3.0.0 684 2023-01-11T13:36:14Z 2023-01-11T13:36:14Z Senate S 2017-03-21 115 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-03-21T18:56:33Z National Adoption and Foster Care Home Study Act 115 1650 HR 2017-03-21 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Identical bill CRS 2017-03-21 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2017-03-21 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. N L000575 Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] James Lankford R OK 2017-03-21 True J000300 Sen. Jones, Doug [D-AL] Doug Jones D AL 2018-07-11 False Families Adoption and foster care Child safety and welfare Domestic violence and child abuse Government information and archives Government studies and investigations State and local government operations Families 00 2017-03-21 Introduced in Senate 2017-12-26T19:10:29Z National Adoption and Foster Care Home Study Act

This bill amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 to direct the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a demonstration program through which each participating state or Indian tribe: (1) adopts the uniform, research-based home study methodology developed by HHS for the evaluation of prospective foster parents and adoptive parents; and (2) provides data gathered through operation of the program to HHS, as HHS may require for purposes of the national database established by this bill.

HHS shall: (1)  make grants to states and Indian tribes to enable and encourage them to establish demonstration programs, (2) establish a secure national database of home study reports, and (3) contract with an independent entity to carry out a periodic evaluation of the home study methodology developed by HHS and the demonstration programs.

]]> National Adoption and Foster Care Home Study Act Display Title National Adoption and Foster Care Home Study Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to establish a national, research-based, and comprehensive home study assessment process for the evaluation of prospective foster parents and adoptive parents and provide funding to States and Indian tribes to adopt such process. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced National Adoption and Foster Care Home Study Act Introduced in Senate 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s684is/xml/BILLS-115s684is.xml 2017-03-21 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.