104th Congress / Bills / H R 4
Title
"An Act to enhance support and work opportunities for families with children, reduce welfare dependence, and control welfare spending".
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Abandonment of family | Abortion | Accounting | Actions and defenses | Administrative procedure -- Department of Agriculture | Administrative procedure -- Department of Health and Human Services | Administrative procedure -- Department of Justice | Administrative remedies | Adopted children | Adoption -- Costs | Adoptive parents | Age and employment | Aged | Agricultural surpluses | Agriculture | Aid to dependent children | Alcoholism | Alien labor | Aliens | Alimony | Alzheimer's disease | Ammunition | Appropriations | Auditing | Authorization | Bank accounts | Bank records | Bankruptcy | Banks and banking | Birth control | Birth defects | Black lung | Blind | Block grants -- Puerto Rico | Boarder babies | Breast feeding | Budget deficits | Budgets | Business | Business ethics | Business records | Caregivers | Case management | Census | Charities | Cheese | Child abuse | Child development | Child health | Child health services | Child nutrition -- Standards | Child support | Child 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Votes on this bill
| Date | Chamber | Result | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 613: On the Conference Report Conference Report to accompany H.R. 4; Personal Responsibility Act of 1995 | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 877: On Agreeing to the Conference Report Personal Responsibility Act of 1995 | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 876: Recommit Conference Report With Instructions Personal Responsibility Act of 1995 | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 875: Table the Appeal of the Ruling of the Chair Personal Responsibility Act of 1995 | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 443: On Passage of the Bill H.R. 4 As Amended; Personal Responsibility Act of 1995 | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 442: On the Amendment dole amdt no 2683 as modified; To make modifications to Amendment No. 2280. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 441: On the Amendment GRAMM AMDT NO. 2615; To reduce the Federal welfare bureaucracy. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 438: On the Amendment Daschle Amendment No. 2682; To permit States to provide non-cash assistance to children ineligible for aid because of the 5-year time limitation. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 436: On the Motion to Table Motion to Table Gramm Amendment No. 2615; To establish a national clearinghouse on teenage pregnancy, set national goals for the reduction of out-of-wedlock and teenage pregnancies, require States to establish a set-aside for teenage pregnancy prevention activities, and for other purposes. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 435: On the Motion to Table Motion to Table Gramm Amendment No. 2617 As Modified; To prohibit the use of Federal funds for legal challenges to welfare reform. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 434: On the Amendment Graham Amendment No. 2568; To set national work participation rate goals and to provide that the Secretary shall adjust the goals for individual States based on the amount of Federal funding the State receives for minor children in families in the State that have incomes below the poverty line, and for other purposes. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 433: On the Amendment Simon Amendment No. 2509; To eliminate retroactive deeming requirements for those legal immigrants already in the United States. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 432: On the Amendment kohl amdt no 2550; To exempt the elderly, disabled, and children from an optional State food assistance block grant. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 431: On the Amendment wellstone amdt no. 2505; To express the sense of the Senate regarding continuing medicaid coverage for individuals who lose eligibility for welfare benefits because of more earnings or hours of employment. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 430: On the Amendment simon amdt no 2468 as modified; To provide grants for the establishment of community works progress programs. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 429: On the Amendment bingaman amdt no. 2484 as modified; To provide funding for State programs for the treatment of drug addiction and alcoholism. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 428: On the Amendment Feinstein Amendment No. 2513; To limit deeming of income to cash and cash-like programs, and to retain SSI eligibility and exempt deeming of income requirements for victims of domesitc violence. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 427: On the Amendment Feinstein Amendment No. 2478; To provide equal treatment for naturalized and native-born citizens. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 426: On the Amendment Mikulski Amendment No. 2669; To encourage 2-parent families. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 425: On the Amendment Shelby Amendment No. 2526; To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a refundable credit for adoption expenses and to exclude for gross income employee and military adoption assistance benefits and withdrawals from IRAs for certain adoption expenses. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 424: On the Amendment Exon Amendment No. 2525 as Modified; To prohibit the payment of certain Federal benefits to any person not lawfully present within the United States, and for other purposes. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 423: On the Amendment Jeffords Amendment No. 2581; To strike the increase to the grant to reward States that reduce out-of-wedlock births. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 422: On the Amendment Faircloth Amendment No. 2609; To prohibit teenage parents from living in the home of an adult relative or guardian who has a history of receiving assistance. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 421: On the Amendment COHEN AMDT NO. 2586 DIVISION II; To modify the religious provider provision. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 420: On the Amendment BOXER AMDT NO. 2592; To provide that State authority to restrict benefits to noncitizens does not apply to foster care or adoption assistance programs. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 419: On the Amendment FAIRCLOTH AMDT NO. 2603; To deny assistance for out-of-wedlock births to minors. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 418: On the Amendment Mikulski Amendment No. 2668; To eliminate a repeal of title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 417: On the Amendment Daschle amdt. no. 2671; To provide a 3 percent set aside for the funding of family assistance grants for Indians. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 416: On the Amendment domenici amdt no. 2575 as modified; To allow States maximum flexibility in designing their Temporary Assistance programs. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 415: On the Amendment graham amdt no. 2565; To provide a formula for allocating funds that more accurately reflects the needs of States with children below the poverty line, and for other purposes. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 414: On the Amendment moseley-braun amdt. no. 2472; To prohibit a State from imposing a time limit for assistance if the State has failed to provide work activity-related services to an adult individual in a familiy receiving assistance under the State program. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 413: On the Amendment Moseley-Braun amdt. no. 2471; To require States to establish a voucher program for providing assistance to minor children in families that are eligible for but do not receive assistance. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 412: On the Amendment ashcroft amdt no 2562; To convert the food stamp program into a block grant program. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 411: On the Motion to Table motion to table breaux amdt no. 2488; To maintain the welfare partnership between the States and the Federal Government. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 410: On the Amendment Feinstein Amendment No. 2469; To provide additional funding to States to accommodate any growth in the number of people in poverty. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 409: On the Amendment Conrad Amendment No. 2529; To provide States with the maximum flexibilty by allowing States to elect to participate in the TAP and WAGE programs. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 408: On the Amendment Helms Amendment No. 2523; To require single, able-bodied individuals receiving food stamps to work at least 40 hours every 4 weeks. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 407: On the Amendment Kassebaum Amendment No. 2522; To modify provisions relating to funds for other child care programs. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 406: On the Motion to Table Motion to Table Dodd Amendment No. 2560; To provide for the establishment of a supplemental child care grant program. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 405: On the Amendment Boxer Amendment No. 2482 as Modified; To provide that noncustodial parents who are delinquent in paying child support are ineligible for means-tested Federal benefits. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 404: On the Amendment Brown Amendment No. 2508; To impose a cap on the amount of funds that can be used for administrative purposes. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 403: On the Amendment Moynihan Amendment No. 2466; To provide a substitute amendment. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 402: On the Amendment Santorum amdt. no. 2477; To eliminate certain welfare benefits with respect to fugitive felons and probation and parole violators, and to facilitate sharing of information with law enforcement officers, and for other purposes. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 401: On the Amendment Brown amdt. no. 2465; To provide that funds are expended in accordance with State laws and procedures relating to the expenditure of State revenues. | ||
| Senate | Session 1, roll call 400: On the Amendment Daschle Amendment No. 2282, As Modified; To provide a substitute. | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 269: On Passage Personal Responsibility Act of 1995 | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 268: On Motion to Recommit With Instructions Personal Responsibility Act of 1995 | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 267: On Agreeing to the Substitute Amendment | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 266: On Agreeing to the Substitute Amendment | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 265: On Agreeing to the Amendment | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 264: On Agreeing to the Amendment | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 263: On Agreeing to the Amendment | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 262: On Agreeing to the Amendment | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 261: On Agreeing to the Amendment | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 260: On Agreeing to the Amendment | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 259: On Agreeing to the Amendment | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 258: On Agreeing to the Amendments En Bloc, As Modified | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 257: On Agreeing to the Amendment | ||
| House | Session 1, roll call 256: On Motion That the Committee Rise Personal Responsibility Act of 1995 |
