To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to remove barriers and encourage kinship guardianship, foster, or adoptive placements for children who cannot be safely cared for in their own homes, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill requires state child welfare plan requirements for kinship placement identification, documentation standards for denying kinship placements, termination of parental rights standards, and disproportionality reporting, requires criminal background check requirements and past abuse/neglect allegation policies for kinship caregivers seeking foster, guardianship, or adoptive placements, and requires state age-based eligibility restrictions for kinship caregivers. It relies on compliance mandates, reporting requirements, exemptions, and appropriations. The main policy areas are Social Welfare.
Who Benefits and How
The main beneficiaries are the people, organizations, or agencies identified in the bill's substantive provisions.
Who Bears the Burden and How
No clear private burden is identified from the available clause analysis; implementing agencies may still take on administrative work.
Key Provisions
- Requires state child welfare plan requirements for kinship placement identification, documentation standards for denying kinship placements, termination of parental rights standards, and disproportionality reporting...
- Requires criminal background check requirements and past abuse/neglect allegation policies for kinship caregivers seeking foster, guardianship, or adoptive placements.
- Requires state age-based eligibility restrictions for kinship caregivers.
- Provides AFDC eligibility requirement for federal foster care maintenance payments under Title IV-E for children placed in foster family homes.
- Creates kinship placement support services under the Safe and Stable Families program (Title IV-B), including crisis stabilization funds, family finding services, direct cash payments to kin caregivers, and state...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill requires state child welfare plan requirements for kinship placement identification, documentation standards for denying kinship placements, termination of parental rights standards, and disproportionality reporting, requires criminal background check requirements and past abuse/neglect allegation policies for kinship caregivers seeking foster, guardianship, or adoptive placements, and requires state age-based eligibility restrictions for kinship caregivers.
Key Policy Areas
Social Welfare
Primary Purpose
The bill requires state child welfare plan requirements for kinship placement identification, documentation standards for denying kinship placements, termination of parental rights standards, and disproportionality reporting, requires criminal background check requirements and past abuse/neglect allegation policies for kinship caregivers seeking foster, guardianship, or adoptive placements, and requires state age-based eligibility restrictions for kinship caregivers.
Policy Domains
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMs. Kamlager-Dove (for herself, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, and Ms. …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Children in foster care, Children in foster family homes previously ineligible for federal payments, Children in or at risk of entering foster care
Federal budget, State budgets (maintenance of effort), State child welfare agencies
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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