Bills Sec. 12 — Amendments to Personal Responsibility…

Section 402(a)(2) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1612(a)(2) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: With respect to eligibility for benefits for the specified Federal program defined in paragraph (3)(B) section 401(a) and paragraph

(1)shall not apply— to any citizen of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau who lawfully resides in one of the several States or the District of Columbia as a nonimmigrant under the terms of the applicable Compact of Free Association with the United States; or at the request of the governors of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands, to any citizen of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau who lawfully resides in the respective United States territory as a nonimmigrant under the terms of the applicable Compact of Free Association with the United States. . Section 402(b)(2) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1612(b)(2) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: With respect to eligibility for benefits for the designated Federal program defined in subparagraphs

(A)and

(B)of paragraph (3), section 401(a) and paragraph

(1)shall not apply— to any citizen of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau who lawfully resides in one of the several States or the District of Columbia as a nonimmigrant under the terms of the applicable Compact of Free Association with the United States; or at the request of the governors of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands, to any citizen of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau who lawfully resides in the respective United States territory as a nonimmigrant under the terms of the applicable Compact of Free Association with the United States. . Any amounts provided to an affected jurisdiction for benefits to qualified nonimmigrants for the specified Federal program defined in section 402(a)(3)(A) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1612(a)(3)(A) ), or for the designated Federal program defined in section 402(b)(3)(C) of such Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1612(b)(3)(C) ), shall be used to supplement and not supplant, other Federal, State, and local funds, including under— the supplemental nutrition assistance program as defined in section 3 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2012 ); the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.); and the program of block grants to States for social services under title XX of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1397 et seq.). In this subsection, the terms affected jurisdiction and qualified nonimmigrant have the meaning given such terms, respectively, in section 104(e)(2) of the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003 ( 48 U.S.C. 1921c(e)(2) ). Section 431(b) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1641(b) ) is amended— in paragraph (6), by striking ; or and inserting a comma; in paragraph (7), by striking the period at the end and inserting , or ; and by adding at the end the following: an alien who is a citizen of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or the Republic of Palau and admitted to the United States as a nonimmigrant under the terms of the applicable Compact of Free Association with the United States. .

Sec. 12. Amendments to Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act