Child Safety, Adoption, and Family Enhancement (Child SAFE) Act of 2004
Latest action · Jul 27, 2004 Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJul 19, 2004
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Child Safety, Adoption, and Family Enhancement (Child SAFE) Act of 2004 - Amends the Social Security Act (SSA) to revise eligibility for adoption assistance and foster care maintenance payments by eliminating certain income requirements, reducing Federal matching rates, allowing separate standards for relative foster family homes, modifying provisions for foster children's Medicaid eligibility, and including Indian tribes as eligible for such payments.
Provides for Safe Children, Strong Families Programs, which revise and combine currently separate part B title IV SSA programs for child and family services and for promoting safe and stable families. Provides such part B grant allotment funds for States and Indian tribes to improve protection for children and strengthen families. Continues grants for State court improvement of adoption and foster care proceedings, and for programs mentoring children of prisoners. Establishes challenge grants to reward efforts to move children safely from foster care and prevent the removal of children from their homes.
Revises child welfare waiver authority to eliminate various limitations, and to extend such authority to approve demonstration projects.
Extends and increases amounts of high performance bonuses, under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to review State agency determinations of blindness and disability, under Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
Cosponsors 8
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 19, 2004 to Nov 16, 2004, with 5 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-MI | Dave Camp | Original | Jul 19, 2004 |
| R-VA | Eric Cantor | Original | Jul 19, 2004 |
| R-CT | Nancy L. Johnson | Original | Jul 19, 2004 |
| R-KY | Ron Lewis | Original | Jul 19, 2004 |
| R-TX | Tom DeLay | Original | Jul 19, 2004 |
| R-MI | Thaddeus G. McCotter | Sep 22, 2004 | |
| D-MN | Collin C. Peterson | Oct 8, 2004 | |
| R-IL | Timothy V. Johnson | Nov 16, 2004 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 27, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
- Jul 19, 2004Introduced in House
- Jul 19, 2004Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- Jul 19, 2004Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1417-1418)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Social Welfare.
- Adoption
- Aid to dependent children
- American Samoa
- Apprenticeship
- Blind
- Case management
- Cash welfare block grants
- Child abuse
- Child development
- Child health
- Child safety
- Child welfare
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Crime prevention
- Criminal justice information
- Disability evaluation
- Disabled
- Drug abuse
- Drugs and youth
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)
- Families
- Family services
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to Indians
- Foster home care
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Guam
- Health
- Higher education
- Identification of criminals
- Indian children
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Medicaid
- Medical tests
- Mental health
- Mentoring
- Minorities
- Native Americans
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Performance measurement
- Puerto Rico
- Scholarships
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- State courts
- State employees
- State government-Indian relations
- Supplemental security income program
- Virgin Islands
- Welfare eligibility
- Welfare waivers
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 19, 2004Introduced in House
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