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Welfare (Social Services)
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  • HB 3 Screened Family Day Home Provider List; created.
  • HB 98 Medicaid; eligibility for young adults transitioning from foster care.
  • HB 138 Adoption; filing of petition.
  • HB 149 Independent living services & arrangements; requires inclusion of plan for children 14 yrs. & older.
  • HB 210 Private schools and child day centers; armed security officers may carry firearms onto property.
  • HB 251 Adult Fatality Review Team; created, report.
  • HB 276 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); noncash benefits.
  • HB 285 Adoptions; consent revocation period for parental placement.
  • HB 286 Income tax credit, earned; Department of Social Services to provide notice to all applicants.
  • HB 289 Rental assistance pilot project; Department of Housing and Community Development to establish.
  • HB 316 Neighborhood Assistance Act; organization to make available to donors balance of tax credit.
  • HB 365 Substance abuse screening; person become ineligible for public assistance if using illegal drugs.
  • HB 439 Aliens, certain; eligibility for state and local public benefits.
  • HB 478 Child Day-Care Council; appoints one representative of YMCA to Council.
  • HB 503 Comprehensive Services Act; Executive Council oversee development of services for at-risk children.
  • HB 610 Hate crimes; adds homeless persons to categories of acts.
  • HB 680 Neighborhood Assistance Act; moves tax credit program to taxation.
  • HB 700 Child support; responsibility of incarcerated obligor.
  • HB 760 Mentally retarded; replaces term with intellectually disabled.
  • HB 806 Infectious diseases; residential or day program, etc. licensed by State to report cases.
  • HB 811 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); waiver of ineligibility period.
  • HB 812 Foster Care Scholarship Program and Fund; created.
  • HB 813 Independent living services; person shall not become ineligible for services upon refusing.
  • HB 825 Foster & adoption workers; Department of Social Services to establish minimum training requirments.
  • HB 850 Foster care; require code of ethics agreement signed by head of every foster home, etc.
  • HB 857 Adult Fatality Review Team; created, report.
  • HB 861 Caregivers Grant Program; physician assistant or nurse practitioner to certify.
  • HB 871 Marriage and family programs; Department of Social Services to establish.
  • HB 946 Adoption; period of validity of home study.
  • HB 1026 Public benefits; restrictions on granting.
  • HB 1067 School employees; school board to develop policies to address complaints of sexual abuse thereby.
  • HB 1141 Foster care; independent living services.
  • HB 1143 Foster care; visitation rights for siblings.
  • HB 1174 Immigrant Assistance, Office of; created.
  • HB 1190 Infant mortality; requires certain measures designed to lower.
  • HB 1242 School employees; prohibits employment if subject of a founded case of child abuse and neglect.
  • HB 1257 Child support enforcement; establishing Intensive Case Monitoring pilot programs.
  • HB 1321 Foster care; transition plan for children 16 years of age or older.
  • HB 1382 Social Services, Department of; nonattorney employees to complete, sign, and file petitions, etc.
  • HB 1387 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); waiver of ineligibility period.
  • HB 1401 Child support; administrative fees.
  • HB 1439 School employees; school board to develop policies to address complaints of sexual abuse thereby.
  • HB 1461 Assisted living facilities; exempting certain from requirement to have license.
  • HB 1463 Group homes; no more than eight mentally ill, disabled, etc. to reside therein.
  • HB 1489 Foster care plan; eliminates requirement for child placed out of his home be filed by public agency.
  • HB 1530 Foster children; placement of siblings together.
  • HJ 93 Foster care; Department of Social Services to study and develop code of ethics and responsibilty.
  • SB 15 Income tax credit, earned; Department of Social Services to provide notice to all applicants.
  • SB 22 Foster care background check; fingerprints required for an individual with whom child may be placed.
  • SB 27 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); time limit on receipt thereof.
  • SB 36 Child support; administrative fees.
  • SB 171 Adoption; former adoptive parent who stood in loco parentis may petition to adopt child.
  • SB 228 Child abuse and neglect; emergency medical services personnel added to list of mandatory reporters.
  • SB 241 School employees; school board to develop policies to address complaints of sexual abuse thereby.
  • SB 249 Independent living services & arrangements; requires inclusion of plan for children 14 yrs. & older.
  • SB 250 Independent living service & arrangements; require inclusion of plan for persons until 21 yrs.
  • SB 251 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); waiver of ineligibility period.
  • SB 296 TANF; eligibility for food stamps when convicted of drug-related felonies.
  • SB 387 Guardian ad litem; mandatory reporting of child abuse or neglect, exception.
  • SB 404 Substance abuse screening; person become ineligible for public assistance if using illegal drugs.
  • SB 463 Infectious diseases; residential or day program, etc. licensed by State to report cases.
  • SB 472 Group homes & residential facilities for children; regulations for licensure of programs offered.
  • SB 482 Data collection; Executive Council to oversee development & implementation of program therefor.
  • SB 483 Comprehensive Services Act; Executive Council to oversee development, etc. of performance measures.
  • SB 487 Comprehensive Services Act; Executive Council oversee development of services for at-risk children.
  • SB 493 Foster & adoption workers; Department of Social Services to establish minimum training requirments.
  • SB 497 Abraham's law; definition of abused or neglected child.
  • SB 620 Mentally retarded; replaces term with intellectually disabled.
  • SB 629 Child support; tolling thereof for incarcerated parents.
  • SB 630 Child support; accrual of interest on debts due.
  • SB 637 Child abuse; animal control officers required to report.
  • SB 642 TANF; eligibility for food stamps when convicted of drug-related felonies.
  • SB 643 Foster care; require code of ethics agreement signed by head of every foster home, etc.
  • SB 687 Mentally retarded; replaces term with intellectually disabled.
  • SB 700 Neighborhood Assistance Act; changes tax credit program.
  • SB 738 Adult protective services; reporting of suspected financial abuse of elderly & dependent persons.
  • SB 761 Rental assistance pilot project; Department of Housing and Community Development to establish.
  • SJ 74 Foster care families; Department of Social Services to study options for increasing number in State.
  • SJ 75 Comprehensive Services Program for At-Risk Youth & Families Program; Joint Subcommittee Studying.
  • SJ 98 Foster care; Department of Social Services to study and develop code of ethics and responsibilty.