SECTION 1. Short Title.
This Act may be cited as the “Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act”.
Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act
An Act
To prevent and address sex trafficking of children in foster care, to extend and improve adoption incentives, and to improve international child support recovery.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SEC. 2. Table of Contents.
The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Sec. 3. References.
TITLE I— PROTECTING CHILDREN AND YOUTH AT RISK OF SEX TRAFFICKING
Subtitle A— Identifying and Protecting Children and Youth at Risk of Sex Trafficking
Sec. 101. Identifying, documenting, and determining services for children and youth at risk of sex trafficking.
Sec. 102. Reporting instances of sex trafficking.
Sec. 103. Including sex trafficking data in the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System.
Sec. 104. Locating and responding to children who run away from foster care.
Sec. 105. Increasing information on children in foster care to prevent sex trafficking.
Subtitle B— Improving Opportunities for Children in Foster Care and Supporting Permanency
Sec. 111. Supporting normalcy for children in foster care.
Sec. 112. Improving another planned permanent living arrangement as a permanency option.
Sec. 113. Empowering foster children age 14 and older in the development of their own case plan and transition planning for a successful adulthood.
Sec. 114. Ensuring foster children have a birth certificate, Social Security card, health insurance information, medical records, and a driver’s license or equivalent State-issued identification card.
Sec. 115. Information on children in foster care in annual reports using AFCARS data; consultation.
Subtitle C— National Advisory Committee
Sec. 121. Establishment of a national advisory committee on the sex trafficking of children and youth in the United States.
TITLE II— IMPROVING ADOPTION INCENTIVES AND EXTENDING FAMILY CONNECTION GRANTS
Subtitle A— Improving Adoption Incentive Payments
Sec. 201. Extension of program through fiscal year 2016.
Sec. 202. Improvements to award structure.
Sec. 203. Renaming of program.
Sec. 204. Limitation on use of incentive payments.
Sec. 205. Increase in period for which incentive payments are available for expenditure.
Sec. 206. State report on calculation and use of savings resulting from the phase-out of eligibility requirements for adoption assistance; requirement to spend 30 percent of savings on certain services.
Sec. 207. Preservation of eligibility for kinship guardianship assistance payments with a successor guardian.
Sec. 208. Data collection on adoption and legal guardianship disruption and dissolution.
Sec. 209. Encouraging the placement of children in foster care with siblings.
Sec. 210. Effective dates.
Subtitle B— Extending the Family Connection Grant Program
Sec. 221. Extension of family connection grant program.
TITLE III— IMPROVING INTERNATIONAL CHILD SUPPORT RECOVERY
Sec. 301. Amendments to ensure access to child support services for international child support cases.
Sec. 302. Child support enforcement programs for Indian tribes.
Sec. 303. Sense of the Congress regarding offering of voluntary parenting time arrangements.
Sec. 304. Data exchange standardization for improved interoperability.
Sec. 305. Report to Congress.
Sec. 306. Required electronic processing of income withholding.
TITLE IV— BUDGETARY EFFECTS
Sec. 401. Determination of budgetary effects.
SEC. 3. References.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, wherever in this Act an amendment is expressed in terms of an amendment to a section or other provision, the amendment shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the Social Security Act.