The Health and Human Services Department would have to help states and tribes locate missing foster children under the House amendment to
States and tribes must develop protocols to report and find missing foster children under federal law. But states failed to report nearly 34,900 cases of missing foster children from July 2018 through December 2020, according to an HHS inspector general report released last year.
Under the measure, HHS’ Office of the Administration for Children and Families would have to evaluate state and tribal protocols and help improve them, including by identifying whether children who ...