Abandoned Infants Assistance Act Amendments of 1991

Summary

Abandoned Infants Assistance Act Amendments of 1991 - Amends the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1988 to revise and extend various grant programs. Adds as a goal of the comprehensive services under such Act to support of the family in the broadest sense to prevent abandonment of the child. Requires (currently authorizes) the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to make demonstration project grants for foster care and residential care for infants and young children abandoned in hospitals and for abandonment prevention programs. Includes the provision of services to all members of the natural family for any condition that increases the probability of abandonment of an infant or young child, under such demonstration projects to prevent abandonment. Includes coverage of medically fragile children and of the actual expenses of the persons receiving services under such demonstration projects for recruiting, training, and retaining foster families. Includes family support groups, parenting skills training, and various other services under such demonstration projects for natural and foster families of infants and children with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), and includes coverage for families of medically fragile children and youth under such provisions. Adds provisions for comprehensive service centers. Directs the Secretary to make demonstration grants from specified funds for a program for public entities to plan, coordinate, and establish model comprehensive service centers. Sets forth requirements for such centers and transition provisions. Requires the Secretary to make demonstration project grants under such Act, subject to availability of funds, for at least three-year periods, with two automatic extensions absent a finding of substantial nonperformance. Revises provisions for evaluations, studies, and reports by the Secretary under such Act. Provides that evaluations of demonstration projects shall be made with specified funds. Adds provisions for special needs dissemination. Directs the Secretary, from specified funds, to enter into contracts or cooperative agreements, with entities that have demonstrated appropriate expertise, to develop model projects for information assistance to special groups of individuals who: (1) show, on a national or State basis, disproportionate risk of dysfunctional behavior that will lead to abandonment of infants or young people covered under such Act, and (2) have been historically underserved in provision of such information. Sets forth contract requirements for types of information services and priorities to be given specified groups. Requires such contracts or agreements to be for at least three-year periods, with two additional consecutive one-year extensions absent a finding of substantial noncompliance. Defines the terms natural family and medically fragile for purposes of such Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 1995 under such Act for: (1) demonstration grants in general; (2) comprehensive service centers; (3) evaluations of demonstration projects; (4) special needs dissemination; and (5) administrative expenses, with specified limitations. Requires such funds to remain available until expended. Repeals a provision for program termination which prohibited any demonstration grant after FY 1991.

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• Reported in House (text)

  Reported in House · EN

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN

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• Passed House amended

  summary · EN · 19 November 1991

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• Reported to House amended, Part II

  summary · EN · 7 November 1991

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• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 19 September 1991

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 20 June 1991

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