To amend the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to ensure that child protective services systems do not permit the separation of children from parents on the basis of poverty, and for other purposes.

United States115th CongressHR-6233House of Representatives
Updated: Jun 26, 2018

Summary

Family Poverty is Not Child Neglect Act This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that grants given to states for child protective services systems are not used to separate a child from the child's parent for reasons of poverty.

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Timeline

  1. Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

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  2. Introduced in House

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