3.0.0 1704 2023-01-15T08:03:21Z 2023-01-15T08:03:21Z Senate S S 2003-10-02 108 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2003-10-02T20:56:54Z Keeping Families Together Act 108 3243 HR 2003-10-27 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. Identical bill CRS 2003-10-02 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2003-10-02 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12381-12382) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2003-10-02 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. N P000590 Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR] Mark Pryor D AR Lunsford 2003-10-02 True C001057 Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN] Norm Coleman R MN 2003-10-02 True B000468 Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] JESSE BINGAMAN D NM FRANCIS 2003-10-02 True M000702 Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD] BARBARA MIKULSKI D MD ANN 2003-10-15 False R000361 Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV] JAY ROCKEFELLER D WV 2003-11-14 False S001142 Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR] GORDON SMITH R OR H. 2004-02-24 False C000127 Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] Maria Cantwell D WA 2004-03-12 False C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R 2004-03-31 False S001141 Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL] Jeff Sessions R AL 2004-07-07 False L000123 Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] FRANK LAUTENBERG D NJ R. 2004-07-07 False D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2004-07-08 False L000304 Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [D-CT] JOSEPH LIEBERMAN D CT I. 2004-07-19 False B000711 Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] BARBARA BOXER D CA 2004-09-07 False I000025 Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] DANIEL INOUYE D HI KEN 2004-09-13 False L000550 Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA] MARY LANDRIEU D LA 2004-12-07 False 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 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 Youth services Families 00 2003-10-02 Introduced in Senate 2003-10-28T20:21:52Z Keeping Families Together Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award competitive grants to States to establish systems of individualized mental health treatment and family support services for children who are in custody or in danger of entering the custody of the state for the purpose of receiving mental health services.

Requires eligible States to: (1) have laws or policies in effect that ensure that children receive appropriate mental health services so that parents do not have to relinquish legal custody of such children; (2) provide matching funds; (3) establish infrastructure for interagency cooperation and cross system financing; and (4) expand public health insurance programs to cover these services after the grant expires.

Establishes a Federal interagency task force to examine mental health issues in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems and the role of their agencies in promoting access by children and youth to mental health services.

Amends the Social Security Act to permit the use of the Medicaid home and community-based services waiver to provide mental health services to children and youths as an alternative to care in inpatient psychiatric hospitals.

]]> Keeping Families Together Act Display Title Keeping Families Together Act 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. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Keeping Families Together Act Introduced in Senate 2003-10-02T04:00:00Z 2003-10-02 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.