Place to Call Home Act

Bill: 110-hr-3409
Sponsor: Rep. Hinojosa, Ruben [D-TX-15]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption
Aid to dependent children
Aliens
Authorization
Block grants
Caregivers
Cash welfare block grants
Child abuse
Child health
Child sexual abuse
Child welfare
Corrections
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Department of Health and Human Services
Detention of persons
Dropouts
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Family services
Federal aid to education
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Higher education
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Immigrants
Immigration
Income tax
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal aid
Medicaid
Parent and child
Prison alternatives
Prostitution
Public service advertising
Rehabilitation of criminals
Rental housing
Right of asylum
Runaway children
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Status offenders
Student housing
Tax credits
Taxation
Victims of crimes
Youth employment
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Place to Call Home Act - Amends and reauthorizes the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.
 
Amends part B (Child and Family Services) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to increase funding for the safe and stable families program.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act with respect to substance abuse prevention and the treatment performance partnership block grant program.
 
Amends SSA title IV part E (Federal Payments for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) with respect to the curtailment of involuntary separation of children from their families.

Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to prohibit the involuntary separation of youth from their families.
 
Provides for: (1) expanded eligibility for foster care and adoption assistance; (2) kinship guardianship assistance payments; (3) eligibility for foster care maintenance payments and adoption assistance payments through age 20; and (4) youth access to the child welfare system.
 

 
Runaway and Homeless Youth Act Reauthorization of 2008 - Reauthorizes the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a national homeless youth awareness campaign.
 
Revises requirements for the use of funds under the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program.
 
Directs the Attorney General to establish a Youth Offender Reentry Grants program.
 
Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to provide for transitional housing assistance for youth victims of commercial sexual exploitation.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make qualified homeless youth a targeted group of the work opportunity credit.
 
Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 with respect to unaccompanied youth access to workforce investment activities.

Amends the Public Health Service Act with respect to the prioritization of services for runaway, homeless, and street youth.
 
Provides for enhanced youth access to medical assistance under SSA title XIX (Medicaid).
 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act with respect to the access of homeless children and youths to elementary and secondary education, including grants to increase student attendance.
 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 with respect to financial assistance for disconnected students and continued access to student housing for homeless youth.
 
Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide for section 8 rental assistance (housing choice vouchers) for homeless youth.
 
Amends SSA title IV (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) with regard to young family concerns.
 
Outlines requirements for custody, release, family reunification, and detention of unaccompanied immigrant youth, including: (1) access to child advocates and counsel; and (2) children's asylum claims.
 
Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 with respect to the deinstitutionalization of status offenders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-08-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in House