Find and Protect Foster Youth Act

Bill: 118-s-1146
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2023-03-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption and foster care
Child safety and welfare
Congressional oversight
Human trafficking
Missing persons
Sex offenses
Smuggling and trafficking

Summary:
action_date: 2023-03-30
text: 

Find and Protect Foster Youth Act

 
This bill requires the Children's Bureau of the Office of the Administration for Children & Families to provide states, Indian tribes, and tribal organizations with information, advice, educational materials, and technical assistance relating to eliminating obstacles to identifying and responding to reports of children missing from foster care and other vulnerable foster youth.
 
Specifically, the bureau must evaluate the protocols that states and tribes have developed to comply with the reporting requirements for locating children missing from foster care and identify the best practices for providing such children with effective interventions.
 
Additionally, the bureau must provide assistance for assessing and screening children who were missing and returned to foster care and children who are, or are at risk of, being victims of sex trafficking.

action_date: 2023-10-30
text: 

Find and Protect Foster Youth Act

This bill requires the Children's Bureau of the Office of the Administration for Children & Families to provide states, Indian tribes, and tribal organizations with information, advice, educational materials, and technical assistance relating to eliminating obstacles to identifying and responding to reports of children missing from foster care and other vulnerable foster youth.

Specifically, the bureau must evaluate the protocols that states and tribes have developed to comply with the reporting requirements for locating children missing from foster care and identify the best practices for providing such children with effective interventions.

Additionally, the bureau must provide assistance for assessing and screening children who were missing and returned to foster care and children who are, or are at risk of, being victims of sex trafficking.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2024-09-19
text: Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House amendment to Senate bill.
action_date: 2024-09-18
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2024-09-18
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 408 - 7 (Roll no. 422). (text: 09/17/2024 CR H5257-5258)
action_date: 2024-09-18
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 408 - 7 (Roll no. 422). (text: 09/17/2024 CR H5257-5258)
action_date: 2024-09-18
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H5340-5341)
action_date: 2024-09-17
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2024-09-17
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 1146.
action_date: 2024-09-17
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5257-5259)
action_date: 2024-09-17
text: Mr. Smith (MO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2023-11-01
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2023-11-01
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2023-10-31
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2023-10-30
text: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5232; text: CR S5232-5233)
action_date: 2023-10-30
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S5232; text: CR S5232-5233)
action_date: 2023-10-30
text: Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2023-10-30
text: Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2023-03-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2023-03-30
text: Introduced in Senate