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2020 SESSION
HB 920 State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program; created.
Introduced by: Emily M. Brewer | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program. Creates the State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program (the program) to facilitate child placements with relatives, including fictive kin, and ensure permanency for children in foster care. The bill sets forth eligibility criteria for the program, payment allowances to kinship guardians, and requirements for kinship guardianship assistance agreements. The bill also expands eligibility for the Federal-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program by allowing payments to be made to fictive kin who receive custody of a child of whom they have been the foster parent.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100621D pdf | impact statement
- 01/28/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20106447D-H1 pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
HISTORY
- 01/07/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100621D
- 01/07/20 House: Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
- 01/14/20 House: Assigned HWI sub: Social Services
- 01/23/20 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N)
- 01/23/20 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/28/20 House: Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/20 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/28/20 House: Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources
- 01/28/20 House: Committee substitute printed 20106447D-H1
- 02/05/20 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/11/20 House: Left in Appropriations