HR 1194 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

To renew the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to approve demonstration projects designed to test innovative strategies in State child welfare programs.

Latest action · Jun 6, 2011 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedMar 17, 2011
  2. Passed HouseMay 31, 2011
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to renew through FY2016 the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to authorize states to conduct child welfare program demonstration projects likely to promote the objectives of part B (Child and Family Services) or E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA).

Includes among the demonstration projects that may be approved any designed to: (1) identify and address barriers that result in delays to kinship guardianship for children in foster care, (2) provide early intervention and crisis intervention services that safely reduce out-of-home placements and improve child outcomes, or (3) identify and address domestic violence that endangers children and results in the placement of children in foster care.

Prohibits the Secretary from authorizing a demonstration project if the state fails to provide health insurance coverage to any child with special needs for whom there is in effect a kinship guardianship agreement between the state and the adoptive parent or parents.

Requires the Secretary, in assessing a demonstration project application submitted by a state in which a court order is in effect which has determined that the state's child welfare program has failed to comply with part B or E of SSA title IV, or with the U.S. Constitution, to take into consideration the state's ability to implement an approved corrective action.

Requires any demonstration project application to include: (1) an accounting of any additional federal, state, local, and private investments made during the two fiscal years preceding the application to provide project services; and (2) an assurance that the state will provide an accounting of the same spending for each year of an approved project.

Requires the mandatory project evaluation by an independent contractor to use an approved evaluation design which provides for a comparison of the amounts of federal, state, local and private investments in the project services, by service type, with the amount of the investments during the period of the project. Requires the evaluation design also to compare the outcomes for all children and families under the project who come to the attention of the state's child welfare program, either through a report of abuse or neglect or through the provision of project services.


Cosponsors 1

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Mar 17, 2011.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-KYGeoff DavisOriginalMar 17, 2011

Committees 3

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

ChamberCommitteeWhat it did
HouseWays and Means Committee
Referred Mar 17, 2011
HouseBudget Committee
Referred Mar 17, 2011
SenateFinance Committee
Referred Jun 6, 2011

Actions 9

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jun 6, 2011Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
  2. May 31, 2011Mr. Davis (KY) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
  3. May 31, 2011Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3784-3787)
  4. May 31, 2011DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1194.
  5. May 31, 2011Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3784)
  6. May 31, 2011Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  7. Mar 17, 2011Introduced in House
  8. Mar 17, 2011Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E518)
  9. Mar 17, 2011Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

In the Congressional Record 4

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.

WhereIn the RecordMembersDate
HouseDebate and remarks H3784–H3787Text printed H3784Tables H3785Pay-as-you-go effects of H.R. 1194, Dept. of HHS renewal of authority to approve demonstration projects designed to test innovative strategies in State child welfare programsGeoff Davis R-KY, Jim McDermott D-WA, Sheila Jackson Lee D-TXMay 31, 2011
HouseDeclaratory Statements H3759—May 26, 2011
HouseDeclaratory Statements H3646, H3684—May 25, 2011
ExtensionsDebate and remarks E518Jim McDermott D-WAMar 17, 2011

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.

Congressional Budget Office cost estimate

  1. May 24, 2011H.R. 1194, A bill to renew the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to approve demonstration projects designed to test innovative strategies in state child welfare programsPay-as-you-go estimate for the bill as referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means on March 17, 2011

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution that grants Congress the authority, ``To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the forgoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.''

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H1987.

CRS reports 1

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Cite it 1

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Titles 1

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced
To renew the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to approve demonstration projects designed to test innovative strategies in State child welfare programs.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Social Welfare.

Text 3

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Jun 6, 2011Referred in Senate
  2. May 31, 2011Engrossed in House
  3. Mar 17, 2011Introduced in House

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