Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act - Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary for carrying out the domestic assistance provisions of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, with respect to refugees from Cambodia, Vietnam, or Laos.
Permits funds appropriated under the Act to be used to reimburse State or local public agencies for the non-Federal share of costs for those needy refugees who qualify under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children or Medicaid programs.
Establishes September 30, 1981, as the termination date of the Act.
Provides for the following percentages of Federal assistance for refugee cash assistance, medical assistance, social services, and State-local costs: (1) fiscal year 1978, 100 percent; (2) fiscal year 1979, 75 percent of the 1978 cost; (3) fiscal year 1980, 50 percent of such cost; and (4) fiscal year 1981, 25 percent of such cost.
Authorizes the appropriation of $25,000,000 to assist refugees in resettling and in gaining skills and education necessary to become self-reliant.
Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Human Resources.
Reported to Senate from the Committee on Human Resources with amendment, S. Rept. 95-471.
Reported to Senate from the Committee on Human Resources with amendment, S. Rept. 95-471.
Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate (Similar provisions inserted in H.R. 7769 as passed Senate).
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