US Congress House Bill 2149 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-2)
Status: Introduced on May 23 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-07-08 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Families for Foster Youth Stamp Act of 2013 - Requires the United States Postal Service, for a period of at least four years, to provide for the issuance and sale of a semipostal in order to increase funding for effective programs targeted at improving permanency outcomes for youth in foster care. Divides the amount received from such sales equally between: (1) programs and activities under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 that specifically target improvement in permanency outcomes for youth in foster care through adoption, guardianship, or kinship care; and (2) the program for state courts to assess and improve handling of proceedings relating to foster care and adoption.

Families for Foster Youth Stamp Act of 2013

Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Karen Bass [D-CA]	Rep. Vern Buchanan [R-FL]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]
Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Jim Cooper [D-TN]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]
Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]
Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Patrick Murphy [D-FL]	Rep. Gloria Negrete McLeod [D-CA]
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Beto O'Rourke [D-TX]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]
Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. Juan Vargas [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-07-08	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
2013-06-19	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
2013-05-23	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2013-05-23	House	Referred to House Education and the Workforce
2013-05-23	House	Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
2013-05-23	House	Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and Ways and Means, 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.

SB1047 (Same As) 2013-05-23 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/2149/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr2149/BILLS-113hr2149ih.pdf