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Child Welfare Legislative Updates: February 22-26 & March 1-5, 2021
Please review the following child welfare legislative updates pertinent to children and families from February 22-26 & March 1-5, 2021. These bills and other important legislation can be tracked at GovTrack.us.
Health
S. 334 — Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA)/Finance (2/22/21)
A bill to establish an alternative payment model demonstration project for maternity care provided to pregnant and postpartum individuals under state Medicaid and CHIP programs, and for other purposes.
S. 345 — Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (2/22/21)
A bill to establish a national campaign to increase maternal vaccination rates.
S. 346 — Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (2/22/21)
A bill to end preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in the United States and close disparities in maternal health outcomes, and for other purposes.
S. 347 — Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (2/22/21)
A bill to improve the collection and review of maternal health data to address maternal mortality, serve maternal morbidity, and other adverse maternal health outcomes.
H.R. 1212 — Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC)/Energy and Commerce (2/23/21)
A bill to end preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in the United States and close disparities in maternal health outcomes, and for other purposes.
H.R. 1218 — Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC)/Energy and Commerce (2/23/21)
A bill to require the Federal Communications Commission to incorporate data on maternal health outcomes into its broadband health maps.
S. 408 — Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA)/Finance (2/24/21)
A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to publish guidance for states on strategies for maternal care providers participating in the Medicaid program to reduce maternal mortality and severe morbidity with respect to individuals receiving medical assistance under such program.
S. 411 — Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)/Finance (2/24/21)
A bill to improve federal efforts with respect to the prevention of maternal mortality, and for other purposes.
S. 423 — Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA)/ Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (2/24/21)
A bill to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a grant program to protect vulnerable mothers and babies from climate change risks, and for other purposes.
S. 484 — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (2/25/21)
A bill to establish grant programs for maternal mental health equity and to grow and diversify the maternal mental and behavioral health care workforce.
H.R. 1350 — Rep. Robin Kelly (D-IL)/Energy and Commerce (2/25/21)
A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to publish guidance for states on strategies for maternal care providers participating in the Medicaid program to reduce maternal mortality and severe morbidity with respect to individuals receiving medical assistance under such program.
H.R. 1439 — Rep. Jackie Speier (D-VA)/Energy and Commerce (2/26/21)
A bill to provide for coverage under the Medicaid program of non-invasive prenatal genetic screening.
S. 560 — Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)/Finance (3/3/21)
A bill to improve coverage of maternal oral health care, and for other purposes.
S. 584 — Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH)/Finance (3/3/21)
A bill to provide coverage of medical nutrition therapy services for individuals with eating disorders under the Medicare program.
S. 581 — Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)/Finance (3/3/21)
A bill to amend Title XIX of the Social Security Act to improve access to adult vaccines under Medicaid.
Education
H.R. 1417 — Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL)/Education and Labor (2/26/21)
A bill to clarify protections related to sex and sex-segregated spaces and to activities under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
H.R. 1418 — Rep. Joseph Morelle (D-NY)/Education and Labor (2/26/21)
A bill to provide grants to local educational agencies to establish “Family Friendly School” policies at 500 elementary schools that align the school day with the work day to better support working families and to disseminate the learnings from these model schools so that other local educational agencies may adopt these practices, and to establish a supplemental 21st century community learning centers grant program to support programs and activities during summer recess when school is not in session.
Child Protection
H.R. 1198 — Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH)/Judiciary (2/22/21)
A bill to require a provider of a report to the CyberTipline related to online sexual exploitation of children to preserve the contents of such report for 180 days, and for other purposes.
S. 365 — Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)/Judiciary (2/23/21)
A bill to require a provider of a report to the CyberTipline related to online sexual exploitation of children to preserve the contents of such report for 180 days, and for other purposes.
S. 397 — Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (2/23/21)
A bill to include an act of unregulated custody transfer in the definition of child abuse and neglect, and for other purposes.
H.R. 1247 — Rep. James Langevin (D-RI)/Education and Labor (2/23/21)
A bill to include an act of unregulated custody transfer in the definition of child abuse and neglect, and for other purposes.
S. 462 — Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (2/25/21)
A bill to provide emergency funding for caseworkers and child protective services.
H.R. 1377 — Rep. Kim Schrier (D-WA)/Appropriations, Budget (2/25/21)
A bill to provide emergency funding for caseworkers and child protective services.
H.R. 1379 — Rep. David Scott (D-GA)/Education and Labor (2/25/21)
A bill to amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to ensure protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and their families.
H.R. 1566 — Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ)/Education and Labor; Natural Resources (3/3/21)
A bill to require that equitable distribution of assistance include equitable distribution to Indian tribes and tribal organizations and to increase amounts reserved for allotment to Indian tribes and tribal organizations under certain circumstances, and to provide for a Government Accountability Office report on child abuse and neglect in American Indian tribal communities.
H.R. 1527 — Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO)/Judiciary (3/2/21)
A bill to establish the Homeland Security Investigations victim assistance program, and for other purposes.
Family Support
H.R. 1413 —Rep. Robin Kelly (D-IL)/Agriculture (2/26/21)
A bill to expand online benefit redemption options under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and for other purposes.
H.R. 1380 — Rep. Jason Smith(R-MO)/Ways and Means (2/25/21)
A bill to make permanent certain changes to the child tax credit.
H.R. 1509 — Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC)/Oversight and Reform (3/2/21)
A bill to repeal portions of a regulation issued by the state superintendent of education of the District of Columbia that require child care workers to have a degree, a certificate, or a minimum number of credit hours from an institution of higher education.
H.R. 1515 — Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA)/House Administration (3/2/21)
A bill to provide for the treatment of payments for child care and other personal use services as an authorized campaign expenditure, and for other purposes.
S. Res. 87 — Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)/Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (3/3/21)
A resolution recognizing that the United States needs a Marshall Plan for Moms in order to revitalize and restore mothers in the workforce.
H.R. 1531 — Rep. Robert Wittman (R-VA)/Energy and Commerce (3/2/21)
A bill to require assurances that certain family planning service projects and programs will provide pamphlets containing the contact information of adoption centers.
S. 503 — Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)/Finance (3/1/21)
A bill to use incentive payments available under the child support enforcement program to improve parent-child relationships, increase child support collections, and improve outcomes for children by supporting parenting time agreements for noncustodial parents in uncontested agreements, and for other purposes.
S. 534 — Sen. John Thune (R-SD)/Finance (3/2/21)
A bill to improve the effectiveness of tribal child support enforcement agencies, and for other purposes.
H.R. 1558 — Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL)/Oversight and Reform; Ways and Means (3/3/21)
A bill to reduce child poverty in the United States, and for other purposes.
