FOSTER Act

Bill: 117-hr-5469
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Strickland, Marilyn [D-WA-10]
Introduced: 2021-09-30
Policy area: Health
Latest action: action_date: 2021-10-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-09-30
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Furthering Opioid Services, Training, and Education Resources Act or the FOSTER Act</strong></p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5469 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 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Furthering Opioid Services, Training, and Education Resources Act or the FOSTER Act . 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) .