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To establish kinship navigator programs, to establish kinship guardianship assistance payments for children, and for other purposes. 5/7/2007--Introduced. Kinship Caregiver Support Act - Authorizes the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services to make grants to eligible entities to pay for the federal share of the cost of carrying out kinship navigator programs. Amends part E (Federal Payments for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to authorize all states to opt to enter agreements to provide kinship guardianship assistance payments on behalf of children to grandparents and other relatives who have assumed legal guardianship of children for whom they have cared as foster parents and have committed to care for on a permanent basis. Provides that adoptive parents of children with special needs remain eligible for adoption assistance, even if they receive kinship guardianship [...] show full description
- 09/19/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
- 05/15/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
- 05/11/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1026-1027)
- 05/07/2007 - Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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.
- 05/07/2007 - Referred to House Ways and Means
show all actions- 09/19/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
- 05/15/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
- 05/11/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1026-1027)
- 05/07/2007 - Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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.
- 05/07/2007 - Referred to House Ways and Means
- 05/07/2007 - Referred to House Education and Labor
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