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2020 SESSION
SB 1025 Kinship foster care; training and approval processes.
Introduced by: Siobhan S. Dunnavant | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Kinship foster care; training and approval processes. Requires local boards of social services to request a waiver of training requirements necessary for the approval of a kinship foster parent upon determining that training requirements are a barrier to placement with the kinship foster parent and that such placement is in the child's best interest. The bill prohibits local boards from requiring that a child be removed from the physical custody of a kinship foster parent during such approval process, provided that placement with the kinship foster parent remains in the child's best interest. The bill requires the Department of Social Services to (i) develop a training program that is tailored to persons seeking approval as a kinship foster parent, (ii) develop a document that provides comprehensive information regarding kinship foster care, and (iii) provide training to local boards regarding the process through which a person may be approved as a kinship foster parent without requiring removal of the child from the physical custody of such person.
FULL TEXT
- 01/16/20 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 20105416D pdf | impact statement
- 01/17/20 Senate: Introduced bill reprinted 20105416D pdf | impact statement
- 02/04/20 Senate: Printed as engrossed 20105416D-E pdf | impact statement
- 03/06/20 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1025ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/31/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- House amendments adopted
- House amendments engrossed
- Senate amendments
HISTORY
- 01/16/20 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 20105416D
- 01/16/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 01/17/20 Senate: Introduced bill reprinted 20105416D
- 01/31/20 Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/20 Senate: Read second time
- 02/04/20 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/04/20 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/04/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1025E
- 02/04/20 Senate: Printed as engrossed 20105416D-E
- 02/05/20 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/13/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/13/20 House: Read first time
- 02/13/20 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 02/13/20 House: Assigned HWI sub: Social Services
- 02/20/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (4-Y 0-N)
- 02/25/20 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendments (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/20 House: Read second time
- 02/28/20 House: Read third time
- 02/28/20 House: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/28/20 House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/28/20 House: Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/28/20 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 03/02/20 Senate: House amendments agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/06/20 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/06/20 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1025ER)
- 03/06/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/06/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/12/20 Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- 03/12/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- 03/31/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 562 (effective 7/1/20)
- 03/31/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0562)