Category: Church and social problems

Bills

109th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 2123	To reauthorize the Head Start Act to improve the school readiness of disadvantaged children, and for other purposes.
H R 27	To enhance the workforce investment system of the Nation by strengthening one-stop career centers, providing for more effective governance arrangements, promoting access to a more comprehensive array of employment, training, and related services, establishing a targeted approach to serving youth, and improving performance accountability, and for other purposes.
H R 3402	To authorize appropriations for the Department of Justice for fiscal years 2006 through 2009, and for other purposes.
H R 856	To establish a Federal Youth Development Council to improve the administration and coordination of Federal programs serving youth, and for other purposes.
H R 972	To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2006 and 2007 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for other purposes.
S 1932	An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 202(a) of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2006 (H. Con. Res. 95).

108th Congress

Bill	Title
H R 1261	To enhance the workforce investment system of the Nation by strengthening one-stop career centers, providing for more effective governance arrangements, promoting access to a more comprehensive array of employment, training, and related services, establishing a targeted approach to serving youth, and improving performance accountability, and for other purposes.
H R 1298	To provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and for other purposes.
H R 1829	To amend title 18, United States Code, to require Federal Prison Industries to compete for its contracts minimizing its unfair competition with private sector firms and their non-inmate workers and empowering Federal agencies to get the best value for taxpayers' dollars, to provide a five-year period during which Federal Prison Industries adjusts to obtaining inmate work opportunities through other than its mandatory source status, to enhance inmate access to remedial and vocational opportunities and other rehabilitative opportunities to better prepare inmates for a successful return to society, to authorize alternative inmate work opportunities in support of non-profit organizations, and for other purposes.
H R 4	To reauthorize and improve the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families, improve access to quality child care, and for other purposes.
H R 7	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses, and for other purposes.

107th Congress

Bill	Title
H CON RES 102	Relating to efforts to reduce hunger in sub-Saharan Africa.
H CON RES 170	Encouraging corporations to contribute to faith-based organizations.
H R 1	To close the achievement gap with accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind.
H R 4737	To reauthorize and improve the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families, improve access to quality child care, and for other purposes.
H R 7	To provide incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses, to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of government program delivery to individuals and families in need, and to enhance the ability of low-income Americans to gain financial security by building assets.

106th Congress

Bill	Title
H CON RES 94	Recognizing the public need for reconciliation and healing, urging the United States to unite in seeking God, and recommending that the Nation's leaders call for days of prayer.
H R 4577	Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes.
H R 4923	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for the renewal of distressed communities, to provide for 9 additional empowerment zones and increased tax incentives for empowerment zone development, to encourage investments in new markets, and for other purposes.

105th Congress

Bill	Title
H RES 423	Expressing the sense of the House with respect to winning the war on drugs to protect our children.
S 2206	A bill to amend the Head Start Act, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, and the Community Services Block Grant Act to reauthorize and make improvements to those Acts, to establish demonstration projects that provide an opportunity for persons with limited means to accumulate assets, and for other purposes.