XBRL Mandated in US Child Welfare Fund Reporting

U.S. President Obama signed the Children and Family Services Innovation and Improvement Act, H.R. 2883, which specifically references XBRL.

The text of the new law is here: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxmlc112/h2883_rds.xml

The data standardization provision is in Section 105 which amends the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to designate common data elements and common data reporting standards to govern the reports that states must submit to the Federal government on how they spend child welfare funds that they receive from the Federal government.  The provision expressly requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to “incorporate existing nonproprietary standards, such as the eXtensible Business Reporting Language.”