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2009 SESSION

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HB 2500 'A Place of My Own' Program; Department of Social Services to develop.

Introduced by: Jeion A. Ward | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Foster care; each child to be equipped with luggage.  Requires the Department of Social Services to identify and work together with faith-based, volunteer, private, and community-based organizations to develop and implement the "A Place of My Own" program, to seek and accept donations and coordinate the distribution of luggage for children in foster care. This bill provides that the Program may accept grants, gifts, donations, and bequests to support the program. This bill also creates the "A Place of My Own" Fund to consist of grants, donations, and bequests from public and private sources, to be used solely to support the activities of the Program.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Foster care; each child to be equipped with luggage.  Requires each local department to ensure that each child placed in foster care is equipped with luggage that shall become the property of the child and that shall remain the property of the child throughout the period during which the child remains in foster care.