Blocks part of a proposed welfare rule as applied to state spending on pregnancy centers

§1What it does

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This bill would bar the federal Administration for Children and Families from finalizing or enforcing part of a proposed rule on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) welfare program as it applies to state spending on certain pregnancy centers.^2,3 Under that part of the rule, a state whose TANF spending the agency questioned would have to show that a reasonable person would see it as serving one of the program's legal purposes, and the agency had said that programs that only or mainly counsel women after they become pregnant likely would not meet that test.³ The exemption would cover pregnancy centers that, in the bill's words, support protecting the life of both the mother and the unborn child, and that offer services such as relationship counseling, prenatal education, pregnancy tests, diapers and baby clothes.³

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