SRC-JFA S.C.R. 21 75(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.C.R. 21
By: Truan
Health & Human Services
3-10-97
As Filed


DIGEST 

Currently, the new Federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Act denies food stamps and other benefits to many noncitizens of the
United States.  Included in the number of persons who will be denied
benefits are individuals who are elderly and disabled.  This resolution
would ask for the support of the Congress of the United States by
requesting Congress to allow legal aliens access to Medicaid benefits.    

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.C.R. 21 submits the following resolutions:

To request the Congress of the United States to amend federal law to allow
legal aliens access to Medicaid benefits.  

To forward copies of this resolution to the president of the United
States, to the speaker of the house of representatives and the president
of the senate of the United States Congress, and to all the members of the
Texas delegation to the congress with the request that this resolution be
officially entered in the Congressional Record as a memorial to the
Congress of the United States of America.