Sec. 102. Funding for kinship navigator programs
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Out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, there are appropriated to the Secretary, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 2020, for the purpose of making grants to each State and Indian tribe operating a State plan under part E of title IV of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 670 et seq.) for kinship navigator programs in accordance with this section. Such amounts shall be in addition to other amounts made available for such purposes. Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall— make grants from the amount appropriated by subsection
(a)in the same manner, and subject to the same minimum grant award amounts, as the Secretary awards grants for developing, enhancing, or evaluating kinship navigator programs from the amounts reserved for such purpose in the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 ( Public Law 116–94 ); and pay States and Indian tribes the grants so determined in the same manner as the Secretary pays grants for developing, enhancing, or evaluating kinship navigator programs from the amounts reserved for such purpose under such Act. Except to the extent otherwise provided in this section, a State and Indian tribe shall use the funds paid under this section in accordance with the requirements applicable to the grants awarded for developing, enhancing, or evaluating kinship navigator programs under the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 ( Public Law 116–94 ). A State and Indian tribe may use funds under this section to ensure kinship caregivers at acute risk with respect to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19) have access to information and resources for necessities, including food, safety supplies, and testing and treatment for COVID–19; technology and technological supports; and health care and other assistance, including legal assistance and assistance with making alternative care plans for the children in their care if they were to become unable to continue caring for them; and to provide services to kinship families, including kinship families raising children outside of the foster care system. A State and Indian tribe shall use funds paid under this section to conduct outreach to kinship families outside of the foster care system, including such families who have been impacted by the COVID–19 public health emergency, to ensure such families have access to the information, resources, supports, and assistance described in subparagraph (A). Any State or Indian tribe that does not have an existing kinship navigator program which is adequately suited to identify, or to meet the needs of, such families, shall partner with relevant community-based organizations or agencies, including Area Agencies on Aging, to conduct the required outreach to such families. No funds paid from a grant under this section shall be used to satisfy a matching contribution requirement of a federally funded program. The Secretary shall not impose any cash or in-kind matching requirement or require an application from a State or Indian tribe as a condition for being paid a grant under this section. Subject to subsection (f), funds from grants made under this section shall remain available for expenditure by the State or Indian tribe (as applicable) through September 30, 2022 (September 30, 2023, in the case of any funds redistributed under subsection (f)). Subsection
(d)of section 433 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 629c ) shall apply to the grants made under this section for fiscal year 2020 that remain unobligated on July 1, 2022, in the same manner as that subsection applies to the amounts from allotments made under subsections (a), (b), and
(c)of that section for a fiscal year except that, for purposes of redistributing funds from grants made under this section for fiscal year 2020, a State and Indian tribe shall not be required to make the certification referred to in such section 433(d) before July 1, 2022. Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, each State and Indian tribe paid funds from a grant made under this section shall submit a report to the Secretary detailing how the State or Indian tribe plans to use the funds in accordance with the requirements of this section. The report required under this subsection shall— include information on how grant funds are used to help kinship families impacted by the COVID–19 public health emergency and how the State, Indian tribe, or tribal organization collaborated with relevant community-based organizations or agencies, including Area Agencies on Aging, to reach kinship families raising children outside of the foster care system; and be in addition to, and may be combined with, other reports required under this Act or reports required under section 432(a)(8) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 629b(a)(8) ). The Secretary shall not delay making any payments (including the first payment required within 30 days of the date of enactment of this Act) to States and Indian tribes from the grants made under this section because of the report required under this paragraph. Each State and Indian tribe shall report on the actual expenditures made in a fiscal year using funds from a payment made under this section (including any payments of amounts reallotted). Each report on a fiscal year shall be submitted not later than June 30 of the succeeding fiscal year and shall include such information as the Secretary shall require regarding the actual expenditures of such funds. The Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a summary of the reports submitted under paragraphs
(1)and
(2)not later than 60 days after the date on which the reports are due. The summaries required under this paragraph may be combined with the other summaries required to be submitted to such committees under this Act.
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