II 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4058 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MAY 21, 2014 
Received 
AN ACT 
To prevent and address sex trafficking of youth in foster 
care. 
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 ‘‘Preventing Sex Traf-
ficking and Improving Opportunities for Youth in Foster 
Care Act’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents of this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
Sec. 3. Findings. 
TITLE I—IDENTIFYING AND PROTECTING YOUTH AT RISK OF 
SEX TRAFFICKING 
Sec. 101. Identifying and screening youth at risk of sex trafficking. 
Sec. 102. Documenting and reporting instances of sex trafficking. 
Sec. 103. State plan requirement to locate and respond to children who run 
away from foster care. 
Sec. 104. Increasing information on youth in foster care to prevent sex traf-
ficking. 
TITLE II—IMPROVING OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH IN FOSTER 
CARE AND SUPPORTING PERMANENCY 
Sec. 201. Supporting normalcy for children in foster care. 
Sec. 202. Improvements to another planned permanent living arrangement as 
a permanency option. 
Sec. 203. Empowering foster youth age 14 and older in the development of 
their own case plan and transition planning for a successful 
adulthood. 
Sec. 204. Ensuring foster youth have a birth certificate, Social Security card, 
health insurance information, medical records, and a bank ac-
count. 
TITLE III—IMPROVING DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING ON 
CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING 
Sec. 301. Including sex trafficking data in the Adoption and Foster Care Anal-
ysis and Reporting System. 
Sec. 302. Information on children in foster care in annual reports using 
AFCARS data; consultation. 
TITLE IV—IMPROVING THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY TO INCREASE 
CHILD SUPPORT COLLECTIONS 
Sec. 401. Required electronic processing of income withholding. 
SEC. 3. FINDINGS. 
The Congress makes the following findings: 
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(1) Recent reports on sex trafficking estimate 
that thousands of children are at risk for domestic 
sex trafficking. 
(2) The risk is compounded every year for the 
up to 30,000 young people who are ‘‘emancipated’’ 
from foster care. 
(3) The current child welfare system does not 
effectively identify, prevent, or intervene when a 
child presents as trafficked or at risk for trafficking. 
(4) Within the foster care system, many young 
adults are housed in congregate care facilities or 
group homes, which often are targeted by traf-
fickers. 
(5) Within the foster care system, children are 
routinely denied the opportunity to participate in 
normal, age or developmentally-appropriate activities 
such as joining 4–H and other clubs, participating 
in school plays, playing sports, going to camp, and 
visiting a friend. 
(6) A lack of normalcy and barriers to partici-
pation in age or developmentally-appropriate activi-
ties contribute to increased vulnerability to traf-
ficking, homelessness, and other negative outcomes 
for children in foster care. 
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(7) The latest research in adolescent brain de-
velopment indicates that young people learn through 
experience and through trial and error, and that as 
part of healthy brain development young people need 
to take on increasing levels of decisionmaking 
through their teenage years. 
(8) In order to combat domestic sex trafficking 
and to improve outcomes for children in foster care, 
systemic changes need to be made to the child wel-
fare system that focus on— 
(A) the reduction of children in long-term 
foster care; 
(B) greater child engagement in case plan-
ning while in foster care; 
(C) improved efforts to locate and respond 
to children who have run away from foster care 
and to reduce the number of foster children 
who are on the run; 
(D) improved policies and procedures that 
encourage age or developmentally-appropriate 
activities for children in foster care and that 
permit more opportunities for such children to 
make meaningful and permanent connections 
with caring adults; and 
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(E) with regard to domestic sex traf-
ficking, improved identification, prevention, and 
intervention by the child welfare agency in col-
laboration with the courts, State and local law 
enforcement agencies, schools, juvenile justice 
agencies, and other social service providers. 
TITLE I—IDENTIFYING AND PRO-
TECTING YOUTH AT RISK OF 
SEX TRAFFICKING 
SEC. 101. IDENTIFYING AND SCREENING YOUTH AT RISK 
OF SEX TRAFFICKING. 
Section 471(a)(9) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 671(a)(9)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘and’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ‘‘and’’ 
after the semicolon; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(C) not later than— 
‘‘(i) 1 year after the date of the enact-
ment of this subparagraph, demonstrate to 
the Secretary that the State agency has 
developed, in consultation with organiza-
tions with experience in dealing with at- 
risk youth, policies and procedures for 
identifying and screening (including rel-
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evant training for caseworkers), and for 
determining appropriate State action and 
services with respect to— 
‘‘(I) any child over whom the 
State agency has responsibility for 
placement, care, or supervision (in-
cluding children for whom a State 
child welfare agency has an open case 
file but who have not been removed 
from the home and youth who are not 
in foster care but are receiving serv-
ices under section 477 of this Act) 
who the State has reasonable cause to 
believe— 
‘‘(aa) is a victim of sex traf-
ficking (as defined in section 
103(10) of the Trafficking Vic-
tims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
U.S.C. 7102(10))) or a severe 
form of trafficking in persons de-
scribed in section 103(9)(A) of 
such 
Act 
(22 
U.S.C. 
7102(9)(A)); or 
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‘‘(bb) is at risk of being a 
victim of either kind of traf-
ficking; and 
‘‘(II) at the option of the State, 
any individual, without regard to 
whether the individual is or was in 
foster care under the responsibility of 
the State, who has not attained 26 
years of age; and 
‘‘(ii) 2 years after such date of enact-
ment, demonstrate to the Secretary that 
the State agency is implementing, in con-
sultation with the child protective services 
agency or unit for the State, the policies 
and procedures referred to in clause (i).’’. 
SEC. 102. DOCUMENTING AND REPORTING INSTANCES OF 
SEX TRAFFICKING. 
(a) STATE PLAN REQUIREMENTS.—Section 471(a) 
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 671(a)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph 
(32); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (33) and inserting a semicolon; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(34) provides that, for each child over whom 
the State agency has responsibility for placement, 
care, or supervision (including any child for whom a 
State child welfare agency has an open case file but 
who has not been removed from the home, and any 
youth who is not in foster care but is receiving serv-
ices under section 477), the State agency shall— 
‘‘(A) not later than 2 years after the date 
of the enactment of this paragraph, identify 
and document appropriately in agency records 
each child who is identified as being a victim of 
sex trafficking (as defined in section 103(10) of 
the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000) 
or as being a victim of severe forms of traf-
ficking 
in 
persons 
described 
in 
section 
103(9)(A) of such Act, as such a victim; and 
‘‘(B) report immediately, and in no case 
later than 24 hours after receiving— 
‘‘(i) information on children who have 
been identified as being victims of sex traf-
ficking (as defined in subparagraph (A) of 
this paragraph) to the law enforcement au-
thorities; and 
‘‘(ii) information on missing or ab-
ducted children to the law enforcement au-
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thorities for entry into the National Crime 
Information Center (NCIC) database of 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, estab-
lished pursuant to section 534 of title 28, 
United States Code, and to the National 
Center for Missing and Exploited Children; 
and 
‘‘(35) not later than 2 years after the date of 
the enactment of this paragraph, contains a regu-
larly updated description, made available to the pub-
lic on the Internet website of the State agency, of 
the specific measures taken by the State agency to 
protect and provide services to children who are vic-
tims of sex trafficking (as defined in section 103(10) 
of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000), 
or victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons 
described in section 103(9)(A) of such Act, including 
efforts to coordinate with State and local law en-
forcement, schools, juvenile justice agencies, and so-
cial service agencies such as runaway and homeless 
youth shelters and transitional and other supportive 
housing providers to serve that population.’’. 
(b) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall promulgate regulations imple-
menting the amendments made by subsection (a) of this 
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section and shall provide uniform definitions for States to 
use for the reports required under section 471(a)(34)(B) 
of the Social Security Act, as added by such subsection 
(a). 
SEC. 103. STATE PLAN REQUIREMENT TO LOCATE AND RE-
SPOND TO CHILDREN WHO RUN AWAY FROM 
FOSTER CARE. 
Section 471(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
671(a)), as amended by section 102 of this Act, is amend-
ed— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph 
(34); 
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (35) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(36) provides that, not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this paragraph, the 
State shall develop and implement specific protocols 
for— 
‘‘(A) expeditiously locating any child miss-
ing from foster care; 
‘‘(B) determining the primary factors that 
contributed to the child’s running away or oth-
erwise being absent from care, and to the ex-
tent possible and appropriate, responding to 
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those factors in current and subsequent place-
ments; 
‘‘(C) determining the child’s experiences 
while absent from care, including screening the 
child to determine if he or she is a possible vic-
tim of sex trafficking (as defined in paragraph 
(9)(C)); and 
‘‘(D) reporting such related information as 
required by the Secretary.’’. 
SEC. 104. INCREASING INFORMATION ON YOUTH IN FOS-
TER CARE TO PREVENT SEX TRAFFICKING. 
Not later than 2 years after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services shall submit to the Congress a written report 
which summarizes the following: 
(1) Information on children who run away from 
foster care and their risk of becoming victims of sex 
trafficking, using data reported by States under sec-
tion 479 of the Social Security Act and information 
collected by States related to section 471(a)(36) of 
such Act, including— 
(A) characteristics of children who run 
away from foster care; 
(B) potential factors associated with chil-
dren running away from foster care (such as 
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reason for entry into care, length of stay in 
care, type of placement, and other factors that 
contributed to the child’s running away); 
(C) information on children’s experiences 
while absent from care; and 
(D) trends in the number of children re-
ported as runaways in each fiscal year (includ-
ing factors that may have contributed to 
changes in such trends). 
(2) Information on State efforts to provide spe-
cialized services, foster family homes, or child care 
institutions for children who are victims of sex traf-
ficking. 
(3) Information on State efforts to ensure chil-
dren in foster care form and maintain long-lasting 
connections to caring adults, even when a child in 
foster care must move to another foster family home 
or when the child is placed under the supervision of 
a new caseworker. 
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TITLE II—IMPROVING OPPORTU-
NITIES FOR YOUTH IN FOS-
TER CARE AND SUPPORTING 
PERMANENCY 
SEC. 201. SUPPORTING NORMALCY FOR CHILDREN IN FOS-
TER CARE. 
(a) REASONABLE AND PRUDENT PARENT STAND-
ARD.— 
(1) DEFINITIONS
RELATING
TO
THE
STAND-
ARD.—Section 475 of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 675) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(9)(A) The term ‘reasonable and prudent par-
ent standard’ means the standard characterized by 
careful and sensible parental decisions that maintain 
the health, safety, and best interests of a child while 
at the same time encouraging the emotional and de-
velopmental growth of the child, that a caregiver 
shall use when determining whether to allow a child 
in foster care under the responsibility of the State 
to participate in extracurricular, enrichment, cul-
tural, and social activities. 
‘‘(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A), the 
term ‘caregiver’ means a foster parent with whom a 
child in foster care has been placed or a designated 
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official for a child care institution in which a child 
in foster care has been placed. 
‘‘(10) The term ‘age or developmentally-appro-
priate’ means— 
‘‘(A) activities or items that are generally 
accepted as suitable for children of the same 
chronological age or level of maturity or that 
are determined to be developmentally-appro-
priate for a child, based on the development of 
cognitive, emotional, physical, and behavioral 
capacities that are typical for an age or age 
group; and 
‘‘(B) in the case of a specific child, activi-
ties or items that are suitable for the child 
based on the developmental stages attained by 
the child with respect to the cognitive, emo-
tional, physical, and behavioral capacities of the 
child.’’. 
(2) 
STATE
PLAN
REQUIREMENT.—Section 
471(a)(24) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 671(a)(24)) is 
amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘include’’ and inserting 
‘‘includes’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘and that such prepara-
tion’’ and inserting ‘‘that the preparation’’; and 
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(C) by inserting ‘‘, and that the prepara-
tion shall include knowledge and skills relating 
to the reasonable and prudent parent standard 
for the participation of the child in age or de-
velopmentally-appropriate activities, including 
knowledge and skills relating to the develop-
mental stages of the cognitive, emotional, phys-
ical, and behavioral capacities of a child, and 
knowledge and skills relating to applying the 
standard to decisions such as whether to allow 
the child to engage in social, extracurricular, 
enrichment, cultural, and social activities, in-
cluding sports, field trips, and overnight activi-
ties lasting 1 or more days, and to decisions in-
volving the signing of permission slips and ar-
ranging of transportation for the child to and 
from extracurricular, enrichment, and social ac-
tivities’’ before the semicolon. 
(3) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall provide assistance 
to the States on best practices for devising strategies 
to assist foster parents in applying a reasonable and 
prudent parent standard in a manner that protects 
child safety, while also allowing children to experi-
ence normal and beneficial activities, including meth-
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ods for appropriately considering the concerns of the 
biological parents of a child in decisions related to 
participation of the child in activities (with the un-
derstanding that those concerns should not nec-
essarily determine the participation of the child in 
any activity). 
(b) NORMALCY FOR CHILDREN IN CHILD CARE IN-
STITUTIONS.—Section 471(a)(10) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
671(a)(10)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(10) provides— 
‘‘(A) for the establishment or designation 
of a State authority or authorities that shall be 
responsible for establishing and maintaining 
standards for foster family homes and child 
care institutions which are reasonably in accord 
with recommended standards of national orga-
nizations concerned with standards for the in-
stitutions or homes, including standards related 
to admission policies, safety, sanitation, and 
protection of civil rights, and which shall permit 
use of the reasonable and prudent parenting 
standard; 
‘‘(B) that the standards established pursu-
ant to subparagraph (A) shall be applied by the 
State to any foster family home or child care 
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institution receiving funds under this part or 
part B and shall require, as a condition of any 
contract entered into by the State agency and 
a child care institution, the presence on-site of 
at least 1 official who, with respect to any child 
placed at the child care institution, is des-
ignated to be the caregiver who is authorized to 
apply the reasonable and prudent parent stand-
ard to decisions involving the participation of 
the child in age or developmentally-appropriate 
activities, and who is provided with training in 
how to use and apply the reasonable and pru-
dent parent standard in the same manner as 
prospective foster parents are provided the 
training pursuant to paragraph (24); 
‘‘(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 
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‘‘(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) 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, 
without regard to whether regulations to implement 
the amendments have been promulgated by that 
date. 
(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 
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this Act. If the State has a 2-year legislative session, 
each year of the session is deemed to be a separate 
regular session of the State legislature. 
SEC. 202. IMPROVEMENTS TO ANOTHER PLANNED PERMA-
NENT LIVING ARRANGEMENT AS A PERMA-
NENCY OPTION. 
(a) ELIMINATION OF THE OPTION FOR CHILDREN 
UNDER AGE 16.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 475(5)(C)(i) of the 
Social Security Act (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) 
of 
such 
Act 
(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’’. 
(b) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Part E of title IV of such 
Act (42 U.S.C. 670 et seq.) is amended by inserting 
after section 475 the following: 
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‘‘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 for the child, the following 
requirements shall apply for purposes of approving the 
case plan for the child and the case system review proce-
dure 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 children in the child welfare sys-
tem. 
‘‘(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-
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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 
permanency hearing held with respect to the child, 
the State agency shall document the steps the State 
agency is taking to ensure the child’s foster family 
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home or child care institution is following the rea-
sonable and prudent parent standard.’’. 
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(A) STATE PLAN REQUIREMENTS.— 
(i) PART B.—Section 422(b)(8)(A)(ii) 
of such Act (42 U.S.C. 622(b)(8)(A)(ii)) is 
amended by inserting ‘‘and in accordance 
with the requirements of section 475A’’ 
after ‘‘section 475(5)’’. 
(ii) PART E.—Section 471(a)(16) of 
such Act (42 U.S.C. 671(a)(16)) is amend-
ed— 
(I) by inserting ‘‘and in accord-
ance with the requirements of section 
475A’’ after ‘‘section 475(1)’’; and 
(II) 
by 
striking 
‘‘section 
475(5)(B)’’ and inserting ‘‘sections 
475(5) and 475A’’. 
(B) DEFINITIONS.—Section 475 of such 
Act (42 U.S.C. 675) is amended— 
(i) in paragraph (1), in the matter 
preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting 
‘‘meets the requirements of section 475A 
and’’ after ‘‘written document which’’; and 
(ii) in paragraph (5)(C)— 
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(I) by inserting ‘‘, as of the date 
of the hearing,’’ after ‘‘compelling rea-
son for determining’’; and 
(II) by inserting ‘‘subject to sec-
tion 475A(a),’’ after ‘‘another planned 
permanent living arrangement,’’. 
(c) 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, 
each year of the session is deemed to be a separate 
regular session of the State legislature. 
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SEC. 203. EMPOWERING FOSTER YOUTH AGE 14 AND OLDER 
IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR OWN CASE 
PLAN AND TRANSITION PLANNING FOR A 
SUCCESSFUL ADULTHOOD. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 475(1)(B) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 675(1)(B)) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: ‘‘With respect to a child who has 
attained 14 years of age, the plan developed for the child 
in accordance with this paragraph, and any revision or ad-
dition to the plan, shall be developed in consultation with 
the child and, at the option of the child, with up to 2 mem-
bers of the case planning team who are chosen by the child 
and who are not a foster parent of, or caseworker for, the 
child. A State may reject an individual selected by a child 
to be a member of the case planning team at any time 
if the State has good cause to believe that the individual 
would not act in the best interests of the child. One indi-
vidual selected by a child to be a member of the child’s 
case planning team may be designated to be the child’s 
advisor and, as necessary, advocate, with respect to the 
application of the reasonable and prudent parent standard 
to the child.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO INCLUDE CHIL-
DREN 14 AND OLDER IN TRANSITION PLANNING.—Sec-
tion 475 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 675) is amended— 
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(1) in paragraph (1)(D), by striking ‘‘Where 
appropriate, for a child age 16’’ and inserting ‘‘For 
a child who has attained 14 years of age’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (5)— 
(A) in subparagraph (C)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of 
clause (ii); and 
(ii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: ‘‘and (iv) if a child has attained 14 
years of age, the permanency plan devel-
oped for the child, and any revision or ad-
dition to the plan, shall be developed in 
consultation with the child and, at the op-
tion of the child, with not more than 2 
members of the permanency planning team 
who are selected by the child and who are 
not a foster parent of, or caseworker for, 
the child, except that the State may reject 
an individual so selected by the child if the 
State has good cause to believe that the in-
dividual would not act in the best interests 
of the child, and 1 individual so selected by 
the child may be designated to be the 
child’s advisor and, as necessary, advocate, 
with respect to the application of the rea-
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sonable and prudent standard to the 
child;’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (I), by striking ‘‘16’’ 
and inserting ‘‘14’’. 
(c) TRANSITION PLANNING
FOR
A SUCCESSFUL 
ADULTHOOD.—Paragraphs 
(1)(D), 
(5)(C)(i), 
and 
(5)(C)(iii) of section 475 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 675) are 
each amended by striking ‘‘independent living’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘a successful adulthood’’. 
(d) LIST OF RIGHTS.—Section 475A of such Act, as 
added by section 202(b)(1) of this Act, is amended by add-
ing at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) LIST OF RIGHTS.—The case plan for any child 
in foster care under the responsibility of the State who 
has attained 14 years of age shall include a document that 
describes the rights of the child with respect to education, 
health, visitation, and court participation, and to staying 
safe and avoiding exploitation, and a signed acknowledg-
ment by the child that the child has been provided with 
a copy of the document and that the rights contained in 
the document have been explained to the child in an age- 
appropriate way.’’. 
(e) REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall submit a report to Congress regard-
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ing the implementation of the amendments made by this 
section. The report shall include— 
(1) an analysis of how States are administering 
the requirements of paragraphs (1)(B) and (5)(C) of 
section 475 of the Social Security Act, as amended 
by subsections (a) and (b) of this section, that a 
child in foster care who has attained 14 years of age 
be permitted to select up to 2 members of the case 
planning team or permanency planning team for the 
child from individuals who are not a foster parent 
of, or caseworker for, the child; and 
(2) a description of best practices of States with 
respect to the administration of the requirements. 
(f) 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 
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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, 
each year of the session is deemed to be a separate 
regular session of the State legislature. 
SEC. 204. ENSURING FOSTER YOUTH HAVE A BIRTH CER-
TIFICATE, SOCIAL SECURITY CARD, HEALTH 
INSURANCE 
INFORMATION, 
MEDICAL 
RECORDS, AND A BANK ACCOUNT. 
(a) CASE REVIEW SYSTEM REQUIREMENT.—Section 
475(5)(I) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 675(5)(I)) 
is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘and receives assistance’’ and 
inserting ‘‘receives assistance’’; and 
(2) by inserting ‘‘, and, unless the child has 
been in foster care for less than 6 months or the 
child is being discharged from care to be reunited 
with the family of the child or to be adopted, is not 
discharged from care without being provided with an 
official birth certificate of the child, a social security 
card issued by the Commissioner of Social Security, 
health insurance information and medical records, 
and if the child has attained 18 years of age, a fee- 
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free (or low-fee) transaction account (as defined in 
section 19(b)(1)(C) of the Federal Reserve Act (12 
U.S.C. 461(b)(1)(C))) established in the name of the 
child name at an insured depository institution (as 
defined in section 3 of the Federal Deposit Insur-
ance Act (12 U.S.C. 1813)) or an insured credit 
union (as defined in section 101 of the Federal 
Credit Union Act (12 U.S.C. 1752)), unless the 
child, after consultation with the members of the 
case planning team for the child selected by the child 
(if any), elects to not have such an account estab-
lished’’ before the period. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect 1 year after the date of 
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 
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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, 
each year of the session is deemed to be a separate 
regular session of the State legislature. 
TITLE 
III—IMPROVING 
DATA 
COLLECTION 
AND 
REPORT-
ING ON CHILD SEX TRAF-
FICKING 
SEC. 301. INCLUDING SEX TRAFFICKING DATA IN THE 
ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE ANALYSIS AND 
REPORTING SYSTEM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 479(c)(3) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 679(c)(3)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (C)(iii), by striking ‘‘and’’ 
after the comma; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(E) the annual number of children in fos-
ter care who are identified as victims of sex 
trafficking (as defined in section 103(10) of the 
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (22 
U.S.C. 7102(10))) or a severe form of traf-
ficking 
in 
persons 
described 
in 
section 
103(9)(A) of such Act— 
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‘‘(i) who were such victims before en-
tering foster care; and 
‘‘(ii) who were such victims while in 
foster care; and’’. 
(b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Beginning in fiscal year 
2016, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
submit an annual report to Congress that contains the an-
nual aggregate number of children in foster care who are 
identified as victims of sex trafficking (as defined in sec-
tion 103(10) of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 
2000 (22 U.S.C. 7102(10))) or a severe form of traf-
ficking in persons described in section 103(9)(A) of such 
Act, together with such other information as the Secretary 
determines appropriate relating to the identification of, 
and provision of services for, that population of children. 
SEC. 302. INFORMATION ON CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE IN 
ANNUAL REPORTS USING AFCARS DATA; CON-
SULTATION. 
Section 479A of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
679b) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary’’; 
(2) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘and’’ after 
the semicolon; 
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(3) in paragraph (6)(C), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting a semicolon; 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(7) include in the report submitted pursuant 
to paragraph (5) for fiscal year 2016 or any suc-
ceeding fiscal year, State-by-State data on children 
in foster care who have been placed in a child care 
institution or other setting that is not a foster fam-
ily home, including— 
‘‘(A) the number of children in the place-
ments and their ages, including separately, the 
number and ages of children who have a perma-
nency plan of another planned permanent living 
arrangement; 
‘‘(B) the duration of the placement in the 
settings (including for children who have a per-
manency plan of another planned permanent 
living arrangement); 
‘‘(C) the types of child care institutions 
used (including group homes, residential treat-
ment, shelters, or other congregate care set-
tings); 
‘‘(D) with respect to each child care insti-
tution or other setting that is not a foster fam-
ily home, the number of children in foster care 
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