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Improving Services for Older Youth in Foster Care Act
(Sec. 2) This bill amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to revise the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program to:
authorize states electing to extend foster care eligibility up to age 21 to extend assistance and services to youths who have aged out of foster care but have not yet reached age 23,
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 2847 as passed House without amendment on Jun 20, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Jun 20, 2017
Improving Services for Older Youth in Foster Care Act
Passed · Two-thirds required
391 Yea 8 Nay 31 not voting
Crossed both parties 8 of 399 voting members broke with their own party: 8 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
430 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 2847 and vote against it. 2 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 2847 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
9 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.