(1) IN GENERAL.—A covered entity shall pro-
vide service delivery to children and youth involved 
with child welfare services, families, and adults, and 
staff training, that comprehensively addresses the 
individual strengths and needs of children and youth 
involved with child welfare services, as well as be 
language appropriate, gender appropriate, and cul-
turally sensitive and respectful of the complex social 
identities of the children and youth, families, and 
adults currently or prospectively participating in or 
receiving child welfare services. 
(2) SOCIAL IDENTITY.—In this subsection, the 
term ‘‘social identity’’ includes an individual’s race, 
ethnicity, nationality, age, religion (including spiritu-
ality), sex (including gender identity and sexual ori-
entation), socioeconomic status, physical or cognitive 
ability, language, beliefs, values, behavior patterns, 
and customs. 
(f) DATA COLLECTION.—Using developmentally ap-
propriate best practices, the Secretary shall collect data 
through the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Re-
porting System on— 
(1) the sexual orientation and gender identity of 
children and youth involved with child welfare serv-
ices and foster and adoptive parents; and 
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(2) whether family conflict related to the sexual 
orientation or gender identity of a child or youth 
was a factor in the removal of the child or youth 
from the family. 
(g) NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER
ON SAFETY, 
WELL-BEING, PLACEMENT
STABILITY, AND
PERMA-
NENCY FOR LGBTQ CHILDREN AND YOUTH INVOLVED 
WITH CHILD WELFARE SERVICES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish 
and maintain the National Resource Center on Safe-
ty, Well-Being, Placement Stability, and Perma-
nency for LGBTQ Children and Youth Involved with 
Child Welfare Services that will promote well-being, 
safety, permanency, stability, and family placement 
for LGBTQ children and youth involved with child 
welfare services, through training, technical assist-
ance, actions, and guidance that— 
(A) increases LGBTQ cultural competency 
among the staff of covered entities, and foster, 
adoptive, and relative parents, guardians, and 
caregivers; 
(B) promotes the provision of child welfare 
services that address the specific needs of 
LGBTQ children and youth involved with child 
welfare services and their families; 
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(C) promotes effective and responsible col-
lection and management of data on the sexual 
orientation and gender identity of children and 
youth in the child welfare system, with appro-
priate safeguards to protect the data; 
(D) identifies and promotes promising 
practices and evidence-based models of engage-
ment and appropriate collective and individual 
services and interventions that can be linked to 
improved outcomes for LGBTQ children and 
youth in the child welfare system; 
(E) endorses best practices for human re-
source activities of covered entities, including in 
hiring, staff development, and implementing a 
system of accountability to carry out those best 
practices; and 
(F) initiates other actions that improve 
safety, well-being, placement stability, and per-
manency outcomes for LGBTQ children and 
youth involved with child welfare services at the 
State and local level. 
(2) ACTIVITIES.—The Secretary shall carry out 
the collection and analysis of data and the dissemi-
nation of research to carry out this subsection. 
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(3) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary such sums as may be necessary to establish 
and maintain the National Resource Center on Safe-
ty, Well-Being, Placement Stability, and Perma-
nency for LGBTQ Children and Youth Involved with 
Child Welfare Services and carry out the activities 
described in this subsection. 
(h) DEADLINE FOR COMPLIANCE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), a covered entity shall comply with this 
section not later than 6 months after publication of 
the guidance referred to in subsection (c), or 1 year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, which-
ever occurs first. 
(2) AUTHORITY TO EXTEND DEADLINE.—If a 
State demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Sec-
retary that it is necessary to amend State law in 
order to change a particular practice that is incon-
sistent with this Act, the Secretary may extend the 
compliance date for the State and any covered enti-
ties in the State a reasonable number of days after 
the close of the first State legislative session begin-
ning after the date the guidance referred to in sub-
section (c) is published. 
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(3) AUTHORITY TO WITHHOLD FUNDS.—If the 
Secretary finds that a covered entity has failed to 
comply with this Act, the Secretary may withhold 
payment to the State of amounts otherwise payable 
to the State under part B or E of title IV of the 
Social Security Act, to the extent determined by the 
Secretary. 
(i) GAO STUDY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 3 years after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller 
General of the United States shall conduct a study 
to determine whether the States have substantially 
complied with this Act, including specifically whether 
the States have— 
(A) eliminated all policies, practices, or 
laws that permit a covered entity to violate sub-
section (a); 
(B) provided necessary training and tech-
nical support to covered entities to ensure all 
services to children and youth involved with 
child welfare services are carried out in a non- 
discriminatory, affirming, safe, and culturally 
competent manner; 
(C) collected data necessary to accom-
plishing the purposes of this Act, and ensured 
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