HOUSE BILL REPORT

                 SHB 1089

                    As Passed Legislature

Title:  An act relating to correcting nomenclature for the former aid to families with dependent children program.

Brief Description:  Correcting references to the former aid to families with dependent children program.

Sponsors:  By House Committee on Children & Family Services (originally sponsored by  Representatives Cooke, Tokuda, Radcliff, Backlund, Boldt, Mason and Cairnes).

Brief History:

Committee Activity:

Children & Family Services:  1/24/97, 2/7/97 [DPS].

Floor Activity:

Passed House:  3/10/97, 95‑0.

Passed Legislature.

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES

Majority Report:  The substitute bill be substituted therefor and the substitute bill do pass.  Signed by 11 members:  Representatives Cooke, Chairman; Boldt, Vice Chairman; Bush, Vice Chairman; Tokuda, Ranking Minority Member; Kastama, Assistant Ranking Minority Member; Ballasiotes; Carrell; Dickerson; Gombosky; McDonald and Wolfe.

Staff:  David Knutson (786-7146).

Background:  Congress repealed the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program and replaced it with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program as part of federal welfare reform.

Summary of Bill: References to the AFDC program in the Revised Code of Washington are deleted and replaced with references to the TANF program.

Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Effective Date:  Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For:  None.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  None.