File Code: Social Services - Generally
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Valderrama, Howard, Exum, Patterson, B. Hughes, Opara, Frush,
Nathan-Pulliam, Doory, Menes, Rosapepe, Palumbo, Healey, Dembrow, E.
Burns, Mandel, Muse, and Bobo
- Entitled:
-
Welfare Reform - Legal Immigrants
Requiring the Department of Human Resources to provide cash assistance
to legal immigrants who arrived in the United States on or before
August 22, 1996; requiring the Department of Human Resources to
establish and provide food stamp benefits to certain legal immigrants;
requiring the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to provide
certain medical care services for legal immigrants who arrived in the
United States after August 22, 1996; and generally relating to legal
immigrants and welfare benefit programs.
House Action
- 2/21
- First Reading Appropriations
- Hearing 2/27 at 11:00 a.m.
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate David M. Valderrama, District 26
- Delegate Elizabeth Bobo, District 12B
- Delegate Emmett C. Burns, Jr., District 10
- Delegate Dana Lee Dembrow, District 20
- Delegate Ann Marie Doory, District 43
- Delegate Nathaniel Exum, District 24
- Delegate Barbara Frush, District 21
- Delegate Anne Healey, District 22A
- Delegate Carolyn J. B. Howard, District 24
- Delegate Brenda B. Hughes, District 25
- Delegate Adrienne A. Mandel, District 19
- Delegate Pauline H. Menes, District 21
- Delegate C. Anthony Muse, District 26
- Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, District 10
- Delegate Clay C. Opara, District 41
- Delegate Richard A. Palumbo, District 22A
- Delegate Obie Patterson, District 26
- Delegate James C. Rosapepe, District 21
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- ALIENS
- FOOD STAMPS
- HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, DEPARTMENT OF
- HOUSING -see also- APARTMENTS; MORTGAGES
- HUMAN RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF
- MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
- MINORS -see also- AGE OF MAJORITY; JUVENILE CAUSES; YOUTH
- PREGNANCY
- WELFARE -see also- SOCIAL SERVICES
- WOMEN
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Article - 88A Department of Human Resources
- (
48 ,
83A ,
83B ,
83C ,
88
)
- Health - General
- (
15-103
)
- Bill Text:
- First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)