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.
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.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
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