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Recent legislation has affected the populations served by the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) disability programs. The Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996 mandated that persons whose disability determination was based on drug addiction or alcoholism be removed from the Supplemental Security Income and Social Security Disability Insurance rolls. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (later amended by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997) tightened the SSI eligibility criteria for children and converted the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program into a block grant, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. This article describes the design of three related studies evaluating the direct and indirect effects of these policy changes...
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Legislative vetoes are noticeably absent from major legislation including the Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996, possibly as a result of the 1983 Chadha decision. Instead, this and other laws have employed the 'joint resolution of disapproval' in order to effectuate legislative oversight. This mechanism allows Congress a sixty day period to disapprove through a joint resolution before a regulation takes effect. Thus, Chadha effectively disallowed use of the legislative veto.
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... II The Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996 amended the S...
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... 202(a), ii which itself deals exclusively with the regulation of emissions from new motor vehicle... to only the largest pollution sources in America, into a vast program that would require at least 4... of the CRA, incorporated into the Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996, and signed i...
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... for electronic filing of most documents with the agency. The intended effects of the amendments...), and sections 302 and 312 of the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (19. U.S.C... from the reporting requirements of the Contract With America Advancement Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-...
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This final rule with comment period revises the Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) for CY 2012 to implement applicable statutory requirements and changes arising from our continuing experience with this system. In this final rule with comment period, we describe the changes to the amounts and factors used to determine the payment rates for Medicare hospital outpatient services paid under the OPPS. In addition, this final rule with comment period updates the revised Medicare ambulatory surgical center (ASC) payment system to implement applicable statutory requirements and changes arising from our continuing experience with this system. In this final rule with comment period, we set forth the relative payment weights and payment amounts for services furnished i...
...ACEP American College of Emergency Physicians. AHA American Hosp...MAC Medicare Administrative Contractor. MedPAC Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. MIEA..., 1999), and the Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-121) (5 U.S.C. 804(2)). ...
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... stepchild's benefits introduced by the Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996. Under the ch...
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... need for improved FM digital coverage with the continued need to limit interference from digi... purchased from the Commission's copy contractor, BCPI, Inc., Portals. II, 445 12th Street, SW., Ro...., has been amended by the Contract With America Advancement Act of 1996,. Pub. L. 104-121, 110 Sta...
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... programming distributor systems (``MVPDs'') with more than 50,000 subscribers, provide video descri... purchased from the Commission's copy contractor, 445 12th. Street, SW., Room CY-B402, Washington, ...Americans to enjoy the benefits of television service and pa...America Advancement Act of 1996 (``CWAAA''). \248\ Video Description: ...