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2013 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
Subcommittee Social Services

Hanger (Chairman), Herring, Reeves

Clerk: Maryann Horch, Eric Bingham
Staff: Sarah Stanton
Date of Meeting: January 23, 2013
Time and Place: 3 East-General Assembly Building, 1/2 hour after adjournment

H.B. 1646 Comprehensive services for at-risk youth and families; eligibility for state pool of funds.

Patron: Bell, Richard P.

Comprehensive services for at-risk youth and families; eligibility for state pool of funds. Clarifies eligibility requirements for funds from the state pool of funds for comprehensive services for at-risk youth and families, making clear that a child who has been placed through an agreement between his parents and a public agency other than the local department of social services, or who is receiving foster care services to prevent foster care placement, is eligible for funds from the state pool.

H.B. 1683 Comprehensive Services, Office of; reporting expenditures for children receiving services.

Patron: Bell, Richard P.

Office of Comprehensive Services; reporting expenditures for children receiving services. Adds community-based mental health services to the list of services for which expenditures must be reported by the Office of Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families.

S.B. 862 Foster care; independent living services.

Patron: Favola

Foster care; independent living services. Extends from 60 days to 180 days the period after discontinuation of independent living services during which a person in foster care who has not yet reached the age of 21 may request restoration of independent living services. The bill requires local departments to provide information and counseling to persons ages 18 to 21 who elect to leave foster care or terminate independent living services regarding available independent living services, should the person choose to continue receiving them, and the option and process of restoration of services, should the person choose to discontinue them.

S.B. 863 Independent living services; foster children committed to Department of Juvenile Justice.

Patron: Favola

Independent living services. Provides that local departments of social services and licensed child-placing agencies may make independent living services available to persons 18 to 21 years of age who are released from commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice after reaching 18 years of age and who were committed or entrusted to the care of a local board of social services or child-placing agency at the time they were committed to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.

S.B. 952 Child support; directs DSS to establish statewide arrearage reduction program.

Patron: Favola

Child support arrearage reduction program. Directs the Department of Social Services to establish a statewide child support arrearage reduction program whereby the total amount of an arrearage owed by an obligor whose household income is less than 150 percent of the federal poverty level shall be reduced upon timely payment of child support owed, pursuant to an agreement between the obligor and the Department.

S.B. 992 Background checks; children's residential facilities regulated by Department of Juvenile Justice.

Patron: Locke

Background checks; children's residential facilities regulated by the Department of Juvenile Justice. Clarifies language relating to background checks for employees, volunteers, and contract service providers of children's residential facilities to make clear that the requirement for background checks for every employee of a children's residential facility and every volunteer or contract service provider who provides services to children in children's residential facilities and who will be alone with juveniles in the performance of his duties also applies to employees, volunteers, and contract service providers of the Department of Juvenile Justice.

S.B. 1310 Social Services, Commissioner of; submission of financial information.

Patron: Hanger

Licensure by the Commissioner of Social Services; submission of financial information. Eliminates the requirement that an applicant for a license as an assisted living facility, adult day care center, or child welfare agency submit financial information and evidence of the applicant's financial responsibility to the Commissioner of Social Services.