Keeping Families Together Act
Latest action · Jan 24, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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
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 states 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.
Cosponsors 21
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 24, 2007 to Sep 22, 2008; 10 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-NJ | Frank R. Lautenberg | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-NM | Jeff Bingaman | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-MA | John F. Kerry | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-WA | Maria Cantwell | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-AR | Mark L. Pryor | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| R-MN | Norm Coleman | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-IA | Tom Harkin | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| R-AL | Jeff Sessions | Jan 29, 2007 | |
| R-SC | Lindsey Graham | Jan 29, 2007 | |
| I-CT | Joseph I. Lieberman | Jan 30, 2007 | |
| D-CT | Christopher J. Dodd | Mar 28, 2007 | |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Apr 10, 2007 | |
| D-SD | Tim Johnson | Apr 10, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | May 7, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Robert P. Casey Jr. | May 7, 2007 | |
| D-WV | John D. Rockefeller IV | Jun 13, 2007 | |
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Dec 18, 2007 | |
| D-AR | Blanche L. Lincoln | Sep 22, 2008 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee | Referred Jan 24, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 24, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Jan 24, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1067-1069)
- Jan 24, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S1067–S1070 | Susan M. Collins R-ME, Tom Harkin D-IA | Jan 24, 2007 |
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.
Printed hearings 2
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 110-709 | TRANSFORMING MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SYSTEMS OF CARE: COMMUNITY INTEGRATION AND RECOVERY67 pages | Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee | May 8, 2007 |
| Serial No. 110-25 | INSURING BRIGHT FUTURES: IMPROVING ACCESS TO DENTAL CARE AND PROVIDING A HEALTHY START FOR CHILDREN114 pages | Energy and Commerce Committee | Mar 27, 2007 |
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 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 687 | Keeping Families Together Act of 2007 | Related bill | Feb 2, 2007 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a State family support grant program to end the practice of parents giving legal custody of their seriously emotionally disturbed children to State agencies for the purpose of obtaining mental health services for those children.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Keeping Families Together Act
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
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Social Welfare
- State finance
- State laws
- Welfare waivers
- 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.
