US Congress Senate Bill 667 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)
Status: Introduced on March 4 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-03-04 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2015 Prohibits the federal government, and any state that receives federal funding for any program that provides child welfare services under part B (Child and Family Services) or part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSAct), from discriminating or taking an adverse action against a child welfare service provider that declines to provide, facilitate, or refer for a child welfare service that conflicts with the provider's sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions. Bars such prohibition from applying to SSAct requirements that forbid state entities from denying or delaying adoption or foster care placements on the basis of an adoptive parent's or a child's race, color, or national origin. Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to withhold 15% of the federal funds that a state receives for such programs if the state violates this Act. Allows an aggrieved child welfare service provider to assert such an adverse action violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding and to obtain all appropriate relief (including declaratory relief, injunctive relief, compensatory damages, and reasonable attorney's fees and costs).

Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act of 2015

Sen. Michael Enzi [R-WY]	Sen. James Inhofe [R-OK]	Sen. Mike Lee [R-UT]	Sen. Marco Rubio [R-FL]
Sen. Jeff Sessions [R-AL]	Sen. Daniel Coats [R-IN]	Sen. Thad Cochran [R-MS]	Sen. James Risch [R-ID]
Sen. Tom Cotton [R-AR]	Sen. Roger Wicker [R-MS]	Sen. James Lankford [R-OK]	Sen. Ben Sasse [R-NE]
Sen. John Cornyn [R-TX]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-03-04	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB1299 (Same As) 2015-03-19 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/667/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s667/BILLS-114s667is.pdf