Legislative
Update
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H.R.
1139 - a
bill to make child care more
affordable for working families and for stay-at-home parents with children under
the age of one, to double the number of children receiving child care
assistance, to provide for after school care, and to provide child care safety
and quality and enhance early childhood development.
Latest major action: 4/16/99.
Referred to House subcommittees
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S.
208 - a bill to enhance family life.
This Act may be cited as the "Enhancing Family Life Act of
1999", introduced by Senator Patrick Moynihan in January 1999 at the 106th
Congress, 1st session.
Latest major action: 1/19/99.
Referred to Senate Committee
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S. 1069
- a bill to promote economic security
and safety for battered women, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited
as the "Battered Women's Economic Security and Safety Act"
Latest major action taken: 5/18/99
Referred to Senate Committee
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H.R.
2104 - To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to permit leave to care
for a domestic partner, parent-in-law, adult child, sibling, or grandparent, if
the domestic partner, parent-in-law, adult child, sibling, or grandparent has a
serious health condition.
Latest major action taken: 7/2/99
Referred to House Subcommittee
Church
position: "...many dioceses and parishes have been deeply engaged in this
issue in response to the Holy Father's call for substantial debt forgiveness on
the occasion of the Great Jubilee, and in an effort to live out the commitments
made in the synod of the Americas and to be in solidarity with the Church in the
developing world. We seek debt
relief, not for its own sake, but in order to alleviate poverty in the poorest
countries." (Bernard Cardinal Law, Chair, International Policy Committee,
NCCB)
(Source:
Archdiocesan Legislative Network – Federal Alert March 2000)