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This Act may be cited as the or the Saving Our Next Generation Act SONG Act . The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings; sense of the Senate. TITLE I—Leadership activities Subtitle A—General programs for children Sec. 101. President's Commission on Children. Sec. 102. Strengthening the social capital of local communities. Sec. 103. Minimum wage increases. Sec. 104. Permanent extension and modifications to child tax credit.
Sec. 105. Modifications to earned income tax credit. Sec. 106. Assets for Independence Act. Sec. 107. Community Services Block Grant program. Sec. 108. Grants for working groups on children. Subtitle B—Children’s Savings Accounts Sec. 110. Definitions. Part I—Amendments to the Social Security Act Sec. 111. Interest in, and distribution from, a qualified tuition program required to be disregarded under the TANF program. Sec. 112. Exclusion of interest in, and distribution from, a qualified tuition program from resources under the SSI program.
Sec. 113. Child’s savings account required to be disregarded under the TANF program. Sec. 114. Exclusion of child’s savings account from resources under the SSI program. Part II—Amendment to the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 Sec. 121. Exclusion of child’s savings accounts from resources under the supplemental nutrition assistance program. Part III—Amendment to Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 Sec. 131. Exclusion of child’s savings accounts from resources under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
Subtitle C—Family and medical leave Part I—Inclusion Sec. 141. Leave to care for a same-sex spouse, domestic partner, parent-in-law, adult child, sibling, grandchild, or grandparent. Sec. 142. Leave for civil service employees to care for same-sex spouse, domestic partner, partner-in-law, adult child, sibling, grandchild, or grandparent. Part II—Family involvement leave Sec. 151. Family involvement leave. Sec. 152. Family involvement leave for civil service employees. Part III—Leave for addressing domestic violence Sec. 161.
Leave for addressing domestic violence. Sec. 162. Leave for addressing domestic violence for civil service employees. Part IV—Bereavement leave Sec. 171. Bereavement leave. Sec. 172. Bereavement leave for civil service employees. TITLE II—Health programs Subtitle A—Ensuring Access Sec. 201. Coordination and extension of funding for demonstration project to address health professions workforce needs and maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting programs. Sec. 202. Health and dental providers.
Sec. 203. Direct certification for programs with overlapping eligibility. Sec. 204. GAO report. Sec. 205. Assuring coverage continuity for former foster care children up to age 26. Sec. 206. Drug treatment for juveniles. Subtitle B—Strengthen Children's Health Insurance Program
(CHIP)Sec. 211. References; effective date. Part I—Coverage Stability and Reduced Bureaucracy Sec. 221. Assuring care continuity during transitions among CHIP, Medicaid, and qualified health plans. Sec. 222. State flexibility to provide for continuous eligibility. Sec. 223. Outreach to targeted populations. Part II—Benefits and Affordability Sec. 231. Ensuring coverage of preventive health services under Medicaid and CHIP. Part III—Continuing Delivery System Reform Sec. 241. Supporting evidence-based care coordination in communities. Sec. 242. Ensuring care coordination for children. Part IV—Miscellaneous Sec. 251. Inclusion of therapeutic foster care as medical assistance. Subtitle C—Promoting Accountability and Excellence in Child Welfare Sec. 261. Child Welfare Innovation Grant Program. Sec. 262. Ensuring that child welfare Federal discretionary funding is only used for evidence-based programs. Sec. 263. Continuation of authority to approve demonstration projects designed to test innovative strategies in State child welfare programs. Sec. 264. Reports to Congress. TITLE III—Education Sec. 301. Definitions. Subtitle A—Presidential Task Force on K–12 Education Sec. 311. Establishing the Presidential Task Force on K–12 Education. Subtitle B—Pupils prepared for school Sec. 321. Definitions. Part I—Preschool home learning Sec. 322. Parental support for preschool home learning. Part II—Grants supporting universal prekindergarten for all eligible children Sec. 323. Universal prekindergarten development grants to States. Sec. 324. Two years of voluntary, high-quality, full-day, universal prekindergarten for all eligible children. Part III—Improving access to prekindergarten programs for low-Income children Sec. 325. Low-income prekindergarten grants. Part IV—Head Start, Early Head Start, and Even Start Sec. 326. Expanding Head Start and Early Head Start services. Sec. 327. Improving reading skills of low-income children and families through reauthorizing the William F. Goodling Even Start Family Literacy Program. Subtitle C—Elementary school and secondary school programs Part I—Expanded school calendars Sec. 331. Demonstration grants for States to implement expanded school calendar program. Part II—Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Sec. 335. Short title. Sec. 336. Purposes. Sec. 337. Grants for State and local activities for the education of pregnant and parenting students. Sec. 338. Local educational agency subgrants for the education of pregnant and parenting students. Sec. 339. Conversion to categorical program in event of failure of State regarding expenditure of grants. Sec. 340. National activities. Sec. 341. Effect on Federal and State nondiscrimination laws. Sec. 342. Adding pregnant and parenting data to State report cards. Sec. 343. Authorization of appropriations. Part III—Healthy food, nutrition education, and physical activity Sec. 351. Health education and physical education as core academic subjects. Sec. 352. Allowing funds under the Carol M. White Physical Education Program to be used for additional healthy eating activities. Sec. 353. Enhancing school nutrition. Sec. 354. Allowing teacher and principal training and recruitment funds to be used for instruction in nutrition, fitness, and wellness. Part IV—Education and academic support Sec. 356. Evaluation and identification of best practices regarding education and academic support. Sec. 357. Best practice replication grants. Sec. 358. Study on extended learning time models. Subtitle D—Business Engagement in Schools Sec. 361. Reauthorizing the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006. Sec. 362. Interagency committee. Subtitle E—Support for parents Sec. 371. State and local parenting grant programs. Subtitle F—College affordability Sec. 376. Student loan refinancing. Sec. 377. Publicity of the public loan repayment plan for public service employees. Sec. 378. Student loans allowed to be discharged in bankruptcy. Sec. 379. Requirements for private educational lenders regarding discharge of student loans. Sec. 380. Prohibitions for consumer reporting agencies and furnishers of information to consumer reporting agencies related to private education loans. Sec. 381. Entrance counseling assessment. Sec. 382. National grant to develop and pilot measures of accountability for value and cost-effectiveness in higher education.