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  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Child welfare</title>
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  <updated>2008-10-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.6893 Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-07:/action/176801</id>
    <updated>2008-10-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, improve incentives for adoption, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 07, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-351.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.6893 Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6893/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-07:/action/176791</id>
    <updated>2008-10-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, improve incentives for adoption, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 07, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.1199 Drug Endangered Children Act of 2007</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-07:/action/176795</id>
    <updated>2008-10-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To extend the grant program for drug-endangered children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 07, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-345.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: H.R.1199 Drug Endangered Children Act of 2007</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-07:/action/176776</id>
    <updated>2008-10-07T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To extend the grant program for drug-endangered children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 07, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.7229 Children's Budget Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h7229/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-29:/action/175974</id>
    <updated>2008-09-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title 31 of the United States Code to require that Federal children's programs be separately displayed and analyzed in the President's budget.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.1199 Drug Endangered Children Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1199/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-26:/action/173764</id>
    <updated>2008-09-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To extend the grant program for drug-endangered children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 26, 2008: Presented to President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.6893 Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6893/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-26:/action/174307</id>
    <updated>2008-09-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, improve incentives for adoption, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 26, 2008: Presented to President.    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.1199 Drug Endangered Children Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1199/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-24:/action/173614</id>
    <updated>2008-09-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To extend the grant program for drug-endangered children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 24, 2008: Cleared for White House.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.1199 Drug Endangered Children Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1199/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-23:/action/172982</id>
    <updated>2008-09-23T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To extend the grant program for drug-endangered children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 23, 2008: Cleared for White House.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.6893 Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6893/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-22:/action/172808</id>
    <updated>2008-09-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, improve incentives for adoption, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 22, 2008: Cleared for White House.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6934 Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6934/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-17:/action/171961</id>
    <updated>2008-09-17T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend and improve the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6893 Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6893/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-15:/action/171327</id>
    <updated>2008-09-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, improve incentives for adoption, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3480 Encore Service Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3480/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-11:/action/171127</id>
    <updated>2008-09-11T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish Encore Service Programs, Encore Fellowship Programs, and Silver Scholarship Programs, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3277 Children's Budget Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3277/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-16:/action/166573</id>
    <updated>2008-07-16T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend title 31 of the United States Code to require that Federal children's programs be separately displayed and analyzed in the President's budget.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6504 Coordinate to Educate Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6504/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-15:/action/166306</id>
    <updated>2008-07-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To authorize grants to local educational agencies to develop and implement coordinated services programs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6402 Increasing Student Achievement through School Attendance Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6402/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-26:/action/164272</id>
    <updated>2008-06-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish grants to increase student attendance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6358 Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6358/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-24:/action/164118</id>
    <updated>2008-06-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To require certain standards and enforcement provisions to prevent child abuse and neglect in residential programs, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6307 Fostering Connections to Success Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h6307/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-19:/action/161453</id>
    <updated>2008-06-19T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to assist children in foster care in developing or maintaining connections to family, community, support, health care, and school, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3061 William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3061/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-22:/action/158680</id>
    <updated>2008-05-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2008 through 2011 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3038 Improved Adoption Incentives and Relative Guardianship Support Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3038/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-20:/action/157695</id>
    <updated>2008-05-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to extend the adoption incentives program, to authorize States to establish a relative guardianship program, to promote the adoption of children with special needs, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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