Keeping Families Together Act
Latest action · Feb 25, 2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 15, 2005
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Keeping Families Together Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to award competitive matching grants to States to establish systems of care to treat and provide services to all children who are in the custody of the State or at-risk of entering into the custody of the State for the purpose of receiving mental health services.
Requires State to use grant funds for certain activities, including to: (1) expand public health insurance programs to cover community-based mental health and family support services for such children and their families that will be sustainable after the grant has expired; (2) provide outreach and public education concerning available programs and activities; and (3) provide training and professional development for personnel who work with such children.
Requires the Administrator to establish a task force to examine: (1) problems of mental health in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems; (2) issues with respect to access by children and youth to mental health services; and (3) the role of Federal agencies in promoting access by children and youth to mental health services.
Amends Title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to permit the use of the Medicaid home and community-based services waiver to provide mental health services to children as an alternative to care in inpatient psychiatric hospitals.
Cosponsors 29
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 15, 2005 to Sep 14, 2006, with 4 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Fortney Pete Stark | Original | Feb 15, 2005 |
| R-DE | Michael N. Castle | Original | Feb 15, 2005 |
| R-CT | Nancy L. Johnson | Original | Feb 15, 2005 |
| D-RI | Patrick J. Kennedy | Original | Feb 15, 2005 |
| R-KS | Jim Ryun | May 25, 2005 | |
| R-PA | Todd Russell Platts | May 25, 2005 | |
| D-TN | Bart Gordon | May 26, 2005 | |
| D-MA | Michael E. Capuano | May 26, 2005 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Jun 8, 2005 | |
| R-NY | John M. McHugh | Jun 8, 2005 | |
| D-WA | Jim McDermott | Jun 14, 2005 | |
| R-MN | Mark R. Kennedy | Jun 14, 2005 | |
| R-MS | Charles W. "Chip" Pickering | Jun 29, 2005 | |
| D-RI | James R. Langevin | Jun 29, 2005 | |
| R-IL | Jerry Weller | Jun 29, 2005 | |
| R-AR | John Boozman | Jun 29, 2005 | |
| D-MA | Martin T. Meehan | Jun 29, 2005 | |
| D-NY | Maurice D. Hinchey | Jun 29, 2005 | |
| D-MI | Sander M. Levin | Jul 14, 2005 | |
| R-NC | Sue Wilkins Myrick | Jul 14, 2005 | |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Jul 19, 2005 | |
| R-NY | James T. Walsh | Jul 19, 2005 | |
| R-CT | Christopher Shays | Sep 14, 2005 | |
| D-NC | David E. Price | Sep 14, 2005 | |
| D-KY | Ben Chandler | Sep 27, 2005 | |
| R-PA | Tim Murphy | Sep 27, 2005 | |
| D-NC | Brad Miller | Sep 6, 2006 | |
| R-NE | Lee Terry | Sep 7, 2006 | |
| R-PR | Luis G. Fortuno | Sep 14, 2006 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 25, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Feb 15, 2005Introduced in House
- Feb 15, 2005Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 380 | Keeping Families Together Act | Related bill | Feb 15, 2005 |
| HR 5803 | Keeping Families Together Act | Related bill | Aug 1, 2006 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Families.
- Academic performance
- Case management
- Child health
- Child welfare
- Community health services
- Continuing education
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Criminal statistics
- Custody of children
- Data banks
- Dropouts
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Educational accountability
- Educational statistics
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Families
- Family courts
- Family services
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to child health services
- Foster home care
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Government statistics
- Group homes
- Health
- Health insurance
- Health planning
- Home care services
- Housing and Community Development
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations
- Juvenile delinquency
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Medicaid
- Medical screening
- Medical tests
- Medically uninsured
- Mental health services
- Patient satisfaction
- Performance measurement
- Poor children
- Preventive medicine
- Problem children
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Social Welfare
- State finance
- State laws
- Welfare waivers
- Youth services
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