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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8743 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8743

To amend subpart 2 of part B of title IV of the Social Security Act to 
  promote permanency for youth by strengthening support networks for 
  children, youth, and families at risk of entering the child welfare 
                                system.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 2024

 Mr. Smucker (for himself and Mr. Davis of North Carolina) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and 
                                 Means

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                                 A BILL

 
To amend subpart 2 of part B of title IV of the Social Security Act to 
  promote permanency for youth by strengthening support networks for 
  children, youth, and families at risk of entering the child welfare 
                                system.

    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 ``Empowering Kinship Caregivers and 
Youth through Title IV-B Act''.

SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTATION OF DEFINITIONS.

    Section 431(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 629a(a)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A)--
                            (i) by striking ``children'' and inserting 
                        ``children, youth,''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``adoptive and extended'' 
                        and inserting ``kinship and adoptive'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``parents and 
                other caregivers (including foster parents)'' and 
                inserting ``parents, kinship caregivers, and foster 
                parents'' ;
                    (C) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph 
                (E);
                    (D) by striking the period at the end of 
                subparagraph (F) and inserting `` ; and''; and
                    (E) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(G) peer-to-peer mentoring and support programs 
                designed to help children and families learn from 
                others with direct experience or interactions with the 
                child welfare system.'';
            (2) in paragraph (2)(B)--
                    (A) in clause (i), by striking ``children'' and 
                inserting ``children, youth,''; and
                    (B) in clause (ii), by striking ``extended'' and 
                inserting ``kinship'';
            (3) in paragraph (7)(A), by inserting ``with kinship 
        caregivers or'' before ``in a foster family home''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(10) Youth.--The term `youth' means individuals who have 
        not attained 26 years of age.''.
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