‘‘(i) a description of the plan of the eli-
gible entity to encourage in-person home 
visits; and 
‘‘(ii) a description of the consider-
ations to be used in determining when a 
virtual home visit is appropriate, including 
client consent, client preference, geographic 
limitations, model fidelity, and hazardous 
conditions including public health emer-
gencies, weather events, health concerns for 
home visitors and client families, and other 
local issues; 
‘‘(B) an assurance that— 
‘‘(i) the virtual home visit is imple-
mented as a model enhancement; or 
‘‘(ii) the Secretary has identified the 
home visit as part of an effective model or 
model adaptation, based on an evidence of 
effectiveness review conducted using the cri-
teria 
established 
under 
subsection 
(d)(3)(A)(iii); and 
‘‘(C) an assurance to the Secretary that at 
least 1 in-person home visit shall be conducted 
for each client family under the program during 
the 12-month period that begins with the entry 
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of the client family into the program, and dur-
ing each succeeding 12-month period, except that 
any such period in which a public health emer-
gency declared under Federal law, or under the 
law of the State in which the program is con-
ducted, is in effect shall be extended by the length 
of time in which the declaration is in effect.’’. 
(2) APPLICABLE RULES.—Section 511(d) of such 
Act (42 U.S.C. 711(d)) is amended by redesignating 
paragraph (4) and paragraph (5) (as added by sec-
tion 5(a) of this Act) as paragraphs (5) and (6), re-
spectively, and inserting after paragraph (3) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(4) VIRTUAL HOME VISITS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A virtual home visit 
conducted under the program shall be considered 
a home visit for purposes of this section if the 
application for funding of the program sub-
mitted pursuant to this section most recently 
after the effective date of this paragraph includes 
the material described in subsection (e)(10). 
‘‘(B) STANDARDS FOR TRAINING APPLICA-
BLE
TO
VIRTUAL
SERVICE
DELIVERY.—The 
standards for training requirements applicable 
to virtual service delivery under a home visiting 
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model shall be equivalent to those that apply to 
in-person service delivery under the model. 
‘‘(C) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—A grant 
made under this section for the program may 
not be used for any virtual home visit during a 
year, unless the eligible entity to which the grant 
is made submits the report described in sub-
section (e)(8)(A) for the year. 
‘‘(D) VIRTUAL HOME VISIT DEFINED.—In 
this section, the term ‘virtual home visit’ means 
a visit conducted solely by use of electronic infor-
mation and telecommunications technologies. 
‘‘(E) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—If the Sec-
retary finds that an eligible entity has not com-
plied with the assurance described in subsection 
(e)(10)(C), the Secretary shall, directly or 
through grants, contracts, or cooperative agree-
ments, provide the eligible entity with such tech-
nical assistance as is necessary to assist the eli-
gible entity in doing so.’’. 
(3) 
PROGRAM
REQUIREMENT.—Section 
511(d)(3)(C) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 711(d)(3)(C)), as 
so redesignated by section 4 of this Act, is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(vii) If the application submitted by 
the eligible entity includes the assurance de-
scribed in subsection (e)(10)(C) with respect 
to the program, the program provides in- 
person service consistent with the assur-
ances.’’. 
(4) REPORTS.—Section 511(e)(8)(A) of such Act 
(42 U.S.C. 711(e)(8)(A)) is amended by inserting ‘‘, 
including the number of virtual home visits conducted 
under the program in the year covered by the report, 
disaggregated with respect to each home visiting 
model under which the virtual home visits are con-
ducted’’ before the semicolon. 
(b) TRANSITION RULE.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—A virtual home visit con-
ducted before the effective date of the amendments 
made by this section under an early childhood home 
visitation program funded under section 511 of the 
Social Security Act shall be considered a home visit 
for purposes of such section. 
(2) VIRTUAL HOME VISIT DEFINED.—In para-
graph (1), the term ‘‘virtual home visit’’ means a 
visit conducted solely by use of electronic information 
and telecommunications technologies. 
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SEC. 9. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection 
(b), this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall 
take effect on October 1, 2022. 
(b) VIRTUAL
HOME
VISITING
PROVISIONS.—The 
amendments made by section 8 shall take effect on October 
1, 2023. 
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