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| 102-hr-6210 | 102 | hr | 6210 | Comprehensive Services for Youth Act of 1992 | Families | 1992-10-06 | 1992-11-20 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. | House | Rep. Waters, Maxine [D-CA-29] | CA | D | W000187 | 0 | Comprehensive Services for Youth Act of 1992 - Title I: School-Based or School-Linked Health and Social Services Center Grants - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) (the Secretary), acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (the Administrator), to award grants to eligible local community partnerships to coordinate and deliver comprehensive education, health, and social services to children or youth in school-based, school-linked, or community-based locations. Requires each such partnership to include: (1) a local health care provider with experience in delivering services to adolescents; (2) one or more local public schools; and (3) at least one community-based organization with a history of providing services to at-risk youth in the particular community. Requires broad-based community participation, through an expanded partnership or an advisory board, involving parents and youth to be served, teachers and other public school and school board personnel, community-based organizations (particularly those serving minority youth), youth development and service organizations and interested business leaders. Requires targeting of the partnership's location and service to a community in which youth are exposed to a high risk environment. Describes high risk environment as having high rates of: (1) children in poverty or lacking access to health care; (2) dropouts and students retained in grade; (3) alcohol or drug abuse; (4) sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV); (5) teen pregnancy; (6) suicide; (7) community or gang violence; (8) youth unemployment; or (9) juvenile justice involvement. Requires partnership use of grant funds for coordination and delivery of specified core services at a school-based, school-linked, or community-based location or locations accessible to and used by at-risk children, youth, and their families. Sets forth such core services under the categories of: (1) comprehensive health, mental health, and social services;… | 2025-08-26T15:15:38Z | |
| 102-hr-6091 | 102 | hr | 6091 | Interstate Child Support Enforcement Act | Families | 1992-10-01 | 1992-10-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and Judicial Administration. | House | Rep. Roukema, Marge [R-NJ-5] | NJ | R | R000465 | 0 | Interstate Child Support Enforcement Act - Title I: Locate and Case Tracking - Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to allow the Federal Parent Locator System (FPLS) to be used for the purposes of parentage establishment, child support establishment, modification, and enforcement, and child visitation enforcement provided that safeguards are in place to prevent release of information when it may jeopardize the safety of the children or either parent. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement to provide the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) with access to the quarterly estimated Federal income tax returns filed by individuals with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Requires States to have in place procedures under which the State agency responsible for child support enforcement shall: (1) have access to data base information regarding residential addresses, employers and employer addresses, income and assets, and medical insurance benefits of absent parents; and (2) maintain child support order registries. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the HHS Secretary should investigate accessing certain Federal data banks not already linked to FPLS. Requires the HHS Secretary to expand FPLS to provide a national network to State agencies and courts for locate and case tracking. Requires that private attorneys and pro se obligees be allowed access to State locate resources and other public enforcement techniques for the limited purpose of establishing, modifying, and enforcing child support and other orders. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) establish a system for reporting new employees and information on their W-4 forms to the appropriate State employment security agency; and (2) modify the W-4 form completed by new employees to include child support and health insurance information. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require employers to withhold from employee wages amounts owed for child suppor… | 2025-08-26T15:17:27Z | |
| 102-s-3291 | 102 | s | 3291 | Interstate Child Support Enforcement Act | Families | 1992-10-01 | 1992-10-01 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Bradley, Bill [D-NJ] | NJ | D | B001225 | 2 | Interstate Child Support Enforcement Act - Title I: Locate and Case Tracking - Amends part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to allow the Federal Parent Locator System (FPLS) to be used for the purposes of parentage establishment, child support establishment, modification, and enforcement, and child visitation enforcement provided that safeguards are in place to prevent release of information when it may jeopardize the safety of the children or either parent. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement to provide the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) with access to the quarterly estimated Federal income tax returns filed by individuals with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Requires States to have in place procedures under which the State agency responsible for child support enforcement shall: (1) have access to data base information regarding residential addresses, employers and employer addresses, income and assets, and medical insurance benefits of absent parents; and (2) maintain child support order registries. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the HHS Secretary should investigate accessing certain Federal data banks not already linked to FPLS. Requires the HHS Secretary to expand FPLS to provide a national network to State agencies and courts for locate and case tracking. Requires that private attorneys and pro se obligees be allowed access to State locate resources and other public enforcement techniques for the limited purpose of establishing, modifying, and enforcing child support and other orders. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) establish a system for reporting new employees and information on their W-4 forms to the appropriate State employment security agency; and (2) modify the W-4 form completed by new employees to include child support and health insurance information. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require employers to withhold from employee wages amounts owed for child suppor… | 2025-08-26T15:15:22Z | |
| 102-sjres-339 | 102 | sjres | 339 | A joint resolution to designate January 16, 1993, as "National Good Teen Day". | Families | 1992-09-21 | 1992-09-21 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Glenn, John H., Jr. [D-OH] | OH | D | G000236 | 0 | Designates January 16, 1993, as National Good Teen Day. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-hr-5973 | 102 | hr | 5973 | Family Investment Act of 1992 | Families | 1992-09-17 | 1992-10-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities. | House | Rep. Schroeder, Patricia [D-CO-1] | CO | D | S000142 | 16 | Family Investment Act of 1992 - Title I: Family and Medical Leave - Subtitle A: Short Title; Findings and Purposes - Family and Medical Leave Act of 1992 - Sets forth the short title of this title I, along with findings and purposes. Subtitle B: General Requirements for Leave - Establishes certain requirements for family and medical leave for permanent employees. Makes employees eligible for such leave if they have been employed, by the employer from whom leave is sought, for at least: (1) a total of 12 months; and (2) 1,250 hours of service during the previous 12-month period. (Excludes from such coverage: (1) employees at worksites at which the employer employs less than 50 persons, if the total number of employees of that employer within 75 miles of that worksite is less than 50; and (2) Federal officers and employees covered under subtitle C of this title.) Entitles employees to 12 workweeks of leave during any 12-month period because of: (1) the birth and care of their child; (2) the placement of a child for their adoption or foster care; (3) their care of a child, spouse, or parent who has a serious health condition; or (4) their own serious health condition which makes them unable to perform the functions of their position. Conditions such leave for the birth or placement of a child as follows: (1) the entitlement ends 12 months after the birth or placement; (2) such leave may not be taken intermittently unless employee and employer agree otherwise. Allows intermittent leave for necessary medical treatment of an employee or family member. Allows the employer to require a temporary transfer to an equivalent alternative position that better accommodates such intermittent leave. Allows all leave to which an employee is entitled under this subtitle: (1) to be taken on a reduced leave schedule, upon agreement with the employer; and (2) to consist of unpaid leave, except under specified conditions when substitution of certain types of paid leave may be elected or required. Declares that nothing in this… | 2026-03-23T12:41:21Z | |
| 102-hr-5815 | 102 | hr | 5815 | Preventing Our Kids from Inhaling Deadly Smoke (PRO-KIDS) Act of 1992 | Families | 1992-08-11 | 1992-09-14 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. | House | Rep. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL-20] | IL | D | D000563 | 31 | Preventing Our Kids from Inhaling Deadly Smoke (PRO-KIDS) Act of 1992 - Prohibits, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any Federal funds or financial assistance from being provided to or used by any person for services for children under five without an enforced policy prohibiting smoking in each portion of an indoor facility used for the services, with exceptions only for portions in which the services are not normally provided to children and that are ventilated separately. Allows waivers in certain circumstances. | 2025-08-26T15:18:27Z | |
| 102-s-3169 | 102 | s | 3169 | Preventing Our Kids From Inhaling Deadly Smoke (PRO-KIDS) Act of 1992 | Families | 1992-08-11 | 1992-08-11 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] | NJ | D | L000123 | 4 | Preventing Our Kids From Inhaling Deadly Smoke (PRO-KIDS) Act of 1992 - Prohibits, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any Federal funds or financial assistance from being provided to or used by any person for services for children under five without an enforced policy prohibiting smoking in each portion of an indoor facility used for the services, with exceptions only for portions in which the services are not normally provided to children and that are ventilated separately. Allows waivers in certain circumstances. | 2025-08-26T15:15:05Z | |
| 102-s-3088 | 102 | s | 3088 | Comprehensive Services for Youth Act of 1992 | Families | 1992-07-28 | 1992-07-28 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 13 | Comprehensive Services for Youth Act of 1992 - Title I: School-Based or School-Linked Health and Social Services Center Grants - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) (the Secretary), acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (the Administrator), to award grants to eligible local community partnerships to coordinate and deliver comprehensive education, health, and social services to children or youth in school-based, school-linked, or community-based locations. Requires each such partnership to include: (1) a local health care provider with experience in delivering services to adolescents; (2) one or more local public schools; and (3) at least one community-based organization with a history of providing services to at-risk youth in the particular community. Requires broad-based community participation, through an expanded partnership or an advisory board, involving parents and youth to be served, teachers and other public shool and school board personnel, community-based organizations (particularly those serving minority youth), youth development and service organizations and interested business leaders. Requires targeting of the partnership's location and service to a community in which youth are exposed to a high risk environment. Describes high risk environment as having high rates of: (1) children in poverty or lacking access to health care; (2) dropouts and students retained in grade; (3) alcohol or drug abuse; (4) sexually transmitted diseases (including HIV); (5) teen pregnancy; (6) suicide; (7) community or gang violence; (8) youth unemployment; or (9) juvenile justice involvement. Requires partnership use of grant funds for coordination and delivery of specified core services at a school-based, school-linked, or community-based location or locations accessible to and used by at-risk children, youth, and their families. Sets forth such core services under the categories of: (1) comprehensive health, mental health, and social services; … | 2025-08-26T15:15:01Z | |
| 102-hr-5600 | 102 | hr | 5600 | Children's Initiative | Families | 1992-07-09 | 1992-10-05 | See H.R.11. | House | Rep. Downey, Thomas J. [D-NY-2] | NY | D | D000471 | 75 | Children's Initiative - Family Preservation Act of 1992 - States that titles I through V of this Act may be cited as the Family Preservation Act of 1992 - Title I: Child Welfare Services - Amends part B (Child Welfare Services) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to create a capped entitlement program to provide child welfare services designed to strengthen and preserve families. Provides for allotments, reallotments, and payments to States of entitlement funds. Requires use of part of such funds to develop or expand specialized child welfare service programs for families in crisis due to substance abuse. Requires uses of remaining funds to develop or expand certain family and child service programs. Repeals provisions for incentive payments to States which maintain a foster care inventory, information system, and case review system; but requires States to provide such protections and other services designed to keep families together or reunify them, or to place children for adoption, with a legal guardian, or in some other planned, permanent living arrangement. Requires States to submit the following types of reports on child welfare services and expenditures: (1) pre-expenditure reports; (2) post-expenditure reports; and (3) comparative financial contributions reports. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to transmit to specified congressional committees annual summaries of the information in such comparative financial contributions reports. Requires such information to be made available to the public. Reserves entitlement funds for grants to State court systems to assess and improve procedures in child welfare cases in carrying out parts B and E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of SSA title IV. Sets forth application requirements and formulas for determining the amount of such grants for FY 1994 through 1998. Directs the HHS Secretary to submit interim and final reports to the Congress on the information obtained from assessments conducted with such grants and the impact of s… | 2025-08-26T15:13:46Z | |
| 102-sjres-319 | 102 | sjres | 319 | A joint resolution to designate the second Sunday in October of 1992 as "National Children's Day". | Families | 1992-06-18 | 1992-10-16 | Became Public Law No: 102-425. | Senate | Sen. Kassebaum, Nancy Landon [R-KS] | KS | R | K000017 | 58 | Designates the second Sunday in October 1992 as National Children's Day. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-hr-5357 | 102 | hr | 5357 | Ready to Learn Act of 1992 | Families | 1992-06-09 | 1992-07-20 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources. | House | Rep. Wyden, Ron [D-OR-3] | OR | D | W000779 | 18 | Ready to Learn Act of 1992 - Title I: Health and Education Services for Preschool Children - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), to establish programs of grants to selected States to: (1) improve health and education services for preschool children (maximum two-year grant); and (2) supplement Federal health and education programs for preschool children (maximum five-year grant). Sets forth various requirements for such grant programs, including establishment of local Ready-to-Learn Councils, State health and education services programs, and State Ready-to-Learn Challenge Programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Education Television Programming for Preschool Children - Directs the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to establish a Preschool Children's Television Division (Division) within the CPB to: (1) make grants to develop educational television programming for preschool children and instructional programming for their parent and child care workers (as well as grants for training various local staff in, and providing other materials to enhance, effective use of such programming); and (2) contract with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) to distribute such programming to public broadcast stations. Authorizes appropriations for such Division and CPB contracts with PBS. Directs CPB to contract with PBS to provide educational television programming for preschool children on at least one channel on the PBS satellite (which is to be known as the Ready to Learn channel). Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require each multichannel video system operator to carry, on such system, public television programming (including educational television programming for preschool children) on a per channel or per program basis which is equal to at least ten percent of all new channel or new programming capacity on such system. Directs the Federal Communications Commission to require, as a condition for renewal of a television broadcast license for a commerc… | 2025-08-26T15:15:20Z | |
| 102-s-2802 | 102 | s | 2802 | A bill to extend the authorization of the Commission on Interstate Child Support and the deadline for the Commission's Report to Congress. | Families | 1992-06-03 | 1992-06-08 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Bradley, Bill [D-NJ] | NJ | D | B001225 | 0 | Amends the Family Support Act of 1988 to extend from May 1992 until August 1992 the deadline for the report to the Congress of the Commission on Interstate Child Support on improved interstate establishment and enforcement of child support awards and on revising the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act. Postpones from July 1 to September 30, 1992, the Commission's termination date. | 2024-02-07T16:32:33Z | |
| 102-hr-5261 | 102 | hr | 5261 | Runaway and Homeless Youth Amendments of 1992 | Families | 1992-05-26 | 1992-07-20 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education. | House | Rep. Fawell, Harris W. [R-IL-13] | IL | R | F000049 | 0 | Runaway and Homeless Youth Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act to specify the support services for which grants under the runaway and homeless youth grant program shall be awarded. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, when selecting grant applicants, to give priority to entities that have experience in providing services to runaway and homeless youth. (Currently such priority is to be given to private entities.) Adds to current grant applicant requirements certain assurances about: (1) the provision of outreach programs; and (2) confidentiality of records maintained on individual runaway and homeless youth. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to national nonprofit organizations to provide technical and training assistance. Repeals the requirement that priority be given to grants smaller than $150,000. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and private entities to implement evaluation projects designed to increase knowledge concerning, and to improve services for, runaway and homeless youth. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-26T15:17:02Z | |
| 102-s-2790 | 102 | s | 2790 | A bill to establish a boot camp program for juvenile delinquents, provide grants for State and local law enforcement, and authorize additional appropriations for the Head Start Program. | Families | 1992-05-21 | 1992-05-21 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Kassebaum, Nancy Landon [R-KS] | KS | R | K000017 | 0 | Authorizes the Attorney General, through the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, to make grants to appropriate State agencies for the purpose of establishing up to ten military-style boot camps for juvenile delinquents. Specifies that such camps shall be located on existing or closed military installations on sites to be chosen by the agencies in one or more States, or in other facilities designated by the agencies on such sites. Directs the Administrator to: (1) try to achieve equitable geographic distribution in approving camp sites; and (2) give priority to grants where more than one State enters into formal cooperative arrangements to jointly administer a camp. Specifies that such camps shall: (1) provide a highly regimented schedule of strict discipline, physical training, work, drill, and ceremony characteristic of military basic training, and remedial and vocational education and treatment for substance abuse (where appropriate); and (2) be designed to accommodate between 200 and 300 juveniles for such time as the agency deems appropriate. Makes a person eligible for assignment to a camp if he or she: (1) is considered to be a juvenile under the laws of the State of jurisdiction; and (2) has been adjudicated delinquent in such State or, upon court approval, voluntarily agrees to the assignment in lieu of an adjudication of delinquency. Specifies that, to the maximum extent possible, camps shall be operated and maintained by active or reserve military personnel, under the supervision of the agency. Requires a State that seeks to establish, or participate in the joint administration of, a camp to submit to the Administrator a plan setting forth the provisions that the State will make for the continued supervision of juveniles following release, and for educational and vocational training, drug or other counseling and treatment (where appropriate), and other support services. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to State and loca… | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-hjres-488 | 102 | hjres | 488 | Designating August 2, 1992, as "National Family Day". | Families | 1992-05-20 | 1992-05-22 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population. | House | Rep. Traficant, James A., Jr. [D-OH-17] | OH | D | T000350 | 42 | Designates August 2, 1992, as National Family Day. | 2024-02-06T20:04:02Z | |
| 102-hr-5218 | 102 | hr | 5218 | Women and Children First Act of 1992 | Families | 1992-05-20 | 1992-07-20 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources. | House | Rep. Dannemeyer, William E. [R-CA-39] | CA | R | D000044 | 0 | Women and Children First Act of 1992 - Title I: Direct Federal Charity Payment - Subtitle A: General Provisions - Prescribes eligibility requirements for the households of any State which enters into an agreement with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) for the provision of food and housing benefits. Requires the benefit program to be implemented through a specified State agency, and periodically audited. Subtitle B: Exemption from Federal Income Taxation - Declares the food and housing benefits under this Act exempt from Federal income taxation. Subtitle C: Unified Application for Certain Benefits - Requires the Secretary to develop a single application for: (1) benefits under this Act; (2) medical assistance under title XIX of the Social Security Act; and (3) the Head Start Program. Subtitle D: Termination of Certain Public Assistance Programs - Terminates the following programs: (1) the Food Stamp Act of 1977; (2) Aid to Families with Dependent Children; (3) Supplemental Security Income; (4) the National School Lunch Act; (5) the Child Nutrition Act of 1966; (6) the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981; and (7) the rental assistance payments program under Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937. Subtitle E: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date of this Act. Title II: Graduated Penalties for Conviction of Sexual Child Abuse or Incest - Amends Federal criminal law to set forth increased penalties and mandatory minimum penalties concerning the sexual exploitation of children and of minors. Requires the Attorney General to report to the Congress on whether the statute of limitations on offenses for sexual exploitation of children should be extended to allow prosecutions in cases of delayed discovery resulting from the fact that the victims are children. Increases the penalties for: (1) transporting females or minors for illegal sexual activity; and (2) for sexual abuse crimes. Title III: Adoption Provisions - Subtitle A: Adoption Tax Credit - Amends … | 2025-08-26T15:17:18Z | |
| 102-hr-5205 | 102 | hr | 5205 | Adam Mann Child Abuse and Neglect Protection Act | Families | 1992-05-19 | 1992-07-20 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education. | House | Rep. Molinari, Susan [R-NY-14] | NY | R | M000843 | 6 | Adam Mann Child Abuse and Neglect Protection Act - Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to establish as an eligibility criterion for Federal child abuse prevention grants that a State establish authorities and procedures for information disclosure among appropriate agencies in order to: (1) implement its child protective duties; and (2) restrict disclosure of the identity of a subject of a substantiated allegation to circumstances where disclosure is appropriate for protection purposes. Expresses the sense of the Congress that each State should review and reform its child abuse and neglect system, and implement formal interagency, multidisciplinary teams to review and make final recommendations regarding: (1) certain child death cases; and (2) cases where there is evidence of negligent handling by the State in order to hold such State accountable. | 2025-08-26T15:13:34Z | |
| 102-hr-5194 | 102 | hr | 5194 | Incentive Grants for Local Delinquency Prevention Programs Act | Families | 1992-05-18 | 1992-11-04 | Became Public Law No: 102-586. | House | Rep. Martinez, Matthew G. [D-CA-30] | CA | D | M000206 | 6 | Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (the Act) to: (1) make findings, including that the incidence of juvenile delinquency can be reduced through public recreation programs and activities designed to provide youth with social skills, enhance self esteem, and encourage the constructive use of discretionary time; and (2) include among the purposes of the Act the encouragement of parental involvement in treatment and alternative disposition programs, and the coordination of services between State, local, and community-based agencies, and the promotion of interagency cooperation in providing such services. Provides that the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) shall have the same reporting relationship with the Attorney General as the directors of other offices and bureaus within the Office of Justice Programs. Revises provisions regarding the rates of compensation for special personnel, experts, and consultants. Directs the Administrator to: (1) develop objectives, priorities, and a long-term plan, and implement overall policy and a strategy to carry out such plan (currently, implement overall policy and develop objectives and priorities) for Federal juvenile delinquency programs and activities; (2) review the plan annually, revise it as the Administrator deems appropriate, and publish the plan in the Federal Register according to a specified timetable; and (3) issue model standards, within a year, for providing health care to incarcerated juveniles. Requires that such plan contain specific goals and criteria for making grants and contracts, conducting research, and carrying out other activities, and provide for coordinating the administration of programs and activities, including proposals for joint funding to be coordinated by the Administrator. Repeals provisions authorizing the Administrator to: (1) transfer funds appropriated for Federal juvenile delinquency programs and activities to other Federal agencies under specified circumstan… | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 102-hr-5123 | 102 | hr | 5123 | Child Support Economic Security Act of 1992 | Families | 1992-05-07 | 1992-05-14 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources. | House | Rep. Schroeder, Patricia [D-CO-1] | CO | D | S000142 | 20 | Child Support Economic Security Act of 1992 - Title I: Child Support Enforcement Amendments - Amends the Social Security Act to provide that, in order to satisfy Federal grant eligibility criteria, a State plan for child and spousal support must provide for the designation of a single, separate, organizational unit at the State level to administer the plan under rules that apply uniformly throughout the State. Requires a State, in order to satisfy such criteria, to have in effect statutorily prescribed procedures which ensure that: (1) the agency administering a State plan for child and spousal support has on-line access to all information contained in any data base maintained by the State or local government; (2) any court order or State administrative order for child support or maintenance requires payments until specified events occur; (3) all income of an individual is subject to withholding to meet child support obligations; (4) State licenses are denied to persons whose child support payments are in arrears; (5) the agency administering the State plan report to major consumer reporting agencies certain arrearages for support owed by an individual residing in the State or furnish such information to a consumer reporting agency upon request; (6) statutes of limitation are eliminated in child support cases; (7) social security numbers appear on marriage licenses and child support orders; (8) conduct affecting the exercise of visitation rights under an order for child support or maintenance shall be treated as irrelevant in any action brought to enforce support provisions of the order; and (9) the provision of, or failure to provide support pursuant to such order shall be treated as irrelevant in any action brought to enforce visitation rights. Mandates that State absent parent locator programs include response deadlines for information requests from other States, and that such deadlines be periodically reviewed for technological adequacy. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations establishing standards and … | 2025-08-26T15:18:17Z | |
| 102-hjres-469 | 102 | hjres | 469 | To designate the second Sunday in October of 1992 as "National Children's Day". | Families | 1992-04-09 | 1992-04-14 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population. | House | Rep. Kennedy, Joseph P., II [D-MA-8] | MA | D | K000110 | 223 | Designates the second Sunday in October 1992 as National Children's Day. | 2024-02-06T20:04:02Z | |
| 102-hr-4983 | 102 | hr | 4983 | To amend the Public Health Service Act to make modifications in the program for adolescent family life demonstration projects. | Families | 1992-04-09 | 1992-05-08 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. | House | Rep. Santorum, Rick [R-PA-18] | PA | R | S000059 | 27 | Revises title XX (Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects) of the Public Health Service Act. Mandates grants for demonstration projects to help communities provide care or prevention services (or both) in easily accessible locations using such methods as will strengthen the capacity of families to deal with the sexual behavior, pregnancy, or parenthood of adolescents and to make use of support systems such as other family members, friends, and organizations. Lists permitted uses of grant funds, including coordinating among providers, providing supplemental services as determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and planning. Prohibits using grant funds for the provision of family planning services other than counseling and referral unless such services are not otherwise available in the community. Requires, in applying a fee schedule, consideration of the income of the family of an unemancipated minor, unless the parents or guardians refuse to pay. Requires parental notification and permission, except if: (1) an adolescent is solely requesting pregnancy testing or treatment of venereal disease; (2) there is incest involving a parent; (3) certain blood relatives certify that notification would result in physical injury to the minor; and (4) with regard to permission, the parents are attempting to compel an abortion. Directs the Secretary to coordinate Federal policies and programs providing services relating to the prevention of adolescent sexual relations and initial and recurrent adolescent pregnancies and providing care services for pregnant adolescents. Authorizes grants and contracts for certain research and dissemination activities, including descriptive or explanatory surveys, longitudinal studies, or limited demonstration projects. Requires scientific peer review and approval of grant and contract applications. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act. Allows grants or payments to be made only to programs that do not: (1) provide abortions or abortion counseling or referral; (… | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | |
| 102-hr-4729 | 102 | hr | 4729 | National Children's Advocacy Program Act of 1992 | Families | 1992-04-01 | 1992-04-16 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources. | House | Rep. Cramer, Robert E. (Bud), Jr. [D-AL-5] | AL | D | C000868 | 36 | National Children's Advocacy Program Act of 1992 - Requires the Director of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, in coordination with the Director of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, to establish a national children's advocacy program of centers to provide information, services, and assistance so that communities can establish multidisciplinary programs that respond to child abuse. Provides for solicitation of proposals from applicants to operate such centers, proposal criteria, management plans, selection of proposals, funding of the centers, and program coordination. Requires regular monitoring and evaluation of each center's activities, annual reports, discontinuation of funding in cases of failure to implement program activities, and solicitation of new proposals upon discontinuation of funding for any center. Requires the two Directors to: (1) establish a children's advocacy advisory board to develop identified goals and program objectives; and (2) review annually the solicitation and selection process and program activities of each center. Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to send to the Congress an annual, detailed review of the progress of such program activities. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-26T15:13:36Z | |
| 102-s-2509 | 102 | s | 2509 | National Children's Advocacy Program Act of 1992 | Families | 1992-04-01 | 1992-06-25 | Referred to Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs, Alcohol. | Senate | Sen. Nickles, Don [R-OK] | OK | R | N000102 | 9 | National Children's Advocacy Program Act of 1992 - Requires the Director of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, in coordination with the Director of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, to establish a national children's advocacy program of centers to provide information, services, and assistance so that communities can establish multidisciplinary programs that respond to child abuse. Provides for solicitation of proposals from applicants to operate such centers, proposal criteria, management plans, selection of proposals, funding of the centers, and program coordination. Requires regular monitoring and evaluation of each center's activities, annual reports, discontinuation of funding in cases of failure to implement program activities, and solicitation of new proposals upon discontinuation of funding for any center. Requires the two Directors to: (1) establish a children's advocacy advisory board to develop identified goals and program objectives; and (2) review annually the solicitation and selection process and program activities of each center. Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to send to the Congress an annual, detailed review of the progress of such program activities. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-26T15:17:11Z | |
| 102-hr-4712 | 102 | hr | 4712 | Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Adoption and Family Services Act of 1992 | Families | 1992-03-31 | 1992-04-07 | Laid on the table. See S. 838 for further action. | House | Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-12] | NY | D | O000159 | 0 | Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Adoption and Family Services Act of 1992 - Title I: Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act - Subtitle A: General Provisions - Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (the Act, for purposes of this title) to set forth findings with respect to prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. Subtitle B: General Program - Revises title I (General Program) provisions of the Act for the Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect (the Board). Requires the Board, within 24 months after enactment of this Act, to submit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the appropriate congressional committees a report containing the Board's recommendations with respect to: (1) a national policy to reduce and ultimately prevent child and youth maltreatment-related deaths, detailing appropriate roles and responsibilities for State and local governments and the private sector; (2) specific changes needed in Federal laws and programs to achieve an effective Federal role in implementing such policy; and (3) specific changes needed to improve national data collection with respect to such deaths. Authorizes appropriations for the Board for FY 1992 through 1995. Revises provisions for research and assistance activities of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. Requires such research to include: (1) cultural distinctions relating to child abuse and neglect; (2) culturally sensitive procedures with respect to child abuse cases; and (3) the relationship of child abuse and neglect to cultural diversity. Requires that State child abuse and neglect reporting information, for purposes of such research, be: (1) universal and case specific, to the extent practical; and (2) integrated with other case-based foster care and adoption data collected by the Secretary. Requires that peer review panels, for such research grants and contracts, be composed of members who are: (1) experts in the field of child abuse and neglect or related disciplines, with appropriate expertis… | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 102-hr-4544 | 102 | hr | 4544 | Youth Development Act of 1992 | Families | 1992-03-24 | 1992-04-16 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources. | House | Rep. AuCoin, Les [D-OR-1] | OR | D | A000337 | 1 | Youth Development Act of 1992 - Authorizes the Commissioner of the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families to make competitive grants to public agencies and nonprofit private organizations for programs and activities to improve adolescents': (1) educational performance; (2) health and fitness; (3) life skills; and (4) family relationships. Sets limits on the amount, number, and uses of such grants. Defines adolescent as an individual between ten and 16 years old. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-26T15:14:31Z | |
| 102-sjres-274 | 102 | sjres | 274 | A joint resolution to designate April 9, 1992, as "Child Care Worthy Wage Day". | Families | 1992-03-18 | 1992-03-18 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] | CT | D | D000388 | 29 | Designates April 9, 1992, as Child Care Worthy Wage Day. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-hjres-440 | 102 | hjres | 440 | Designating April 9, 1992, as "Child Care Worthy Wage Day". | Families | 1992-03-12 | 1992-03-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population. | House | Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7] | CA | D | M000725 | 80 | Designates April 9, 1992, as Child Care Worthy Wage Day. | 2024-02-06T20:04:02Z | |
| 102-s-2339 | 102 | s | 2339 | Child Care Public-Private Partnership Act of 1992 | Families | 1992-03-11 | 1992-03-20 | Referred to Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs, Alcohol. | Senate | Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] | CT | D | D000388 | 1 | Child Care Public-Private Partnership Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a business-incentive grant program to provide child care through public-private partnerships. Provides program grants to cover not more than one-third of the costs for: (1) businesses or consortia (two or more businesses acting jointly, which may also include a nonprofit private organization) to start-up, or provide additional, employee child care services; and (2) nonprofit business organizations to provide technical information and assistance to enable businesses to provide employee child care services. Sets forth eligibility and application requirements, including: (1) provision of such services equitably and affordably to low- and moderate-income employees; and (2) compliance with State and local licensing requirements. Gives priority in grant selection to businesses with fewer than 100 full-time employees and to business and consortia applications. Requires equitable geographic distribution. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-26T15:17:28Z | |
| 102-s-2343 | 102 | s | 2343 | Child Support Assurance Act of 1992 | Families | 1992-03-11 | 1992-06-04 | Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs, Alcohol. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 102-749. | Senate | Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] | CT | D | D000388 | 0 | Child Support Assurance Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to up to six States for demonstration programs to establish or improve a system of assured minimum child support payments. Requires the custodial parent to have, or be in the process of obtaining, a child support award, or to have "good cause" in order to qualify for the program. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-26T15:17:51Z | |
| 102-hjres-433 | 102 | hjres | 433 | Designating October 1992 as "National Domestic Violence Awareness Month". | Families | 1992-03-05 | 1992-06-29 | Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | House | Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-30] | NY | D | S000480 | 218 | Designates October 1992 as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-hr-4361 | 102 | hr | 4361 | Healthy Students-Healthy Schools Act | Families | 1992-03-03 | 1992-03-27 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education. | House | Rep. Andrews, Michael [D-TX-25] | TX | D | A000209 | 12 | Healthy Students - Healthy Schools Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to designate, within the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), a Healthy Students-Healthy Schools Office (HSHS Office). Requires the HSHS Office to assist State and local educational agencies (SEAs and LEAs) to: (1) develop and maintain comprehensive sequential school health education programs and curricula (based on a model framework) in all elementary and secondary schools in their jurisdiction; (2) train teachers in such health education; (3) integrate school, community-based, and public-private health promotion efforts; (4) provide nutritious school food services; and (5) encourage healthy, tobacco-free school environments. Requires the Office also to: (1) provide technical support to SEAs and LEAs concerning health education programs and curricula; (2) administer the Healthy American Schools grant program; (3) establish and maintain a national clearinghouse to disseminate school health education information; (4) assist States in coordinating school-based programs to progress toward relevant Healthy People 2000 (HP 2000) Objectives and Healthy Students-Healthy Schools Goals (Goals); (5) assist States in evaluating competency-based health education skills and physical fitness, and collecting and maintaining data on health behavior indicators (including absenteeism due to pregnancy and ill-health), to measure progress toward such Objectives and Goals; (6) assist the Secretary in preparing an annual report on the status of school health education in the United States; and (7) coordinate with other Federal school health education efforts. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to transfer the Office of Comprehensive School Health Education (CSHE Office) from the Office of the Secretary (of Education) to the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (also within the Department of Education). Directs the Secretary of Education to facilitate such transfer. Requires the CSHE Office to: (1) act a… | 2025-08-26T15:15:37Z | |
| 102-s-2257 | 102 | s | 2257 | A bill to amend the Social Security Act to extend the terms of service of the members of the National Commission on Children, and for other purposes. | Families | 1992-02-25 | 1992-07-22 | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 550. | Senate | Sen. Bentsen, Lloyd M. [D-TX] | TX | D | B000401 | 1 | Amends title XI of the Social Security Act to extend to December 31, 1992, the terms of service of members of the National Commission on Children. Terminates the Commission on such date. Provides that the Executive Director and staff of the Commission shall have until March 31, 1993, to close down operations of the Commission. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | |
| 102-hjres-409 | 102 | hjres | 409 | Designating January 16, 1993, as "National Good Teen Day". | Families | 1992-02-05 | 1992-10-24 | Became Public Law No: 102-503. | House | Rep. Traficant, James A., Jr. [D-OH-17] | OH | D | T000350 | 242 | Designates January 16, 1993, as National Good Teen Day. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-s-2191 | 102 | s | 2191 | Healthy Students-Healthy Schools Act | Families | 1992-02-05 | 1992-03-19 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 102-614. | Senate | Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] | NM | D | B000468 | 8 | Healthy Students-Healthy Schools Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to designate, within the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), a Healthy Students-Healthy Schools Office (HSHS Office). Requires the HSHS Office to assist State and local educational agencies (SEAs and LEAs) to: (1) develop and maintain comprehensive sequential school health education programs and curricula (based on a model framework) in all elementary and secondary schools in their jurisdiction; (2) train teachers in such health education; (3) integrate school, community-based, and public-private health promotion efforts; (4) provide nutritious school food services; and (5) encourage healthy, tobacco-free school environments. Requires the Office also to: (1) provide technical support to SEAs and LEAs concerning health education programs and curricula; (2) administer the Healthy American Schools grant program; (3) establish and maintain a national clearinghouse to disseminate school health education information; (4) assist States in coordinating school-based programs to progress toward relevant Healthy People 2000 (HP 2000) Objectives and Healthy Students-Healthy Schools Goals (Goals); (5) assist States in evaluating competency-based health education skills and physical fitness, and collecting and maintaining data on health behavior indicators (including absenteeism due to pregnancy and ill-health), to measure progress toward such Objectives and Goals; (6) assist the Secretary in preparing an annual report on the status of school health education in the United States; and (7) coordinate with other Federal school health education efforts. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to transfer the Office of Comprehensive School Health Education (CSHE Office) from the Office of the Secretary (of Education) to the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (also within the Department of Education). Directs the Secretary of Education to facilitate such transfer. Requires the CSHE Office to: (1) act as … | 2025-08-26T15:15:34Z | |
| 102-sjres-241 | 102 | sjres | 241 | Designating October 1992 as "National Domestic Violence Awareness Month." | Families | 1992-01-27 | 1992-01-27 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA] | PA | R | S000709 | 34 | Designates October 1992 as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-hjres-388 | 102 | hjres | 388 | Designating the month of May 1992 as "National Foster Care Month". | Families | 1992-01-03 | 1992-05-19 | Became Public Law No: 102-288. | House | Rep. Matsui, Robert T. [D-CA-3] | CA | D | M000249 | 221 | Designates the month of May 1992 as National Foster Care Month. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-hconres-259 | 102 | hconres | 259 | Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Labor, in cooperation with the ACTION Agency, should publicize and promote projects under the Retired Senior Volunteer Program and the Older American Community Service Employment Program that encourage and recruit older individuals to provide child care services in community-based child care centers. | Families | 1991-11-26 | 1991-12-30 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources. | House | Rep. Bentley, Helen Delich [R-MD-2] | MD | R | B000392 | 1 | Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Labor, in cooperation with the ACTION Agency, should publicize and promote projects under the Retired Senior Volunteer Program and the Older American Community Service Employment Program that encourage and recruit older individuals to provide child care services in community-based child care centers. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 102-hr-3986 | 102 | hr | 3986 | To ensure that consumer credit reports include information on any overdue child support obligations of the consumer. | Families | 1991-11-26 | 1991-12-16 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs and Coinage. | House | Rep. Levine, Mel [D-CA-27] | CA | D | L000264 | 33 | Amends: (1) the Consumer Credit Protection Act to require a consumer reporting agency (CRA) to include in any consumer report information provided by a State child support agency or verified by another government entity on the failure of the consumer to pay overdue child support; and (2) the Social Security Act (SSA) to require States to provide CRAs with information on overdue child support obligations of absent parents. Eliminates: (1) the requirement under the SSA that such information be made upon the request of the CRA; and (2) the authority of the State under the SSA to impose a fee upon the requesting CRA for the furnishing of such information. | 2024-02-07T16:32:33Z | |
| 102-hr-3926 | 102 | hr | 3926 | Child Care Public-Private Partnership Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-11-25 | 1991-12-30 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education. | House | Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-20] | NY | D | L000480 | 3 | Child Care Public-Private Partnership Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a business-incentive grant program to provide child care through public-private partnerships. Provides program grants to cover not more than one-third of the costs for: (1) businesses or consortia (two or more businesses acting jointly, which may also include a nonprofit private organization) to start-up, or provide additional, employee child care services; and (2) nonprofit business organizations to provide technical information and assistance to enable businesses to provide employee child care services. Sets forth eligibility and application requirements, including: (1) provision of such services equitably and affordably to low- and moderate-income employees; and (2) compliance with State and local licensing requirements. Gives priority in grant selection to businesses with fewer than 100 full-time employees and to business and consortia applications. Requires equitable geographic distribution. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-26T15:17:22Z | |
| 102-s-2025 | 102 | s | 2025 | A bill to authorize grants to State, local, and private entities for programs to prevent youths from becoming involved in gangs. | Families | 1991-11-22 | 1991-11-22 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Simon, Paul [D-IL] | IL | D | S000423 | 3 | Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to State and local government agencies and private entities for programs to prevent elementary schoolchildren from becoming involved in gangs. Sets forth requirements for use of funds, applications, and reports. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | |
| 102-sjres-231 | 102 | sjres | 231 | A joint resolution to designate the month of May 1992, as "National Foster Care Month". | Families | 1991-11-14 | 1991-11-14 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Thurmond, Strom [R-SC] | SC | R | T000254 | 56 | Designates the month of May 1992 as National Foster Care Month. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-hr-3677 | 102 | hr | 3677 | Child Support Enforcement Improvements Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-10-30 | 1991-11-15 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions Supervision, Regulation and Insurance. | House | Rep. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME-2] | ME | R | S000663 | 33 | Child Support Enforcement Improvements Act of 1991 - Makes depository institutions not liable under any Federal or State law to any person for disclosing any financial record of an individual to a State child support enforcement agency attempting to establish, modify, or enforce a child support obligation of such individual. Prohibits such an agency from disclosing such a record for any other purpose and provides for civil damages for unauthorized disclosures. Amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act to permit credit reporting agencies to grant access to certain consumer reports to a State child support enforcement agency that is seeking to establish, modify, or enforce a child support obligation against the consumer. Amends the Social Security Act to revise requirements for State statutorily prescribed procedures to improve the effectiveness of child support enforcement. Requires such procedures to require, if a State court or administrative agency issues a support order requiring an absent parent to obtain medical insurance coverage for one or more children of a custodial parent, that the absent parent: (1) within 30 days after receiving notice of such order, provide to the custodial parent written documentation that such insurance coverage has been obtained or applied for; (2) upon failure to apply for, obtain, or maintain such coverage, be liable for any reasonable and necessary health or dental expenses, including medical insurance premiums of the child or children incurred by the custodial parent. Sets forth requirements for the insurer if such coverage is obtained. Includes under the incentive payments program any dependent medical insurance coverage which is provided due to the successful application of such enforcement procedures. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to study, and report to specified congressional committees how the successful efforts of States in enforcing obligations of absent parents to pay (and obtain medical insurance coverage with respect to) health and dental … | 2025-08-26T15:13:31Z | |
| 102-hjres-364 | 102 | hjres | 364 | To designate the period commencing on November 24, 1991, and ending on November 30, 1991, and the period commencing on November 22, 1992, and ending on November 28, 1992, each as "National Adoption Week". | Families | 1991-10-24 | 1991-11-27 | For Further Action See S.J.Res.207. | House | Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4] | NJ | R | S000522 | 222 | Designates November 24 through 30, 1991, and November 22 through 28, 1992, as National Adoption Week. | 2024-02-06T20:04:02Z | |
| 102-s-1863 | 102 | s | 1863 | A bill to provide for the establishment of a program that shall facilitate, on a voluntary request basis, the reunion of birth parents and adopted individuals, birth siblings, or birth grandparents of adopted individuals, through a centralized computer network, and for other purposes. | Families | 1991-10-23 | 1991-11-12 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources received executive comment from Department of Health and Human Services. Unfavorable. | Senate | Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI] | MI | D | L000261 | 15 | Authorizes establishment of the National Voluntary Reunion Registry to facilitate on a voluntary mutual request basis the reunion of adopted persons with birth parents, siblings, and grandparents. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | |
| 102-hr-3603 | 102 | hr | 3603 | Children's Initiative | Families | 1991-10-22 | 1992-10-05 | See H.R.11. | House | Rep. Downey, Thomas J. [D-NY-2] | NY | D | D000471 | 52 | Children's Initiative - Family Preservation Act of 1992 - States that titles I through V of this Act may be cited as the Family Preservation Act of 1992 - Title I: Child Welfare Services - Amends part B (Child Welfare Services) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to create a capped entitlement program to provide child welfare services designed to strengthen and preserve families. Provides for allotments, reallotments, and payments to States of entitlement funds. Requires use of part of such funds to develop or expand specialized child welfare service programs for families in crisis due to substance abuse. Requires uses of remaining funds to develop or expand certain family and child service programs. Repeals provisions for incentive payments to States which maintain a foster care inventory, information system, and case review system; but requires States to provide such protections and other services designed to keep families together or reunify them, or to place children for adoption, with a legal guardian, or in some other planned, permanent living arrangement. Requires States to submit the following types of reports on child welfare services and expenditures: (1) pre-expenditure reports; (2) post-expenditure reports; and (3) comparative financial contributions reports. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to transmit to specified congressional committees annual summaries of the information in such comparative financial contributions reports. Requires such information to be made available to the public. Reserves entitlement funds for grants to State court systems to assess and improve procedures in child welfare cases in carrying out parts B and E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of SSA title IV. Sets forth application requirements and formulas for determining the amount of such grants for FY 1994 through 1998. Directs the HHS Secretary to submit interim and final reports to the Congress on the information obtained from assessments conducted with such grants and the impact of su… | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 102-sjres-207 | 102 | sjres | 207 | A joint resolution to designate the period commencing on November 24, 1991, and ending on November 30, 1991, and the period commencing on November 22, 1992, and ending on November 28, 1992, as "National Adoption Week". | Families | 1991-10-01 | 1991-11-27 | Became Public Law No: 102-174. | Senate | Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] | UT | R | H000338 | 51 | Designates November 24 through 30, 1991, and November 22 through 28, 1992, as National Adoption Week. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-hjres-336 | 102 | hjres | 336 | Designating August 10 through 16, 1992, as "National Parents of Murdered Children Week". | Families | 1991-09-25 | 1991-09-26 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population. | House | Rep. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY-10] | NY | D | S000148 | 81 | Designates the week of August 10 through August 16, 1992, as National Parents of Murdered Children Week. | 2024-02-06T20:04:02Z | |
| 102-s-1590 | 102 | s | 1590 | Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Amendments of 1991 | Families | 1991-07-30 | 1991-09-24 | Referred to Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs, Alcohol. | Senate | Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] | CT | D | D000388 | 2 | Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Amendments of 1991 - Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to repeal a function of the national clearinghouse for information relating to child abuse which relates to identifying effective programs and providing technical assistance under the program of challenge grants to States. Exempts contract review panels from the prohibition against appointment to peer review panels of officers or employees of the Office of Human Development Services. Repeals specified provisions for: (1) waivers of eligibility requirements for grants to States for child abuse and neglect prevention and treatment programs; and (2) reduction of funds in case of a State's failure to obligate funds awarded under such grants program. Requires an assisted State to maintain (as well as establish or designate) a State multidisciplinary task force on children's justice. Extends the authorization of appropriations for: (1) emergency child abuse prevention services; (2) grants to States for child abuse and neglect prevention and treatment programs; and (3) the challenge grant program to encourage States to maintain certain funding mechanisms. Revises requirements for State eligibility for such challenge grants to require State establishment or maintenance of a trust fund or dedicated appropriation available only for child abuse and neglect prevention activities. (Current law requires such a trust fund or other funding mechanism, including appropriations.) Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the adoption opportunities program. Amends the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1988 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the abandoned infants assistance program. Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the family violence prevention and services program. Increases the maximum amount limitation on certain demonstration grants under such… | 2025-08-26T15:15:36Z | |
| 102-hr-3063 | 102 | hr | 3063 | Children and Families Services Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-07-26 | 1991-09-09 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. | House | Rep. Matsui, Robert T. [D-CA-3] | CA | D | M000249 | 16 | Children and Families Services Act of 1991 - Title I: Strengthening Families; Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect; Preventing the Avoidable Separation of Families - Amends title IV (Grants to States for Aid and Services to Needy Families with Children and for Child-Welfare Services) of the Social Security Act (the Act) to provide for family crisis intervention. Entitles States to Federal payments for intensive family-based crisis intervention programs for families whose children are at imminent risk of placement outside their homes in order to: (1) maintain children safely in their homes; (2) preserve their families; and (3) reduce the use of unnecessary separation of children from their families. Sets forth requirements for State plans, annual reports, and payments to States. Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) of title IV of the Act to authorize States, in order to encourage family reunification under specified planned conditions to: (1) continue AFDC payments after removal of a child from a family; and (2) resume AFDC payments before reunification. Requires States which elect to make such continued or resumed payments to report annually on: (1) the number of families so assisted; (2) the number of such families to which the children were returned; (3) the time frames for such returns; and (4) the impact of such assistance on reunification. Amends part E (Federal Payments for Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Act to authorize States to make payments and provide assistance for aftercare services to preserve families, under specified conditions. Allows such continued payments and assistance on behalf of a child who has been returned from foster care to the parents or another family member as if the child were in foster care, under specified planned conditions. Requires States which provide such payments or assistance to report annually on the effectiveness of such aftercare services in minimizing reentry of children into foster care. Directs the Secretary of … | 2025-08-26T15:14:46Z | |
| 102-hr-3034 | 102 | hr | 3034 | Temporary Child Care for Children With Disabilities and Crisis Nurseries Act Amendments of 1991 | Families | 1991-07-25 | 1991-09-24 | Referred to Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs, Alcohol. | House | Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2] | LA | D | J000070 | 1 | Temporary Child Care for Children with Disabilities and Crisis Nurseries Act Amendments of 1991 - Amends the Temporary Child Care for Children with Disabilities and Crisis Nurseries Act of 1986 to extend through FY 1994 the authorization of appropriations for programs under such Act. Conforms the definition of children with disabilities under such Act with that under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. | 2025-08-26T15:17:59Z | |
| 102-s-1540 | 102 | s | 1540 | A bill to amend the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to extend the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC), and for other purposes. | Families | 1991-07-24 | 1991-09-10 | Referred to Subcommittee on Nutrition and Investigations. | Senate | Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT] | VT | D | L000174 | 1 | Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC). | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 102-hr-2974 | 102 | hr | 2974 | Rewards for Results Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-07-23 | 1991-10-24 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources. | House | Rep. Gephardt, Richard A. [D-MO-3] | MO | D | G000132 | 10 | Rewards for Results Act of 1991 - Title I: Ready to Start School - Entitles all eligible States to receive payments from the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a reward for meeting certain criteria in achieving the national educational goal of readiness to start school. Provides for such payments for any of the first six fiscal years beginning after enactment of this Act. Provides for two types of such payments: (1) those relating to eligible children one year old; and (2) those relating to eligible children who register for first grade. Requires States, in order to be eligible, to submit applications containing: (1) certifications of numbers of eligible children, by particular family income category, and their receipt of health care prior to age one or first grade registration, as applicable (and receipt of parental care or early childhood education prior to first grade); and (2) assurances that such payments will be used in addition to other Federal and State funds for, respectively, health care for eligible children less than one year old, and early childhood education and health care to eligible children less than seven years old. Sets forth formulas for determining the amounts of such payments, according to numbers of children certified in specified categories of family income. Title II: Excellence in Student Performance - Entitles eligible States, upon application, to receive payments from the Secretary of Education as a reward for meeting certain criteria in achieving the national educational goal of excellence in student performance. Provides for such payments for any of the first six fiscal years beginning after enactment of this Act. Requires a State, in order to be eligible to receive such payments, to establish a baseline figure for each local educational agency (LEA) each year that represents the most recent available figures for the number of graduating high school seniors whose average scores in mathematics and science on an international test equal or surpass the highest average… | 2025-08-26T15:17:00Z | |
| 102-s-1532 | 102 | s | 1532 | Abandoned Infants Assistance Act Amendments of 1991 | Families | 1991-07-23 | 1991-12-12 | Became Public Law No: 102-236. | Senate | Sen. Metzenbaum, Howard M. [D-OH] | OH | D | M000678 | 8 | Abandoned Infants Assistance Act Amendments of 1991 - Amends the Abandoned Infant Assistance Act of 1988 to revise and extend various grant programs. Adds as a goal of the comprehensive services under such Act support of families to prevent abandonment of infants and children. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) from making any demonstration grant (for projects regarding abandonment of infants and young children in hospitals, under title I of such Act) unless the grant applicant agrees to give priority to abandoned infants and young children who: (1) are infected with, or have been perinatally exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); or (2) have been perinatally exposed to a dangerous drug (hereinafter referred to as priority abandoned children). Adds provisions for demonstration project grants for comprehensive service centers. Authorizes the Secretary to make such grants to model programs providing health, educational, and social services at a single site in a geographic area in which reside a significant number of priority abandoned children in order to prevent abandonment and to care for those who have been abandoned. Includes the provision of services to all members of the natural family for any condition that increases the probability of abandonment of an infant or young child, under such demonstration projects to prevent abandonment. Specifies that the abandoned infants and young children who are to be given particular consideration under residential care programs are those who are unable to reside with their families or to be placed in foster care. Revises provisions for a study and report on numbers of abandoned infants and young children. Extends until April 1, 1992, the deadline for the Secretary to complete a study and report to the Congress on: (1) the number of infants and young children abandoned in hospitals in the United States and the number of such infants and young children infected with or perinatally exposed to HIV or perinatally exposed to a dan… | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | |
| 102-hr-2947 | 102 | hr | 2947 | To amend the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to provide grants to States to fund State domestic violence coalitions, and for other purposes. | Families | 1991-07-18 | 1991-08-13 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education. | House | Rep. Gekas, George W. [R-PA-17] | PA | R | G000121 | 0 | Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide grants to States to fund eligible State domestic violence coalitions. Makes eligible for such grants nonprofit statewide coalitions whose: (1) membership includes a majority of programs for victims of domestic violence in the State, and is representative of such programs; and (2) purpose is to provide services, community education, and technical assistance to such programs to establish and maintain shelter and related services for domestic violence victims and their children. Includes among authorized uses of grant funds: (1) working with judicial and law enforcement agencies to encourage appropriate responses to domestic violence cases and examine issues relevant to such cases; (2) working with family law judges, child protective services agencies, and children's advocates to develop appropriate responses to child custody and visitation issues in domestic violence cases, as well as cases of both domestic violence and child abuse; and (3) conducting public education campaigns regarding domestic violence. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth reporting requirements. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 102-s-1411 | 102 | s | 1411 | Middle Income Tax Relief and Family Preservation Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-06-27 | 1991-11-26 | Committee on Finance. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 102-608. | Senate | Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] | CT | D | D000388 | 0 | Middle Income Tax Relief and Family Preservation Act of 1991 - Title I: Family Tax Relief - Subtitle A: Personal Exemption Amount - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $2,000 to $2,300 the regular exemption amount and provide additional exemptions of $1,150 and $575, respectively, for taxpayers in the 15 and 28 percent brackets. Subtitle B: Refundable Credit for Children - Allows a refundable tax credit of $800 for each child under the age of five in lieu of the deduction for personal exemptions for children. Provides an inflation adjustment for such tax credit. Allows advance payments of such refunds. Subtitle C: Scholarships and Fellowships - Restores the prior law gross income exclusion of scholarships and fellowship grants. Subtitle D: Revenue Provisions - Increases the tax rates for higher income individuals. Imposes a surtax on the individual tax rate or the alternative minimum tax of an individual whose income exceeds $300,000. Increases the rate of corporate income tax and the rate of individual alternative minimum tax. Title II: Assured Minimum Child Support Demonstration Projects - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in order to encourage States to provide a guaranteed minimum level of child support for eligible children not receiving such support, to make grants to not more than six States to establish or improve a system of assured minimum child support payments. Requires States to use such grants to carry out a child support assurance project to provide a minimum monthly child support benefit for each eligible child to the extent that such support is not paid by the noncustodial parent. Sets forth administrative, eligibility, and reporting requirements for such projects. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: National Commission on Family Strengths - Establishes the National Commission on Family Strengths to facilitate expert studies and reports in order to receive diverse opinions concerning ways to strengthen and preserve families and to enhance the economic… | 2025-08-26T15:16:12Z | |
| 102-hjres-283 | 102 | hjres | 283 | To designate the week beginning June 21, 1992, as "Child Support Enforcement Awareness Week". | Families | 1991-06-25 | 1991-06-28 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population. | House | Rep. Hyde, Henry J. [R-IL-6] | IL | R | H001022 | 27 | Designates the week beginning June 21, 1992, as Child Support Enforcement Awareness Week. | 2024-02-06T20:04:02Z | |
| 102-hr-2720 | 102 | hr | 2720 | Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Adoption and Family Services Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-06-20 | 1992-01-28 | Message on Senate action sent to the House. | House | Rep. Owens, Major R. [D-NY-12] | NY | D | O000159 | 0 | Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Adoption and Family Services Act of 1991 - Title I: Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act - Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (the Act, for purposes of this title) to authorize appropriations for FY 1992 for the Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect. Subtitle A: General State Program - Revises provisions for development and operation grants to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to States, based on relative population of children under 18 in applicant States, for improving each such State's child protective service system in carrying out specified activities. (Replaces provisions which authorized the Secretary to make grants to States for developing, strengthening, and carrying out child abuse and neglect prevention and treatment programs.) Requires, as a condition for State eligibility for such grants, annual submission to the Secretary of a State program plan which specifies the child protective service system area or areas (from among the specified activities) that the State intends to address in with such grant funds. Sets forth required plan contents with respect to the specified areas and activities of: (1) intake and screening; (2) investigation of reports; (3) case management and delivery of ongoing family services; (4) general system enhancement; and (5) innovative approaches. Requires, with respect to some of such areas of activity, information on staffing, training, public education, response time, interagency coordination, legal representation, automation, assessment tools, and information and referral services. (Replaces provisions for waivers of State eligibility requirements.) Revises provisions for grants to States for programs relating to the investigation and prosecution of child abuse cases to include cases of: (1) neglect; (2) sexual exploitation; and (3) suspected child abuse or neglect related fatalities. Requires annual reports on such grant expenditures. Subtitle B: Community-Based Prevent… | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 102-hr-2722 | 102 | hr | 2722 | Abandoned Infants Assistance Act Amendments of 1991 | Families | 1991-06-20 | 1991-11-19 | Laid on the table. See S. 1532 for further action. | House | Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10] | NJ | D | P000149 | 7 | Abandoned Infants Assistance Act Amendments of 1991 - Amends the Abandoned Infant Assistance Act of 1988 to revise and extend various grant programs. Adds as a goal of the comprehensive services under such Act support of families to prevent abandonment of infants and children. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) from making any demonstration grant (for projects regarding abandonment of infants and young children in hospitals, under title I of such Act) unless the grant applicant agrees to give priority to abandoned infants and young children who: (1) are infected with, or have been perinatally exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); or (2) have been perinatally exposed to a dangerous drug (hereinafter referred to as priority abandoned children). Adds provisions for demonstration project grants for comprehensive service centers. Authorizes the Secretary to make such grants to model programs providing health, educational, and social services at a single site in a geographic area in which reside a significant number of priority abandoned children in order to prevent abandonment and to care for those who have been abandoned. Includes the provision of services to all members of the natural family for any condition that increases the probability of abandonment of an infant or young child, under such demonstration projects to prevent abandonment. Specifies that the abandoned infants and young children who are to be given particular consideration under residential care programs are those who are unable to reside with their families or to be placed in foster care. Revises provisions for a study and report on numbers of abandoned infants and young children. Extends until April 1, 1992, the deadline for the Secretary to complete a study and report to the Congress on: (1) the number of infants and young children abandoned in hospitals in the United States and the number of such infants and young children infected with or perinatally exposed to HIV or perinatally exposed to a dang… | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 102-hjres-278 | 102 | hjres | 278 | Designating July 4, 1991, as "July 4th Family Celebration Day". | Families | 1991-06-19 | 1991-06-24 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population. | House | Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] | DC | D | N000147 | 5 | Designates July 4, 1991, as July 4th Family Celebration Day. | 2024-02-06T20:04:02Z | |
| 102-s-1301 | 102 | s | 1301 | Omnibus Adoption Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-06-14 | 1991-06-14 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID] | ID | R | C000858 | 5 | Omnibus Adoption Act of 1991 - Title I: National Advisory Council on Adoption - Establishes the National Advisory Council on Adoption (the Council), to be appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Terminates such Council after four years. Title II: Adoption Data Collection System - Directs the Secretary of HHS to: (1) report to the Congress, within 30 days, on the status of the implementation of the adoption data collection system required under specified provisions of the Social Security Act, including specific assurances relating to such system; (2) report monthly to the Congress on the progress made in implementing such system; and (3) consult with the Council in developing regulations to carry out such reporting requirements and assurances. Title III: Adoption Education Programs - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish a program of fellowships for graduate study in social work, in innovative programs concerning the effects of adoption on the adopted children, their adoptive families, and their biological parents who make an adoption plan. Directs the Secretary of Education to award up to 50 such fellowships. Sets forth provisions for student selection procedures, stipends, payments to institutions, fellowship conditions, consultation with the Council, and an authorization of appropriations for FY 1992 through 1994. Directs the Secretary of Education, within one year after enactment of this Act, to make grants to States to carry out adoption education programs. Sets forth provisions for grants amounts, applications and agreements, program guidelines, consultation with the Council, and an authorization of appropriations for FY 1992 through 1994. Title IV: Adoption Benefits for Federal Employees and Military Personnel - Amends Federal law relating to Federal employees to allow their sick leave (including advance sick leave) to be used for purposes relating to the adoption of a child. Includes prenatal and maternal benefits (other than those relating to a surr… | 2025-08-26T15:16:31Z | |
| 102-hjres-267 | 102 | hjres | 267 | To designate the week beginning July 21, 1991, as "National Parents of Multiple-Birth Children Week". | Families | 1991-06-07 | 1991-06-12 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population. | House | Rep. Kennelly, Barbara B. [D-CT-1] | CT | D | K000118 | 0 | Designates the week beginning July 21, 1991, as National Parents of Multiple-Birth Children Week. | 2024-02-06T20:04:02Z | |
| 102-hr-2571 | 102 | hr | 2571 | Family Preservation Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-06-06 | 1992-10-05 | See H.R.11. | House | Rep. Downey, Thomas J. [D-NY-2] | NY | D | D000471 | 41 | Family Preservation Act of 1991 - Title I: Child Welfare Services - Amends part B (Child Welfare Services) of title IV of the Social Security Act to convert the Child Welfare program from an authorization to a capped entitlement program. Requires maintenance of State effort under such program. Sets forth a new formula for allotments to States under such program. Repeals provisions for incentive payments to States which maintain a foster care inventory, information system, and case review system, but requires States to provide such protections and other services designed to keep families together or reunify them, or to place children for adoption, with a legal guardian, or in some other planned, permanent living arrangement. Requires States to submit the following types of reports on child welfare services and expenditures: (1) pre-expenditure reports; (2) post-expenditure reports; and (3) comparative financial contributions reports. Reserves funds for entitlement grants to States to plan for and provide child welfare services designed to strengthen and preserve families. Requires use of part of such funds to develop or expand specialized child welfare services programs, for families in crisis due to substance abuse, that: (1) emphasize comprehensive services geared to the whole family; and (2) support or expand availability of programs for pregnant women and programs that allow mothers (and other caretaker relatives) to reside with their children while receiving services or treatment. Requires uses of the remaining part of such funds to develop or expand: (1) service programs to help children, where appropriate, return to families from which they have been removed, or be placed for adoption, with a legal guardian, or in some other planned, permanent living arrangement; (2) preplacement preventive services programs to help children at risk of foster care placement remain with their families; or (3) service programs for follow-up care for families to whom a child has been returned after a foster care placement… | 2025-08-26T15:14:02Z | |
| 102-hr-2555 | 102 | hr | 2555 | Youth Summer Camp and Conservation Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-06-05 | 1991-07-11 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities. | House | Rep. Kostmayer, Peter H. [D-PA-8] | PA | D | K000319 | 18 | Youth Summer Camp and Conservation Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture (the Secretaries) to jointly establish a summer camp program for children from low-income families in areas eligible for assistance under the urban park and recreation recovery program under the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978 (which is title X of the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978). Requires such program to provide for contracts with private, nonprofit youth-oriented organizations under which funding will be provided to assist eligible children to attend summer camps, operated by such organizations, for recreational enjoyment and environmental education. Directs the Secretaries to expand the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program to offer youth opportunities for summer employment in a healthful outdoor atmosphere of the National Park System, the National Forest System, or other public land and water areas. Allows such program expansion to include both residential and non-residential camp opportunities. Requires allocation of such program expansion funding: (1) by the Secretary of the Interior among agencies of the Department of the Interior operating a YCC program, giving priority to those with existing programs; and (2) by the Secretary of Agriculture to the Forest Service to expand its existing YCC program. Provides for funding of programs under this Act by requiring additional fees to be paid by concession contractors of the National Park Service and special use permittees of the Forest Service, if their annual gross receipts or sales to the recreating public exceed $2,000,000. Sets such additional fees at two percent of the annual gross receipts or sales. Divides such funds as follows: (1) two-thirds for the summer camp program; and (2) one-third for the YCC program expansion for summer employment. | 2025-08-26T15:13:57Z | |
| 102-s-1215 | 102 | s | 1215 | Adoption Assistance and Maternal Certificates Act | Families | 1991-06-04 | 1991-06-04 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Gorton, Slade [R-WA] | WA | R | G000333 | 6 | Adoption Assistance and Maternal Certificates Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to mandate grants to ten States to establish demonstration programs to provide maternal health certificates to low-income pregnant females residing or awaiting residence in, or receiving outpatient services from, a maternity home. Requires eligible maternity homes to provide a range of services in accordance with standards promulgated under this Act, including regarding room and board, medical care, and counseling and services concerning health, adoption, education, vocation, or employment. Limits the time period covered and the dollar amounts paid per day. Requires matching funds from a State agency, the home, or both. Prohibits requiring a woman, in order to be eligible for this program, to participate in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program under title IV of the Social Security Act. Authorizes appropriations. Requires that adoption data from private agencies that receive Federal assistance (and voluntarily-released data from private agencies that receive no Federal assistance) be included in an existing system of data collection, under the Social Security Act, relating to adoption and foster care Requires an adoption or foster care agency that receives Federal assistance to disclose, to prospective adoptive and foster parents, information about the history of the child, including: (1) medical history; (2) social background; (3) information about the placement of the child; and (4) any record of abuse or neglect. Makes it unlawful to discriminate against an individual in the making, performance, modification, or termination of an insurance contract (defined as a health or life insurance contract which provides family coverage) on the basis of the fact that a son or daughter of the individual is not a biological child of the individual. Declares it an unlawful employment practice to discriminate against an employee with respect to a term or condition of any leave benefit on the basis of the fact that a so… | 2025-08-26T15:16:50Z | |
| 102-s-1133 | 102 | s | 1133 | Comprehensive Services For Children and Youth Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-05-22 | 1991-05-22 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] | MA | D | K000105 | 9 | Comprehensive Services for Children and Youth Act of 1991 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to eligible entities to pay 80 percent of the costs for activities relating to school-based or community-based coordinated educational and social services programs to strengthen the educational performance and future potential of at-risk youth (both in-school and out-of-school). Requires such grants to be awarded only to programs designed to: (1) co-locate a range of educational and social services; (2) provide multi-year services to at-risk children and youth and their families; (3) serve the specified target population; and (4) be coordinated by the eligible entity with activities under other Federal, State, and local grants received by partnership members for purposes and target populations described in this Act, into an integrated service delivery system co-located at a school or other community-based site accessible to and used by at-risk youth. Gives priority to eligible entities providing comprehensive services extending beyond traditional school or service hours, that may include year-round programs providing evening and weekend services. Allows such grants to be made for up to five years, if recipients make satisfactory progress toward program objectives. Requires an equitable geographic distribution to both urban and rural areas with a high proportion of at-risk youth. Authorizes bonus awards to recipients demonstrating increases in coordination and level of services above those anticipated in the application or interim report. Makes eligible to receive such grants, to serve in-school children and youth, a partnership between a local educational agency (LEA) that is eligible for certain funds for education of disadvantaged children under chapter 1 title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (chapter 1 program), and at least one nonprofit community-based organization with a history of providing social services to low-income at-risk youth and their families, and which: (1… | 2025-08-26T15:16:52Z | |
| 102-hr-2334 | 102 | hr | 2334 | Domestic Violence Prevention Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-05-14 | 1992-04-23 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice. | House | Rep. Owens, Wayne [D-UT-2] | UT | D | O000156 | 65 | Domestic Violence Prevention Act of 1991 - Title I: Amendment of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act - Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) to add increasing public awareness as a purpose of State demonstration grants. Authorizes grants for public information campaigns regarding domestic violence. Requires a State grant recipient to establish a Commission on Domestic Violence. Limits law enforcement training grants to private nonprofit organizations that have certain experience. Mandates grants or contracts for the establishment of one national and five regional resource centers to provide training and other assistance concerning domestic violence. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Act. Requires grants to States to assist in becoming model demonstration States and in improving State leadership regarding certain domestic violence matters. Sets forth requirements for being designated as a model State. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Law Enforcement, Prosecution Grants, and Interstate Enforcement - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize competitive grants to States for use by States and local governments to assist in developing effective law enforcement and prosecution strategies to combat domestic violence and to reduce the rate of domestic violence. Authorizes appropriations. Amends Federal law to establish criminal penalties for interstate travel to commit spousal abuse or to violate protection orders. Allows temporary protection orders pending final adjudication of charges under these provisions. Mandates victim restitution. Requires a protection order by a court of one State to be accorded full faith and credit by the court of another State. Amends the FVPSA to prohibit a State or locality from being awarded a grant under the Act if, as a matter of law, policy, or practice, it discriminated against victims of family violence. Requires certification that this condition has been met. Amends the Victims of Crime Act o… | 2025-08-26T15:14:17Z | |
| 102-s-1073 | 102 | s | 1073 | Children's Investment Trust Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-05-14 | 1991-05-14 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] | CT | D | D000388 | 0 | Children's Investment Trust Act of 1991 - Amends the Social Security Act (SSA) to establish in the Treasury the Children's Investment Trust (CIT). Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to accept and transfer to CIT: (1) for FY 1992 and subsequent fiscal years a mandated general fund appropriation equal to FY 1991 aggregate budget authority before sequestration (adjusted for inflation) for all described children's, youth, and family programs; (2) any additional appropriations made by the Congress; (3) the sum of the Children's Investment Tax; and (4) the sum of any income earned from investment of CIT funds. Provides for quarterly transfers to the Trust based on estimates, and for obligation of CIT funds. Makes the Secretary of the Treasury the Managing Trustee of CIT and chairperson of the Board of Trustees. Provides for investment of CIT funds. Directs the Managing Trustee to make quarterly payments from CIT, in accordance with appropriations Acts, to certain Federal and State programs. Directs the Managing Trustee to report to appropriate congressional committees on proposed methodologies to reimburse the Federal Government for costs associated with CIT administration, any amount of the Children's Investment Tax that may be subject to refund, and other expenses associated with CIT operations. Prohibits any loans between CIT and other trust funds. Requires the President to submit a six-year plan for CIT operation as part of the annual U.S. Government budget submitted to the Congress. Directs the Comptroller General, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to prepare and submit to the appropriate congressional committees a list of Federal children's, youth, and family programs for which CIT funds may be obligated, as well as the FY 1991 appropriations for each such program. Requires such list to include a description of income tax credits that directly benefit families with children, for which reimbursements to the general fund may be made from CIT. Authorizes provision of funds under this title to an a… | 2025-08-26T15:15:41Z | |
| 102-hjres-241 | 102 | hjres | 241 | Designating October 1991, as "National Domestic Violence Awareness Month". | Families | 1991-05-01 | 1991-10-03 | For Further Action See S.J.Res.73. | House | Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-30] | NY | D | S000480 | 220 | Designates October 1991 as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. | 2024-02-06T20:04:02Z | |
| 102-hr-2040 | 102 | hr | 2040 | Adoption Amendments of 1991 | Families | 1991-04-24 | 1991-05-10 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. | House | Rep. Armey, Richard K. [R-TX-26] | TX | R | A000217 | 16 | Adoption Amendments of 1991 - Replaces Public Health Service Act provisions authorizing appropriations for adolescent family life demonstration projects with provisions requiring set-aside, for such projects, of a specified amount appropriated for the Health Resources and Services Administration. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for a limited amount of adoption expenses. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to extend to October 1, 1993, the termination date of a test program for reimbursement of adoption expenses of members of the armed forces. Amends Part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance Program) of title IV of the Social Security Act to prohibit payments to a State under provisions relating to foster care and adoption assistance if any public agency responsible for adoption placement has failed to fully disclose to prospective adoptive parents all information regarding the child's health. Amends the Public Health Service Act to mandate grants to two States to establish demonstration programs to provide maternal health certificates to low-income pregnant females residing or awaiting residence in a maternity home. Requires eligible maternity homes to provide specified services, including room and board, medical care, and counseling and services concerning health, adoption, education, vocation, or employment. Requires that such homes accept the certificates as full payment. Directs the Secretary of Education to develop a model curriculum for educating individuals on issues of adoption that are relevant to the field of social work. Requires the curriculum to be appropriate for secondary, postsecondary, and continuing education settings. Authorizes appropriations. | 2025-08-26T15:16:38Z | |
| 102-hconres-134 | 102 | hconres | 134 | To promote traditional family values. | Families | 1991-04-23 | 1991-05-10 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources. | House | Rep. Dannemeyer, William E. [R-CA-39] | CA | R | D000044 | 0 | Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to promoting the traditional family and traditional family values by public laws, policy, and education. | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 102-s-903 | 102 | s | 903 | Children's Security Trust Fund Act | Families | 1991-04-23 | 1991-05-07 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Department of Health and Human Services. | Senate | Sen. Bradley, Bill [D-NJ] | NJ | D | B001225 | 2 | Children's Security Trust Fund Act - Establishes the Children's Security Trust Fund (the Fund) in the Treasury, to be used to expand certain Federal programs that provide assistance to children. Provides that all funds transferred to the Fund shall be voluntary contributions by retirees from their Federal retirement benefits (from Social Security, civil service, military, or railroad retirement programs). Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to invest the portion of the Fund not required for current withdrawals, and to credit the Fund with interest and proceeds from such investments. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to obligate available amounts in the Fund, including any not obligated in previous fiscal years, for programs and services under: (1) the Head Start Act; (2) the supplemental food program under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966; or (3) the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant Act. Directs the Secretary of HHS to refer individuals receiving Federal retirement benefits (of the types described in provisions for voluntary contributions) who desire to volunteer to provide services under the children's programs that receive assistance under this Act to the appropriate State and local officials and community organizations responsible for such programs. | 2025-08-26T15:18:03Z | |
| 102-s-878 | 102 | s | 878 | World Summit for Children Implementation Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-04-18 | 1991-04-18 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. | Senate | Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] | CT | D | D000388 | 37 | World Summit for Children Implementation Act of 1991 - Provides for assistance in implementing the plan of action adopted by the World Summit for Children. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the U.S. Government should commit to increasing participation in the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children under the Child Nutrition Act (the WIC program) by 20 percent per year in FY 1992 through 1996, to reach full participation by the end of FY 1996; and (2) specified amounts should be appropriated for the WIC program in FY 1992 and 1993 to reach such full participation goal. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the commitment to provide full funding for the Head Start Program, contained in the Human Services Reauthorization Act of 1990, should be implemented in order that the goal of full participation of all eligible three- to five- year-old children can be reached by FY 1994; and (2) specified amounts should be authorized for such funding in FY 1992 through 1994. Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to undertake a Children's Vaccine Initiative. Requires that the Director of the National Vaccine Program: (1) plan and coordinate the Initiative; and (2) ensure that the Public Health Service conducts vaccine research, production, and delivery activities under the Initiative in collaboration with non-governmental institutions and with other Federal agencies to ensure the full use of U.S. scientific and industrial capacity to prevent infectious disease. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for contributions to the United Nations Children's Fund for activities to promote child health and other assistance programs for children (to carry out specified provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961). Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (the Act) to authorize appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for special health needs of children and mothers under the Child S… | 2025-08-26T15:18:22Z | |
| 102-sjres-126 | 102 | sjres | 126 | A joint resolution to designate the second Sunday in October of 1991 as "National Children's Day". | Families | 1991-04-18 | 1991-10-03 | Became Public Law No: 102-116. | Senate | Sen. Hatfield, Mark O. [R-OR] | OR | R | H000343 | 57 | Designates the second Sunday in October 1991 as National Children's Day. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-s-838 | 102 | s | 838 | Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Adoption and Family Services Act of 1992 | Families | 1991-04-17 | 1992-05-28 | Became Public Law No: 102-295. | Senate | Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] | CT | D | D000388 | 14 | Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Adoption and Family Services Act of 1992 - Title I: Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act - Subtitle A: General Provisions - Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (the Act, for purposes of this title) to set forth findings with respect to prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. Subtitle B: General Program - Revises title I (General Program) provisions of the Act for the Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect (the Board). Requires the Board, within 24 months after enactment of this Act, to submit to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the appropriate congressional committees a report containing the Board's recommendations with respect to: (1) a national policy to reduce and ultimately prevent child and youth maltreatment-related deaths, detailing appropriate roles and responsibilities for State and local governments and the private sector; (2) specific changes needed in Federal laws and programs to achieve an effective Federal role in implementing such policy; and (3) specific changes needed to improve national data collection with respect to such deaths. Authorizes appropriations for the Board for FY 1992 through 1995. Revises provisions for research and assistance activities of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. Requires such research to include: (1) cultural distinctions relating to child abuse and neglect; (2) culturally sensitive procedures with respect to child abuse cases; and (3) the relationship of child abuse and neglect to cultural diversity. Requires that State child abuse and neglect reporting information, for purposes of such research, be: (1) universal and case specific, to the extent practical; and (2) integrated with other case-based foster care and adoption data collected by the Secretary. Requires that peer review panels, for such research grants and contracts, be composed of members who are: (1) experts in the field of child abuse and neglect or related disciplines, with appropriate experti… | 2025-07-21T19:44:15Z | |
| 102-hr-1753 | 102 | hr | 1753 | Omnibus Adoption Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-04-11 | 1992-03-18 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights. | House | Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4] | NJ | R | S000522 | 106 | Omnibus Adoption Act of 1991 - Title I: National Advisory Council on Adoption - Establishes the National Advisory Council on Adoption (the Council), to be appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Terminates such Council after four years. Title II: Adoption Data Collection System - Directs the Secretary of HHS to: (1) report to the Congress, within 30 days, on the status of the implementation of the adoption data collection system required under specified provisions of the Social Security Act, including specific assurances relating to such system; (2) report monthly to the Congress on the progress made in implementing such system; and (3) consult with the Council in developing regulations to carry out such reporting requirements and assurances. Title III: Adoption Education Programs - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish a program of fellowships for graduate study in social work, in innovative programs concerning the effects of adoption on the adopted children, their adoptive families, and their biological parents who make an adoption plan. Directs the Secretary of Education to award up to 50 such fellowships. Sets forth provisions for student selection procedures, stipends, payments to institutions, fellowship conditions, consultation with the Council, and an authorization of appropriations for FY 1992 through 1996. Directs the Secretary of Education, within one year after enactment of this Act, to make grants to States to carry out adoption education programs. Sets forth provisions for grants amounts, applications and agreements, program guidelines, consultation with the Council, and an authorization of appropriations for FY 1992 through 1994. Title IV: Adoption Benefits for Federal Employees and Military Personnel - Amends Federal law relating to Federal employees to allow their sick leave (including advance sick leave) to be used for purposes relating to the adoption of a child. Includes prenatal and maternal benefits (other than those relating to a surr… | 2025-08-26T15:18:15Z | |
| 102-s-803 | 102 | s | 803 | A bill to amend the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to provide grants to States to fund State domestic violence coalitions, and for other purposes. | Families | 1991-04-11 | 1991-07-09 | Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs, Alcohol. Hearings held. | Senate | Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV] | NV | D | R000146 | 5 | Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide grants to States to fund eligible State domestic violence coalitions. Makes eligible for such grants nonprofit statewide coalitions whose: (1) membership includes a majority of programs for victims of domestic violence in the State, and is representative of such programs; and (2) purpose is to provide services, community education, and technical assistance to such programs to establish and maintain shelter and related services for domestic violence victims and their children. Includes among authorized uses of grant funds: (1) working with judicial and law enforcement agencies to encourage appropriate responses to domestic violence cases and examine specified issues; (2) working with family law judges, child protective services agencies, and children's advocates to develop appropriate responses to child custody and visitation issues in domestic violence cases, as well as cases of both domestic violence and child abuse; and (3) conducting public education campaigns regarding domestic violence. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth reporting requirements. | 2025-04-21T12:24:17Z | |
| 102-hr-1633 | 102 | hr | 1633 | World Summit for Children Implementation Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-03-22 | 1991-04-15 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources. | House | Rep. McHugh, Matthew F. [D-NY-28] | NY | D | M000473 | 175 | World Summit for Children Implementation Act of 1991 - Provides for assistance in implementing the plan of action adopted by the World Summit for Children. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the U.S. Government should commit to increasing participation in the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children under the Child Nutrition Act (the WIC program) by 20 percent per year in FY 1992 through 1996, to reach full participation by the end of FY 1996; and (2) specified minimum amounts should be appropriated for the WIC program in FY 1992 and 1993 to reach such full participation goal. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the commitment to provide full funding for the Head Start Program, contained in the Human Services Reauthorization Act of 1990, should be implemented in order that the goal of full participation of all eligible three- and four-year-old children can be reached by FY 1994. Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to undertake a Children's Vaccine Initiative. Requires that the Director of the National Vaccine Program: (1) plan and coordinate the Initiative; and (2) ensure that the Public Health Service conducts vaccine research, production, and delivery activities under the Initiative in collaboration with non-governmental institutions and with other Federal agencies to ensure the full use of U.S. scientific and industrial capacity to prevent infectious disease. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for contributions to the United Nations Children's Fund for activities to promote child health and other assistance programs for children (to carry out specified provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961). Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (the Act) to authorize appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for special health needs of children and mothers under the Child Survival Fund. Requires that specified minimum amounts of funds under various provisions f… | 2025-08-26T15:18:18Z | |
| 102-sjres-99 | 102 | sjres | 99 | A joint resolution designating November 24-30, 1991, and November 22-28, 1992, as "National Family Caregivers Week". | Families | 1991-03-20 | 1991-11-23 | Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. | Senate | Sen. Glenn, John H., Jr. [D-OH] | OH | D | G000236 | 47 | Designates the weeks beginning November 24, 1991, and November 22, 1992, as National Family Caregivers Week. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-hr-1398 | 102 | hr | 1398 | Mickey Leland Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Parenthood Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-03-12 | 1991-03-28 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. | House | Rep. Johnson, Nancy L. [R-CT-6] | CT | R | J000163 | 35 | Mickey Leland Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Parenthood Act of 1991 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to replace the title on adolescent family life demonstration projects with a title on adolescent pregnancy prevention, care, and research grants. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to provide, supplement, or improve the quality of care services to pregnant adolescents and their male partners and adolescent parents and prevention services to nonpregnant adolescents. Requires grantees to charge fees for services only under a fee schedule, approved by the Secretary, based on the income of the person and taking into account the difficulty adolescents face in obtaining resources to pay for services. Prohibits discrimination because of an individual's inability to pay for services. Sets forth priorities in making grants, including giving priority to applicants that: (1) serve an area with a high incidence of adolescent pregnancy; and (2) serve an area with a high proportion of low-income families and low availability of care programs. Requires that the amount of a grant be set by the Secretary. Limits a grant, subject to waiver for one year, to 75 percent of the cost of a program. Specifies the information and assurances which must accompany a grant application. Directs the Secretary to coordinate Federal policies and programs providing services relating to the prevention of initial and recurrent adolescent pregnancies and providing care services, including by requiring grantees under these provisions to report concerning Federal, State, and local policies that interfere with delivery and coordination of programs of care for pregnant adolescents and adolescent parents. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education to support and disseminate the results of research relating to adolescent pregnancy. Limits grants or contracts to: (1) one year, subject to renewal for four additional one-year periods; and (2) subject to waiver, a specified dollar … | 2025-08-26T15:18:12Z | |
| 102-hjres-183 | 102 | hjres | 183 | To designate the second Sunday in October 1991, as "National Children's Day". | Families | 1991-03-07 | 1991-10-03 | For Further Action See S.J.Res.126. | House | Rep. Kennedy, Joseph P., II [D-MA-8] | MA | D | K000110 | 224 | Designates the second Sunday in October 1991 as National Children's Day. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-hr-1253 | 102 | hr | 1253 | To amend the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 to carry out research, and develop judicial training curricula, relating to child custody litigation. | Families | 1991-03-05 | 1992-10-27 | Became Public Law No: 102-528. | House | Rep. Morella, Constance A. [R-MD-8] | MD | R | M000941 | 63 | Amends the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 to authorize the use of Institute funds to conduct up to five projects to: (1) investigate and carry out research regarding State judicial decisions relating to child custody litigation involving domestic violence; (2) develop training curricula to assist State courts to develop an understanding of, and appropriate responses to, child custody litigation involving domestic violence; and (3) disseminate the results of such investigation and research and the curricula to State courts. | 2025-01-16T12:12:20Z | |
| 102-s-560 | 102 | s | 560 | Adolescent Tobacco Prevention Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-03-05 | 1991-03-05 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. | Senate | Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] | NJ | D | L000123 | 1 | Adolescent Tobacco Prevention Act of 1991 - Authorizes appropriations enabling the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make incentive grants to States which enact legislation prohibiting: (1) the sale of tobacco products to minors; (2) the sale of tobacco products in vending machines located on premises where the presence of minors is permitted; and (3) the distribution of free tobacco product samples. Amends the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act to require the Secretary to conduct an outreach program informing minors of the health hazards of smoking. Authorizes appropriations enabling the Secretary of Education to make incentive grants to States which enact legislation: (1) prohibiting minors from smoking in school buildings and on school grounds and buses; and (2) requiring schools to establish adult smoking areas that are separate from students and to protect students from exposure to smoke. | 2025-08-26T15:14:15Z | |
| 102-s-561 | 102 | s | 561 | Adolescent Tobacco Prevention Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-03-05 | 1991-03-05 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] | NJ | D | L000123 | 1 | Adolescent Tobacco Prevention Act of 1991 - Authorizes appropriations enabling the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make incentive grants to States which enact legislation prohibiting: (1) the sale of tobacco products to minors; (2) the sale of tobacco products in vending machines located on premises where the presence of minors is permitted; and (3) the distribution of free tobacco product samples. Amends the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act to require the Secretary to conduct an outreach program informing minors of the health hazards of smoking. Authorizes appropriations enabling the Secretary of Education to make incentive grants to States which enact legislation: (1) prohibiting minors from smoking in school buildings and on school grounds and buses; and (2) requiring schools to establish adult smoking areas that are separate from students and to protect students from exposure to smoke. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the tax on cigarettes for FY 1992 through 1996. Requires deposit of the increase in cigarette tax revenues into the Adolescent Tobacco Prevention Trust Fund from which incentive grant funds shall be obtained. Establishes such Fund. | 2025-08-26T15:15:06Z | |
| 102-hjres-154 | 102 | hjres | 154 | Designating the month of May 1991, as "National Foster Care Month". | Families | 1991-02-27 | 1991-05-20 | Became Public Law No: 102-47. | House | Rep. Matsui, Robert T. [D-CA-3] | CA | D | M000249 | 224 | Designates the month of May 1991 as National Foster Care Month. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-hr-1128 | 102 | hr | 1128 | To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to fund adolescent health demonstration projects. | Families | 1991-02-27 | 1991-03-11 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. | House | Rep. Collins, Cardiss [D-IL-7] | IL | D | C000634 | 3 | Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants in FY 1991 through 1995 for the establishment or support of adolescent health demonstration projects. Requires such projects to: (1) provide health care information and services, including related social services; (2) serve adolescents before their graduation from high school; (3) encourage family participation; and (4) establish community advisory committees. Directs the Secretary to give priority to project applicants who will serve areas with low-income or minority populations. States that no grant funds may be used to perform or pay for abortions. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | |
| 102-hr-1019 | 102 | hr | 1019 | Children in Care Data Collection Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-02-20 | 1991-10-03 | Executive Comment Received from HHS. | House | Rep. Sawyer, Tom [D-OH-14] | OH | D | S000094 | 0 | Children in Care Data Collection Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, at two-year intervals, to: (1) collect data regarding children who are in various types of institutions and foster care; (2) study such data to determine, separately with respect to children counted in specified categories, the amount of Federal financial assistance provided for their benefit; (3) consider such data and such studies for purposes of administering laws that affect children; and (4) report such data and study results to specified congressional officials, making such report available to the public. Directs the Bureau of Census to enter into a contract with the Secretary to conduct any statistical compilations or surveys necessary for such data collection. | 2025-08-26T15:15:53Z | |
| 102-sjres-73 | 102 | sjres | 73 | A joint resolution designating October 1991 as "National Domestic Violence Awareness Month". | Families | 1991-02-19 | 1991-10-03 | Became Public Law No: 102-114. | Senate | Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA] | PA | R | S000709 | 50 | Designates October 1991 as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-hjres-125 | 102 | hjres | 125 | To designate the week beginning November 24, 1991, and the week beginning November 22, 1992, each as "National Family Caregivers Week". | Families | 1991-02-06 | 1991-12-02 | Became Public Law No: 102-176. | House | Rep. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME-2] | ME | R | S000663 | 219 | Designates the weeks beginning November 24, 1991, and November 22, 1992, as National Family Caregivers Week. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-sjres-57 | 102 | sjres | 57 | A joint resolution to designate the month of May, 1991, as "National Foster Care Month". | Families | 1991-01-30 | 1991-01-30 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Thurmond, Strom [R-SC] | SC | R | T000254 | 52 | Designates the month of May 1991 as National Foster Care Month. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-sjres-52 | 102 | sjres | 52 | A joint resolution to designate the months of April 1991 and 1992 as "National Child Abuse Prevention Month". | Families | 1991-01-29 | 1991-02-28 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population. | Senate | Sen. DeConcini, Dennis [D-AZ] | AZ | D | D000185 | 61 | Designates the months of April 1991 and 1992 as National Child Abuse Prevention Month. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-s-212 | 102 | s | 212 | Domestic Violence Prevention Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-01-15 | 1991-01-15 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Coats, Daniel [R-IN] | IN | R | C000542 | 1 | Domestic Violence Prevention Act of 1991 - Title I: Amendment of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act - Amends the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) to add increasing public awareness as a purpose of State demonstration grants. Authorizes grants for public information campaigns regarding domestic violence. Requires a State grant recipient to establish a Commission on Domestic Violence. Limits law enforcement training grants to private nonprofit organizations that have certain experience. Mandates grants or contracts for the establishment of one national and five regional resource centers to provide training and other assistance concerning domestic violence. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Act. Requires grants to States to assist in becoming model demonstration States and in improving State leadership regarding certain domestic violence matters. Sets forth requirements for being designated as a model State. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Law Enforcement, Prosecution Grants, and Interstate Enforcement - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize competitive grants to States for use by States and local governments to assist in developing effective law enforcement and prosecution strategies to combat domestic violence and to reduce the rate of domestic violence. Authorizes appropriations. Amends Federal law to establish criminal penalties for interstate travel to commit spousal abuse or to violate protection orders. Allows temporary protection orders pending final adjudication of charges under these provisions. Mandates victim restitution. Requires a protection order by a court of one State to be accorded full faith and credit by the court of another State. Amends the FVPSA to prohibit a State or locality from being awarded a grant under the Act if, as a matter of law, policy, or practice, it discriminated against victims of family violence. Requires certification that this condition has been met. Amends the Victims of Crime Act of… | 2025-08-26T15:17:11Z | |
| 102-s-186 | 102 | s | 186 | Federal Adoption Services Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-01-14 | 1991-01-23 | Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Department of Health and Human Services. | Senate | Sen. Helms, Jesse [R-NC] | NC | R | H000463 | 0 | Federal Adoption Services Act of 1991 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to permit family planning projects to offer adoption services. Requires such services to be nondiscriminatory as to race, color, religion, or national origin. | 2025-08-26T15:14:28Z | |
| 102-s-4 | 102 | s | 4 | Child Welfare and Preventive Services Act | Families | 1991-01-14 | 1992-06-10 | Committee on Finance. Hearings held. | Senate | Sen. Bentsen, Lloyd M. [D-TX] | TX | D | B000401 | 31 | Child Welfare and Preventive Services Act - Title I: Provisions Relating to Child Welfare and Family Support - Amends part B (Child-Welfare Services) of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide Federal funds to enable States to plan, develop, or expand innovative programs of child welfare services and family support services in order to preserve and strengthen families and prevent the need for placement in foster care. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to authorize demonstration projects to improve the coordination of welfare services for families and children. Directs the Secretaries of HHS, Agriculture, and Education, and the Attorney General to: (1) review department policies to determine whether changes can be made without statutory changes to improve the funding and delivery of such services; and (2) issue a report to the Congress that includes recommendations for both legislative and nonlegislative changes to improve the coordination of the funding and delivery of such services. Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to set forth provisions to facilitate adoption, including provisions allowing States to disregard adoption assistance payments in determining a family's eligibility for the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program under part A. Directs the Secretary of HHS to establish an Advisory Committee on Foster Care Placement to study and make recommendations regarding the current requirement that States make reasonable efforts to prevent the need for removal of a child from home, and to make it possible for the child to return home, under State plans for foster care and adoption assistance. Requires that a child who is placed in foster care be placed in a setting that is most appropriate for that child. Authorizes demonstration projects to facilitate the reunification of children eligible for AFDC services with their families. Allows States to claim 90 percent Federal matching for… | 2025-08-26T15:15:07Z | |
| 102-sjres-8 | 102 | sjres | 8 | A joint resolution to authorize the President to issue a proclamation designating each of the weeks beginning on November 24, 1991, and November 22, 1992, as "National Family Week". | Families | 1991-01-14 | 1991-01-14 | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. | Senate | Sen. Burdick, Quentin N. [D-ND] | ND | D | B001077 | 51 | Authorizes and requests the President to designate the weeks beginning on November 24, 1991, and November 22, 1992, as National Family Week. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-hjres-60 | 102 | hjres | 60 | Designating August 12 through 18, 1991, as "National Parents of Murdered Children Week". | Families | 1991-01-09 | 1991-03-13 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population. | House | Rep. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY-10] | NY | D | S000148 | 1 | Designates the week of August 12 through August 18, 1991, as National Parents of Murdered Children Week. | 2024-02-06T20:04:02Z | |
| 102-hjres-23 | 102 | hjres | 23 | To authorize the President to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning on November 24, 1991 and November 22, 1992, as "National Family Week". | Families | 1991-01-03 | 1991-10-03 | Became Public Law No: 102-112. | House | Rep. Myers, John T. [R-IN-7] | IN | R | M001130 | 219 | Authorizes and requests the President to designate the weeks beginning on November 24, 1991, and November 22, 1992, as National Family Week. | 2025-07-21T19:32:26Z | |
| 102-hjres-39 | 102 | hjres | 39 | To provide for the designation of September 1, 1991, as "Working Mothers' Day". | Families | 1991-01-03 | 1991-03-13 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population. | House | Rep. Collins, Cardiss [D-IL-7] | IL | D | C000634 | 0 | Authorizes and requests the President to designate September 1, 1991, as Working Mothers' Day. | 2024-02-06T20:04:02Z | |
| 102-hr-279 | 102 | hr | 279 | To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to fund adolescent health demonstration projects. | Families | 1991-01-03 | 1991-02-11 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. | House | Rep. Collins, Cardiss [D-IL-7] | IL | D | C000634 | 0 | Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants in FY 1991 through 1995 for the establishment or support of adolescent health demonstration projects. Requires such projects to: (1) provide nutrition and hygiene counseling, health care related to sports, family planning information and services, prenatal and postpartum care, family life and parenting counseling, and alcohol and drug abuse education and treatment; (2) serve adolescents before their graduation from high school; (3) encourage family participation; and (4) establish community advisory committees. Directs the Secretary to give priority to project applicants who will serve areas with low-income or minority populations. States that no grant funds may be used to perform or pay for abortions. | 2024-02-05T14:30:09Z | |
| 102-hr-284 | 102 | hr | 284 | Child Care Coordination and Information Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-01-03 | 1991-02-08 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education. | House | Rep. Collins, Cardiss [D-IL-7] | IL | D | C000634 | 0 | Child Care Coordination and Information Act of 1991 - Directs the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Human Development Services, Administration for Children, Youth, and Families to coordinate all federally funded child care services. Directs the Office to: (1) require all federally funded child care programs to provide a description of services provided, the number of children served, the length of the waiting list, and the cost of the services; (2) establish and maintain a clearinghouse for the receipt of information pertaining to child care and child care services; (3) conduct a comprehensive analysis of the need for and availability of child care services in the United States; and (4) submit to the Congress a report on such analysis before the end of the one-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, and at the end of each succeeding three-year period. | 2025-08-26T15:16:20Z | |
| 102-hr-350 | 102 | hr | 350 | Quality Child Care Demonstration Act of 1991 | Families | 1991-01-03 | 1991-02-08 | Referred to the Subcommittee on Select Education. | House | Rep. Lagomarsino, Robert J. [R-CA-19] | CA | R | L000020 | 4 | Quality Child Care Demonstration Act of 1991 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to not more than 25 eligible public agencies and private entities, in urban and rural areas, to administer child development models to increase the quality and availability of child care services. Defines "child development model," with respect to child care services, as an entity capable of providing training and on-going assistance to satellites that provide child care services to sick children or exceptional children, and which is either: (1) a child care development center providing services at a single site (or at multiple sites in reasonably close proximity) to infants, toddlers, preschool children, and school-age children; or (2) a high quality child care program capable of recruiting, training, supporting, and monitoring family child care providers. Directs the Secretary to report by April 1, 1995, to the Congress on such program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 and 1994. | 2025-08-26T15:18:28Z |
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