Preventing Youth Sex Trafficking, Increasing Adoption Incentives, and Ensuring International Child Support (H.R. 4980)
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What is H.R. 4980?
(Updated September 8, 2019)
This bill was enacted on September 29, 2014
This bill is a bipartisan mashup of six other bills, three of which were already approved by the House, and three of which were already approved by the Senate. This bill addresses three topics: youth sex trafficking, adoption incentives, and international child support recovery. The bill aims at improving measures to prevent the first and enhance the second and third. More details are below.
Argument in favor
Strengthens a broad range of services meant to protect children. Bipartisan and bicameral.
Argument opposed
Fails to provide minors in foster care with essential ID, such as birth certificates, for cost reasons.
Impact
The bill impacts youth sex trafficking prevention, adoption incentives, and international child support.
Cost of H.R. 4980
The CBO estimates $124 million in spending over the 2014-2024 period.
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Title I: Protecting Youth at Risk of Sex Trafficking
- Requires state child welfare agencies to identify, document, and determine appropriate services for children in foster care or who are otherwise involved in the child welfare system who are victims of child sex trafficking or at risk of becoming victims.
- Requires state child welfare agencies to promote "normalcy" for youth in foster care so these children can more easily participate in age appropriate social, scholastic and enrichment activities.
Title II: Improving Adoption Incentives
- Improves the adoption incentives program and extends it for three years.
Title III: Improving International Child Support Recovery
- Requires states to make necessary changes to implement the Hague Convention in enforcing international child support cases, increasing the amount of child support collected for families.
- Requires data standardization within the child support enforcement program, improving administration. This would streamline the child support programs with TANF, child welfare, Unemployment Insurance and SNAP.
- Requires all states to implement electronic processing of income withholding, as most states already do; this will improve the collection of child support and save taxpayers $48 million over 10 years.
- Creates a task force to explore ways to improve the effectiveness of the child support enforcement program.
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