Sec. 2. Availability of basic assistance to lawfully present noncitizens

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Sections 402, 403, 411, 412, 421, and 422 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1612 , 1613, 1621, 1622, 1631, and 1632) are repealed. Title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1601 et seq. ) is amended— in section 401(b)(5) ( 8 U.S.C. 1611(b)(5) ), by striking the program defined in section 402(a)(3)(A) (relating to the supplemental security income program) and inserting the Supplemental Security Income Program under title XVI of the Social Security Act ( ; 42 U.S.C. 1381 et seq. ) in section 404(a) ( 8 U.S.C. 1614(a) ), by striking , 402, or 403 ; in section 413 ( 8 U.S.C. 1625 )— by striking A State and inserting the following:

In this section, the term State or local public benefit — except as provided in paragraphs

(2)and (3), means— any grant, contract, loan, professional license, or commercial license provided by an agency of a State or local government or by appropriated funds of a State or local government; and any retirement, welfare, health, disability, public or assisted housing, postsecondary education, food assistance, unemployment benefit, or any other similar benefit for which payments or assistance are provided to an individual, household, or family eligibility unit by an agency of a State or local government or by appropriated funds of a State or local government; does not apply— to any contract, professional license, or commercial license for a nonimmigrant whose visa for entry is related to such employment in the United States, or to a citizen of a freely associated state, if section 141 of the applicable compact of free association approved in Public Law 99–239 or 99–658 (or a successor provision) is in effect; with respect to benefits for an alien who as a work authorized nonimmigrant or as an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act qualified for such benefits and for whom the United States under reciprocal treaty agreements is required to pay benefits, as determined by the Secretary of State, after consultation with the Attorney General; or to the issuance of a professional license to, or the renewal of a professional license by, a foreign national not physically present in the United States; and does not include any Federal public benefit. A State ; and in subsection (b), as redesignated, by striking (as defined in section 411(c)) ; in section 432(d) ( 8 U.S.C. 1642(d) ), by striking (as defined in section 411(c)) and inserting (as defined in section 413(a)) ; in section 435 ( 8 U.S.C. 1645 ), by striking (as provided under section 403) ; and in section 436 ( 8 U.S.C. 1646 )— by striking the food stamp program (as defined in section 402(a)(3)(B)) and inserting the supplemental nutrition assistance program established under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( ; and 7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq. ) by striking the supplemental security income program (as defined in section 402(a)(3)(A)) and inserting the Supplemental Security Income Program under title XVI of the Social Security Act ( . 42 U.S.C. 1381 et seq. ) Title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1601 et seq. ) is amended— in the title header, by striking and inserting Aliens ; Noncitizens in the header of section 401 ( 8 U.S.C. 1611 ), by striking and inserting Aliens who are not qualified aliens ; Noncitizens who are not qualified noncitizens by striking qualified alien each place such term appears and inserting qualified noncitizen ; by striking qualified aliens each place such term appears and inserting qualified noncitizens ; by striking qualified alien’s each place such term appears and inserting qualified noncitizen’s ; by striking an alien each place such term appears and inserting a noncitizen ; by striking alien each place such term appears and inserting noncitizen ; by striking aliens each place such term appears and inserting noncitizens ; and by striking alien’s each place such term appears and inserting noncitizen’s . Section 431 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1641 ) is amended— by striking subsection

(b)and inserting the following: For purposes of this title, the term qualified noncitizen means a noncitizen who, at the time the noncitizen applies for, receives, or attempts to receive a Federal public benefit, is lawfully present in the United States. ; in subsection (c)— in the header, by striking and inserting qualified aliens ; qualified noncitizens in paragraph (3), by striking or at the end; in paragraph (4), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; or ; and by inserting after paragraph

(4)the following: a noncitizen— in a category that was treated as lawfully present for purposes of section 1101 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 ( 42 U.S.C. 18001 ); who met the requirements of section 402(a)(2)(D) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1612(a)(2)(D) ) on or before January 1, 2021; who is granted special immigrant juvenile status as described by section 101(a)(27)(J) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(27)(J) ); who has a pending, bona fide application for nonimmigrant status under section 101(a)(15)(U) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101(1)(15)(U) ); who was granted relief under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program; or who is not described in subparagraphs

(A)through (E), is not a citizen of the United States, resides in a State or territory of the United States, and is authorized by Federal law to be present in the United States. ; and by adding at the end the following: In this title, the term noncitizen means any individual who is not a citizen of the United States. . Section 742 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1615 ) is amended— in subsection (a)— in the header by striking and inserting School lunch and breakfast programs ; Child nutrition programs by striking the school lunch program and inserting any program ; and by striking the school breakfast program under section 4 of the and inserting any program under ; and in subsection (b), by amending paragraph

(1)to read as follows: A State may not deny benefits under programs established under the provisions of law described in paragraph

(2)on the basis of an individual’s citizenship or immigration status. . Section 1108(h) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1308(h) ) is amended— by striking Expenditures and inserting: Expenditures ; and by adding at the end the following: With respect to eligibility for benefits under a State plan approved under title XIX (other than medical assistance described in section 401(b)(1)(A) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1611(b)(1)(A) )), paragraph

(1)shall not apply to any individual who lawfully resides in 1 of the 50 States or in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Compacts of Free Association between the Government of the United States and the Governments of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau and shall not apply, at the option of the Governor of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, or American Samoa as communicated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services in writing, to any individual who lawfully resides in the respective territory in accordance with such Compacts. . Section 2107(e)(1) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1397gg(e)(1) ) is amended— by striking subparagraph (O); and by redesignating subparagraphs (P), (Q), (R), (S), (T), and

(U)as subparagraphs (O), (P), (Q), (R), (S), and (T), respectively. The Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 ( 7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq. ) is amended— in section 5 ( 7 U.S.C. 2014 )— in subsection (d)(10), by striking

(k)and inserting

(j); by striking subsection (i); and by redesignating subsections (j), (k), (l), (m), and

(n)as subsections (i), (j), (k), (l), and (m), respectively; in section 6 ( 7 U.S.C. 2015 )— in subsection (f), by striking an alien lawfully admitted for permanent and all that follows through the end of the subsection and inserting a noncitizen who is lawfully present in the United States. ; and in subsection (s)(2), by striking (i), (k), (l), (m), and

(n)and inserting (j), (k), (l), and

(m); and in section 11(e)(2)(B)(v)(II) ( 7 U.S.C. 2020(e)(2)(B)(v)(II) ) by striking aliens and inserting noncitizens . Section 1903(v) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396b(v) ) is amended— in paragraph (1), by striking admitted for and all that follows and inserting present in the United States. ; and by striking paragraph (4). Section 214(a) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 ( 42 U.S.C. 1436a(a) ) is amended— by redesignating paragraphs

(6)and

(7)as paragraphs

(7)and (8), respectively; and by inserting after paragraph

(5)the following: a qualified noncitizen (as defined in section 431 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1641 )); . Section 213A of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1183a ) is amended— in subsection (a)(3)— in subparagraph (A), by striking (as provided under section 403 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996) ; and in subparagraph (B), in the undesignated matter following clause (ii), by striking (as provided under section 403 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996) ; and in subsection (b)(1)(A) is amended by striking benefit, and inserting benefit by fraud, . Section 36B(c)(1)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows: If— a taxpayer has a household income which is not greater than 100 percent of an amount equal to the poverty line for a family of the size involved, the taxpayer is a non-citizen lawfully present in the United States, the taxpayer is ineligible for minimum essential coverage under section 5000A(f)(1)(A)(ii), and under the Medicaid eligibility criteria for non-citizens in effect on December 26, 2020, the taxpayer would be ineligible for such minimum essential coverage by reason of the taxpayer’s immigration status, the taxpayer shall, for purposes of the credit under this section, be treated as an applicable taxpayer with a household income which is equal to 100 percent of the poverty line for a family of the size involved. .

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