Investment in Kids' Instruction, Development and Support Act

To improve outcomes for vulnerable children by investing in families, improving accountability in the child welfare system, and finding safe, stable, and permanent homes for foster children.

2/14/2008--Introduced.
Investment in Kids' Instruction, Development and Support Act, or the Invest in KIDS Act - Amends part B of title IV of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for foster care and adoption assistance and for child welfare services. Authorizes a state foster care and adoption assistance plan, at state option, to include a child and family services component. Eliminates certain income eligibility requirements for foster care and adoption assistance. Authorizes:
(1) Indian tribes to receive federal funds for such assistance; and
(2) separate standards for foster family homes in which a foster parent is a relative of the foster child that protect the child's safety and provide for criminal records checks. Requires application to all children in state custody of state plan standards for foster family homes and child care institutions. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administration of Children and Families, to make child welfare service quality improvement grants to states. Provides for an increased payment rate to states for short-term training of certain child welfare agency staff and court personnel. Allows state coverage of children in foster care after age 18 and up to age 21. Provides for state-optional kinship guardianship assistance payments for children. Authorizes the Secretary to make family connection grants to states. Extends the adoption incentives program for five years, and increases incentives payments for special needs adoptions and older child adoptions. Requires state plans to provide for siblings removed from their homes to be placed in the same foster care placement, unless contrary to their safety or well-being. Requires a state child welfare services plan to provide for development of a plan for the ongoing oversight and coordination of health care services for any child in a foster care placement. Requires case plans to include a plan for ensuring the educational stability of the child in foster care.

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Sponsor

• Rep. James McDermott [D, WA-7]
• and 29 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Neil Abercrombie [D, HI-1]
  • Rep. Robert Andrews [D, NJ-1]
  • Rep. Shelley Berkley [D, NV-1]
  • Rep. Frederick Boucher [D, VA-9]
  • Rep. Dennis Cardoza [D, CA-18]
  • Rep. Steve Cohen [D, TN-9]
  • Rep. John Conyers [D, MI-14]
  • Rep. Jim Cooper [D, TN-5]
  • Rep. Artur Davis [D, AL-7]
  • Rep. Diana DeGette [D, CO-1]
  • Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D, CT-3]
  • Rep. Keith Ellison [D, MN-5]
  • Rep. Chaka Fattah [D, PA-2]
  • Rep. Al Green [D, TX-9]
  • Rep. Raymond Green [D, TX-29]
  • Rep. Rubén Hinojosa [D, TX-15]
  • Rep. Mazie Hirono [D, HI-2]
  • Rep. Jesse Jackson [D, IL-2]
  • Rep. Stephanie Jones [D, OH-11]
  • Rep. Nicholas Lampson [D, TX-22]
  • Rep. John Lewis [D, GA-5]
  • Rep. James McGovern [D, MA-3]
  • Rep. George Miller [D, CA-7]
  • Rep. Frank Pallone [D, NJ-6]
  • Rep. Fortney Stark [D, CA-13]
  • Rep. Betty Sutton [D, OH-13]
  • Rep. Mark Udall [D, CO-2]
  • Rep. Christopher Van Hollen [D, MD-8]
  • Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D, CA-6]
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Committees

• House Ways and Means
• 1 more
  • House Ways and Means
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February 14, 2008

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• Feb 18, 2008: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
• Feb 14, 2008: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
• Introduced on Feb 14, 2008.

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the legislation drew from an earlier bill mcdermott had introduced (invest in kids act, hr 5466), which served as the basis for bipartisan discussions. the senate finance committee bill represents a bipartisan agreement between finance ...

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The legislation drew from an earlier bill McDermott had introduced (Invest in KIDS Act, HR 5466), with that bill serving as the basis for bipartisan discussions. Shortly before Congress left for the August recess, the Senate Finance ...

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