[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6156 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6156

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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 16, 2010

  Mr. McDermott (for himself and Mr. Linder) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 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 programs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. RENEWAL OF AUTHORITY TO APPROVE DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS 
              DESIGNED TO TEST INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES IN STATE CHILD 
              WELFARE PROGRAMS.

    Section 1130 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320a-9) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2), by striking ``1998 through 
                2003'' and inserting ``2011 through 2016'';
                    (B) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``or 
                        kinship guardianship'' after ``placements'';
                            (ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
                        ``address kinship care'' and inserting 
                        ``provide early intervention and crisis 
                        intervention services that safely reduce out-
                        of-home placements and improve child 
                        outcomes''; and
                            (iii) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as 
                        subparagraph (D) and inserting after 
                        subparagraph (B) the following:
                    ``(C) If an appropriate application therefor is 
                submitted, the Secretary shall consider authorizing a 
                demonstration project which is designed to identify and 
                address domestic violence that endangers children and 
                results in the placement of children in foster care.'';
                    (C) in paragraph (4), by inserting ``or kinship 
                guardianship'' after ``assistance''; and
                    (D) in paragraph (5), by inserting ``and the 
                ability of the State to implement a corrective action 
                approved under section 1123A'' before the period;
            (2) in subsection (e)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph 
                (6);
                    (B) by striking the period at the end of paragraph 
                (7) and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(8) an accounting of any additional Federal, State, 
        local, and private investments (other than those with respect 
        to which matching funds were provided under part B or E of 
        title IV) made, during the 2 fiscal years preceding the 
        application to provide the services described in paragraph (1), 
        and an assurance that the State will provide an accounting of 
        that same spending for each year of an approved demonstration 
        project.'';
            (3) in subsection (f)(1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``; and'' and 
                inserting ``, including 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 services 
                described in subsection (e)(1) to the child or 
                family;''; and
                    (B) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as 
                subparagraph (D) and inserting after subparagraph (B) 
                the following:
                    ``(C) a comparison of the amounts of Federal, 
                State, local and private investments in the services 
                described in subsection (e)(1), by service type, with 
                the amount of the investments during the period of the 
                demonstration project; and''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(h) Indian Tribes Considered States.--An Indian tribe (as defined 
in section 479B(a)) shall be considered a State for purposes of this 
section.''.
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