APA's Public Policy Office is now focusing on the Senate to ensure that access to mental health, substance abuse, and child care services is provided for in their proposal to help enable women to make the successful transition from welfare to work. A bill introduced by Senators Evan Bayh (D-IN), Thomas Carper (D-DE), Bob Graham (D-FL), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Zell Miller (D-GA), Jean Carnahan (D-MO), Ben Nelson (D-NE), and Bill Nelson (D-FL) includes substance abuse treatment and "the receipt of mental health services" as a work activity. The House bill included "substance abuse counseling or treatment" but not mental health treatment. The Senate plans to consider welfare reform legislation this summer. Once a Senate measure is passed, House and Senate conferees will meet to resolve the differences between the two bills.