Fostering Service Act of 2002

Fostering Service Act of 2002 - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to authorize additional appropriations to: (1) include youth who are aging out of foster care among those to be given opportunities for participating in various national service programs (NSPs); (2) make eligible as an NSP a community service program designed to engage former foster care youth as mentors for such youth; (3) authorize training to improve the ability of NSPs to recruit, retain, and integrate such youth as participants in NSPs; (4) assist such youth-participants in making the transition to independent living; and (5) include State and local agencies that provide services to youth in foster care and youth aging out of foster care among the entities through which the Corporation for National and Community Service and State commissions disseminate information on available approved national service positions.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2658 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2658

 To amend subtitle C of title I of the National and Community Service 
Act of 1990 to give more youth aging out of foster care the opportunity 
  to participate in national service programs, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 20, 2002

 Mrs. Clinton (for herself, Mr. Edwards, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Lieberman, 
 and Mr. Dodd) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend subtitle C of title I of the National and Community Service 
Act of 1990 to give more youth aging out of foster care the opportunity 
  to participate in national service programs, 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 ``Fostering Service Act of 2002''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE ACT OF 1990.

    The National and Community Service Act of 1990 is amended--
            (1) in section 101 (42 U.S.C. 12511), by adding at the end 
        the following:
            ``(30) Youth aging out of foster care.--The term `youth 
        aging out of foster care' means children who are--
                    ``(A) leaving foster care because such children 
                have attained the maximum age for foster care 
                eligibility in a State; and
                    ``(B) transitioning to independent living, as 
                determined by the Corporation.'';
            (2) in section 122(a) (42 U.S.C. 12572(a))--
                    (A) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ``too old for 
                foster care,'' and inserting ``too old for foster care, 
                youth aging out of foster care,'';
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (15) as paragraph 
                (16); and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (14) the 
                following:
            ``(15) A community service program designed to engage 
        former foster care youth as mentors for youth aging out of 
        foster care.'';
            (3) in section 125(a) (42 U.S.C. 12575(a))--
                    (A) in paragraph (5), by striking ``and'';
                    (B) in paragraph (6), by striking the period at the 
                end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(7) improve the ability of national service programs--
                    ``(A) to recruit and retain youth aging out of 
                foster care as participants in such programs; and
                    ``(B) to integrate such youth with other 
                participants in such programs.'';
            (4) in section 130(b)(5) (42 U.S.C. 12582(b)(5)), by 
        striking ``disabilities and economically disadvantaged young 
        men and women'' and inserting ``disabilities, economically 
        disadvantaged young men and women, and youth aging out of 
        foster care'';
            (5) in section 131(b)(2) (42 U.S.C. 12583(b)(2))--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) to those participants who are youth aging out 
                of foster care to assist such participants in making 
                the transition to independent living; and'';
            (6) in section 138(d) (42 U.S.C. 12592(d)), in the second 
        sentence, by striking ``offices,'' and inserting ``offices, 
        State and local agencies that provide services to youth in 
        foster care and youth aging out of foster care,''; and
            (7) in section 501(a)(2)(A) (42 U.S.C. 12681(a)(2)(A)), by 
        adding at the end the following: ``The amounts authorized to be 
        appropriated under this subparagraph shall include an 
        additional amount of $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2003 to carry 
        out the amendments made by the Fostering Service Act of 
        2002.''.
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