US Congress Senate Bill 262 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-2-1)
Status: Introduced on January 27 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-01-27 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S544-545)
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act Reauthorizes the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act through FY2020, generally at FY2009 levels. Modifies the Basic Center Grant (BCG) Program (for short-term emergency shelter and family reunification services to runaway and homeless youth) to require local centers to provide safe shelter and services, including trauma-informed services, for runaway and homeless youth, and (if appropriate) services for their families, including individuals they identify as family. Extends the maximum stay in a BCG shelter from 21 to 30 days, and requires a shelter to provide suicide prevention services. Allows shelter services to include: (1) trauma-informed and gender-responsive services for runaway or homeless youth, including victims of trafficking in persons or sexual exploitation; and (2) an assessment of family engagement in support and reunification (if appropriate), interventions, and services for parents or legal guardians of such youth, or individuals they identify as family. Revises plan applicant record keeping requirements. Requires plan applicants to: (1) provide age, gender, and culturally and linguistically appropriate services to runaway youth; and (2) assist youth in completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Revises the Transitional Living Grant (TLG) Program (for longer-term residential services, life skills, education, and employment support to older homeless youth) to require information and counseling services in basic life skills to be age, gender, and linguistically appropriate. Requires TLG plan applicants to provide suicide prevention services, counseling to homeless youth, and aftercare services. Requires a TLG plan to ensure proper referral of homeless youth to mental health services, including programs providing comprehensive services to victims of trafficking in persons or sexual exploitation. Requires plan applicants to provide age, gender, and culturally and linguistically appropriate services that address the needs of homeless and street youth. Revises plan applicant record keeping requirements. Revises requirements for the coordination of activities among federal agencies, grants for technical assistance and training, and grants for research, evaluation, demonstration, and service projects. Revises the sexual abuse prevention program to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to public agencies (as well as nonprofit private agencies, as under current law) to provide street-based services to runaway and homeless, and street youth who have been subjected to, or are at risk of being subjected to, sexual abuse, violence, trafficking in persons, or sexual exploitation. Prohibits any person in the United States, on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability, from being excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or subject to discrimination under any program or activity funded in whole or in part under such Act, or funded with amounts appropriated for grants, cooperative agreements, or other assistance administered by the HHS Administration for Children and Families.

Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act

Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]	Sen. Kelly Ayotte [R-NH]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]
Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]
Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]	Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D-MD]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. Heidi Heitkamp [D-ND]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]
Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]	Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]
Sen. Angus King [I-ME]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]	Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA]	Sen. Brian Schatz [D-HI]
Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]
Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-27	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S544-545)

HB1779 (Related) 2015-11-16 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/262/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s262/BILLS-114s262is.pdf