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Child Welfare Oversight and Accountability Act of 2017

Official title: A bill to encourage kinship guardianship placements and support payment rate equity for such placements, to improve oversight of State child welfare programs f… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to encourage kinship guardianship placements and support payment rate equity for such placements, to improve oversight of State child welfare programs funded under the Social Security Act, to strengthen national data on child fatalities from maltreatment, and for other purposes.

Introduced: October 16, 2017 See on congress.gov
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Oct 16, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Oct 16, 2017
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action October 16, 2017

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Child Welfare Oversight and Accountability Act of 2017

This bill address foster care services in state child welfare programs, including the use of private, for-profit foster care services.

Specifically, the bill:

  • supports states placing children with family members, including by providing financial support to states for all children placed with family members, not just children removed from poor families;
  • expands oversight of state child welfare systems, including by requiring states to annually review child fatalities from maltreatment;
  • establishes workload and training standards for child welfare workers;
  • requires states to assess and report to the Department of Health and Human Services on the performance of foster care providers; and
  • gives an individual who is or was a child in foster care the right to seek relief in civil court if a state fails to meet certain case plan and case review requirements.
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

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Wyden, Ron
Oregon · Oct 16, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1964: Child Welfare Oversight and Accountability Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1964/
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"S. 1964: Child Welfare Oversight and Accountability Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-1964/.
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