➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
US: House Ways and Means introduces bill that would reauthorize home visitation program
National Association of Counties – June 13, 2017
On June 8, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee’s Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) introduced the Increasing Opportunity through Evidence-Based Home Visiting Act (H.R. 2824), a bill that would reauthorize the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program at the current level of $400 million per year for Fiscal Years (FYs) 2018 through 2022. MIECHV is currently set to expire at the end of September 2017.
Also: GOP Solo Act on Home Visiting Stuns Advocates: https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/child-welfare-2/gop-solo-act-home-visiting-stuns-advocates/27213
Information Gateway resource: Home Visiting: https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/preventing/prevention-programs/homevisit/
http://www.naco.org/blog/house-ways-and-means-introduces-bill-would-reauthorize-home-visitation-program