Protection and Child Sexual Predator Sentencing Act of 2005

2005-06-30T00:00:00Z

To protect foster children and provide appropriate sentencing for child sex predators, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3012 Volunteer Firefighters? Protection Act of 2005

2005-06-21T00:00:00Z

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income health care subsidy payments made to employers by local governments on behalf of volunteer firefighters.

Bill Introduced: H.R.2876 Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2005

2005-06-14T00:00:00Z

To reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.

Bill Introduced: H.R.2900 To enable the residents of the Bayshore Manor assisted living facility in Key West, Florida, to continue to receive supplemental security income benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act.

2005-06-14T00:00:00Z

To enable the residents of the Bayshore Manor assisted living facility in Key West, Florida, to continue to receive supplemental security income benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act.

Bill Introduced: H.R.2623 To require States to conduct DNA tests to ascertain the degree of genetic relatedness between two or more persons in accordance with a national standard.

2005-05-25T00:00:00Z

To require States to conduct DNA tests to ascertain the degree of genetic relatedness between two or more persons in accordance with a national standard.

Bill Introduced: H.R.2409 Child Support Reinvestment Act of 2005

2005-05-17T00:00:00Z

To amend part D of title IV of the Social Security Act to modify the calculation of the child support automation penalty and provide for the reinvestment of any such penalty.