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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-385
FIND AND PROTECT FOSTER YOUTH ACT
FEBRUARY 13, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. SMITH of Missouri, from the Committee on Ways and Means,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 2426]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2426) to amend part E of title IV of the Social Security
Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to iden-
tify obstacles to identifying and responding to reports of children
missing from foster care and other vulnerable foster youth, to pro-
vide technical assistance relating to the removal of such obstacles,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as
amended do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
I. SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND ............................................................. 4
A. Purpose and Summary ..................................................................... 4
B. Background and Need for Legislation ............................................. 4
C. Legislative History ........................................................................... 5
D. Designated Hearing ......................................................................... 6
II. EXPLANATION OF THE BILL ................................................................... 6
III. VOTE OF THE COMM ITTEE ...................................................................... 7
IV. BUDGET EFFECTS OF THE BILL ........................................................... 8
A. Committee Estimate of Budgetary Effects ..................................... 8
B. Statement Regarding New Budget Authority and Tax Expendi-
tures Budget Authority ................................................................. 8
V. COST ESTIMATE PREPARED BY THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET
O F F IC E ....................................................................................................... 8
VI. OTHER MATTERS TO BE DISCUSSED UNDER THE RULES OF
THE HOUSE .............................................................................................. 9
A. Committee Oversight Findings and Recommendations ................. 9
B. Statement of General Performance Goals and Objectives ............. 9
C. Information Relating to Unfunded Mandates ................................ 9
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