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S 667 114th Congress Senate

Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2015

Official title: A bill to ensure that organizations with religious or moral convictions are allowed to continue to provide services for children.

Introduced: June 24, 2015 See on congress.gov
Social Welfare Administrative remediesAdoption and foster careChild safety and welfareCivil actions and liability
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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 Latest action March 4, 2015

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2015

Prohibits the federal government, and any state that receives federal funding for any program that provides child welfare services under part B (Child and Family Services) or part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSAct), from discriminating or taking an adverse action against a child welfare service provider that declines to provide, facilitate, or refer for a child welfare service that conflicts with the provider's sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions.

Bars such prohibition from applying to SSAct requirements that forbid state entities from denying or delaying adoption or foster care placements on the basis of an adoptive parent's or a child's race, color, or national origin.

Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to withhold 15% of the federal funds that a state receives for such programs if the state violates this Act.

Allows an aggrieved child welfare service provider to assert such an adverse action violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding and to obtain all appropriate relief (including declaratory relief, injunctive relief, compensatory damages, and reasonable attorney's fees and costs).

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 667: Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2015. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-667/
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