Us Congress Senate Bill SB74 Introduced / Bill

                    II 
118THCONGRESS 
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STSESSION S. 74 
To provide support and assistance to unborn children, pregnant women, 
parents, and families. 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JANUARY25, 2023 
Mr. R
UBIOintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 
to the Committee on Finance 
A BILL 
To provide support and assistance to unborn children, 
pregnant women, parents, and families. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 3
(a) S
HORTTITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 4
‘‘Providing for Life Act of 2023’’. 5
(b) T
ABLE OFCONTENTS.—The table of contents for 6
this Act is as follows: 7
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Permanent extension and modification of special rules for child tax 
credit. 
Sec. 3. Treatment of unborn children. 
Sec. 4. Denial of deduction for State and local taxes of individuals. 
Sec. 5. Refundable adoption tax credit. 
Sec. 6. Parental leave benefits. 
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Sec. 7. Cooperation with child support agencies as eligibility factor under sup-
plemental nutrition assistance program. 
Sec. 8. Workforce development programs for non-custodial parents. 
Sec. 9. Requiring biological fathers to pay child support for medical expenses 
incurred during pregnancy and delivery. 
Sec. 10. Pregnant students’ rights, accommodations, and resources. 
Sec. 11. Grants for community-based maternal mentoring programs. 
Sec. 12. Equal treatment for religious organizations in social services. 
Sec. 13. Awareness for expecting mothers. 
Sec. 14. WIC reform. 
Sec. 15. Pregnancy resource centers. 
SEC. 2. PERMANENT EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF 
1
SPECIAL RULES FOR CHILD TAX CREDIT. 2
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 24 of the Internal Rev-3
enue Code of 1986 is amended by striking subsections (a), 4
(b), and (c) and inserting the following new subsections: 5
‘‘(a) A
LLOWANCE OF CREDIT.—There shall be al-6
lowed as a credit against the tax imposed by this chapter 7
for the taxable year an amount equal to the sum of— 8
‘‘(1) $3,500 for each qualifying child of the tax-9
payer ($4,500 in the case of a qualifying child who 10
has not attained age 6 as of the close of the cal-11
endar year in which the taxable year of the taxpayer 12
begins), and 13
‘‘(2) in the case of any taxable year beginning 14
before January 1, 2026, $500 for each qualifying 15
dependent (other than a qualifying child) of the tax-16
payer. 17
‘‘(b) L
IMITATIONBASED ONADJUSTEDGROSSIN-18
COME.—The amount of the credit allowable under sub-19
section (a) shall be reduced (but not below zero) by $50 20
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for each $1,000 (or fraction thereof) by which the tax-1
payer’s modified adjusted gross income exceeds $400,000 2
in the case of a joint return ($200,000 in any other case). 3
For purposes of the preceding sentence, the term ‘‘modi-4
fied adjusted gross income’’ means adjusted gross income 5
increased by any amount excluded from gross income 6
under section 911, 931, or 933. 7
‘‘(c) Q
UALIFYINGCHILD; QUALIFYINGDEPEND-8
ENT.—For purposes of this section— 9
‘‘(1) Q
UALIFYING CHILD.—The term ‘qualifying 10
child’ means any qualifying dependent of the tax-11
payer— 12
‘‘(A) who is a qualifying child (as defined 13
in section 152(c)) of the taxpayer, 14
‘‘(B) who has not attained age 18 at the 15
close of the calendar year in which the taxable 16
year of the taxpayer begins, and 17
‘‘(C) whose name and social security num-18
ber are included on the taxpayer’s return of tax 19
for the taxable year. 20
‘‘(2) Q
UALIFYING DEPENDENT .—The term 21
‘qualifying dependent’ means any dependent of the 22
taxpayer (as defined in section 152 without regard 23
to all that follows ‘resident of the United States’ in 24
section 152(b)(3)(A)) whose name and TIN are in-25
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cluded on the taxpayer’s return of tax for the tax-1
able year. 2
‘‘(3) S
OCIAL SECURITY NUMBER DEFINED .— 3
For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘social se-4
curity number’ means, with respect to a return of 5
tax, a social security number issued to an individual 6
by the Social Security Administration, but only if 7
the social security number is issued— 8
‘‘(A) to a citizen of the United States or 9
pursuant to subclause (I) (or that portion of 10
subclause (III) that relates to subclause (I)) of 11
section 205(c)(2)(B)(i) of the Social Security 12
Act, and 13
‘‘(B) on or before the due date of filing 14
such return.’’. 15
(b) P
ORTION OFCREDITREFUNDABLE.—Section 16
24(d)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amend-17
ed— 18
(1) by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting 19
the following: 20
‘‘(A) the credit which would be allowed 21
under this section determined— 22
‘‘(i) without regard to subsection 23
(a)(2), and 24
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‘‘(ii) without regard to this subsection 1
(other than this subparagraph) and the 2
limitation under section 26(a), or’’, and 3
(2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘15 per-4
cent of so much of the taxpayer’s earned income 5
(within the meaning of section 32) which is taken 6
into account in computing taxable income for the 7
taxable year as exceeds $3,000’’ and inserting ‘‘15.3 8
percent of the taxpayer’s earned income (within the 9
meaning of section 32) which is taken into account 10
in computing taxable income’’. 11
(c) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.— 12
(1) Section 24(e) of the Internal Revenue Code 13
of 1986 is amended to read as follows: 14
‘‘(e) T
AXPAYERIDENTIFICATIONREQUIREMENT.— 15
No credit shall be allowed under this section if the identi-16
fying number of the taxpayer was issued after the due date 17
for filing the return of tax for the taxable year.’’. 18
(2) Section 24 of such Code is amended by 19
striking subsection (h). 20
(d) R
EPEAL OFCERTAINLATERENACTEDPROVI-21
SIONS.— 22
(1) Section 24 of the Internal Revenue Code of 23
1986 is amended by striking subsections (i), (j), and 24
(k). 25
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(2) Chapter 77 of such Code is amended by 1
striking section 7527A (and by striking the item re-2
lating to section 7527A in the table of sections for 3
such chapter). 4
(3) Section 26(b)(2) of such Code is amended 5
by inserting ‘‘and’’ at the end of subparagraph (X), 6
by striking ‘‘, and’’ at the end of subparagraph (Y) 7
and inserting a period, and by striking subparagraph 8
(Z). 9
(4) Section 3402(f)(1)(C) of such Code is 10
amended by striking ‘‘section 24 (determined after 11
application of subsection (j) thereof)’’ and inserting 12
‘‘section 24(a)’’. 13
(5) Section 6211(b)(4)(A) of such Code is 14
amended— 15
(A) by striking ‘‘24 by reason of sub-16
sections (d) and (i)(1) thereof’’ and inserting 17
‘‘24(d)’’, and 18
(B) by striking ‘‘6428B, and 7527A’’ and 19
inserting ‘‘and 6428B’’. 20
(6) Paragraph (2) of section 1324(b) of title 21
31, United States Code, is amended by striking 22
‘‘6431, or 7527A’’ and inserting ‘‘or 6431’’. 23
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(e) EFFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 1
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 2
December 31, 2022. 3
SEC. 3. TREATMENT OF UNBORN CHILDREN. 4
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 24 of the Internal Rev-5
enue Code of 1986, as amended by section 2, is amended 6
by adding at the end the following new subsection: 7
‘‘(h) C
REDITALLOWEDWITHRESPECT TOUNBORN 8
C
HILDREN.—For purposes of this section— 9
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The term ‘qualifying child’ 10
includes an unborn child of an eligible taxpayer, and 11
the requirements of subsection (c)(1)(C) shall be 12
treated as met with respect to such child, for the 13
taxable year immediately preceding the year in 14
which such child is born alive, if the taxpayer in-15
cludes on the return of tax for such taxable year a 16
social security number for such child which is issued 17
before the due date for such return of tax (without 18
regard to extensions). 19
‘‘(2) R
ETROACTIVE OR DOUBLE CREDIT AL -20
LOWED IN CERTAIN CASES TO ENSURE EQUAL AC -21
CESS TO THE CREDIT FOR UNBORN CHILDREN .— 22
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—In the case of a quali-23
fying child of an eligible taxpayer who is born 24
alive and with respect to whom the credit under 25
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this section is not claimed under paragraph (1) 1
for the taxable year described in such para-2
graph, for the taxable year in which the child 3
is born alive, with respect to such child— 4
‘‘(i) the amount of the credit allowed 5
(before the application of this subsection) 6
under subsection (a), and 7
‘‘(ii) the amount of the credit allowed 8
(before the application of this subsection) 9
under subsection (d)(1), 10
shall each be increased by the amount of the 11
credit which would have been allowed under 12
each such subsection respectively with respect 13
to such child for the preceding taxable year if 14
such child had been treated as a qualifying 15
child of the taxpayer for such preceding year. 16
‘‘(B) S
PECIAL RULE FOR SPLITTING OF 17
CREDIT.—In the case of a child otherwise de-18
scribed in subparagraph (A) who, but for this 19
subparagraph, would not be treated as a quali-20
fying child of the eligible taxpayer for the tax-21
able year in which such child is born alive— 22
‘‘(i) subparagraph (A) shall not apply 23
with respect to such child, 24
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‘‘(ii) such child shall be treated as a 1
qualifying child for purposes of this section 2
for such taxable year of— 3
‘‘(I) the eligible taxpayer, and 4
‘‘(II) any other taxpayer with re-5
spect to whom such child would, with-6
out regard to this subparagraph, be 7
treated as a qualifying child, and 8
‘‘(iii) in the case of the eligible tax-9
payer, the amount of the credit allowed 10
under subsection (a) and the amount of 11
the credit allowed under subsection (d)(1) 12
for such taxable year shall each be equal to 13
the amount of the credit which would have 14
been allowed under each such subsection 15
respectively with respect to such child for 16
the preceding taxable year if such child 17
had been treated as a qualifying child of 18
the eligible taxpayer for such preceding 19
year. 20
‘‘(3) D
EFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub-21
section— 22
‘‘(A) B
ORN ALIVE.—The term ‘born alive’ 23
has the meaning given such term by section 24
8(b) of title 1, United States Code. 25
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‘‘(B) ELIGIBLE TAXPAYER.—The term ‘eli-1
gible taxpayer’ means a taxpayer who— 2
‘‘(i) with respect to a child, is the 3
mother who— 4
‘‘(I) carries or carried such child 5
in the womb, and 6
‘‘(II) is the biological mother of 7
such child or initiated the pregnancy 8
with the intention of bearing and re-9
taining custody of and parental rights 10
to such child (or acted to such effect), 11
or 12
‘‘(ii) in the case of a joint return, is 13
the husband of such mother, 14
but only if such taxpayer includes on the return 15
of tax for the taxable year the social security 16
number of such taxpayer (of at least 1 of such 17
mother or husband, in the case of a joint re-18
turn). 19
‘‘(C) S
OCIAL SECURITY NUMBER .—The 20
term ‘social security number’ has the meaning 21
given such term by subsection (c)(3). 22
‘‘(D) U
NBORN CHILD.—The term ‘unborn 23
child’ means an individual of the species homo 24
sapiens, from the beginning of the biological de-25
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velopment of that individual, including fertiliza-1
tion, until the point of the earlier of being born 2
alive or death.’’. 3
(b) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendment made by 4
this section shall apply to children born alive in taxable 5
years beginning after December 31, 2022. 6
SEC. 4. DENIAL OF DEDUCTION FOR STATE AND LOCAL 7
TAXES OF INDIVIDUALS. 8
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 164(b)(6) of the Internal 9
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows: 10
‘‘(6) L
IMITATION ON DEDUCTION OF CERTAIN 11
TAXES FOR INDIVIDUALS.— 12
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—In the case of an indi-13
vidual, no deduction shall be allowed for 14
taxes— 15
‘‘(i) described in paragraphs (1), (2), 16
or (3) of subsection (a), or 17
‘‘(ii) described in paragraph (5) of 18
this subsection. 19
‘‘(B) E
XCEPTIONS.—Subparagraph (A) 20
shall not apply to— 21
‘‘(i) any foreign taxes described in 22
subsection (a)(3), or 23
‘‘(ii) any taxes described in paragraph 24
(1) and (2) of subsection (a) which are 25
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paid or accrued in carrying on a trade or 1
business or an activity described in section 2
212. 3
‘‘(C) S
PECIAL RULE.—For purposes of 4
subparagraph (A), an amount paid in a taxable 5
year beginning before January 1, 2023, with re-6
spect to a State or local income tax imposed for 7
a taxable year beginning after December 31, 8
2022, shall be treated as paid on the last day 9
of the taxable year for which such tax is so im-10
posed.’’. 11
(b) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendment made by 12
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 13
December 31, 2022. 14
SEC. 5. REFUNDABLE ADOPTION TAX CREDIT. 15
(a) C
REDITMADEREFUNDABLE.— 16
(1) C
REDIT MOVED TO SUBPART RELATING TO 17
REFUNDABLE CREDITS .—The Internal Revenue 18
Code of 1986 is amended— 19
(A) by redesignating section 23 as section 20
36C, and 21
(B) by moving section 36C (as so redesig-22
nated) from subpart A of part IV of subchapter 23
A of chapter 1 to the location immediately be-24
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fore section 37 in subpart C of part IV of sub-1
chapter A of chapter 1. 2
(2) C
ONFORMING AMENDMENTS .— 3
(A) Section 25(e)(1)(C) of such Code is 4
amended by striking ‘‘sections 23 and 25D’’ 5
and inserting ‘‘section 25D’’. 6
(B) Section 36C of such Code, as so redes-7
ignated, is amended— 8
(i) in subsection (b)(2)(A), by striking 9
‘‘(determined without regard to subsection 10
(c))’’, 11
(ii) by striking subsection (c), and 12
(iii) by redesignating subsections (d) 13
through (i) as subsections (c) through (h), 14
respectively. 15
(C) Section 137 of such Code is amend-16
ed— 17
(i) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘sec-18
tion 23(d)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 19
36C(c)’’, and 20
(ii) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘sub-21
sections (e), (f), and (g) of section 23’’ and 22
inserting ‘‘subsections (d), (e), and (f) of 23
section 36C’’. 24
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(D) Section 1016(a)(26) of such Code is 1
amended by striking ‘‘23(g)’’ and inserting 2
‘‘36C(f)’’. 3
(E) Section 6211(b)(4)(A) of such Code is 4
amended by inserting ‘‘36C,’’ after ‘‘36B,’’. 5
(F) The table of sections for subpart A of 6
part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 of such 7
Code is amended by striking the item relating 8
to section 23. 9
(G) Paragraph (2) of section 1324(b) of 10
title 31, United States Code, is amended by in-11
serting ‘‘36C,’’ after ‘‘36B,’’. 12
(H) Paragraph (33) of section 471(a) of 13
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 671(a)) is 14
amended by striking ‘‘section 23’’ and inserting 15
‘‘section 36C’’. 16
(I) The table of sections for subpart C of 17
part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 of the In-18
ternal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by in-19
serting after the item relating to section 36B 20
the following new item: 21
‘‘Sec. 36C. Adoption expenses.’’. 
(b) THIRD-PARTYAFFIDAVITS.—Section 36C(h) of 22
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as redesignated and 23
moved by subsection (a), is amended— 24
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(1) by striking ‘‘such regulations’’ and inserting 1
‘‘such regulations and guidance’’, 2
(2) by striking ‘‘including regulations which 3
treat’’ and inserting ‘‘including regulations and 4
guidance which— 5
‘‘(1) treat’’, 6
(3) by striking the period at the end and insert-7
ing ‘‘, and’’, and 8
(4) by adding at the end the following: 9
‘‘(2) provide for a standardized third-party affi-10
davit for purposes of verifying a legal adoption— 11
‘‘(A) of a type with respect to which quali-12
fied adoption expenses may be paid or incurred, 13
or 14
‘‘(B) involving a child with special needs 15
for purposes of subsection (a)(3).’’. 16
(c) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 17
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 18
December 31, 2022. 19
(d) T
RANSITIONALRULETOTREATCARRYFORWARD 20
ASREFUNDABLECREDIT.—In the case of any excess de-21
scribed in section 23(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 22
1986 with respect to any taxpayer for the taxable year 23
which precedes the first taxable year to which the amend-24
ments made by this section apply, such excess shall be 25
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added to the credit allowable under section 36C(a) of such 1
Code with respect to such taxpayer for such first taxable 2
year. 3
SEC. 6. PARENTAL LEAVE BENEFITS. 4
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Title II of the Social Security Act 5
is amended by inserting after section 218 the following: 6
‘‘SEC. 219. PARENTAL LEAVE BENEFITS. 7
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—Every individual— 8
‘‘(1) who has— 9
‘‘(A) not less than 8 quarters of coverage, 10
4 of which are credited to calendar quarters 11
during the calendar year preceding the calendar 12
year in which the 1st month of the benefit pe-13
riod described in subsection (c) occurs; or 14
‘‘(B) not less than 12 quarters of coverage; 15
and 16
‘‘(2) who has filed an application for a parental 17
leave benefit with respect to a qualified child of the 18
individual, 19
shall be entitled to a parental leave benefit with respect 20
to such qualified child. 21
‘‘(b) B
ENEFITAMOUNT.—Such individual’s parental 22
leave benefit shall be an amount equal to the product of— 23
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‘‘(1) the number of benefit months (not to ex-1
ceed 3) selected by the individual in the individual’s 2
application for a parental leave benefit, multiplied by 3
‘‘(2) an amount equal to the primary insurance 4
amount for the individual that would be determined 5
under section 215 if— 6
‘‘(A) the individual had attained age 62 in 7
the first month of the individual’s benefit pe-8
riod; and 9
‘‘(B) the individual had become entitled to 10
an old-age insurance benefit under section 202 11
beginning with such month. 12
For the purposes of the preceding sentence, the elapsed 13
years referred to in section 215(b)(2)(B)(iii) shall not in-14
clude the year in which the individual’s benefit period be-15
gins, or any year thereafter. 16
‘‘(c) P
AYMENT OFBENEFIT.— 17
‘‘(1) S
ELECTION OF NUMBER OF BENEFIT 18
MONTHS.—In filing an application for a parental 19
leave benefit under this section, an individual shall 20
select the number of months (not to exceed 3) for 21
which the individual will receive a monthly payment 22
under such parental leave benefit (in this section re-23
ferred to as ‘benefit months’). 24
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‘‘(2) ELECTION OF BENEFIT MONTHS .—Not 1
later than 14 days before the start of any month in 2
the benefit period of an individual entitled to a pa-3
rental leave benefit, the individual may elect to treat 4
such month as a benefit month. The number of 5
months in such benefit period treated as benefit 6
months shall equal the number selected in the indi-7
vidual’s benefit application, and the Commissioner 8
may designate any month as a benefit month in any 9
case in which an individual does not elect to treat 10
a sufficient number of months as benefit months be-11
fore the end of the benefit period. 12
‘‘(3) A
MOUNT OF MONTHLY PAYMENT .—The 13
amount of a monthly payment made in any benefit 14
month within a benefit period to an individual enti-15
tled to a parental leave benefit shall be an amount 16
equal to— 17
‘‘(A) the amount of the parental leave ben-18
efit determined for the individual under sub-19
section (b); divided by 20
‘‘(B) the number of benefit months se-21
lected by the individual pursuant to paragraph 22
(1) with respect to such benefit. 23
‘‘(4) D
EFINITION OF BENEFIT PERIOD .—For 24
purposes of this section, the term ‘benefit period’ 25
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means, with respect to an individual entitled to a pa-1
rental leave benefit with respect to a qualified child, 2
the 1-year period beginning with the month after the 3
month in which the birth or adoption of the qualified 4
child occurs. 5
‘‘(d) B
ENEFITAPPLICATION.— 6
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Commissioner shall 7
ensure that the application for a parental leave ben-8
efit— 9
‘‘(A) includes a notice, clearly written in 10
language that is easily understandable to the 11
reader, explaining that— 12
‘‘(i) failure to submit such proof or 13
documentation as the Commissioner may 14
require to demonstrate that the applicant 15
is the parent of the qualified child shall be 16
subject to criminal and civil penalties; 17
‘‘(ii) the full cost to the Trust Funds 18
of any amount received by an individual as 19
a parental leave benefit must be repaid 20
through reductions to old-age insurance 21
benefits payable to the individual in subse-22
quent months, or by other means; and 23
‘‘(iii) entitlement to a parental leave 24
benefit has no effect on the determination 25
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of an individual’s entitlement to leave 1
under the Family and Medical Leave Act 2
of 1993; and 3
‘‘(B) requires an attestation by the indi-4
vidual submitting the application that— 5
‘‘(i) the individual expects to be the 6
parent of a qualified child throughout the 7
benefit period with respect to such applica-8
tion; 9
‘‘(ii) the individual intends to use the 10
benefit to finance spending more time with 11
the qualified child at home and away from 12
employment during the benefit period; and 13
‘‘(iii) the individual consents to the 14
terms and conditions specified in the notice 15
described in subparagraph (A). 16
‘‘(2) O
PTION TO FILE SIMULTANEOUS APPLICA -17
TIONS.—The Commissioner of Social Security may 18
establish an option under which an individual may 19
file an application for a parental leave benefit under 20
this section with respect to a qualified child at the 21
same time the individual submits an application for 22
a social security account number for such qualified 23
child. 24
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‘‘(3) ONLINE AVAILABILITY .—The Commis-1
sioner of Social Security shall, as soon as practicable 2
after the date of enactment of this section, permit 3
an individual to apply for a parental leave benefit 4
through an internet website or other electronic 5
media. 6
‘‘(e) F
RAUDPREVENTION.— 7
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Commissioner of So-8
cial Security shall establish procedures to ensure the 9
prevention of fraud with respect to applications for 10
parental leave benefits under this section, including 11
procedures for the submission of such proof or docu-12
mentation as the Commissioner may require to 13
verify the information contained in such an applica-14
tion. 15
‘‘(2) E
NFORCEMENT.—In any case in which an 16
individual willfully, knowingly, and with intent to de-17
ceive the Commissioner of Social Security fails to 18
comply with the procedures established under para-19
graph (1), the Commissioner may impose on such in-20
dividual, in addition to any other penalties that may 21
be prescribed by law— 22
‘‘(A) a civil monetary penalty of not more 23
than $7,500 for each such failure; and 24
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‘‘(B) an assessment, in lieu of any dam-1
ages sustained by the United States because of 2
such failure, of not more than twice the amount 3
of the cost to the Federal Old-Age and Sur-4
vivors Insurance Trust Fund of any parental 5
leave benefit paid to the individual. 6
‘‘(f) B
ENEFITREPAYMENT.— 7
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—An individual who is paid 8
a parental leave benefit under this section shall 9
repay the full cost of such benefit to the Federal 10
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund (as 11
such amount is determined by the Commissioner) in 12
accordance with this subsection. 13
‘‘(2) O
LD-AGE INSURANCE BENEFIT OFFSET .— 14
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—Except as provided in 15
paragraph (3), in the case of any individual de-16
scribed in paragraph (1) who becomes entitled 17
to an old-age insurance benefit, deductions shall 18
be made from each monthly payment of such 19
benefit (not to exceed the first 60 such monthly 20
payments) in such amounts, subject to subpara-21
graph (B), as the Commissioner of Social Secu-22
rity shall determine necessary to fully recover 23
the cost to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors 24
Insurance Trust Fund of any parental leave 25
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benefit paid to the individual as of the month 1
in which the individual becomes entitled to an 2
old-age insurance benefit. 3
‘‘(B) N
OTIFICATION.—Not later than the 4
beginning of each calendar year, the Commis-5
sioner of Social Security shall notify each indi-6
vidual whose old-age insurance benefits are sub-7
ject to a deduction under subparagraph (A) 8
during such calendar year of the amount of the 9
deduction that will be applied to each monthly 10
payment of such benefits during the calendar 11
year. 12
‘‘(3) A
LTERNATIVE INCREASE OF RETIREMENT 13
AGE.— 14
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—In the case of any in-15
dividual described in paragraph (1) who be-16
comes entitled to an old-age insurance benefit, 17
such individual may elect, at the time of appli-18
cation for such benefit, to be subject to a retire-19
ment age increase in accordance with this para-20
graph. Such election shall be irrevocable, and 21
an individual who makes such an election shall 22
not be subject to a deduction under paragraph 23
(2) for any month. 24
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‘‘(B) RETIREMENT AGE INCREASE .—Not-1
withstanding section 216(l)(1), with respect to 2
an individual who makes an election under sub-3
paragraph (A), the retirement age of such indi-4
vidual shall be deemed to be— 5
‘‘(i) the retirement age determined 6
with respect to the individual under such 7
section; plus 8
‘‘(ii) the additional number of months 9
the Commissioner of Social Security shall 10
determine necessary to result in the full re-11
covery of the cost to the Federal Old-Age 12
and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund of 13
any parental leave benefit paid to the indi-14
vidual as of the month in which the indi-15
vidual becomes entitled to an old-age in-16
surance benefit. 17
‘‘(C) I
NCREASE TO EARLIEST ENTITLE -18
MENT AGE.—In the case of an individual who 19
makes an election under subparagraph (A), not-20
withstanding subsection (a) of section 202, no 21
old-age insurance benefit shall be paid to such 22
individual for any month before the first month 23
throughout which the individual has attained 24
age 62 plus the additional number of months 25
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determined for the individual under subpara-1
graph (B)(ii). 2
‘‘(4) O
THER RECOVERY METHODS .—In any 3
case in which the Commissioner of Social Security 4
determines that the cost to the Federal Old-Age and 5
Survivors Insurance Trust Fund of a parental leave 6
benefit paid to an individual cannot be fully recov-7
ered pursuant to paragraph (2) or (3)— 8
‘‘(A) such benefit shall be deemed, upon 9
the making of such determination, to be a pay-10
ment of more than the correct amount for pur-11
poses of section 204; and 12
‘‘(B) the Commissioner may recover such 13
amounts by means of any method available to 14
the Commissioner under such section. 15
‘‘(5) P
ROJECTION OF REPAYMENT AMOUNT .— 16
As soon as practicable after the date of enactment 17
of this section, the Commissioner shall establish a 18
system to make available through an internet 19
website or other electronic media to each individual 20
who is paid a parental leave benefit under this sec-21
tion, beginning with the first month beginning after 22
the individual’s benefit period the projected amount 23
of the deduction to be made from each of the first 24
60 monthly payments of old-age insurance benefits 25
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under paragraph (2), or if the individual so elects, 1
the additional number of months by which the indi-2
vidual’s retirement age would be increased under 3
paragraph (3), in order to fully repay the cost to the 4
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust 5
Fund of any parental leave benefit paid to the indi-6
vidual, and a description of the assumptions used by 7
the Commissioner in making such projection. 8
‘‘(g) R
ELATIONSHIPWITHSTATELAW; EMPLOYER 9
B
ENEFITS.— 10
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—This section does not pre-11
empt or supersede any provision of State or local 12
law that authorizes a State or political subdivision to 13
provide paid parental or family medical leave bene-14
fits similar to the benefits provided under this sec-15
tion. 16
‘‘(2) G
REATER BENEFITS ALLOWED .—Nothing 17
in this Act shall be construed to diminish the obliga-18
tion of an employer to comply with any contract, col-19
lective bargaining agreement, or employment benefit 20
program or plan that provides greater benefits for 21
leave or other leave rights to individuals than the 22
benefits for leave or leave rights established under 23
this Act. 24
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‘‘(h) SUNSET.—No application for parental leave ben-1
efits under this section may be filed in any calendar year 2
if the OASDI trust fund ratio (as defined in section 3
215(i)) for such calendar year or for the year following 4
such calendar year is projected, based on the intermediate 5
projections in the most recent (as of January 1 of such 6
calendar year) annual report issued under section 7
201(c)(2), to be less than 20 percent. 8
‘‘(i) D
EFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section— 9
‘‘(1) the term ‘qualified child’ means, with re-10
spect to an individual for a benefit period, a biologi-11
cal child or legally adopted child of the individual (as 12
determined by the Commissioner of Social Security) 13
who— 14
‘‘(A) will not attain 18 years of age before 15
the end of such benefit period; and 16
‘‘(B) will be residing with, and under the 17
care of, the individual during the benefit period 18
as determined by the Commissioner.’’. 19
(b) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENTS.— 20
(1) N
ONPAYMENT PROVISIONS .—Section 202 of 21
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 402) is amend-22
ed— 23
(A) in subsection (n)(1)(A), by striking 24
‘‘under this section or section 223’’ and insert-25
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ing ‘‘under this section, section 219, or section 1
223’’; 2
(B) in subsection (t), in paragraphs (1) 3
and (10), by striking ‘‘under this section or 4
under section 223’’ each place it appears and 5
inserting ‘‘under this section, under section 6
219, or under section 223’’; 7
(C) in subsection (u)(1), by striking 8
‘‘under this section or section 223’’ and insert-9
ing ‘‘under this section, section 219, or section 10
223’’; and 11
(D) in subsection (x)— 12
(i) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking 13
‘‘under this section or under section 223’’ 14
and inserting ‘‘under this section, under 15
section 219, or under section 223’’; and 16
(ii) in paragraph (2), by striking 17
‘‘under this section or section 223’’ and in-18
serting ‘‘under this section, section 219, or 19
section 223’’. 20
(2) D
ELAYED RETIREMENT CREDITS .—Section 21
202(w) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 22
402(w)) is amended by inserting after ‘‘age 70’’ 23
each place it appears the following: ‘‘(or, in the case 24
of an individual whose retirement age is increased 25
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under section 219(f)(3), age 70 plus the number of 1
months by which the individual’s retirement age is 2
so increased)’’. 3
(3) V
OLUNTARY SUSPENSION OF BENEFITS .— 4
Section 202(z)(1)(A)(ii) of the Social Security Act 5
(42 U.S.C. 402(z)(1)(A)(ii)) is amended by striking 6
‘‘the age of 70’’ and inserting ‘‘age 70 (or, in the 7
case of an individual whose retirement age is in-8
creased under section 219(f)(3), age 70 plus the 9
number of months by which the individual’s retire-10
ment age is so increased)’’. 11
(4) N
UMBER OF BENEFIT COMPUTATION 12
YEARS.—Section 215(b)(2)(A) of such Act (42 13
U.S.C. 415(b)(2)(A)) is amended— 14
(A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘, and’’ and 15
inserting a semicolon; 16
(B) in clause (ii), by striking the period 17
and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 18
(C) by inserting after clause (ii) the fol-19
lowing: 20
‘‘(iii) in the case of an individual who is entitled 21
to a parental leave benefit under section 219, by the 22
number of years equal to one-fifth of such individ-23
ual’s elapsed years (disregarding any resulting frac-24
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tional part of a year), but not by more than 5 1
years.’’. 2
(c) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 3
this section shall apply with respect to applications for pa-4
rental leave benefits filed after 2024. 5
SEC. 7. COOPERATION WITH CHILD SUPPORT AGENCIES AS 6
ELIGIBILITY FACTOR UNDER SUPPLEMENTAL 7
NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. 8
Section 6 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 9
U.S.C. 2015) is amended— 10
(1) in subsection (l)— 11
(A) in paragraph (1), in the matter pre-12
ceding subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘At the 13
option of a State agency, subject to’’ and in-14
serting ‘‘Subject to’’; and 15
(B) in paragraph (2), in the second sen-16
tence, by inserting ‘‘custodial parent and the’’ 17
before ‘‘child’’; and 18
(2) in subsection (m)(1), in the matter pre-19
ceding subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘At the option 20
of a State agency, subject to’’ and inserting ‘‘Sub-21
ject to’’. 22
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SEC. 8. WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR NON- 1
CUSTODIAL PARENTS. 2
(a) G
RANTS TOSTATES FORWORKFORCEDEVELOP-3
MENTPROGRAMS FOR NON-CUSTODIALPARENTS.—Be-4
ginning with fiscal year 2024, the Secretary shall use the 5
funds made available under subsection (f) to make grants 6
to States to conduct workforce development programs that 7
provide evidence-based work activities, which may include 8
workforce education and support, technical certification 9
programs, subsidized employment, and on-the-job training 10
and education, to eligible non-custodial parents. 11
(b) A
PPLICATIONREQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary 12
shall require each State that applies for a grant under this 13
section to include in the application for the grant the fol-14
lowing: 15
(1) A description of the nature and structure of 16
the evidence-based work activities proposed to be 17
provided through a program funded in whole or in 18
part with grant funds, including data and evalua-19
tions supporting the effectiveness of such activities 20
in increasing the employment of eligible non-custo-21
dial parents. 22
(2) Descriptions of how employers will be re-23
cruited to participate in such program and how the 24
State will solicit input from employers in the design 25
and implementation of such program. 26
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(3) A description of how the State will promote 1
long-term employment through participation in such 2
program. 3
(4) A description of how the State will prioritize 4
providing evidence-based work activities for low-in-5
come, eligible non-custodial parents. 6
(5) Such other information as may the Sec-7
retary may require. 8
(c) O
THERREQUIREMENTS.—A State receiving 9
funds under this section shall prioritize providing evi-10
dence-based work activities through a program funded in 11
whole or in part with such funds for eligible non-custodial 12
parents who are eligible for benefits under the supple-13
mental nutrition assistance program, as defined in section 14
3(t) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 15
2012(t)), and, at the option of the State, may limit partici-16
pation in such program to such eligible non-custodial par-17
ents. 18
(d) R
EPORTS.—Not later than 12 months after the 19
end of the last fiscal year in which a State expends funds 20
from a grant made under this section, the State shall sub-21
mit to the Secretary a report that includes the following 22
information: 23
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(1) The number of eligible non-custodial par-1
ents who participated in a workforce development 2
program funded in whole or in part with such funds. 3
(2) The median monthly earnings of an eligible 4
non-custodial parent participant while participating 5
in any such workforce development program and 6 6
months after exiting from the program. 7
(3) The percentage of eligible non-custodial par-8
ent participants who are employed full-time 6 9
months after exiting from any such workforce devel-10
opment program. 11
(4) Such other reporting requirements as the 12
Secretary determines would be beneficial to evalu-13
ating the impact of workforce development programs 14
funded in whole or in part with grant funds provided 15
under this section. 16
(e) N
ONSUPPLANTATION.—Funds provided under 17
this section to a State shall be used to supplement and 18
not supplant any other Federal or State funds which are 19
available for the same general purposes in the State. 20
(f) F
UNDING.— 21
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 22
403(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 23
603(b)), from the amount available in the Contin-24
gency Fund for State Welfare Programs established 25
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under such section that is unobligated as of the date 1
of enactment of this Act, $100,000,000 of such 2
amount is hereby transferred and made available to 3
the Secretary to carry out this section for any fiscal 4
year occurring on or after the date of enactment of 5
this Act. 6
(2) A
VAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Funds provided 7
to a State under this section in a fiscal year shall 8
remain available for expenditure by the State 9
through the end of the second succeeding fiscal year. 10
(g) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 11
(1) E
LIGIBLE NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT.— 12
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Subject to subpara-13
graph (B), the term ‘‘eligible non-custodial par-14
ent’’ means an individual who— 15
(i) is obligated to pay child support 16
under a support order; 17
(ii) has unpaid, past-due child support 18
obligations; and 19
(iii) has been unemployed or under-20
employed for any period of time during the 21
6-month period prior to the individual’s 22
participation in a program funded in whole 23
or in part with funds provided to a State 24
under this section. 25
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(B) OTHER ELIGIBILITY REQUIRE -1
MENTS.—An individual shall not be considered 2
to be an eligible non-custodial parent if the in-3
dividual is not a citizen of the United States or 4
would not be eligible for the program as a re-5
sult of the application of title IV of the Per-6
sonal Responsibility and Work Opportunity 7
Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1611 et 8
seq.). 9
(2) S
ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 10
the Secretary of Health and Human Services. 11
(3) S
TATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the 50 12
States of the United States, the District of Colum-13
bia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United 14
States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and 15
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Is-16
lands. 17
SEC. 9. REQUIRING BIOLOGICAL FATHERS TO PAY CHILD 18
SUPPORT FOR MEDICAL EXPENSES IN-19
CURRED DURING PREGNANCY AND DELIV-20
ERY. 21
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 454 of the Social Security 22
Act (42 U.S.C. 654) is amended— 23
(1) in paragraph (33), by striking ‘‘and’’ after 24
the semicolon; 25
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(2) in paragraph (34), by striking the period 1
and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 2
(3) by inserting after paragraph (34), the fol-3
lowing: 4
‘‘(35) provide that the State shall establish and 5
enforce a child support obligation of the biological 6
father of a child to pay for not less than 50 percent 7
of the reasonable out-of-pocket medical expenses (in-8
cluding health insurance premiums or similar 9
charge, deductions, cost sharing or similar charges, 10
and any other related out-of-pocket expenses) the 11
mother of the child is responsible for that are in-12
curred during, and associated with, the pregnancy 13
and delivery of the child, provided that the mother 14
requests the payment of such support.’’. 15
(b) E
FFECTIVEDATE.— 16
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 17
the amendments made by subsection (a) shall take 18
effect on January 1 of the first calendar year that 19
begins after the date of enactment of this Act. 20
(2) D
ELAY IF STATE LEGISLATION RE -21
QUIRED.—In the case of a State plan under part D 22
of title IV of the Social Security Act which the Sec-23
retary of Health and Human Services determines re-24
quires State legislation (other than legislation appro-25
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priating funds) in order for the plan to meet the ad-1
ditional requirement imposed by the amendments 2
made by this Act, the State plan shall not be re-3
garded as failing to comply with the requirements of 4
such part solely on the basis of the failure of the 5
plan to meet such additional requirement before the 6
first day of the first calendar quarter beginning 7
after the close of the first regular session of the 8
State legislature that begins after the date of enact-9
ment of this Act. For purposes of the previous sen-10
tence, in the case of a State that has a 2-year legis-11
lative session, each year of the session shall be 12
deemed to be a separate regular session of the State 13
legislature. 14
SEC. 10. PREGNANT STUDENTS’ RIGHTS, ACCOMMODA-15
TIONS, AND RESOURCES. 16
(a) F
INDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 17
(1) Female students who are enrolled at institu-18
tions of higher education and experiencing un-19
planned pregnancies may face pressure that their 20
only option is to receive an abortion or risk academic 21
failure. 22
(2) 27.6 percent of all abortions in the United 23
States are performed on women of college age, be-24
tween the ages of 20 and 24, according to a 2019 25
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report by the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-1
vention. 2
(3) A significant proportion of abortions in the 3
United States are performed on women of college 4
age who may be unaware of their rights under title 5
IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 6
U.S.C. 1681 et seq.) or deprived of an alternative to 7
receiving an abortion. 8
(4) Additionally, women on college campuses 9
may fear institutional reprisal, loss of athletic schol-10
arship, and possible negative impact on academic op-11
portunities. 12
(5) An academic disparity exists because of the 13
lack of resources, support, and notifications available 14
for female college students who do not wish to re-15
ceive an abortion or who carry their unborn babies 16
to term. 17
(b) N
OTICE OFPREGNANTSTUDENTRIGHTS, AC-18
COMMODATIONS, ANDRESOURCES.—Section 485 of the 19
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1092) is 20
amended by adding at the end the following: 21
‘‘(n) P
REGNANTSTUDENTS’ RIGHTS, ACCOMMODA-22
TIONS, ANDRESOURCES.— 23
‘‘(1) I
NFORMATION DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES ; 24
ESTABLISHMENT OF PROTOCOL .— 25
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Each public institu-1
tion of higher education participating in any 2
program under this title shall— 3
‘‘(i) in a manner consistent with title 4
IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 5
(20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.), carry out the in-6
formation dissemination activities de-7
scribed in subparagraph (B) for admitted 8
but not enrolled and enrolled students (in-9
cluding those attending or planning to at-10
tend less than full time) on the rights and 11
resources (including protections and ac-12
commodations) for pregnant students (or 13
students who may become pregnant) while 14
enrolled at such institution of higher edu-15
cation that— 16
‘‘(I) exclude abortion services; 17
‘‘(II) may help such a student 18
carry their unborn babies to term; and 19
‘‘(III) include information on how 20
to file a complaint with the Depart-21
ment if such a student believes there 22
was a violation of title IX of the Edu-23
cation Amendments of 1972 (20 24
U.S.C. 1681 et seq.) by the institution 25
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on account of such student’s preg-1
nancy; and 2
‘‘(ii) establish a protocol to meet with 3
a student described in clause (i)(III), 4
which shall include a meeting with relevant 5
leadership at the institution of higher edu-6
cation, and other relevant parties. 7
‘‘(B) D
ESCRIPTION OF INFORMATION DIS -8
SEMINATION REQUIREMENTS .—The information 9
dissemination activities described in this sub-10
paragraph shall include— 11
‘‘(i) annual campus-wide emails; or 12
‘‘(ii) the provision of information in 13
student handbooks, at each orientation for 14
enrolled students, or on the publicly avail-15
able website of the institution of higher 16
education. 17
‘‘(2) A
NNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS .— 18
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—Each public institu-19
tion of higher education participating in any 20
program under this title shall— 21
‘‘(i) on an annual basis, compile and 22
submit to the Secretary— 23
‘‘(I) responses to the questions 24
described in subparagraph (B) from 25
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students enrolled at such institution 1
of higher education who voluntarily 2
provided such responses; and 3
‘‘(II) a description of any actions 4
taken by the institution of higher edu-5
cation to address each complaint by a 6
student that there was a violation of 7
title IX of the Education Amendments 8
of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.) by 9
the institution on account of such stu-10
dent’s pregnancy, including any ac-11
tions taken in accordance with the 12
protocol established under paragraph 13
(1)(A)(ii); and 14
‘‘(ii) ensure that any such responses 15
remain confidential and do not reveal any 16
personally identifiable information with re-17
spect to a student. 18
‘‘(B) Q
UESTIONS FOR ENROLLED STU -19
DENTS.—The questions described in this sub-20
paragraph shall include— 21
‘‘(i) if such student experienced an 22
unexpected pregnancy while enrolled at the 23
institution of higher education; 24
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‘‘(ii) if such student felt there were 1
adequate resources on campus relating to 2
protections, accommodations, and other re-3
sources for pregnant students besides abor-4
tion-related services; 5
‘‘(iii) if such a student believes there 6
was a violation of title IX of the Education 7
Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 1681 et 8
seq.) by the institution on account of such 9
student’s pregnancy; and 10
‘‘(iv) if such student considered drop-11
ping out or withdrawing from classes be-12
cause of pregnancy, new motherhood, still-13
birth, or miscarriage. 14
‘‘(C) R
EPORT.—The Secretary shall, on an 15
annual basis— 16
‘‘(i) prepare a report that compiles 17
the responses received under subparagraph 18
(A) from each public institution of higher 19
education participating in any program 20
under this title; and 21
‘‘(ii) submit such report to the author-22
izing committees, and the Committees on 23
Appropriations of the House of Represent-24
atives and the Senate.’’. 25
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SEC. 11. GRANTS FOR COMMUNITY-BASED MATERNAL MEN-1
TORING PROGRAMS. 2
Title V of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 701 3
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 4
‘‘SEC. 514. GRANTS FOR COMMUNITY-BASED MATERNAL 5
MENTORING PROGRAMS. 6
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—In addition to any other pay-7
ments made under this title to a State, the Secretary shall 8
make grants to eligible entities to conduct demonstration 9
projects for, and enable such entities to deliver services 10
under, community-based mentoring programs that satisfy 11
the requirements of subsection (c) to eligible mothers in 12
order to promote improvements in maternal and child well- 13
being, financial stewardship, child development, parenting, 14
and access to social services and other community re-15
sources. 16
‘‘(b) A
PPLICATION.—The Secretary may not award 17
funds made available under this subsection on a non-18
competitive basis, and may not provide any such funds to 19
an entity for the purpose of carrying out a community- 20
based mentoring program unless the entity has submitted 21
an application to the Secretary that includes— 22
‘‘(1) a description of how the programs or ac-23
tivities proposed in the application will improve ma-24
ternal mental and physical health outcomes in a 25
service area identified by the entity, substantially in-26
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crease the number of eligible mothers in a service 1
area with access to a community-based mentoring 2
relationship, utilize community volunteer mentors, 3
and supplement, including by avoiding duplication 4
with, existing social services and community re-5
sources; 6
‘‘(2) a description of how the program will part-7
ner with other community institutions, including pri-8
vate institutions, in identifying eligible mothers in 9
need of a mentor and, as applicable, creating sup-10
port communities among eligible mothers; 11
‘‘(3) a description of the populations to be 12
served by the entity, including specific information 13
on how the entity will serve eligible mothers who be-14
long to high-risk populations as identified in sub-15
section (d); 16
‘‘(4) a description of the maternal and child 17
health indicators, financial well-being, and other 18
needs of populations to be served by the entity as 19
described in paragraph (3), including, to the extent 20
practicable, the prevalence of mentoring opportuni-21
ties for such populations; 22
‘‘(5) the quantifiable benchmarks that will be 23
used to measure program success; 24
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‘‘(6) a commitment by the entity to consult 1
with experts with a demonstrated history of men-2
toring and case management success in achieving 3
the outcomes described in subsection (c)(2)(A) in de-4
veloping the programs and activities; 5
‘‘(7) a commitment by the entity to ensure 6
mentors do not refer or counsel in favor of abor-7
tions; and 8
‘‘(8) such other application information as the 9
Secretary may deem necessary, with the goal of 10
minimizing the application burden on small non-11
governmental organizations that would otherwise 12
qualify for the grant. 13
‘‘(c) R
EQUIREMENTS.— 14
‘‘(1) C
ORE COMPONENTS .—A community ma-15
ternal mentoring program conducted with a grant 16
made under this section shall include the following 17
core components: 18
‘‘(A) Provision of community-based men-19
toring relationships for eligible mothers, which 20
may include dedicated individual mentors and 21
networks of peer and community support 22
groups. 23
‘‘(B) An individualized needs assessment 24
for each eligible mother participating in the 25
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program, to be administered at the outset of 1
the program. 2
‘‘(C) Recruitment and utilization of com-3
munity-based, volunteer mentors. 4
‘‘(D) Provision of training to participating 5
mentors to equip them with mentoring best 6
practices and knowledge of public and private 7
resources available to eligible mothers (includ-8
ing public social services). 9
‘‘(2) M
EASURABLE IMPROVEMENTS IN BENCH -10
MARK AREAS.— 11
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—The eligible entity 12
shall establish, subject to the approval of the 13
Secretary, quantifiable, measurable 3- and 5- 14
year benchmarks demonstrating the program 15
results in improvements for eligible mothers 16
participating in the program in the following 17
areas: 18
‘‘(i) The number of eligible mothers in 19
the eligible entity’s service area with access 20
to a community-based mentoring relation-21
ship. 22
‘‘(ii) Improved maternal and child 23
health, including mental and behavioral 24
health. 25
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‘‘(iii) Improved financial literacy. 1
‘‘(iv) Improved family economic self- 2
sufficiency. 3
‘‘(v) Improved coordination and refer-4
rals for other community resources and 5
supports, including public and private re-6
sources. 7
‘‘(B) D
EMONSTRATION OF IMPROVE -8
MENT.— 9
‘‘(i) R
EPORT TO THE SECRETARY .— 10
Not later than 30 days after the end of the 11
third year in which the eligible entity con-12
ducts the program, the entity shall submit 13
to the Secretary a report describing the 14
program’s results in the areas specified in 15
subparagraph (A). 16
‘‘(ii) I
MPROVEMENT PLAN .—If the re-17
port submitted to the Secretary fails to 18
demonstrate improvements in at least 3 of 19
the areas outlined in subparagraph (A), 20
the eligible entity shall develop and imple-21
ment a plan to improve outcomes in each 22
of the areas specified in subparagraph (A), 23
subject to approval by the Secretary. 24
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‘‘(iii) NO IMPROVEMENT OR FAILURE 1
TO SUBMIT REPORT .—If, 1 year after an 2
eligible entity submits an improvement 3
plan under clause (ii), the Secretary deter-4
mines that the entity has failed to dem-5
onstrate any improvement in the areas 6
specified in subparagraph (A), or if the 7
Secretary determines that an eligible entity 8
has failed to submit the report required 9
under clause (i), and has not agreed to a 10
reasonable timeline to submit such report 11
under such conditions as may be deter-12
mined by the Secretary, the Secretary shall 13
terminate the entity’s grant and may re-14
allocate any unpaid grant funds toward fu-15
ture grants provided under this section. 16
‘‘(3) I
MPROVEMENTS IN PARTICIPANT OUT -17
COMES.— 18
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—The program is de-19
signed, with respect to an eligible mother par-20
ticipating in the program, to result in the par-21
ticipant outcomes described in subparagraph 22
(B) that are relevant to the mother (as deter-23
mined pursuant to an individualized needs as-24
sessment administered to the mother). 25
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‘‘(B) PARTICIPANT OUTCOMES .—The par-1
ticipant outcomes described in this subpara-2
graph are the following: 3
‘‘(i) Improvements in prenatal and 4
maternal health, including mental and be-5
havioral health and improved pregnancy 6
outcomes. 7
‘‘(ii) Improvements in child health 8
and development, including the prevention 9
of child injuries and maltreatment. 10
‘‘(iii) Higher levels of engagement be-11
tween mothers, children, and their health 12
providers. 13
‘‘(iv) Reductions in mothers’ stress 14
and anxiety. 15
‘‘(v) Improvements in parenting skills. 16
‘‘(vi) Improvement in financial literacy 17
skills. 18
‘‘(vii) Improvements in child’s school 19
readiness and academic achievement. 20
‘‘(viii) Improvements in family eco-21
nomic self-sufficiency. 22
‘‘(ix) Improvements in the coordina-23
tion of referrals for, and the provision of, 24
other community resources, including pri-25
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vate and public resources, and supports for 1
eligible families. 2
‘‘(d) P
RIORITIZATION.—An eligible entity receiving a 3
grant under this section shall identify and prioritize high- 4
risk populations in provision of services, including— 5
‘‘(1) low-income eligible mothers; 6
‘‘(2) eligible mothers who are pregnant women 7
who have not attained the age of 21; 8
‘‘(3) eligible mothers from populations with a 9
high risk of maternal morbidity; 10
‘‘(4) eligible mothers with a history of sub-11
stance abuse or victims of domestic abuse; 12
‘‘(5) eligible mothers with children with develop-13
mental disabilities; and 14
‘‘(6) eligible mothers residing in a qualified op-15
portunity zone, as designated under section 1400Z– 16
1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 17
‘‘(e) M
AINTENANCE OFEFFORT.—Funds provided to 18
an eligible entity under a grant awarded under subsection 19
(a) shall supplement, and not supplant, funds from other 20
sources for maternal mentorship or case management 21
services. 22
‘‘(f) E
VALUATION.— 23
‘‘(1) O
NGOING RESEARCH AND EVALUATION .— 24
The Secretary shall engage in ongoing research and 25
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evaluation activities in order to increase knowledge 1
about the implementation and effectiveness of com-2
munity maternal mentoring programs. The Sec-3
retary may carry out such activities directly, or 4
through grants, cooperative agreements, or con-5
tracts, and shall submit a report to Congress not 6
less than annually on the research and evaluation 7
steps being taken to measure the impact and effec-8
tiveness of programs funded under this section, as 9
well as any interim outcomes that may be available. 10
‘‘(2) R
EPORT REQUIREMENT .—Not later than 3 11
years after the date of enactment of this section, the 12
Secretary shall submit a report to Congress on the 13
effectiveness of programs funded with grants under 14
subsection (a) in producing the outcomes described 15
in subsection (c)(3)(B), and shall include in such re-16
port recommendations for improving program design 17
and implementation. 18
‘‘(g) T
ECHNICALASSISTANCE.—The Secretary shall 19
provide an eligible entity required to develop and imple-20
ment an improvement plan under subsection (c)(2)(B) 21
with technical assistance to develop and implement the 22
plan. The Secretary may provide the technical assistance 23
directly or through grants, contracts, or cooperative agree-24
ments. 25
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‘‘(h) NOFUNDS TOPROHIBITEDENTITIES.—No 1
prohibited entity shall be eligible to receive a grant under 2
subsection (a), or any other funds made available by this 3
section. 4
‘‘(i) P
ROTECTIONS FOR PARTICIPATINGRELIGIOUS 5
O
RGANIZATIONS.—A religious organization shall be eligi-6
ble to apply for and receive funding for a program under 7
this section on the same basis as a non-religious organiza-8
tion, and a religious organization’s exemptions, in title VII 9
of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (including exemption from 10
prohibitions in employment discrimination in section 11
702(a) of that Act (42 U.S.C. 2000e–1(a))), title VIII of 12
the Civil rights Act of 1968, title IX of the Educational 13
Amendments of 1987, the Americans with Disabilities Act, 14
the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Religious 15
Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, or any other 16
provision in law providing an exemption for a religious or-17
ganization, shall not be waived by its participation in, or 18
receipt of funds from, a grant provided by this section. 19
‘‘(j) A
UTHORIZATION OFAPPROPRIATIONS.— 20
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—For purposes of carrying 21
out this section, there are authorized to be appro-22
priated $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 23
through 2026. 24
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‘‘(2) RESERVATIONS.—Of the amounts appro-1
priated under this subsection for a fiscal year, the 2
Secretary shall reserve 3 percent for purposes of car-3
rying out subsections (f) and (g). 4
‘‘(3) A
VAILABILITY.—Funds made available to 5
an eligible entity under this section shall remain 6
available for expenditure by the eligible entity 7
through the end of the third fiscal year following the 8
fiscal year in which the funds are awarded to the en-9
tity. 10
‘‘(k) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 11
‘‘(1) C
OMMUNITY-BASED MENTORING RELA -12
TIONSHIP.—The term ‘community-based mentoring 13
relationship’ means a relationship with a dedicated 14
mentor and, as applicable, group of mentors or peer 15
support group, who meet regularly with an eligible 16
mother and help that mother address barriers to 17
care, mental, behavioral, and physical well-being, 18
and economic mobility by providing support services 19
and linkages to community resources. A community- 20
based mentoring relationship should, to the extent 21
practicable, have an understanding of the barriers 22
and lived experience of that community, which may 23
include shared lived experience. 24
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‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eligible en-1
tity’ means a local government, Indian Tribe (or a 2
consortium of Indian Tribes), Tribal Organization, 3
Urban Indian Organization, or nonprofit organiza-4
tion, including religious organizations, with a dem-5
onstrated history of serving eligible mothers. 6
‘‘(3) E
LIGIBLE MOTHER.—The term ‘eligible 7
mother’ means— 8
‘‘(A) a woman who is pregnant; or 9
‘‘(B) a woman who has primary caregiving 10
responsibilities for a child under the age of 6. 11
‘‘(4) P
ROHIBITED ENTITY.—The term ‘prohib-12
ited entity’ means an entity, including its affiliates, 13
subsidiaries, successors, and clinics that, as of the 14
date of enactment of this section, performs, induces, 15
refers for, or counsels in favor of abortions, or pro-16
vides financial support to any other organization 17
that conducts such activities.’’. 18
SEC. 12. EQUAL TREATMENT FOR RELIGIOUS ORGANIZA-19
TIONS IN SOCIAL SERVICES. 20
(a) P
URPOSES.—The purposes of this section are the 21
following: 22
(1) To enable assistance to be provided to indi-23
viduals and families in need in the most effective 24
manner. 25
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(2) To prohibit discrimination against religious 1
organizations in receipt and administration of Fed-2
eral financial assistance, including the provision of 3
that assistance through federally funded social serv-4
ice programs. 5
(3) To ensure that religious organizations can 6
apply and compete for Federal financial assistance 7
on a level playing field with nonreligious organiza-8
tions. 9
(4) To provide certainty for religious organiza-10
tions that receipt of Federal financial assistance will 11
not obstruct or hinder their ability to organize and 12
operate in accordance with their sincerely held reli-13
gious beliefs. 14
(5) To strengthen the social service capacity of 15
the United States by facilitating the entry of new, 16
and the expansion of existing, efforts by religious or-17
ganizations in the administration and provision of 18
Federal financial assistance. 19
(6) To protect the religious freedom of, and 20
better serve, individuals and families in need, includ-21
ing by expanding their ability to choose to receive 22
federally funded social services from religious organi-23
zations. 24
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(b) PROVISION OF SERVICES FOR GOVERNMENT 1
P
ROGRAMS BYRELIGIOUSORGANIZATIONS.—Title XXIV 2
of the Revised Statutes is amended by inserting after sec-3
tion 1990 (42 U.S.C. 1994) the following: 4
‘‘SEC. 1990A. ENSURING EQUAL TREATMENT FOR RELI-5
GIOUS ORGANIZATIONS IN FEDERAL PROVI-6
SION OF SOCIAL SERVICES, GRANTMAKING, 7
AND CONTRACTING. 8
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—For any social services program 9
carried out by the Federal Government, or by a State, 10
local government, or pass-through entity with Federal 11
funds, the entity that awards Federal financial assistance 12
shall consider religious organizations, on the same basis 13
as any other private organization, to provide services for 14
the program. 15
‘‘(b) E
QUALTREATMENT FORRELIGIOUSORGANIZA-16
TIONS INFEDERALFINANCIALASSISTANCE.— 17
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—A religious organization 18
shall be eligible to apply for and to receive Federal 19
financial assistance to provide services for a social 20
services program on the same basis as a private non-21
religious organization. 22
‘‘(2) S
ELECTION.—In the selection of recipients 23
for Federal financial assistance for a social services 24
program neither the Federal Government nor a 25
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State, local government, or pass-through entity re-1
ceiving funds for such program may discriminate for 2
or against a private organization on the basis of reli-3
gion, including the organization’s religious character, 4
affiliation, or exercise. 5
‘‘(3) P
ROHIBITION AGAINST IMPROPER BURDEN 6
ON RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS .— 7
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—Except in the case of 8
another applicable provision of law that requires 9
or provides for a religious exemption or accom-10
modation that is equally or more protective of 11
a religious organization’s religious exercise, the 12
provisions of subparagraphs (B) through (E) 13
shall apply for any social services program ad-14
ministered by the Federal Government or by a 15
State, local government, or pass-through entity. 16
‘‘(B) E
QUAL TREATMENT ON ASSURANCES 17
AND NOTICES.—No document, agreement, cov-18
enant, memorandum of understanding, policy, 19
or regulation, relating to Federal financial as-20
sistance shall require religious organizations to 21
provide assurances or notices that are not re-22
quired of private nonreligious organizations. 23
‘‘(C) E
QUAL APPLICATION OF RESTRIC -24
TIONS.—Any restrictions on the use of funds 25
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received as Federal financial assistance shall 1
apply equally to religious and private nonreli-2
gious organizations. 3
‘‘(D) P
ROGRAM REQUIREMENTS .—All or-4
ganizations that receive Federal financial assist-5
ance for a social services program, including re-6
ligious organizations, shall carry out eligible ac-7
tivities in accordance with all program require-8
ments, and other applicable requirements gov-9
erning the conduct of activities funded by the 10
entity that awards Federal financial assistance. 11
‘‘(E) N
O DISQUALIFICATION BASED ON RE -12
LIGION.—No document, agreement, covenant, 13
memorandum of understanding, policy, or regu-14
lation, relating to Federal financial assistance 15
shall— 16
‘‘(i) disqualify religious organizations 17
from applying for or receiving Federal fi-18
nancial assistance for a social services pro-19
gram on the basis of the organization’s re-20
ligious character or affiliation, or grounds 21
that discriminate against the organization 22
on the basis of the organization’s religious 23
exercise; or 24
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‘‘(ii) prohibit the provision of religious 1
activities or services at the same time or 2
location as any program receiving such 3
Federal financial assistance. 4
‘‘(c) R
ELIGIOUSCHARACTER ANDFREEDOM.— 5
‘‘(1) F
REEDOM.—A religious organization that 6
applies for or receives Federal financial assistance 7
for a social services program shall retain its inde-8
pendence from Federal, State, and local govern-9
ments, including its autonomy, right of expression, 10
religious character or affiliation, authority over its 11
internal governance, and other aspects of independ-12
ence. 13
‘‘(2) R
ELIGIOUS CHARACTER .—A religious or-14
ganization that applies for or receives Federal finan-15
cial assistance for a social services program may, 16
among other things— 17
‘‘(A) retain religious terms in the organiza-18
tion’s name; 19
‘‘(B) continue to carry out the organiza-20
tion’s mission, including the definition, develop-21
ment, practice, and expression of its religious 22
beliefs; 23
‘‘(C) use the organization’s facilities to 24
provide a program without concealing, remov-25
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ing, or altering religious art, icons, scriptures, 1
or other symbols from the facilities; 2
‘‘(D) select, promote, or dismiss the mem-3
bers of the organization’s governing body and 4
the organization’s employees on the basis of 5
their acceptance of or adherence to the religious 6
tenets of the organization; and 7
‘‘(E) include religious references in the or-8
ganization’s mission statement and other char-9
tering or governing documents. 10
‘‘(d) R
IGHTS OFCOVEREDBENEFICIARIES OFSERV-11
ICES.— 12
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—Except as otherwise pro-13
vided in any applicable provision of law that requires 14
or provides for a religious exemption or accommoda-15
tion that is equally or more protective of a religious 16
organization’s religious exercise, an organization 17
that receives Federal financial assistance under a so-18
cial services program shall not discriminate against 19
a covered beneficiary in the provision of a federally 20
funded program on the basis of religion, a religious 21
belief, or a refusal to hold a religious belief. 22
‘‘(2) S
PECIAL RULE.—It shall not be considered 23
discrimination under paragraph (1) for a program 24
funded by Federal financial assistance to refuse to 25
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modify any components of the program to accommo-1
date a covered beneficiary who participates in the or-2
ganization’s program. 3
‘‘(3) A
LTERNATIVE SERVICES .—If a covered 4
beneficiary has an objection to the character or af-5
filiation of the private organization from which the 6
beneficiary receives, or would receive, services as 7
part of the federally funded social services program, 8
the appropriate Federal, State, or local govern-9
mental entity shall provide to such beneficiary (if 10
otherwise eligible for such services) within a reason-11
able period of time after the date of such objection, 12
a referral for alternative services that— 13
‘‘(A) are reasonably accessible to the cov-14
ered beneficiary; and 15
‘‘(B) have a substantially similar value to 16
the services that the covered beneficiary would 17
initially have received from such organization. 18
‘‘(4) D
EFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 19
‘covered beneficiary’ means an individual who ap-20
plies for or receives services under a social services 21
program. 22
‘‘(e) R
ELIGIOUSEXEMPTIONS.—A religious organiza-23
tion’s exemptions, in title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 24
1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.) (including exemption from 25
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prohibitions in employment discrimination in section 1
702(a) of that Act (42 U.S.C. 2000e–1(a))), title VIII of 2
the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3601 et seq.), 3
title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. 4
1681 et seq.), the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 5
(42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.), the Religious Freedom Res-6
toration Act (42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.), the Religious 7
Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (42 8
U.S.C. 2000cc et seq.), or any other provision in law pro-9
viding an exemption for a religious organization, shall not 10
be waived because of the religious organization’s participa-11
tion in, or receipt of funds from, a social services program 12
funded with Federal financial assistance. 13
‘‘(f) L
IMITEDAUDIT.— 14
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—A religious organization 15
providing services for a social services program using 16
Federal financial assistance may segregate Federal 17
funds and any required matching funds provided for 18
such program into a separate account or accounts. 19
Only the separate accounts consisting of Federal 20
funds and any required matching funds shall be sub-21
ject to audit by the Federal Government with re-22
spect to an audit undertaken for the purposes of 23
oversight of Federal financial assistance. 24
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‘‘(2) COMMINGLING OF FUNDS .—If a religious 1
organization providing services for a social services 2
program using Federal financial assistance contrib-3
utes the organization’s own funds in addition to 4
those funds required by a matching requirement or 5
agreement to supplement Federal funds, the organi-6
zation may segregate the organization’s own funds 7
that are not matching funds into separate accounts, 8
or commingle the organization’s own funds that are 9
not matching funds with the matching funds. If 10
those funds are commingled, the commingled funds 11
may all be subject to audit by the Federal Govern-12
ment. 13
‘‘(g) P
RIVATERIGHT OFACTION.—Any religious or-14
ganization that alleges a violation of its rights under this 15
section and seeks to enforce its rights under this section— 16
‘‘(1) may bring an action in a court of com-17
petent jurisdiction and assert that violation as a 18
claim, or assert that violation as a defense in a judi-19
cial action; and 20
‘‘(2) may obtain appropriate relief, including at-21
torney’s fees, against an entity or agency that com-22
mitted such violation. 23
‘‘(h) F
EDERALPREEMPTION OFSTATE ANDLOCAL 24
L
AWS.—With respect to any Federal financial assistance 25
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provided to a religious organization for the provision of 1
a social service program, or such assistance commingled 2
with State or local funds, no State or political subdivision 3
of a State may adopt, maintain, enforce, or continue in 4
effect any law, regulation, rule, or requirement covered by 5
the provisions of this section, or a rule, regulation, or re-6
quirement promulgated under this section. 7
‘‘(i) C
ONSTRUCTION.—The provisions of this section 8
shall supersede all Federal law (including statutory and 9
other law, and policies used in the implementation of that 10
law) that is enacted or issued before the date of enactment 11
of this section. No provision of law enacted after the date 12
of the enactment of this section may be construed as lim-13
iting, superseding, or otherwise affecting this section, ex-14
cept to the extent that it does so by specific reference to 15
this section. 16
‘‘(j) S
EVERABILITY.—If any provision of this section 17
or the application of such provision to any person or cir-18
cumstance is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder 19
of this section and the application of the provisions of such 20
to any person or circumstance shall not be affected there-21
by. 22
‘‘(k) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 23
‘‘(1) D
ISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF AN OR -24
GANIZATION’S RELIGIOUS EXERCISE.— 25
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘discrimi-1
nate’, used with respect to an organization’s re-2
ligious exercise, means, on the basis of covered 3
conduct or motivation, to disfavor an organiza-4
tion in a selection process or in oversight, in-5
cluding— 6
‘‘(i) by failing to select an organiza-7
tion; 8
‘‘(ii) by disqualifying an organization; 9
or 10
‘‘(iii) by imposing any condition or se-11
lection criterion that penalizes or otherwise 12
disfavors an organization, or has the effect 13
of so penalizing or disfavoring an organiza-14
tion. 15
‘‘(B) C
OVERED CONDUCT OR MOTIVA -16
TION.—In this paragraph, the term ‘covered 17
conduct or motivation’ means— 18
‘‘(i) conduct that would not be consid-19
ered grounds to disfavor a nonreligious or-20
ganization; 21
‘‘(ii) conduct for which an organiza-22
tion must or could be granted an exemp-23
tion or accommodation in a manner con-24
sistent with the Free Exercise Clause of 25
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the First Amendment to the Constitution, 1
the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (42 2
U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.), or any other provi-3
sion referenced in subsection (e); or 4
‘‘(iii) the actual or suspected religious 5
motivation for the organization’s religious 6
exercise. 7
‘‘(2) O
THER DEFINITIONS.— 8
‘‘(A) F
EDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE .— 9
The term ‘Federal financial assistance’ means 10
financial assistance from the Federal Govern-11
ment that non-Federal entities receive or ad-12
minister through grants, contracts, loans, loan 13
guarantees, property, cooperative agreements, 14
food commodities, direct appropriations, or 15
other assistance, but does not include a tax 16
credit, tax deduction, or guaranty contract. 17
‘‘(B) P
ASS-THROUGH ENTITY .—The term 18
‘pass-through entity’ means an entity, including 19
a nonprofit or nongovernmental organization, 20
acting under a grant, contract, or other agree-21
ment with the Federal Government or with a 22
State or local government, such as a State ad-23
ministering agency, that accepts direct Federal 24
financial assistance as a primary recipient (such 25
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as a grant recipient) and distributes that assist-1
ance to other organizations that, in turn, pro-2
vide government-funded social services through 3
a social services program. 4
‘‘(C) P
ROGRAM.—The term ‘program’ in-5
cludes the services provided through that pro-6
gram. 7
‘‘(D) R
ELIGIOUS EXERCISE .—The term 8
‘religious exercise’ has the meaning given the 9
term in section 8 of the Religious Land Use 10
and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (42 11
U.S.C. 2000cc–5). 12
‘‘(E) S
ERVICES.—The term ‘services’, used 13
with respect to a social services program, in-14
cludes the provision of goods, or of financial as-15
sistance, under the social services program. 16
‘‘(F) S
OCIAL SERVICES PROGRAM .—The 17
term ‘social services program’— 18
‘‘(i) means a program that is adminis-19
tered by the Federal Government, or by a 20
State or local government using Federal fi-21
nancial assistance, and that provides serv-22
ices directed at reducing poverty, improv-23
ing opportunities for low-income children, 24
revitalizing low-income communities, em-25
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powering low-income families and low-in-1
come individuals to become self-sufficient, 2
or otherwise helping people in need; and 3
‘‘(ii) includes a program that provides, 4
to people in need— 5
‘‘(I) child care services, protective 6
services for children and adults, serv-7
ices for children and adults in foster 8
care, adoption services, services re-9
lated to management and mainte-10
nance of the home, day care services 11
for adults, and services to meet the 12
special needs of children, older indi-13
viduals, and individuals with disabil-14
ities; 15
‘‘(II) transportation services; 16
‘‘(III) job training and related 17
services, and employment services; 18
‘‘(IV) information, referral, and 19
counseling services; 20
‘‘(V) the preparation and delivery 21
of meals, nutrition services, and serv-22
ices related to soup kitchens or food 23
banks; 24
‘‘(VI) health support services; 25
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‘‘(VII) literacy and mentoring 1
services; 2
‘‘(VIII) services for the preven-3
tion and treatment of juvenile delin-4
quency and substance abuse, services 5
for the prevention of crime and the 6
provision of assistance to the victims 7
and families of criminal offenders, and 8
services related to intervention in, and 9
prevention of, domestic violence; or 10
‘‘(IX) services related to the pro-11
vision of assistance for housing under 12
Federal law.’’. 13
SEC. 13. AWARENESS FOR EXPECTING MOTHERS. 14
The Public Health Service Act is amended by adding 15
at the end the following: 16
‘‘TITLE XXXIV—AWARENESS FOR 17
EXPECTING MOTHERS 18
‘‘SEC. 3401. WEBSITE AND PORTAL. 19
‘‘(a) W
EBSITE.—Not later than 1 year after the date 20
of enactment of this section, the Secretary shall publish 21
a user-friendly public website, life.gov, to provide a com-22
prehensive list of Federal, State, local governmental, and 23
private resources available to pregnant women including— 24
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‘‘(1) resources to mental health counseling, 1
pregnancy counseling, and other prepartum and 2
postpartum services; 3
‘‘(2) comprehensive information on alternatives 4
to abortion; 5
‘‘(3) information about abortion risks, including 6
complications and failures; and 7
‘‘(4) links to information on child development 8
from moment of conception. 9
‘‘(b) P
ORTAL.—Not later than 1 year after the date 10
of enactment of this section, the Secretary shall publish 11
a portal on the public website of the Department of Health 12
and Human Services that— 13
‘‘(1) through a series of questions, will furnish 14
specific tailored information to the user on what 15
pregnancy-related information they are looking for, 16
such as— 17
‘‘(A) Federal, State, local governmental, 18
and private resources that may be available to 19
the woman within her ZIP Code, including the 20
resources specified in subsection (c); and 21
‘‘(B) risks related to abortion at all stages 22
of fetal gestation; and 23
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‘‘(2) provides for the submission of feedback on 1
how user-friendly and helpful the portal was in pro-2
viding the tailored information the user was seeking. 3
‘‘(c) R
ESOURCES.—The Federal, State, local govern-4
mental, and private resources specified in this subsection 5
are the following: 6
‘‘(1) Mentorship opportunities, including preg-7
nancy help and case management resources. 8
‘‘(2) Health and well-being services, including 9
women’s medical services such as obstetrical and 10
gynecological support services for women, abortion 11
pill reversal, breastfeeding, general health services, 12
primary care, and dental care. 13
‘‘(3) Financial assistance, work opportunities, 14
nutrition assistance, childcare, and education oppor-15
tunities. 16
‘‘(4) Material or legal support, including trans-17
portation, food, nutrition, clothing, household goods, 18
baby supplies, housing, shelters, maternity homes, 19
tax preparation, legal support for child support, 20
family leave, breastfeeding protections, and custody 21
issues. 22
‘‘(5) Recovery and mental health services, in-23
cluding services with respect to addiction or suicide 24
intervention, intimate partner violence, sexual as-25
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sault, rape, sex trafficking, and counseling for 1
women and families surrounding unexpected loss of 2
a child. 3
‘‘(6) Prenatal diagnostic services, including dis-4
ability support organizations, medical interventions 5
for a baby, perinatal hospice resources, pregnancy 6
and infant loss support, and literature on pregnancy 7
wellness. 8
‘‘(7) Healing and support services for abortion 9
survivors and their families. 10
‘‘(8) Services providing care for children, in-11
cluding family planning education, adoption, foster 12
care, and short-term care resources. 13
‘‘(d) A
DMINISTRATION.—The Secretary may not del-14
egate implementation or administration of the portal es-15
tablished under subsection (b) below the level of the Office 16
of the Secretary. 17
‘‘(e) F
OLLOW-UP.—The Secretary shall develop a 18
plan under which— 19
‘‘(1) the Secretary includes in the portal estab-20
lished under subsection (b), a mechanism for users 21
of the portal to take an assessment through the por-22
tal and provide consent to use the user’s contact in-23
formation; 24
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‘‘(2) the Secretary conducts outreach via phone 1
or email to follow up with users of the portal estab-2
lished under subsection (b) on additional resources 3
that would be helpful for the users to review; and 4
‘‘(3) upon the request of a user of the portal for 5
specific information, after learning of the additional 6
resources through the portal, agents of the Depart-7
ment of Health and Human Services make every ef-8
fort to furnish specific information to such user in 9
coordination with Federal, State, local governmental, 10
and private health care providers and resources. 11
‘‘(f) R
ESOURCELISTAGGREGATION.— 12
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—Pursuant to criteria devel-13
oped in subsection (e)(2), each State shall provide 14
recommendations of State, local governmental, and 15
private resources under subsection (b)(1)(A) to in-16
clude in the portal. 17
‘‘(2) C
RITERIA FOR MAKING RECOMMENDA -18
TIONS.—The Secretary shall develop criteria to pro-19
vide to the States to determine whether resources 20
recommended as described in paragraph (1) for in-21
clusion in the portal can appear in the portal. Such 22
criteria shall include the requirement that the re-23
source provider is not a prohibited entity and the re-24
quirement that the resource provider has been en-25
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gaged in providing services for a minimum of 3 con-1
secutive years. 2
‘‘(3) G
RANT PROGRAM.— 3
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—The Secretary may 4
provide grants to States to establish or support 5
a system that aggregates the resources de-6
scribed in subsection (b)(1)(A), in accordance 7
with the criteria developed under paragraph 8
(2), and that may be coordinated, to the extent 9
determined appropriate by the State, by a 10
statewide, regionally based, or community-based 11
public entity or private nonprofit. 12
‘‘(B) A
PPLICATIONS.—To be eligible to re-13
ceive a grant under subparagraph (A), a State 14
shall submit an application to the Secretary at 15
such time, in such manner, and containing such 16
information as the Secretary may require, in-17
cluding a plan for outreach and awareness ac-18
tivities, and a list of service providers that 19
would be included in the State system sup-20
ported by the grant. 21
‘‘(g) M
ATERNALMENTALHEALTHHOTLINE.—The 22
Secretary shall ensure that the Maternal Mental Health 23
Hotline of the Health Resources and Services Administra-24
tion— 25
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‘‘(1) disseminates information regarding, and 1
linkages to, the life.gov website and portal described 2
in subsections (a) and (b); 3
‘‘(2) has the capacity to help families in every 4
State and community in the Nation; and 5
‘‘(3) includes live chat features, 24 hours a day, 6
to connect individuals to the information the portal 7
hosts. 8
‘‘(h) P
ROHIBITIONREGARDINGCERTAINENTI-9
TIES.—The resources listed on the life.gov website, and 10
made available through the portal and hotline established 11
under this section may not include any resource offered 12
by a prohibited entity. 13
‘‘(i) S
ERVICES INDIFFERENTLANGUAGES.—The 14
life.gov website and hotline shall ensure the widest possible 15
access to services for families who speak languages other 16
than English. 17
‘‘(j) R
EPORTINGREQUIREMENTS.— 18
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 19
after date on which the life.gov website and portal 20
are established under subsection (a), the Secretary 21
shall submit to Congress a report on— 22
‘‘(A) the traffic of the website and the 23
interactive portal; 24
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‘‘(B) user feedback on the accessibility and 1
helpfulness of the website and interactive portal 2
in tailoring to the user’s needs; 3
‘‘(C) insights on gaps in Federal, State, 4
local governmental, and private programming 5
with respect to services for pregnant and 6
postpartum women; and 7
‘‘(D) suggestions on how to improve user 8
experience and accessibility based on user feed-9
back and missing resources that would be help-10
ful to include in future updates. 11
‘‘(2) C
ONFIDENTIALITY.—The report under 12
paragraph (1) shall not include any personal identi-13
fying information regarding individuals who have 14
used the website or portal. 15
‘‘(k) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 16
‘‘(1) A
BORTION.—The term ‘abortion’ means 17
the use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, 18
drug, or other substance or device to intentionally— 19
‘‘(A) kill the unborn child of a woman 20
known to be pregnant; or 21
‘‘(B) prematurely terminate the pregnancy 22
of a woman known to be pregnant, with an in-23
tention other than to— 24
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‘‘(i) increase the probability of a live 1
birth or of preserving the life or health of 2
the child after live birth; or 3
‘‘(ii) remove an ectopic pregnancy or a 4
dead unborn child. 5
‘‘(2) B
ORN ALIVE.—The term ‘born alive’ has 6
the meaning given such term in section 8(b) of title 7
1, United States Code. 8
‘‘(3) P
ROHIBITED ENTITY.—The term ‘prohib-9
ited entity’ means an entity, including its affiliates, 10
subsidiaries, successors, and clinics that performs, 11
induces, refers for, or counsels in favor of abortions, 12
or provides financial support to any other organiza-13
tion that conducts such activities. 14
‘‘(4) U
NBORN CHILD.—The term ‘unborn child’ 15
means an individual organism of the species homo 16
sapiens, beginning at fertilization, until the point of 17
being born alive.’’. 18
SEC. 14. WIC REFORM. 19
(a) B
REASTFEEDINGWOMAN.— 20
(1) D
EFINITION OF BREASTFEEDING WOMAN .— 21
Section 17(b) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 22
U.S.C. 1786(b)) is amended by striking the sub-23
section designation and all that follows through the 24
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period at the end of paragraph (1) and inserting the 1
following: 2
‘‘(b) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 3
‘‘(1) B
REASTFEEDING WOMAN .—The term 4
‘breastfeeding woman’ means a woman who is not 5
more than 2 years postpartum and is breastfeeding 6
the infant of the woman.’’. 7
(2) C
ERTIFICATION.—Section 17(d)(3)(A)(ii) of 8
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 9
1786(d)(3)(A)(ii)) is amended by striking ‘‘1 year’’ 10
and inserting ‘‘2 years’’. 11
(b) P
OSTPARTUMWOMAN.— 12
(1) D
EFINITION OF POSTPARTUM WOMAN .— 13
Section 17(b)(10) of the Child Nutrition Act of 14
1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786(b)(10)) is amended by strik-15
ing the period at the end and inserting ‘‘, and, for 16
purposes of subsection (d), includes women up to 2 17
years after the birth of a child born alive or a still-18
birth.’’. 19
(2) C
ERTIFICATION.—Section 17(d)(3)(A) of 20
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 21
1786(d)(3)(A)) is amended— 22
(A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘clause (ii)’’ 23
and inserting ‘‘clauses (ii) and (iii)’’; 24
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(B) by redesignating clause (iii) as clause 1
(iv); and 2
(C) by inserting after clause (ii) the fol-3
lowing: 4
‘‘(iii) P
OSTPARTUM WOMEN .—A State 5
may elect to certify a postpartum woman 6
for a period of up to 2 years after the 7
birth of a child born alive or a stillbirth.’’. 8
(c) C
HILDSUPPORT.—Section 17(e)(4) of the Child 9
Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786(e)(4)) is amend-10
ed— 11
(1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 12
the end; 13
(2) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as sub-14
paragraph (D); and 15
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the fol-16
lowing: 17
‘‘(C) shall provide to individuals applying 18
for the program under this section, or re-19
applying at the end of their certification pe-20
riod— 21
‘‘(i) written information about estab-22
lishing child support orders under the law 23
of the State; and 24
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‘‘(ii) on request from the individual 1
applicant, referral to any program or agen-2
cy of the State authorized to determine eli-3
gibility for child support orders; and’’. 4
(d) C
HILDSUPPORTENFORCEMENTPLAN.—Section 5
17(f)(1)(C) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 6
1786(f)(1)(C)) is amended— 7
(1) in clause (x), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 8
(2) by redesignating clause (xi) as clause (xii); 9
and 10
(3) by inserting after clause (x) the following: 11
‘‘(xi) a plan to facilitate referrals for 12
participants seeking to establish a child 13
support order; and’’. 14
(e) R
EVIEW OF AVAILABLE SUPPLEMENTAL 15
F
OODS.—Section 17(f)(11)(C) of the Child Nutrition Act 16
of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786(f)(11)(C)) is amended— 17
(1) in the matter preceding clause (i), by strik-18
ing ‘‘10’’ and inserting ‘‘5’’; and 19
(2) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘amend the sup-20
plemental foods available, as necessary, to’’ and in-21
serting ‘‘not later than 18 months after the conclu-22
sion of each scientific review conducted under clause 23
(i), promulgate a final rule to amend the supple-24
mental foods, as necessary, to’’. 25
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(f) INCREASE INCASH-VALUEVOUCHERAMOUNT.— 1
Section 17(f)(11) of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 2
U.S.C. 1786(f)(11)) is amended by adding at the end the 3
following: 4
‘‘(D) I
NCREASE IN CASH-VALUE VOUCHER 5
AMOUNT.—Using funds made available for the 6
program authorized by this section, not later 7
than 30 days after the date of enactment of the 8
Providing for Life Act of 2023, the Secretary 9
shall— 10
‘‘(i) increase the amount of the cash- 11
value voucher (as defined in section 246.2 12
of title 7 (Code of Federal Regulations) (or 13
a successor regulation)) to reflect the 14
amount provided to participants of the pro-15
gram as of August 31, 2022 (and adjusted 16
for inflation); and 17
‘‘(ii) maintain such amount until the 18
date on which a new final rule is promul-19
gated pursuant to subparagraph (C)(ii).’’. 20
SEC. 15. PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS. 21
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 22
Human Services shall use amounts available under sub-23
section (b) to provide grants and other assistance to preg-24
nancy resource centers to assist such centers in carrying 25
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out activities to support women’s pregnancy-related 1
health. 2
(b) F
UNDING.—Notwithstanding any other provision 3
of law, a pregnancy resource center shall be eligible for 4
funding under title X of the Public Health Service Act 5
(42 U.S.C. 300 et seq.). Notwithstanding section 59.2 of 6
title 42, Code of Federal Regulations, pregnancy resource 7
centers shall not be required to provide, refer, or counsel 8
in favor of contraception in order to eligible for funding 9
under such title X. In making funding available under 10
such title X, the Secretary of Health and Human Services 11
shall give priority to the funding of pregnancy resource 12
centers. 13
(c) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 14
(1) C
OMMUNITY REFERRALS .—The term ‘‘com-15
munity referrals’’ means linking a woman to addi-16
tional care within the community. Such linkage may 17
include prenatal care, STI testing or treatment, ma-18
ternity homes and housing, professional counseling, 19
licensed adoption agencies, financial aid, addition re-20
covery help, job and skills training, and legal help. 21
(2) M
ATERIAL ASSISTANCE.—The term ‘‘mate-22
rial assistance’’ means the provision of goods and re-23
sources to pregnant or parenting women or par-24
enting couples, including diapers and wipes, car 25
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seats, baby furniture, strollers, baby bedding, baby 1
clothing, baby formula, maternity clothing, or finan-2
cial assistance. 3
(3) P
REGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER .—The 4
term ‘‘pregnancy resource center’’ means a life-af-5
firming organization that offers a range of services 6
to assist pregnant women, which may include op-7
tions such as counseling, obstetrical ultrasound, sex-8
ual transmitted infection (STI) tests and testing, 9
pregnancy tests and testing, sexual risk avoidance 10
(SRA) education, parenting education, material as-11
sistance, and community referrals. Such organiza-12
tions may also be known as pregnancy help centers, 13
pregnancy resource centers, pregnancy care centers, 14
pregnancy medical clinics, or simply pregnancy cen-15
ters. Such term does not include entities that per-16
form, prescribe, refer for or encourage abortion or 17
entities that affiliate with any entity that performs, 18
prescribes, refers for, or encourages abortion. 19
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