Title: FOSTER Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Furthering Opioid Services, Training, and Education Resources Act or the FOSTER Act
This bill reauthorizes through FY2026 and expands the scope of grants available for states and Indian tribes to address the opioid crisis. Specifically, the bill allows the use of grant funds for workforce recruitment and training, health care services, and foster and adoptive parent recruitment and training to support opioid abuse prevention and treatment services for children and caregivers, kinship care families, and kinship caregivers.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5469 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5469

To amend the 21st Century Cures Act to support State and local agencies 
  with responsibility for children services in their response to the 
              opioid abuse crisis, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 30, 2021

 Ms. Strickland (for herself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Ms. Wild, Mr. McKinley, 
  Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Thompson of California, Mr. Young, Ms. Kuster, Ms. 
Clarke of New York, Mr. Trone, and Ms. Sewell) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the 21st Century Cures Act to support State and local agencies 
  with responsibility for children services in their response to the 
              opioid abuse crisis, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Furthering Opioid Services, 
Training, and Education Resources Act'' or the ``FOSTER Act''.

SEC. 2. OPIOID GRANTS TO SUPPORT CAREGIVERS, KINSHIP CARE FAMILIES, AND 
              KINSHIP CAREGIVERS.

    (a) Opioid Grants.--Section 1003(b)(2) of the 21st Century Cures 
Act (42 U.S.C. 290ee-3 note) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraph (E) as subparagraph (F); 
        and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following:
                    ``(E) Supporting opioid abuse prevention and 
                treatment services within a State provided by State and 
                local agencies for children and caregivers, kinship 
                care families, and kinship caregivers through--
                            ``(i) workforce recruitment and training;
                            ``(ii) health care services (including such 
                        services described in subparagraph (D)); and
                            ``(iii) foster and adoptive parent 
                        recruitment and training.''.
    (b) Definitions.--Section 1003 of the 21st Century Cures Act (42 
U.S.C. 290ee-3 note) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (h), (i), and (j) as 
        subsections (i), (j), and (k), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (g) the following:
    ``(h) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) The term `kinship care family' means a family with a 
        kinship caregiver.
            ``(2) The term `kinship caregiver' means a relative of a 
        child by blood, marriage, or adoption, who--
                    ``(A) lives with the child;
                    ``(B) is the primary caregiver of the child because 
                the biological or adoptive parent of the child is 
                unable or unwilling to serve as the primary caregiver 
                of the child; and
                    ``(C) has a legal relationship to the child or is 
                raising the child informally.''.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 1003(i) of the 21st 
Century Cures Act (42 U.S.C. 290ee-3 note), as redesignated, is amended 
by inserting ``, and $255,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 
2026'' after ``2021''.
    (d) Set Aside.--Section 1003(j) of the 21st Century Cures Act (42 
U.S.C. 290ee-3 note), as redesignated, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``, and up to'' and inserting ``, up to''; 
        and
            (2) by inserting before the period at the end ``, and 1 
        percent of such amount for such fiscal year shall be made 
        available to carry out subsection (b)(2)(E)''.
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