Removing Barriers to Foster Youth Success in College Act

I 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 2270 To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require assurances by recipients of assistance under section 402B or 402C of that Act with respect to activities for homeless children and youths and foster care children and youth, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES APRIL 10, 2019 Mr. MITCHELL (for himself, Mr. BACON, and Mr. CARBAJAL) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor A BILL To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require assurances by recipients of assistance under section 402B or 402C of that Act with respect to activities for homeless children and youths and foster care children and youth, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Removing Barriers to 4 Foster Youth Success in College Act’’. 5 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:13 Apr 23, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2270.IH H2270 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 2 •HR 2270 IH SEC. 2. TALENT SEARCH. 1 Section 402B(d) of the Higher Education Act of 2 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070a–12(d)) is amended— 3 (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘and’’ after 4 the semicolon; 5 (2) in paragraph (4), by striking the period at 6 the end and inserting a semicolon; and 7 (3) by adding at the end the following: 8 ‘‘(5) require an assurance that the entity car- 9 rying out the project has reviewed and revised poli- 10 cies and practices as needed to remove barriers to 11 the participation and retention in the project of 12 homeless children and youths (as such term is de- 13 fined in section 725 of the McKinney-Vento Home- 14 less Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11434a)), including 15 unaccompanied youths, and foster care children and 16 youth; 17 ‘‘(6) require that such entity submit, as part of 18 the application for the project, a description of the 19 activities that will be undertaken to reach out to 20 homeless children and youths and foster care chil- 21 dren and youth as part of the project; and 22 ‘‘(7) require an assurance that such entity will 23 prepare and submit the report required under sec- 24 tion 402H(e) at the conclusion of the project regard- 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:13 Apr 23, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2270.IH H2270 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 3 •HR 2270 IH ing homeless children and youths and foster care 1 children and youth.’’. 2 SEC. 3. UPWARD BOUND. 3 Section 402C(e) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 4 (20 U.S.C. 1070a–13(e)) is amended— 5 (1) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘and’’ after 6 the semicolon; 7 (2) in paragraph (5), by striking the period at 8 the end and inserting a semicolon; and 9 (3) by adding at the end the following: 10 ‘‘(6) require an assurance that the entity car- 11 rying out the project has reviewed and revised poli- 12 cies and practices as needed to remove barriers to 13 the participation and retention in the project of 14 homeless children and youths (as such term is de- 15 fined in section 725 of the McKinney-Vento Home- 16 less Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11434a)), including 17 unaccompanied youths, and foster care children and 18 youth; 19 ‘‘(7) require that such entity submit, as part of 20 the application, a description of the activities that 21 will be undertaken to reach out to homeless children 22 and youths and foster care children and youth re- 23 garding the project; and 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:13 Apr 23, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2270.IH H2270 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 4 •HR 2270 IH ‘‘(8) require an assurance that such entity will 1 prepare and submit the report required under sec- 2 tion 402H(e) at the conclusion of the project regard- 3 ing homeless children and youths and foster care 4 children and youth.’’. 5 SEC. 4. REPORTS AND EVALUATIONS. 6 Section 402H of the Higher Education Act of 1965 7 (20 U.S.C. 1070a–18) is amended by adding at the end 8 the following: 9 ‘‘(e) REPORTS REGARDING HOMELESS CHILDREN 10 AND YOUTHS AND FOSTER CARE CHILDREN AND 11 YOUTH.— 12 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each entity carrying out a 13 project under section 402B or 402C shall, at the 14 conclusion of the project, prepare and submit a re- 15 port to the Secretary that includes— 16 ‘‘(A) data on the number of homeless chil- 17 dren and youths (as such term is defined in sec- 18 tion 725 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless As- 19 sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11434a)) and foster 20 care children and youth served through the 21 project; and 22 ‘‘(B) a description of any strategies or pro- 23 gram enhancements that were used in the 24 project and that were effective in meeting the 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:13 Apr 23, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2270.IH H2270 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 5 •HR 2270 IH needs of homeless children and youths and fos- 1 ter care children and youth. 2 ‘‘(2) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary 3 annually shall submit to the Congress a report sum- 4 marizing the information provided in the reports 5 submitted under paragraph (1).’’. 6 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:13 Apr 23, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H2270.IH H2270 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS