[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2535 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2535

 To amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to ensure that 
   child protective services systems do not permit the separation of 
 children from parents on the basis of poverty, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 7, 2019

 Ms. Moore (for herself and Ms. Fudge) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to ensure that 
   child protective services systems do not permit the separation of 
 children from parents on the basis of poverty, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Family Poverty is Not Child Neglect 
Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS TO STATES FOR CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT PREVENTION AND 
              TREATMENT PROGRAMS.

    Section 106(a) of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (42 
U.S.C. 5106a(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``neglect;'' and 
        inserting ``neglect, ensuring that reports concerning a child's 
        living arrangements or subsistence needs are addressed through 
        services and benefits and that no child is separated from the 
        child's parent for reasons of poverty;''; and
            (2) in paragraph (4), by striking ``response;'' and 
        inserting ``response, except that such system, tools, and 
        protocols shall not authorize the separation of any child from 
        the child's parent or guardian on the basis of poverty;''.
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