I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4980 
To prevent and address sex trafficking of children in foster care, to extend 
and improve adoption incentives, and to improve international child sup-
port recovery. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 26, 2014 
Mr. CAMP (for himself, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. REICHERT, and Mr. DOGGETT) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways 
and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To prevent and address sex trafficking of children in foster 
care, to extend and improve adoption incentives, and 
to improve international child support recovery. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Preventing Sex Traf-
ficking and Strengthening Families Act’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents of this Act is as follows: 
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Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
Sec. 3. References. 
TITLE I—PROTECTING CHILDREN AND YOUTH AT RISK OF SEX 
TRAFFICKING 
Subtitle A—Identifying and Protecting Children and Youth at Risk of Sex 
Trafficking 
Sec. 101. Identifying, documenting, and determining services for children and 
youth at risk of sex trafficking. 
Sec. 102. Reporting instances of sex trafficking. 
Sec. 103. Including sex trafficking data in the Adoption and Foster Care Anal-
ysis and Reporting System. 
Sec. 104. Locating and responding to children who run away from foster care. 
Sec. 105. Increasing information on children in foster care to prevent sex traf-
ficking. 
Subtitle B—Improving Opportunities for Children in Foster Care and 
Supporting Permanency 
Sec. 111. Supporting normalcy for children in foster care. 
Sec. 112. Improving another planned permanent living arrangement as a per-
manency option. 
Sec. 113. Empowering foster children age 14 and older in the development of 
their own case plan and transition planning for a successful 
adulthood. 
Sec. 114. Ensuring foster children have a birth certificate, Social Security card, 
health insurance information, medical records, and a driver’s li-
cense or equivalent State-issued identification card. 
Sec. 115. Information on children in foster care in annual reports using 
AFCARS data; consultation. 
Subtitle C—National Advisory Committee 
Sec. 121. Establishment of a national advisory committee on the sex trafficking 
of children and youth in the United States. 
TITLE II—IMPROVING ADOPTION INCENTIVES AND EXTENDING 
FAMILY CONNECTION GRANTS 
Subtitle A—Improving Adoption Incentive Payments 
Sec. 201. Extension of program through fiscal year 2016. 
Sec. 202. Improvements to award structure. 
Sec. 203. Renaming of program. 
Sec. 204. Limitation on use of incentive payments. 
Sec. 205. Increase in period for which incentive payments are available for ex-
penditure. 
Sec. 206. State report on calculation and use of savings resulting from the 
phase-out of eligibility requirements for adoption assistance; re-
quirement to spend 30 percent of savings on certain services. 
Sec. 207. Preservation of eligibility for kinship guardianship assistance pay-
ments with a successor guardian. 
Sec. 208. Data collection on adoption and legal guardianship disruption and 
dissolution. 
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Sec. 209. Encouraging the placement of children in foster care with siblings. 
Sec. 210. Effective dates. 
Subtitle B—Extending the Family Connection Grant Program 
Sec. 221. Extension of family connection grant program. 
TITLE III—IMPROVING INTERNATIONAL CHILD SUPPORT 
RECOVERY 
Sec. 301. Amendments to ensure access to child support services for inter-
national child support cases. 
Sec. 302. Child support enforcement programs for Indian tribes. 
Sec. 303. Sense of the Congress regarding offering of voluntary parenting time 
arrangements. 
Sec. 304. Data exchange standardization for improved interoperability. 
Sec. 305. Report to Congress. 
Sec. 306. Required electronic processing of income withholding. 
TITLE IV—BUDGETARY EFFECTS 
Sec. 401. Determination of budgetary effects. 
SEC. 3. REFERENCES. 
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, 
wherever in this Act an amendment is expressed in terms 
of an amendment to a section or other provision, the 
amendment shall be considered to be made to a section 
or other provision of the Social Security Act. 
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‘‘(C) that the standards established pursu-
ant to subparagraph (A) shall include policies 
related to the liability of foster parents and pri-
vate entities under contract by the State involv-
ing the application of the reasonable and pru-
dent parent standard, to ensure appropriate li-
ability for caregivers when a child participates 
in an approved activity and the caregiver ap-
proving the activity acts in accordance with the 
reasonable and prudent parent standard; and 
‘‘(D) that a waiver of any standards estab-
lished pursuant to subparagraph (A) may be 
made only on a case-by-case basis for nonsafety 
standards (as determined by the State) in rel-
ative foster family homes for specific children in 
care;’’. 
(c) SUPPORTING PARTICIPATION
IN AGE-APPRO-
PRIATE ACTIVITIES.— 
(1) Section 477(a) (42 U.S.C. 677(a)) is 
amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (6); 
(B) by striking the period at the end of 
paragraph (7) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(8) to ensure children who are likely to remain 
in foster care until 18 years of age have regular, on-
going opportunities to engage in age or develop-
mentally-appropriate activities as defined in section 
475(11).’’. 
(2) Section 477(h)(1) (42 U.S.C. 677(h)(1)) is 
amended by inserting ‘‘or, beginning in fiscal year 
2020, $143,000,000’’ after ‘‘$140,000,000’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect on the date that is 1 
year after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(2) DELAY PERMITTED IF STATE LEGISLATION 
REQUIRED.—If the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services determines that State legislation (other 
than legislation appropriating funds) is required in 
order for a State plan developed pursuant to part E 
of title IV of the Social Security Act to meet the ad-
ditional requirements imposed by the amendments 
made by this section, the plan shall not be regarded 
as failing to meet any of the additional requirements 
before the 1st day of the 1st calendar quarter begin-
ning after the 1st regular session of the State legis-
lature that begins after the date of the enactment of 
this Act. If the State has a 2-year legislative session, 
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each year of the session is deemed to be a separate 
regular session of the State legislature. 
SEC. 112. IMPROVING ANOTHER PLANNED PERMANENT 
LIVING ARRANGEMENT AS A PERMANENCY 
OPTION. 
(a) ELIMINATION OF ANOTHER PLANNED PERMA-
NENT LIVING ARRANGEMENT
FOR CHILDREN UNDER 
AGE 16.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Section 475(5)(C)(i) (42 
U.S.C. 675(5)(C)(i)) is amended by inserting ‘‘only 
in the case of a child who has attained 16 years of 
age’’ before ‘‘(in cases where’’. 
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
422(b)(8)(A)(iii)(II) 
(42 
U.S.C. 
622(b)(8)(A)(iii)(II)) is amended by inserting ‘‘, 
subject to the requirements of sections 475(5)(C) 
and 475A(a)’’ after ‘‘arrangement’’. 
(3) DELAYED
APPLICABILITY
WITH
RESPECT 
TO CERTAIN CHILDREN.—In the case of children in 
foster care under the responsibility of an Indian 
tribe, tribal organization, or tribal consortium (ei-
ther directly or under supervision of a State), the 
amendments made by this subsection shall not apply 
until the date that is 3 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act. 
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(b) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Part E of title IV (42 
U.S.C. 670 et seq.) is amended by inserting after 
section 475 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 475A. ADDITIONAL CASE PLAN AND CASE REVIEW 
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS. 
‘‘(a) REQUIREMENTS FOR ANOTHER PLANNED PER-
MANENT LIVING ARRANGEMENT.—In the case of any 
child for whom another planned permanent living arrange-
ment is the permanency plan determined for the child 
under section 475(5)(C), the following requirements shall 
apply for purposes of approving the case plan for the child 
and the case system review procedure for the child: 
‘‘(1) DOCUMENTATION
OF
INTENSIVE, ONGO-
ING, UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORTS FOR FAMILY PLACE-
MENT.—At each permanency hearing held with re-
spect to the child, the State agency documents the 
intensive, ongoing, and, as of the date of the hear-
ing, unsuccessful efforts made by the State agency 
to return the child home or secure a placement for 
the child with a fit and willing relative (including 
adult siblings), a legal guardian, or an adoptive par-
ent, including through efforts that utilize search 
technology (including social media) to find biological 
family members for the children. 
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‘‘(2) REDETERMINATION OF APPROPRIATENESS 
OF PLACEMENT AT EACH PERMANENCY HEARING.— 
The State agency shall implement procedures to en-
sure that, at each permanency hearing held with re-
spect to the child, the court or administrative body 
appointed or approved by the court conducting the 
hearing on the permanency plan for the child does 
the following: 
‘‘(A) Ask the child about the desired per-
manency outcome for the child. 
‘‘(B) Make a judicial determination ex-
plaining why, as of the date of the hearing, an-
other planned permanent living arrangement is 
the best permanency plan for the child and pro-
vide compelling reasons why it continues to not 
be in the best interests of the child to— 
‘‘(i) return home; 
‘‘(ii) be placed for adoption; 
‘‘(iii) be placed with a legal guardian; 
or 
‘‘(iv) be placed with a fit and willing 
relative. 
‘‘(3) DEMONSTRATION
OF
SUPPORT
FOR
EN-
GAGING
IN
AGE
OR
DEVELOPMENTALLY-APPRO-
PRIATE ACTIVITIES AND SOCIAL EVENTS.—At each 
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