SRC-TNM S.C.R. 22 75(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.C.R. 22
By: Truan
Health & Human Services
3-10-97
As Filed


DIGEST 

Currently, the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act,
or welfare reform, 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, some
of whom have paid taxes for a great number of years.  The total number of
immigrants expected to lose food stamps in Texas has been calculated to be
140,937.  The total number of immigrants expected to lose Supplemental
Security Income benefits has been calculated to be 38,450.  The
resolutions in S.C.R. 22 seek to address the cuts in benefits for those
individuals and ask the support of the Senate in passing resolutions
requesting the federal government to allow needy legal aliens access to
food stamps, Medicaid benefits, and Supplemental Security Income. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.C.R. 24 submits the following resolutions:

To request the Congress of the United States to amend federal law to allow
legal aliens access to Supplemental Security Income where appropriate. 

To forward official 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.