US Congress Senate Bill 2224 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on October 29 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-10-29 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: Senate Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Child Poverty Reduction Act of 2015 This bill establishes in the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Federal Interagency Working Group on Reducing Child Poverty. The Working Group as its primary goal shall develop a national plan to reduce: within 10 years the number of children living in poverty in the United States to half the number cited in the report of the U.S. Census Bureau on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2013; within the same 10 years the number of children living in extreme poverty in the United States to zero; and within 20 years the number of children living in poverty, extreme or otherwise, in the United States to zero. HHS shall enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences for two public workshops to provide the Working Group with information to assist in the development of the plan.

Child Poverty Reduction Act of 2015

Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]

Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]

Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-10-29	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

HB2408 (Related) 2015-05-19 - Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2224/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s2224/BILLS-114s2224is.pdf