http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills info@washingtonwatch.com http://www.pjdoland.com/chai/?v=0.1 http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/history/110_HR_3409.html?rev=12636 <p>H.R. 3409 would create the conditions, structures, and supports needed to ensure permanency for the Nation's unaccompanied youth.</p> <h2 id="toc0"> Detailed Summary </h2> <p>Place to Call Home Act - Amends and reauthorizes the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Amends the Public Health Service Act with respect to substance abuse prevention and the treatment performance partnership block grant program.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to prohibit the involuntary separation of youth from their families.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Runaway and Homeless Youth Act Reauthorization of 2008 - Reauthorizes the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act.</p> <p>Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a national homeless youth awareness campaign.</p> <p>Revises requirements for the use of funds under the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program.</p> <p>Directs the Attorney General to establish a Youth Offender Reentry Grants program.</p> <p>Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to provide for transitional housing assistance for youth victims of commercial sexual exploitation.</p> <p>Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make qualified homeless youth a targeted group of the work opportunity credit.</p> <p>Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 with respect to unaccompanied youth access to workforce investment activities.</p> <p>Amends the Public Health Service Act with respect to the prioritization of services for runaway, homeless, and street youth.</p> <p>Provides for enhanced youth access to medical assistance under SSA title XIX (Medicaid).</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 with respect to financial assistance for disconnected students and continued access to student housing for homeless youth.</p> <p>Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide for section 8 rental assistance (housing choice vouchers) for homeless youth.</p> <p>Amends SSA title IV (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) with regard to young family concerns.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 with respect to the deinstitutionalization of status offenders.</p> <!--Leave in the 'summary' tags if you want the latest summary from the Congressional Research Service automatically to replace the text between the tags once it becomes available. --> <h2 id="toc1"> Status of the Legislation </h2> <p>Latest Major Action: 9/19/2007: Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.</p> <!-- Leave in the 'status' tags if you want the latest reported status from THOMAS automatically to replace the text between the tags once it becomes available. --> <h2 id="toc2"> Points in Favor </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should pass!)<br /> <!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! --> </p> <h2 id="toc3"> Points Against </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should not pass!)<br /> <!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! --> </p> 12636@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:36:56 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/history/110_HR_3409.html?rev=10393 <p>H.R. 3409 would create the conditions, structures, and supports needed to ensure permanency for the Nation's unaccompanied youth.</p> <h2 id="toc4"> Detailed Summary </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to provide a detailed summary of the bill!)</p> <!--Leave in the 'summary' tags if you want the latest summary from the Congressional Research Service automatically to replace the text between the tags once it becomes available. --> <h2 id="toc5"> Status of the Legislation </h2> <p>Latest Major Action: 9/19/2007: Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.</p> <!-- Leave in the 'status' tags if you want the latest reported status from THOMAS automatically to replace the text between the tags once it becomes available. --> <h2 id="toc6"> Points in Favor </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should pass!)<br /> <!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! --> </p> <h2 id="toc7"> Points Against </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should not pass!)<br /> <!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! --> </p> 10393@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:25:50 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/history/110_HR_3409.html?rev=8316 <p>H.R. 3409 would create the conditions, structures, and supports needed to ensure permanency for the Nation's unaccompanied youth.</p> <h2 id="toc8"> Detailed Summary </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to provide a detailed summary of the bill!)</p> <!--Leave in the 'summary' tags if you want the latest summary from the Congressional Research Service automatically to replace the text between the tags once it becomes available. --> <h2 id="toc9"> Status of the Legislation </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to update the status of the bill!)</p> <!-- Leave in the 'status' tags if you want the latest reported status from THOMAS automatically to replace the text between the tags once it becomes available. --> <h2 id="toc10"> Points in Favor </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should pass!)<br /> <!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! --> </p> <h2 id="toc11"> Points Against </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should not pass!)<br /> <!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! --> </p> 8316@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:27:32 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/history/110_HR_3409.html?rev=8317 <p>H.R. 3409 would create the conditions, structures, and supports needed to ensure permanency for the Nation's unaccompanied youth.</p> <h2 id="toc12"> Detailed Summary </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to provide a detailed summary of the bill!)</p> <!--Leave in the 'summary' tags if you want the latest summary from the Congressional Research Service automatically to replace the text between the tags once it becomes available. --> <h2 id="toc13"> Status of the Legislation </h2> <p>Latest Major Action: 8/3/2007: Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.</p> <!-- Leave in the 'status' tags if you want the latest reported status from THOMAS automatically to replace the text between the tags once it becomes available. --> <h2 id="toc14"> Points in Favor </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should pass!)<br /> <!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! --> </p> <h2 id="toc15"> Points Against </h2> <p>(Log in to edit the wiki and be the first to show why the bill should not pass!)<br /> <!-- First editor: Go ahead and take out the sentence in parentheses, and this notice! --> </p> 8317@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:27:32 EDT