3.0.0 2224 2023-01-11T13:32:35Z 2023-01-11T13:32:35Z Senate S 2015-10-29 114 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2015-10-29T22:57:00Z Child Poverty Reduction Act of 2015 114 2408 HR 2015-05-19 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Related bill CRS Urban Progress Act of 2016 114 5671 HR 2016-08-30 Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition. Related bill CRS 2015-10-29 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2015-10-29 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA N B001230 Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] Tammy Baldwin D WI 2015-10-29 True B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2015-10-29 True Social Welfare Advisory bodies Child safety and welfare Congressional oversight Department of Agriculture Department of Education Department of Health and Human Services Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of Justice Department of Labor Employment and training programs Executive agency funding and structure Government information and archives Intergovernmental relations Policy sciences Poverty and welfare assistance Racial and ethnic relations State and local government operations Unemployment Social Welfare 00 2015-10-29 Introduced in Senate 2016-03-09T14:46:30Z Child Poverty Reduction Act of 2015

This bill establishes in the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Federal Interagency Working Group on Reducing Child Poverty.

The Working Group as its primary goal shall develop a national plan to reduce:

  • within 10 years the number of children living in poverty in the United States to half the number cited in the report of the U.S. Census Bureau on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2013;
  • within the same 10 years the number of children living in extreme poverty in the United States to zero; and
  • within 20 years the number of children living in poverty, extreme or otherwise, in the United States to zero.

HHS shall enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences for two public workshops to provide the Working Group with information to assist in the development of the plan.

]]> Child Poverty Reduction Act of 2015 Display Title Child Poverty Reduction Act of 2015 Official Title as Introduced A bill to establish in the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services the Federal Interagency Working Group on Reducing Child Poverty to develop a national strategy to eliminate child poverty in the United States, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Child Poverty Reduction Act of 2015 Introduced in Senate 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s2224is/xml/BILLS-114s2224is.xml 2015-10-29 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.