legislation: 105-hr-3004

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105-hr-3004 105 hr 3004 Omnibus Foster Care Improvement Act of 1997 Social Welfare 1997-11-09 1997-11-20 Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources. House Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14] NY D M000087 3 Omnibus Foster Care Improvement Act of 1997 - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require States to administer qualifying examinations to all State employees with new authority to make decisions regarding child welfare services. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from making a child welfare assistance payment to a State unless the State has in effect procedures requiring the State agency, at the time a child is removed from a home and placed in foster care under State supervision, to locate any parent of the child who is not living at the home and evaluate that parent's ability to provide a suitable home for the child. Gives States the option of deeming as adoption the placement of a child who was under State-supervised foster care with a blood relative given legal custody of the child. Prohibits the Secretary, after a five-year interim period, from making a child welfare assistance payment to a State unless the State requires a State agency to give preference to applications of a foster parent or caretaker relative of the child in considering applications to adopt certain foster children. 2025-08-21T16:13:20Z  

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