HR 2824 · 115th Congress · Social Welfare
To amend title V of the Social Security Act to extend the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, and to amend the Social Security Act to make certain revisions to provisions limiting payment of benefits to fugitive felons under titles II, VIII, and XVI of the Social Security Act.
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EnactedLatest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.(2017-09-28)
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Increasing Opportunity through Evidence-Based Home Visiting Act This bill amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act (SSAct) 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, in subsequent years, to track and demonstrate 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 conduct a statewide needs assessment by October 1, 2019, and at least once every five years thereafter. A grantee may use program grant funds to support a "pay-for-outcomes initiat…
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Congressional Budget OfficeH.R. 2824, Increasing Opportunity and Success for Children and Parents through Evidence-Based Home Visiting Act
Sep 25, 2017As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on September 13, 2017
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