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115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2742 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 21, 2017 
Received 
AN ACT 
To amend title IV of the Social Security Act to require 
States to adopt an electronic system to help expedite 
the placement of children in foster care or guardianship, 
or for adoption, across State lines, and to provide fund-
ing to aid States in developing such a system, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Modernizing the Inter-
state Placement of Children in Foster Care Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds that— 
(1) when a child in foster care cannot return 
safely home, the child deserves to be placed in a set-
ting that is best for that child, regardless of whether 
it is in the child’s State or another State; 
(2) the Interstate Compact on the Placement of 
Children (ICPC) was established in 1960 to provide 
a uniform legal framework for the placement of chil-
dren across State lines in foster and adoptive homes; 
(3) frequently, children waiting to be placed 
with an adoptive family, relative, or foster parent in 
another State spend more time waiting for this to 
occur than children who are placed with an adoptive, 
family, relative, or foster parent in the same State, 
because of the outdated, administratively burden-
some ICPC process; 
(4) no child should have to wait longer to be 
placed in a loving home simply because the child 
must cross a State line; 
(5) the National Electronic Interstate Compact 
Enterprise (NEICE) was launched in August 2014 
in Indiana, Nevada, Florida, South Carolina, Wis-
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consin, and the District of Columbia, has since ex-
panded into Illinois, Virginia, Rhode Island, Cali-
fornia, Alaska, Nebraska, and Georgia, and is ex-
pected to be expanded into additional States to im-
prove the administrative process by which children 
are placed with families across State lines; 
(6) States using this electronic interstate case- 
processing system have reduced administrative costs 
and the amount of staff time required to process 
these cases, and caseworkers can spend more time 
helping children instead of copying and mailing pa-
perwork between States; 
(7) since NEICE was launched, placement time 
has decreased by 30 percent for interstate foster 
care placements; and 
(8) on average, States using this electronic 
interstate case-processing system have been able to 
reduce from 24 business days to 13 business days 
the time it takes to identify a family for a child and 
prepare the paperwork required to start the ICPC 
process. 
SEC. 3. STATE PLAN REQUIREMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 471(a)(25) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 671(a)(25)) is amended— 
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