Guardianship Assistance Promotion and Kinship Support Act

Bill: 109-hr-3380
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Danny K. [D-IL-7]
Introduced: 2005-07-21 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Adoption
Agriculture and Food
Aid to dependent children
Caregivers
Case management
Cash welfare block grants
Child health
Child safety
Child support
Child welfare
Church and social problems
Commerce
Compensatory education
Continuum of care
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Custody of children
Day care
Disabled
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Family services
Family violence
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial services
Food stamps
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Government publicity
Government statistics
Grandparents
Grants-in-aid
Guardian and ward
Health
Health insurance
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Identification of criminals
Indian children
Interstate relations
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal aid
Legal fees
Legal services
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
Mentally disabled
Mentoring
Metropolitan areas
Minorities
Native Americans
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Ombudsman
Parent and child
Personal budgets
Poor children
Preschool education
Preventive medicine
Prisoners
Problem children
Public-private partnerships
Religion
Respite care
Scholarships
Secondary education
Siblings
Special education
Standards
State laws
Students
Supplemental security income program
Technical education
Urban affairs
Vocational and technical education
Vocational guidance
Welfare eligibility
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: 
Guardianship Assistance Promotion and Kinship Support Act - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to allow each state with an approved part E plan to enter into negotiated agreements to provide legal guardianship assistance payments (based on foster care maintenance payments) to individuals who have assumed legal guardianship of children for whom they have cared as foster parents and for whom they have committed to care on a permanent basis.
 

 

 

 
Prohibits a legal guardianship assistance payment from being made with respect to a child who has attained 18 years of age, with certain exceptions such as for a child who is a full-time student in a secondary school.
 
Authorizes the use of foster care independence program funds to provide independent living services, education and training vouchers, and room and board for children who exit foster care to guardianship or adoption after attaining age 14.
 
Expands the definition of family support services to include assisting kinship caregivers or guardians in locating and accessing needed services.
 
Allows state authorities to establish and maintain separate standards for foster family homes in which a foster parent is a relative of the foster child that, at a minimum, protect the safety of the child and provide for criminal records checks.
 
Provides for: (1) notice to relatives when children enter foster care; and (2) expansion of eligibility for the foster care independence program.
 
Allows the Secretary to make grants to eligible entities to pay for the federal share of the cost of carrying out kinship navigator programs to help connect kinship caregivers with necessary services and assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education.
action_date: 2005-07-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-07-21
text: Introduced in House