Title: FAIR Act
Policy area: Families

Summary:
Fostering Academic Information and Resources Act or the FAIR Act
This bill requires states to inform each child in foster care who is at least 14 years old of government programs that provide financial assistance for expenses related to higher education, including housing expenses and tuition assistance.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3418 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3418

     To require States to inform children in foster care under the 
 responsibility of the State who have attained 14 years of age of all 
government programs under which the child may be eligible for financial 
          assistance for expenses related to higher education.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 26, 2017

   Mrs. Lawrence (for herself, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Ms. Bass, Mr. 
   Langevin, and Ms. Moore) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
     To require States to inform children in foster care under the 
 responsibility of the State who have attained 14 years of age of all 
government programs under which the child may be eligible for financial 
          assistance for expenses related to higher education.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fostering Academic Information and 
Resources Act'' or the ``FAIR Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT STATES PROVIDE FOSTER CHILDREN AGED 14 OR OVER 
              WITH INFORMATION ON GOVERNMENTAL EDUCATION AID PROGRAMS.

    (a) In General.--Section 475(5) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 675(5)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (H)--
                    (A) by inserting ``(including the information 
                described in subparagraph (J))'' after ``education''; 
                and
                    (B) by striking ``and'' after the semicolon;
            (2) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (I) 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(J) each child in foster care under the 
                responsibility of the State who has attained 14 years 
                of age receives, in writing or orally, information on 
                all government programs under which the child may be 
                eligible for assistance for expenses relating to higher 
                education, including associated housing expenses, 
                tuition assistance programs, and other fees related to 
                cost of attendance.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--
            (1) In general.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
        shall take effect on the 1st day of the 4th calendar quarter 
        beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
        and shall apply to payments under part E of title IV of the 
        Social Security Act for calendar quarters beginning on or after 
        such day.
            (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 additional 
        requirements imposed by the amendments made by this Act, the 
        plan shall not be regarded as failing to meet any of the 
        additional requirements before the 1st day of the 1st calendar 
        quarter beginning after the first regular session of the State 
        legislature that begins after the date of the enactment of this 
        Act. For purposes of the preceding sentence, 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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