Court Improvement Equity Act

Bill: 117-hr-8233
Sponsor: full_name: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large]
Introduced: 2022-06-24
Policy area: Families
Latest action: action_date: 2022-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-06-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Court Improvement Equity Act</b></p> <p>This bill allows the Northern Mariana Islands to access state grant funds for child welfare court improvements in foster care and adoption proceedings under the Court Improvement Program (CIP). </p> <p>Under current law, the Northern Mariana Islands may not receive a CIP grant because the CIP program requires that a participating state or U.S. territory be eligible to operate a Title IV-E program (i.e., be eligible to receive federal payments for the provision of foster care and adoption assistance). This bill allows the Northern Mariana Islands, the only U.S. territory not currently eligible for the Title IV-E program, to participate in the CIP program.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8233 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 24, 2022 Mr. Sablan (for himself, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin , Ms. Plaskett , Mr. San Nicolas , Ms. Norton , Ms. Bass , Mr. Cárdenas , Mr. Correa , Mr. Costa , Mr. Evans , Mr. Johnson of Georgia , and Mr. Panetta ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To authorize grants to be made on an equitable basis to highest courts to assess and improve the handling of foster care and adoption proceedings, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Court Improvement Equity Act . 2. Equitable allocation of court improvement grants to highest courts Section 438(c) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 629h(c) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (4) Certain jurisdictions (A) In general From the amounts reserved under section 436(b)(2) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall, before applying paragraph (1) of this subsection, allocate 0.85 percent for a grant to the highest court of each State that applies therefor and is not eligible to operate a program under part E. (B) Use of funds A highest court to which a grant is made under this paragraph shall use the grant, consistent with subsection (a), to assess and make improvements to court processes and proceedings relating to child safety, permanency, and well-being. (C) State defined In subparagraph (A), the term State has the meaning given the term in section 1101(a)(1) for purposes of title XX. (D) Authority to request expenditure information On request of the Secretary, an entity to which a grant is made under this paragraph shall provide the Secretary with such information about the expenditure of the grant as the Secretary may request. .