{ "id": "RL31746", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "number": "RL31746", "active": false, "source": "EveryCRSReport.com, University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "versions": [ { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 101518, "date": "2005-01-12", "retrieved": "2016-04-07T19:58:03.087846", "title": "Child Welfare Issues in the 108th Congress", "summary": "Child welfare services seek to protect children who have been abused or neglected or who are\nat risk\nof maltreatment. An estimated 896,000 children were the victims of child abuse or neglect in the\nyear 2002. Some children who experience maltreatment are removed from their homes with\nprotective custody given to the state. On the last day of FY2003, an estimated 523,000 children were\nin foster care.\n \n States have the primary responsibility for designing and administering child welfare programs.\nHowever, the federal government supports these programs with significant funds and requires states\nto comply with federal standards. FY2005 funding for child welfare programs was included in P.L.\n108-447 . Funding levels generally remained close to FY2004 levels, although money provided for\ntwo grants under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) was increased. Table\n1 lists child welfare program funding levels for FY2002-2005. \n \n Several authorizing proposals related to child welfare programs were enacted by the 108th\nCongress. In December 2003, President Bush signed the Adoption Promotion Act of ( P.L. 108-145 );\nthat law reauthorized and amended adoption incentives payments for states that increase the number\nof adoptions out of the public child welfare system. The Keeping Children and Families Safe Act\n( P.L. 108-36 ), which reauthorized CAPTA and several related programs, was signed into law in June\n2003. Finally, in September 2004, P.L. 108-308 extended, through the end of March 2005, the\nauthority of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to approve new child welfare\nwaivers.\n \n A number of proposals to revamp the way federal child welfare funds are distributed were\ndiscussed in the past two years, but no final action was taken during the 108th Congress. In May\n2004\nthe Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care recommended ending the current income eligibility\nrequirements for federal adoption assistance and foster care maintenance payments; and keeping the\ncurrent open-ended funding of these programs while reducing the federal matching rate for eligible\nclaims. Introduced in July 2004, H.R. 4856 followed the Pew Commission\u2019s proposal\nby removing most income eligibility criteria for federal adoption assistance and foster care\nmaintenance payments and by lowering federal matching rates for the related eligible claims. \n H.R. 4856 , however, proposed to end open-ended federal funding for foster care\nmaintenance payments (while retaining it for adoption assistance). Other child welfare financing\nproposals made in the 108th Congress, most of which were less sweeping, are discussed in this\nreport.\n \n Legislation to promote timely placement of children across state lines ( H.R. 4504 )\nand to make a 2001 broadening of the adoption tax credit permanent ( H.R. 1057 ) passed the\nHouse (on October 5, 2004 and September 23, 2004, respectively) but was not acted on\nby the Senate before the close of the 108th Congress. In September 2004, the Senate passed a bill\nto\nreauthorize the Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act ( S. 1601 ),\nbut the House took no action on this bill. These and other child-welfare-related proposals that were\nintroduced during the 108th Congress are discussed in this report. 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