Foster Care Mentoring Act of 2007
Latest action · Jan 24, 2007 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.
- IntroducedJan 24, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Foster Care Mentoring Act of 2007 - 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 nonfederal 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
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Finance Committee | Referred Jan 24, 2007 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 24, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Jan 24, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL34388 | Child Welfare Issues in the 110th Congress Archived | Report | Jun 17, 2008 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to support the establishment or expansion and operation of programs using a network of public and private community entities to provide mentoring for children in foster care.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Foster Care Mentoring Act of 2007
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
- 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
- Finance and Financial Sector
- 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
- Religion
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Social Welfare
- Student loan funds
- Teenage pregnancy
- Telephone
- Volunteer workers
- Web sites
- Youth services
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 24, 2007Introduced in Senate
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; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
