US Congress House Bill 835 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 33-8)
Status: Introduced on February 10 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-13 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Family-Based Foster Care Services Act of 2015 Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to extend medical assistance coverage to therapeutic foster care services. Requires a qualified therapeutic foster care program to be state-licensed and provide: foster care children under 21 with structured daily activities, including the development of age-appropriate social, communication and behavioral skills, trauma-informed and gender-responsive services, crisis intervention and crisis support services, medication monitoring, counseling, and case management; and biological parents, kinship caregivers, and foster care parents with specialized training and consultation in the management of children with mental illness, trauma, other emotional or behavioral disorders, medically fragile conditions, or developmental disabilities, the impact of trauma on child and caregiver, and specific additional training on the needs of each child provided such services.

Family-Based Foster Care Services Act of 2015

Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT]	Rep. Tom Cole [R-OK]	Rep. Karen Bass [D-CA]	Rep. G. Butterfield [D-NC]
Rep. Tim Murphy [R-PA]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]
Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]
Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]	Rep. Charles Rangel [D-NY]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. David Loebsack [D-IA]
Rep. David Cicilline [D-RI]	Rep. Renee Ellmers [R-NC]	Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]	Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO]
Rep. Jerry McNerney [D-CA]	Sen. Markwayne Mullin [R-OK]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. Daniel Kildee [D-MI]
Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]	Rep. Leonard Lance [R-NJ]	Sen. Ben Lujan [D-NM]
Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]	Rep. Elijah Cummings [D-MD]	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]	Rep. Brad Ashford [D-NE]
Rep. Joseph Kennedy [D-MA]	Rep. Paul Tonko [D-NY]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]
Rep. David Jolly [R-FL]	Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX]	Rep. Frank Lucas [R-OK]	Rep. Tony Cardenas [D-CA]
Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-13	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2015-02-10	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2015-02-10	House	Introduced in House

HB919 (Related) 2015-02-27 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
SB429 (Related) 2015-02-10 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
SB473 (Related) 2015-02-12 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/835/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr835/BILLS-114hr835ih.pdf