To express the sense of the Congress that any welfare reform legislation enacted by the Congress should include provisions addressing domestic violence.

Summary

Provides that when considering proposed welfare legislation the Congress should: (1) seriously evaluate whether it would exacerbate certain ramifications of domestic violence against women and children; (2) require that State-implemented or State-adopted welfare-to-work or education programs take domestic violence into account; (3) require the Comptroller General to study the incidence and effect of domestic violence on AFDC recipients; and (4) provide, in any such legislation, mechanisms identifying and aiding in specified ways recipients and their children victimized by or at risk of violence.

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 27 June 1996

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  Introduced in House · EN · 27 June 1996

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 27 June 1996

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