Amendment ensures that recipients of noncash TANF benefits will continue to be categorically eligible for food stamps and addresses high growth States with regard to Medicaid transformation.

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   Change 1: Adds Sec. 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of this resolution, the amendment considered as adopted under the first section of this resolution shall be modified as specified in section 5 at the end of the resolution

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   Inserted: Sec. 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of this resolution, the amendment considered as adopted under the first section of this resolution shall be modified as specified in section 5.

   Inserted: Sec. 5. The modification referred to in section 4 is as follows:

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   Add at the end the following:

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   Change 2: Rewrites page 13, lines 5–11

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   Removes page 13, lines 5–11 of the printed bill. See that page

   Inserted: (a) Eligible Households.--The Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) is amended--

   Inserted: (1) in section 5----

   Inserted: (A) in the 2d sentence of subsection (a); and

   Inserted: (B) in subsection (j); by striking 'receives benefits' each place it appears and inserting 'in fiscal years 2006 through 2010 receives cash assistance, and in any other fiscal year receives benefits,';

   Inserted: (2) in section 5(a) by adding at the end the following:

   Inserted: 'Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act except sections 6(b), 6(d)(2), and 6(g) and section 3(i)(4), households in which each member receives substantial and ongoing noncash benefits under a State program funded under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) provided for purposes of shelter, utilities, child care, health care, transportation, or job training, and that have a monthly income that does not exceed (before the exclusions and deductions provided for in subsections (d) and (e)) 150 percent of the poverty line, as defined in section 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)), for the forty-eight contiguous States and the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and Guam, respectively, shall be eligible to participate in the food stamp program.'; and

   Inserted: (3) in section 5(j) by adding at the end the following:

   Inserted: 'Notwithstanding subsections (a) through (i), a State agency shall consider a member of a household in which each household member receives substantial and ongoing noncash benefits under a State program funded under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) provided for purposes of shelter, utilities, child care, health care, transportation, or job training, and which has a monthly income that does not exceed (before the exclusions and deductions provided for in subsections (d) and (e)) 150 percent of the poverty line, as defined in section 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)), for the forty-eight contiguous States and the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and Guam, respectively, to have satisfied the resource limitations prescribed under subsection (g).'.

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   Page 13, strike lines 5 through 11, and insert the following:

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