Kinship Caregiver Support Act
Latest action · Feb 16, 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.
- IntroducedFeb 16, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Kinship Caregiver Support Act - Authorizes the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services to make grants for kinship navigator programs to state agencies, metropolitan agencies, or tribal organizations with experience in addressing needs of kinship caregivers or children and connecting them with services and assistance.
Amends part E (Federal Payments for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to authorize all states to opt to enter agreements to provide kinship guardianship assistance payments on behalf of children to grandparents and other relatives who have assumed legal guardianship of children for whom they have cared as foster parents and have committed to care for on a permanent basis. Allows states to use part E funds to make such payments under specified conditions.
Provides that adoptive parents of children with special needs remain eligible for adoption assistance, even if they receive kinship guardianship assistance.
Authorizes the use of foster care independence program funds to provide independent living services and education and training vouchers for children who exit foster care to kinship guardianship or adoption after age 16.
Authorizes kinship guardianship demonstration projects.
Requires states to: (1) notify all adult grandparents and other adult relatives (with exceptions due to family or domestic violence) when a child is removed from custody of a parent or parents; and (2) explain the options the relative has to participate in the child's care and placement.
Allows state agencies to establish separate standards for foster family homes in which a foster parent is a relative of the foster child.
Cosponsors 31
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 16, 2007 to Jul 17, 2008; 2 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-ME | Olympia J. Snowe | Original | Feb 16, 2007 |
| R-MS | Thad Cochran | Original | Feb 16, 2007 |
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Feb 28, 2007 | |
| D-MA | John F. Kerry | Feb 28, 2007 | |
| D-NJ | Robert Menendez | Mar 5, 2007 | |
| D-AR | Blanche L. Lincoln | Mar 6, 2007 | |
| D-NJ | Frank R. Lautenberg | Apr 10, 2007 | |
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | May 15, 2007 | |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | May 17, 2007 | |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | May 23, 2007 | |
| R-MN | Norm Coleman | May 23, 2007 | |
| D-OH | Sherrod Brown | Jun 20, 2007 | |
| D-SD | Tim Johnson | Jun 28, 2007 | |
| D-MI | Debbie Stabenow | Jul 24, 2007 | |
| D-WA | Maria Cantwell | Jul 24, 2007 | |
| D-VT | Patrick J. Leahy | Jul 24, 2007 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Boxer | Oct 15, 2007 | |
| D-PA | Robert P. Casey Jr. | Nov 5, 2007 | |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Akaka | Dec 5, 2007 | |
| D-MI | Carl Levin | Dec 14, 2007 | |
| R-TX | Kay Bailey Hutchison | Dec 14, 2007 | |
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Dec 18, 2007 | |
| D-FL | Bill Nelson | Jan 28, 2008 | |
| R-ME | Susan M. Collins | Mar 10, 2008 | |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Apr 17, 2008 | |
| D-LA | Mary L. Landrieu | Apr 23, 2008 | |
| D-CT | Christopher J. Dodd | Apr 24, 2008 | |
| D-IN | Evan Bayh | Apr 24, 2008 | |
| D-RI | Sheldon Whitehouse | May 6, 2008 | |
| D-CO | Ken Salazar | Jun 24, 2008 | |
| D-DE | Joseph R. Biden Jr. | Jul 17, 2008 |
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 Feb 16, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 16, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Feb 16, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2171-2172)
- Feb 16, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
In the Congressional Record 2
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 S4175 | Maria Cantwell D-WA | May 14, 2008 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S2171 | Hillary Rodham Clinton D-NY | Feb 16, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 110-53 | CHILDREN WHO AGE OUT OF THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM127 pages | Ways and Means Committee | Jul 12, 2007 |
| Serial No. 110-40 | CHALLENGES FACING THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM140 pages | Ways and Means Committee | May 15, 2007 |
CRS reports 3
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 3
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL34704 | Child Welfare: The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-351) Archived | Report | Oct 9, 2008 |
| RL34206 | Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Issues for the 110th Congress Archived | Report | Jul 16, 2008 |
| 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 2188 | Kinship Caregiver Support Act | Related bill | Sep 19, 2007 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to establish kinship navigator programs, to establish guardianship assistance payments for children, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Kinship Caregiver Support Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Families.
- Adoption
- Agriculture and Food
- Aid to dependent children
- AIDS (Disease)
- Caregivers
- Cash welfare block grants
- Child health
- Child support
- Child welfare
- Church and social problems
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Criminal justice information
- Custody of children
- Day care
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Disabled
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse prevention
- Drug abuse treatment
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electronic government information
- Elementary and secondary education
- Families
- Family services
- Family violence
- Federal aid to child health services
- Food stamps
- Foster home care
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Grandparents
- Grants-in-aid
- Guardian and ward
- Health
- Health insurance
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Housing subsidies
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- Identification of criminals
- Indian children
- Information services
- Interstate compacts
- Labor and Employment
- Legal aid
- Legal fees
- Legal services
- Medicaid
- Medically uninsured
- Mental health services
- Metropolitan areas
- Minorities
- Native Americans
- Nonprofit organizations
- Old age, survivors and disability insurance
- Ombudsman
- Parent and child
- Parents
- Poor children
- Prisoners
- Public-private partnerships
- Religion
- Respite care
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- Siblings
- Social Welfare
- Special education
- Standards
- Students
- Supplemental security income program
- Telephone
- Urban affairs
- Vocational and technical education
- Web sites
- Welfare eligibility
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 16, 2007Introduced in Senate
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