To protect individuals with disabilities who are parents, legal guardians, relatives, other caregivers, foster or adoptive parents, or individuals seeking to become foster or adoptive parents from discrimination in the child welfare system.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, To protect individuals with disabilities who are parents, legal guardians, relatives, other caregivers, foster or adoptive parents, or individuals seeking to become foster or adoptive parents from discrimination in the child welfare system., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting civil-rights stakeholders and affected communities. The main policy domain is Civil Rights, Government Operations, Social Welfare.
Who Benefits and How
civil-rights stakeholders and affected communities may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, civil-rights stakeholders and affected communities may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section H2FA6AD320B164111B7A6419B03F34288: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Equality for Families with Disabilities Act.
- Section H29A992B1A492474C8E5ACE3CF31E866B: 2. Finding The Congress finds that title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 protect qualified...
- Section H90790C021706424BAB0AD0A5AB50F32D: 3. State plan requirements for protecting individuals with disabilities who are parents, legal guardians, relatives, other caregivers, foster or adoptive...
- Section H6149D52ACD2B40E0803E3FE609AF65D4: 4. Amendments to the State court improvement program Section 438 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 629h) is amended— in subsection (a)— in paragraph (1),...
- Section HC8A7C664E7E0412BA6D2942F348226D7: 5. Education and training Subpart 1 of part B of title IV of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 620–628b) is amended by adding at the end the following:...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, To protect individuals with disabilities who are parents, legal guardians, relatives, other caregivers, foster or adoptive parents, or individuals seeking to become foster or adoptive parents from discrimination in the child welfare system., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting civil-rights stakeholders and affected communities.
Key Policy Areas
Civil Rights, Government Operations, Social Welfare
Primary Purpose
This bill, To protect individuals with disabilities who are parents, legal guardians, relatives, other caregivers, foster or adoptive parents, or individuals seeking to become foster or adoptive parents from discrimination in the child welfare system., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting civil-rights stakeholders and affected communities.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- civil-rights stakeholders and affected communities
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- civil-rights stakeholders and affected communities
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMrs. Cherfilus-McCormick (for herself, Ms. Norton, Mr. Carson, Mr. Schiff, …
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
- "the_administrator"
- → The Administrator identified in the operative section
- "secretary_of_health_and_human_services"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
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