H.R. 8233: Court Improvement Equity Act

117th Congress · introduced 2022-06-24 · Families · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.

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Where it came from: introduced 2022-06-24 · official record
Who proposed it: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large] · what a sponsor is
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Official title

Court Improvement Equity Act

Plain summary

Court Improvement Equity Act This bill allows the Northern Mariana Islands to access state grant funds for child welfare court improvements in foster care and adoption proceedings under the Court Improvement Program (CIP). Under current law, the Northern Mariana Islands may not receive a CIP grant because the CIP program requires that a participating state or U.S. territory be eligible to operate a Title IV-E program (i.e., be eligible to receive federal payments for the provision of foster care and adoption assistance). This bill allows the Northern Mariana Islands, the only U.S. territory not currently eligible for the Title IV-E program, to participate in the CIP program.

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Official text

Court Improvement Equity Act

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Sponsor: Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho [D-MP-At Large] · 14 cosponsors

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Gwen Moore (D-WI), Stacey E. Plaskett (D-VI), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), J. Luis Correa (D-CA), Jim Costa (D-CA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Don Bacon (R-NE), Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS)

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Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-117hr8233.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/hr>

Record fed-us-cong117-hr8233 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117