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 for reasons of poverty.
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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Family Poverty is Not Child Neglect 
Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS TO STATES FOR CHILD ABUSE OR NEGLECT PREVENTION AND 
              TREATMENT PROGRAMS.

    Section 106(a) of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (42 
U.S.C. 5106a(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``neglect;'' and 
        inserting ``neglect, ensuring that reports concerning a child's 
        living arrangements or subsistence needs are addressed through 
        services and benefits and that no child is separated from the 
        child's parent for reasons of poverty;''; and
            (2) in paragraph (4), by striking ``response;'' and 
        inserting ``response, except that such system, tools, and 
        protocols shall not authorize the separation of any child from 
        the child's parent or guardian on the basis of poverty;''.
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Family Poverty is Not Child Neglect Act
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
Rep. Moore, Gwen