Foster Care Mentoring Act of 2003
Latest action · Jul 16, 2003 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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 16, 2003
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Foster Care Mentoring Act of 2003 - Amends title IV part B (Child-Welfare Services) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to States to support the establishment or expansion and operation of programs using networks of public and private community entities to provide mentoring for children in foster care. Authorizes a grant award directly to a political subdivision if the subdivision serves a substantial number of foster care youth.
Prescribes program implementation guidelines, including: (1) application requirements; (2) training; (3) screening; (4) educational requirements; (5) Federal and non-Federal share of funds for the Program; (6) considerations in awarding grants; and (7) use of funds.
Sets forth a maximum grant amount to be awarded to a State or political subdivision.
Authorizes the Secretary to award a competitive grant to an eligible entity to establish a National Hotline Service or Website to provide information to individuals interested in becoming mentors to youth in foster care.
Instructs the Secretary of Education to implement a program to provide for the discharge or cancellation of the Federal student loan indebtedness of an eligible mentor.
Cosponsors 12
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 16, 2003 to Oct 6, 2004, with 4 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-IN | Evan Bayh | Original | Jul 16, 2003 |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Original | Jul 16, 2003 |
| D-MA | John F. Kerry | Original | Jul 16, 2003 |
| D-SD | Thomas A. Daschle | Original | Jul 16, 2003 |
| D-MI | Carl Levin | Jul 21, 2003 | |
| D-IA | Tom Harkin | Jul 21, 2003 | |
| D-AR | Blanche L. Lincoln | Jul 23, 2003 | |
| D-SD | Tim Johnson | Jul 24, 2003 | |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Jul 29, 2003 | |
| D-NM | Jeff Bingaman | Nov 4, 2003 | |
| D-MI | Debbie Stabenow | Nov 7, 2003 | |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Akaka | Oct 6, 2004 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 16, 2003Introduced in Senate
- Jul 16, 2003Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Jul 16, 2003Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9499)
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 2880 | Foster Care Mentoring Act of 2003 | Identical bill | Aug 13, 2003 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Families.
- Academic performance
- Adoption
- Alcohol and youth
- Child abuse
- Child development
- Child welfare
- Church and social problems
- Community organization
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Criminal justice information
- Dropouts
- Drug abuse
- Drugs and youth
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Evaluation research (Social action programs)
- Families
- Family violence
- Federal aid to education
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Foster home care
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Graduate education
- Higher education
- Homeless
- Identification of criminals
- Indian children
- Information services
- Internet
- Juvenile delinquency
- Labor and Employment
- Mentoring
- Minorities
- Native Americans
- Problem children
- Religion
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Social Welfare
- Student loan funds
- Teenage pregnancy
- Telephone
- Volunteer workers
- Web sites
- Youth services
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.