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.
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Latest Action · July 27, 2023
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Family Poverty is Not Child Neglect Act
This bill requires states receiving grants for child protective services systems to ensure that such systems are not used to separate a child from the child's parent or guardian for reasons of poverty.
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