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  SA 874. Ms. LANDRIEU (for herself and Mr. Grassley) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the concurrent resolution 
S. Con. Res. 13, setting forth the congressional budget for the United 
States Government for fiscal year 2010, revising the appropriate 
budgetary levels for fiscal year 2009, and setting forth the 
appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2011 through 2014; as 
follows:

       At the end of title II, insert the following:

     SEC. __. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR FOSTER CARE 
                   FINANCING REFORM.

       The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may 
     revise the allocations of a committee or committees, 
     aggregates, and other appropriate levels and limits in this 
     resolution for one or more bills, joint resolutions, 
     amendments, motions, or conference reports that would--

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       (1) change the Federal foster care payment system from a 
     system that supports programs to one that supports children, 
     whatever their best placement may be, and one that promotes 
     permanency for children;
       (2) when it is determined to be in the best interests of 
     the child, promote and improve family support, family 
     preservation, including residential family treatment for 
     families suffering from substance abuse and addiction, and 
     time-limited family reunification services;
       (3) provide for subsidies and support programs that are 
     available to support the needs of the children prior to 
     removal, during removal, and post placement, whether through 
     reunification, adoption, kinship adoption, or guardianship;
       (4) promote innovation and best practice at the State 
     level; and
       (5) guarantee that public funds are used to effectively 
     meet the needs of children who have been abused or neglected;

     by the amounts provided in such legislation for those 
     purposes, provided that such legislation would not increase 
     the deficit over either the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2014 or the period of the total of fiscal 
     years 2009 through 2019.
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