S 429
114th Congress
Senate
Health
Adoption and foster care
Child care and development
Child health
Disability and paralysis
Family services
Medicaid
Mental health
Family-Based Foster Care Services Act
Introduced: February 10, 2015
Introduced by:
Baldwin, Tammy
Democratic
· Wisconsin
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In committee
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Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 10, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Feb 10, 2015
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Family-Based Foster Care Services Act
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to extend medical assistance coverage to therapeutic foster care services.
Requires a qualified therapeutic foster care program to be state-licensed and provide:
- foster care children under 21 with structured daily activities, including the development of age-appropriate social, communication and behavioral skills, trauma-informed and gender-responsive services, crisis intervention and crisis support services, medication monitoring, counseling, and case management; and
- biological parents, kinship caregivers, and foster care parents with specialized training and consultation in the management of children with mental illness, trauma, other emotional or behavioral disorders, medically fragile conditions, or developmental disabilities, the impact of trauma on child and caregiver, and specific additional training on the needs of each child provided such services.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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