Runaway and Homeless Youth Act Reauthorization of 2008

To create the conditions, structures, and supports needed to ensure permanency for the Nation's unaccompanied youth, and for other purposes.

8/3/2007--Introduced.
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 He more...alth 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.

Sponsor

• Rep. Rubén Hinojosa [D, TX-15]
• and 26 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Neil Abercrombie [D, HI-1]
  • Rep. Shelley Berkley [D, NV-1]
  • Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D, OR-3]
  • Rep. Madeleine Bordallo [D, GU-0]
  • Rep. Julia Carson [D, IN-7]
  • Rep. Donna Christensen [D, VI-0]
  • Rep. William Clay [D, MO-1]
  • Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7]
  • Rep. Susan Davis [D, CA-53]
  • Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D, CT-3]
  • Rep. Bob Filner [D, CA-51]
  • Rep. Al Green [D, TX-9]
  • Rep. Raul Grijalva [D, AZ-7]
  • Rep. Rush Holt [D, NJ-12]
  • Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D, TX-18]
  • Rep. Eddie Johnson [D, TX-30]
  • Rep. David Loebsack [D, IA-2]
  • Rep. Dennis Moore [D, KS-3]
  • Rep. Edward Pastor [D, AZ-4]
  • Rep. Donald Payne [D, NJ-10]
  • Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D, IL-9]
  • Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D, NH-1]
  • Rep. Fortney Stark [D, CA-13]
  • Rep. Edolphus Towns [D, NY-10]
  • Rep. Robert Wexler [D, FL-19]
  • Rep. John Yarmuth [D, KY-3]
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Committees

• House Financial Services
• 9 more
  • House Judiciary
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Judiciary
  • House Education and Labor
  • House Judiciary
  • House Education and Labor
  • House Education and Labor
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Amendments

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Amendments to H.R.3409

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
August 03, 2007

Related Bills:

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Related Issue Areas:

• Youth services
• Youth employment
• Welfare
• Victims of crimes
• 63 more
• Taxation
• Tax credits
• Student housing
• Status offenders
• State and local government
• Secondary education
• Runaway children
• Right of asylum
• Rental housing
• Rehabilitation of criminals
• Public service advertising
• Prostitution
• Prison alternatives
• Parent and child
• Medicine
• Medicaid
• Legal aid
• Law
• Labor
• Juvenile delinquency
• Job training
• Income tax
• Immigration
• Immigrants
• Housing subsidies
• Housing
• Homeless
• Higher education
• Health policy
• Foster home care
• Federal aid to education
• Family services
• Families
• Executive departments
• Employment
• Elementary education
• Elementary and secondary education
• Education of the disadvantaged
• Education
• Drugs and youth
• Drug abuse treatment
• Drug abuse prevention
• Drug abuse
• Dropouts
• Detention of persons
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Criminal justice
• Crime prevention
• Corrections
• Communications
• Child welfare
• Child sexual abuse
• Child health
• Child abuse
• Cash welfare block grants
• Caregivers
• Budgets
• Block grants
• Authorization
• Aliens
• Aid to dependent children
• Adoption
• Children

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Blog Coverage

May 10, 2008 Congressman Sullivan's Response

HR 3409 seeks to revise the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to create better conditions and support programs for the nation's unaccompanied youth. This bill will also amend parts of the Social Security Act and the Public Health ...

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April 09, 2008 Rahall Statement — Full Committee Legislative Hearing on HR 5608

Rahall (D-WV), Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, delivered the following statement today at a full Committee legislative hearing on HR 5608 (Rahall D-WV), HR 3522 (T. Udall D-NM), HR 3409 (Radanovich R-CA), S. … ...

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August 07, 2007 1996 Redux on Wiretaps: Is Anybody Listening?

Charles Schumer (D-NY) and John Conyers (D-MI) introduced HR 3409 "to combat domestic terrorism." The bill, titled the "Effective Anti-Terrorism Tools for Law Enforcement Act of 1996," would expand the powers granted to the FBI to ...

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