Sec. 202. Ensuring foster youth have a birth certificate, Social Security card, and a bank account
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Section 475(5)(I) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 675(5)(I) ) is amended— by striking and receives assistance and inserting receives assistance ; and by inserting before the period, the following: and is not discharged from care without being provided with an official birth certificate, a social security card issued by the Commissioner of Social Security, and a fee-free (or low-fee) transaction account (as defined in section 19(b)(1)(C) of the Federal Reserve Act ( . 12 U.S.C. 461(b)(1)(C) )) established in the child's name at an insured depository institution (as defined in section 3 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act ( 12 U.S.C. 1813 )) or an insured credit union (as defined in section 101 of the Federal Credit Union Act ( 12 U.S.C. 1752 )), unless the child, after consultation with the child's selected members of the child's case planning team (if any), elects to not have such an account established Section 474 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 674), as amended by sections 104(b) and 106(a), is amended by adding at the end the following:
If the Secretary finds with respect to a fiscal year quarter that a State has failed to comply with the requirement under section 475(5)(I) to provide each child in foster care under the responsibility of the State with an official birth certificate, a social security card issued by the Commissioner of Social Security, and a fee-free (or low-fee) transaction account (as defined in section 19(b)(1)(C) of the Federal Reserve Act ( 12 U.S.C. 461(b)(1)(C) )) established in the child's name at an insured depository institution (as defined in section 3 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act ( 12 U.S.C. 1813 )) or an insured credit union (as defined in section 101 of the Federal Credit Union Act ( 12 U.S.C. 1752 )) before the child is discharged from such care, (unless the child elects, after consultation with the child's selected members of the child's case planning team (if any), to not have such an account established) then, notwithstanding subsection
(a)of this section and any regulations promulgated under section 1123A(b)(3), the Secretary shall reduce the Federal matching percentage for expenditures described in subsection (a)(3)(E) for the succeeding fiscal year quarter by 1 percentage point for every multiple of 10 children for whom the Secretary determines the State failed to comply with such requirements (but not to exceed 25 percentage points). . The amendments made by this section take effect on October 1, 2015.
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