1. Short titles This Act may be cited as the Lifting Immigrant Families Through Benefits Access Restoration Act of 2023 or the LIFT the BAR Act of 2023 . 2. Availability of basic assistance to lawfully present noncitizens (a) Elimination of arbitrary eligibility restrictions (1) In general 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Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1612 , 1613, 1621, 1622, 1631, and 1632) are repealed. (2) Conforming amendments Title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( 8 U.S.C. 1601 et seq. ) is amended— (A) 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. ) ; (B) in section 404(a) ( 8 U.S.C. 1614(a) ), by striking , 402, or 403 ; (C) in section 413 ( 8 U.S.C. 1625 )— (i) by striking A State and inserting the following: (a) State or local public benefit defined In this section, the term State or local public benefit — (1) except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), means— (A) 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 (B) 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