US Congress Senate Bill 1829 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-7)
Status: Introduced on September 19 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-09-19 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Strong Families Act of 2017 This bill amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act to reauthorize through FY2022, and otherwise revise, the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program. Under current law, grantees were required, after three years of program implementation, to demonstrate improvement in specified benchmark areas. The bill requires grantees to continue to track and demonstrate, on a triennial basis, improvement in applicable benchmark areas. A grantee that fails to do so must develop and implement a corrective action plan, subject to approval by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS shall terminate a program grant made to a grantee that implements such a plan but continues to fail to demonstrate improvement. As a condition for receiving grant funds under the program, a state must review and update its statewide needs assessment by October 1, 2020. A grantee may use a portion of program grant funds to support a "pay-for-outcomes initiative" (a performance-based grant, contract, or cooperative agreement, awarded by a public entity, in which a commitment is made to pay for improved outcomes that result in social benefit and public-sector cost savings). HHS must designate data-exchange standards applicable to the program.

Strong Families Act of 2017

Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Roy Blunt [R-MO]	Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]
Sen. Cory Gardner [R-CO]	Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]
Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]
Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]
Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]	Sen. Kamala Harris [D-CA]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO]
Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Shelley Capito [R-WV]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]
Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Margaret Hassan [D-NH]	Sen. Bill Cassidy [R-LA]	Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]
Sen. Deb Fischer [R-NE]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-09-19	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB2824 (Related) 2017-09-28 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
HB4820 (Related) 2018-01-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1829/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s1829/BILLS-115s1829is.pdf