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To amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to define good cause to include the loss of adequate child care, for the purpose of determining whether voluntarily quitting a job results in a failure to satisfy the work requirement applicable under section 6(d)(1)(A)(v) of such Act.
To amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to define good cause to include the loss of adequate child care, for the purpose of determining whether voluntarily quitting a job results in a failure to satisfy the work requirement applicable under section 6(d)(1)(A)(v) of such Act.
Summary
This bill amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to expand the definition of "good cause" for purposes of the work requirement that applies to food stamp recipients. Specifically, it adds that loss of adequate child care for a dependent child under age 12 constitutes good cause for voluntarily quitting a job. Under current law, recipients who voluntarily quit a job without good cause may be found to have failed the work requirement and could lose their food stamp benefits. With this amendment, someone who leaves employment due to loss of child care for a young child would not be considered to have violated the work requirement.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Mink, Patsy T. [D-HI-2] (D-HI)
Actions (3)
- Aug 27, 1998 Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture. · house
- Aug 6, 1998 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. · house
- Aug 6, 1998 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
August 6, 1998
Mrs. Mink of Hawaii introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to define good cause to include the loss of adequate child care, for the purpose of determining whether voluntarily quitting a job results in a failure to satisfy the work requirement applicable under section 6(d)(1)(A)(v) of such Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 6(d)(1)(D)(i) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2015(d)(1)(D)(i)) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: “, except that for purposes of subparagraph (A)(v)(I), good cause shall include loss of adequate child care for a dependent child under the age of 12”. <all>
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