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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Child Poverty Reduction Act of
2017''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF WORKING GROUP.

There is established in the Administration for Children and
Families of the Department of Health and Human Services a group which
shall be known as the Federal Interagency Working Group on Reducing
Child Poverty (in this Act referred to as the ''Working Group'').

SEC. 3. NATIONAL PLAN TO REDUCE CHILD POVERTY.

(a) Primary Goal.--
(1) Development of national plan.--The primary goal of the
Working Group is to develop a national plan--
(A) to reduce, within 10 years after the date on
which funding is made available to carry out this Act--
(i) the number of children living in
poverty in the United States to half of the
number of such children as reported in the
report of the United States Census Bureau on
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage
in the United States: 2015 (issued in September
2016); and
(ii) the number of children living in
extreme poverty in the United States to zero;
and
(B) to reduce, within 20 years after the date on
which funds are made available to carry out this Act,
the number of children living in poverty in the United
States to zero.
(2) Consultation with national academy of sciences.--In
developing the national plan under paragraph (1), the Working
Group shall consider all recommendations, research papers, and
reports published by the National Academy of Sciences,
including the Social Services and Income Maintenance Research
conducted using amounts made available under the ''children and
families services programs'' under the heading ''Administration
for Children and Families'' under title II of division H of the
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 (Public Law 114-113) and
of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 (Public Law 115-
31).
(3) Deadline.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Working Group shall make
substantial progress toward the development of the national
plan.
(b) Additional Goals.--The national plan under subsection (a) shall
include recommendations for achieving the following goals:
(1) Understanding the root causes of child poverty,
including persistent intergenerational poverty, taking into
account social, economic, and cultural factors.
(2) Improving the accessibility of anti-poverty programs
and increasing the rate of enrollment in such programs among
eligible children and families by reducing the complexity and
difficulty of enrolling in such programs.
(3) Eliminating disparate rates of child poverty based on
race, ethnicity, gender, age, English language proficiency,
ability, and geographic location in a rural, urban, or suburban
area.
(4) Improving the ability of individuals living in poverty,
low-income individuals, and unemployed individuals to access
quality jobs that help children and their families rise above
poverty.
(5) Connecting low-income children, disconnected youth, and
families of those children and youth to education, job
training, work, and the respective communities in which those
children and youth live in.
(6) Shifting the measures and policies of Federal anti-
poverty programs from the goal of helping individuals and
families living in poverty to achieve freedom from deprivation
toward the goal of helping individuals and families rise above
poverty and achieve long-term economic stability.
(c) Methods.--In developing the national plan under subsection (a),
the Working Group shall employ methods for achieving the goals
described in subsections (a) and (b), including--
(1) studying the effect that child poverty has on the
health and welfare of children, including access to health
care, housing, proper nutrition, and education;
(2) measuring the effect of child poverty on the ability of
individuals to achieve economic stability, including such
effect on educational attainment, rates of incarceration,
lifetime earnings, access to healthcare, and access to housing;
(3) updating and applying improved measures of poverty that
can meaningfully account for other aspects relating to the
measure of poverty, such as the Supplemental Poverty Measure
used by the United States Census Bureau; and
(4) using and applying fact-based measures to evaluate the
long-term effectiveness of anti-poverty programs, taking into
account the long-term savings and value to the Federal
Government and to State, local, and tribal governments of
practices and policies designed to prevent poverty.

SEC. 4. OTHER DUTIES.

In addition to developing the national plan under section 3(a), the
Working Group shall--
(1) monitor, in consultation with the Domestic Policy
Council and the National Economic Council, all Federal
activities, programs, and services related to child welfare and
child poverty;
(2) establish guidelines, policies, goals, and directives
related to the achievement of the goals of the national plan,
in consultation with--
(A) nongovernmental entities providing social
services to low-income children and families;
(B) advocacy groups that directly represent low-
income children and families;
(C) policy experts; and
(D) officials of State, local, and tribal
governments, including the working groups of the
largest associations of State and local government
officials, who administer or direct policy for anti-
poverty programs;
(3) advise all relevant Federal agencies regarding methods
of effectively administering and coordinating programs,
activities, and services related to child welfare and child
poverty, and resolving any disputes that arise between or among
those Federal agencies as a result of such administration or
coordination;
(4) provide recommendations to the Congress regarding how
to ensure that Federal agencies administering programs,
activities, and services related to child welfare and child
poverty have adequate resources to increase public awareness of
such programs, activities, and services, and how to maximize
enrollment of eligible individuals;
(5) identify methods for improving communication and
collaboration among and between Federal, State, and local
governmental entities regarding the implementation of State and
local programs related to child welfare and child poverty, such
as State programs funded under part A of title IV of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) (relating to block grants
to States for temporary assistance for needy families), and
submit recommendations regarding such methods to relevant
Federal agencies and congressional committees; and
(6) hold hearings in different geographic regions of the
United States to collect information and feedback from the
public regarding personal experiences related to child poverty
and anti-poverty programs, and make that information and
feedback publicly available.

SEC. 5. MEMBERSHIP.

(a) Number of Members.--The Working Group shall be composed of no
less than 6 members.
(b) Executive Pay Rate.--Each member shall be an official of an
executive department who occupies a position for which the rate of pay
is equal to or greater than the rate of pay for level IV of the
Executive Schedule under section 5313 of title 5, United States Code.
(c) Required Participation of Certain Executive Departments.--The
Working Group shall include at least one member who is an official of
each of the following executive departments:
(1) The Department of Justice.
(2) The Department of Agriculture.
(3) The Department of Labor.
(4) The Department of Health and Human Services.
(5) The Department of Housing and Urban Development.
(6) The Department of Education.
(d) Appointment.--Each member shall be appointed by the head of the
executive department that employs such member.
(e) Obtaining Official Data.--On request of the Chairperson, any
head of a Federal agency shall furnish directly to the Working Group
any information necessary to enable the Working Group to carry out this
Act.
(f) Terms.--Each member shall be appointed for the life of the
Working Group.
(g) Vacancies.--A vacancy in the Commission shall be filled in the
manner in which the original appointment was made.
(h) Quorum.--A majority of members shall constitute a quorum.
(i) Chairperson.--The Chairperson of the Working Group shall be
appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
(j) Meetings.--
(1) Initial meeting period.--The Working Group shall meet
on a monthly basis during the 180-day period beginning with the
date on which funds are made available to carry out this Act.
(2) Subsequent meetings.--After such 180-day period, the
Working Group shall meet not less than once every 6 months and
at the call of the Chairperson or a majority of members.

SEC. 6. DIRECTOR AND STAFF.

(a) Director.--The Working Group shall have a Director who shall be
appointed by the Chairperson.
(b) Staff.--The Director may appoint and fix the pay of additional
personnel as the Director considers appropriate.
(c) Duties.--The duties of the Director and staff shall be to
achieve the goals and carry out the duties of the Working Group.

SEC. 7. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

(a) Annual Report.--Not later than September 30, 2018, and annually
thereafter, the Chairperson shall submit to the Congress a report
describing the activities, projects, and plans of the Federal
Government to carry out the goals of the Working Group, including--
(1) an accounting of--
(A) any increase in efficiency in the delivery of
Federal, State, local, and tribal social services and
benefits related to child welfare and child poverty;
(B) any reduction in the number of children living
in poverty;
(C) any reduction in the demand for such social
services and benefits for which children living in
poverty and near poverty are eligible; and
(D) any savings to the Federal Government as a
result of such increases or reductions;
(2) an accounting of any increase in the national rate of
employment due to the efforts of the Working Group;
(3) a summary of the efforts of each State to reduce child
poverty within such State, including the administration of
State programs funded under part A of title IV of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) (relating to block grants
to States for temporary assistance for needy families); and
(4) legislative language and recommendations regarding
reducing child poverty and achieving the other goals and duties
of the Working Group.
(b) Public Reporting Requirements.--
(1) Annual report available to public.--A version of the
annual report required by subsection (a) shall be made publicly
available.
(2) Annual update from federal agencies.--The head of each
relevant Federal agency shall post on the public Internet Web
site of such agency an annual summary of any plans, activities,
and results of the agency related to the goals and duties of
the Working Group.

SEC. 8. DEFINITIONS.

In this Act:
(1) Anti-poverty program.--The term ''anti-poverty
program'' means a program or institution with the primary goal
of lifting children or families out of poverty and improving
economic opportunities for children or families that operates
in whole or in part using Federal, State, local, or tribal
government funds.
(2) Child.--The term ''child'' means an individual who has
not attained the age of 18.
(3) Deprivation.--The term ''deprivation'' means, with
respect to an individual, that such individual lacks adequate
nutrition, health care, housing, or other resources to provide
for basic human needs.
(4) Disconnected youth.--The term ''disconnected youth''
means individuals who have attained the age of 16 but have not
attained the age of 25 who are unemployed and not enrolled in
school.
(5) Economic stability.--The term ''economic stability''
means, with respect to an individual or family, that such
individual or family has access to the means and support
necessary to effectively cope with adverse or costly life
events and to effectively recover from the consequences of such
events while maintaining a decent standard of living.
(6) Extreme poverty.--The term ''extreme poverty'' means,
with respect to an individual or family, that such individual
or family has a total annual income that is less than the
amount that is 50 percent of the official poverty threshold for
such individual or family, as provided in the report of the
United States Census Bureau on Income, Poverty, and Health
Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2015 (issued in
September 2016).
(7) Federal agency.--The term ''Federal agency'' means an
executive department, a Government corporation, and an
independent establishment.
(8) Near poverty.--The term ''near poverty'' means, with
respect to an individual or family, that such individual or
family has a total annual income that is less than the amount
that is 200 percent of the official poverty threshold for such
individual or family, as provided in the report of the United
States Census Bureau on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance
Coverage in the United States: 2015 (issued in September 2016).
(9) Poverty.--The term ''poverty'' means, with respect to
an individual or family, that such individual or family has a
total annual income that is less than the amount that is the
official poverty threshold for such individual or family, as
provided in the report of the United States Census Bureau on
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United
States: 2015 (issued in September 2016).
Child Poverty Reduction Act of 2017 This bill establishes, within the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Interagency Working Group on Reducing Child Poverty. The primary goal of the working group shall be to develop a national planfor reducing to zero, within specified timeframes, the number of children living in poverty and extreme poverty in the United States. The national plan devised by the working group shall also include recommendations for: (1) understanding the root causes of child poverty, (2) improving access to anti-poverty programs, (3) eliminating disparate rates of child poverty based on specified demographic factors, (4) improving access to quality jobs, (5) connecting low-income children and families to education and job training, and (6) shifting the measures and policies of federal anti-poverty programs toward the goal of helping individuals and families achieve long-term economic stability. The bill also specifies additional duties, membership, and reporting requirements for the working group.