Poverty Data Correction Act of 1997

Summary

Poverty Data Correction Act of 1997 - Requires any data relating to the incidence of poverty produced or published by or for the Secretary of Commerce for subnational areas to be corrected for differences in the cost of living and data produced for State and sub-State areas to be corrected for differences in the cost of living for at least all States of the United States. Requires such corrected data to be published in 1997 and biennially thereafter. Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop or cause to be developed a State cost-of-living index which ranks and assigns an index value to each State using data on wage, housing, and other costs relevant to the cost of living; and (2) multiply the Federal Government's statistical poverty thresholds by the index value for each State's cost of living to produce State poverty thresholds for each State. Requires the State cost-of-living index and resulting State poverty thresholds to be published before September 30, 1998, for calendar year 1997 and to be updated annually thereafter.

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Timeline

1. 21 January 1997

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 21 January 1997

   Introduced

   Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S513-514)

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 21 January 1997

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 25 June 1998

   Referred

   Referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management.

   Source: Committee

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Versions

• Introduced in Senate · 21 January 1997 · Official file

Documents

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 21 January 1997

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• Introduced in Senate (PDF)

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 21 January 1997

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Sponsors

• Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Jeffords, James M. [R-VT-At Large] · R · Sponsor
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