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2018 SESSION
SB 44 Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; established.
Introduced by: Barbara A. Favola | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Kinship Guardianship Assistance program. Creates the Kinship Guardianship Assistance program (the program) to facilitate child placements with relatives and ensure permanency for children for whom adoption or being returned home are not appropriate permanency options. The bill sets forth eligibility criteria for the program, payment allowances to kinship guardians, and requirements for kinship guardianship assistance agreements. The bill also requires the Board of Social Services to promulgate regulations for the program. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
FULL TEXT
- 11/21/17 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100496D pdf | impact statement
- 02/02/18 Senate: Printed as engrossed 18100496D-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 11/21/17 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100496D
- 11/21/17 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 01/12/18 Senate: Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (14-Y 1-N)
- 01/12/18 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 01/31/18 Senate: Reported from Finance with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/18 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/18 Senate: Read second time
- 02/02/18 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/02/18 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/02/18 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB44E
- 02/02/18 Senate: Printed as engrossed 18100496D-E
- 02/05/18 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/18 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/08/18 House: Read first time
- 02/08/18 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/21/18 House: Reported from Appropriations with amendment (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/18 House: Read second time
- 02/26/18 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/27/18 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/28/18 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/01/18 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/02/18 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/05/18 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/06/18 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/07/18 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/08/18 House: Passed by for the day
- 03/10/18 House: No further action taken
- 03/10/18 House: Failed to pass in House