H.R. 3395 would amend title IV of the Social Security Act to ensure funding for grants to promote responsible fatherhood and strengthen low-income families.
Detailed Summary
Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2007 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to: (1) funding for responsible fatherhood programs; (2) requirements to ensure procedures to address domestic violence; (3) activities promoting responsible fatherhood; (4) grants to healthy family partnerships for domestic violence prevention, for services for families and individuals affected by domestic violence, and for developing and implementing best practices; and (5) elimination of separate TANF work participation rate for two-parent families.
Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to prohibit a state from collecting any amount owed it by reason of costs it has incurred for the birth of a child for whom support rights have been assigned.
Requires a state to make a full distribution of collected child support to the family.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to states for an employment demonstration project involving a court- or state child support agency-supervised program for noncustodial parents so they can pay child support obligations.
Directs the Secretary of Labor to award grants for transitional jobs programs and for public-private career pathways partnerships.
Conditions continued approval of a state plan under part D upon state assessment of its policies with respect to barriers to employment and financial support of children.
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 with respect to: (1) deductions from family income for child support received in order to qualify for food stamps; (2) verification of child support payments; and (3) inclusion of economic opportunities programs in qualifying work programs.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) modify the earned income tax credit (EIC); (2) raise the EIC phase-out amount for couples (further easing the "marriage penalty"); and (3) require information pertaining to the customer's adjusted basis in broker's returns in the case of securities transactions.
Amends the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 with respect to the effective date of leasing provisions of the Act.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the economic substance doctrine.
Status of the Legislation
Latest Major Action: 4/25/2008: Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
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Visitor Comments
Greg Fischer, the children's lobbyist
March 8, 2008, 6:51am (report abuse)This bill is a complete joke.
The system still EXTORTS money out of poor people then puts them in the slammer. Parents earning under $25,000 a year are poor and should not have to get criminalized and further slapped down. Is criminalizing parents in the best interest of children?
Greg Fischer, "the children's lobbyist"
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Robert Gartner
October 10, 2008, 1:52pm (report abuse)This bill is a furtherance of government measures to destroy fathers and fatherhood, not build it up and acknwledge them.
When will the government wake up to the fact that a child needs both parents and allow fathers a seat at the table. Instead we hear more and more of deadbeat and fatherhood remains little else that a man with a billfold.
Tom Miller
October 10, 2008, 7:42pm (report abuse)This act is horrible - politically popular parasitic politics. This act does the same thing similar acts have done before it, the exact opposite of what it's advertised to do, just more of it.
It doesn't promote families or help women and children. It only helps further rip them up, terrorize them through promotion of lies and hysteria. It prevents families from forming as well.
Acts like this do exploit the public, especially women and children: www.true-equality.org - listen to what women (female victims no less)are saying about bills and policies like this, and so many of it's like-minded predatory predecessors. They have all produced the mess this bill purports to save us from. Isn't the definition of insanity, "doing the same destructive thing over and over and expecting a positive outcome"?
Also see www.mediaradar.org for more straight talk on bills and policies like this and the devastation they do in the name of government saviorism.
Tom Miller
October 10, 2008, 7:50pm (report abuse)Once enough people wake up and see what's being done to them on the sly, they will chase snake oil salesmen/women like this out of town.
Doug Alton
October 11, 2008, 12:16am (report abuse)The very concept of this act is flawed from the get-go! It seems to hold forth the preposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end! If they really wanted to support responsible fatherhood then they would call off the war against fathers in general. Are the voters really soooo stupid that they believe that only a father came cause harm? And: that only mothers are good for children or that mothers can do no wrong? (or both?). Just how is this even tolerated; when we can not use racial profiling against terrorism but our own governments sponsor terrorism against fathers under the guise of "protecting children and servicing families!
Sexual profiling? What's next?
This is yet one more example of how badly our society has deteriorated!
What a crock!
Andrew Ess
October 11, 2008, 9:57pm (report abuse)If ever there was more of the same, well here we have it HR3395.
Lets examine it's effects, firstly it places more federal funds into the hands of the officiating class, worse more funds to obfuscate with PR and rhetoric the problem with a failed (! or intentional) political policy. Not a dollar will ever reach the targeted people, especially as all these non radical public regurgitations authorize the further divide of families. Something stinks in paradise on earth, especially for those who live in the reality of this legislative minutia.