Charitable Choice, Faith-Based Initiatives, and TANF

Burke, Vee

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Taxation;    Welfare reform;    Tax incentives;    Charitable contributions;    Welfare;   

RP-ID  :  RS20712
RP-ID  :  RS20712 2003-09-30

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The 108th Congress has resumed efforts to pass tax incentives for private giving (S. 476, passed by the Senate on April 9, and H.R. 7, introduced May 7, 2003). However, these bills do not contain provisions intended to promote religious organizations as providers of federally funded social services – charitable choice provisions.. The House voted in 2001 to extend charitable choice rules, which now apply to a limited set of programs, to numerous new programs (H.R. 7 in the 107th Congress), as the President urged, but the Senate refused. However, in an Executive Order, President Bush on December 12, 2002, directed six cabinet-level departments and the Agency for International Development (AID) to bring policies concerning social service programs into line with charitable choice principles set forth in the Order.