2025 bills / H.B. 431
H.B. 431 Kinship Child Placement Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
When the state's child welfare division places a child in its custody with a relative, the bill requires the division to make certain support payments available to that relative before the relative becomes a licensed or certified kinship caregiver. The division must also report to a legislative appropriations subcommittee on the payments it gives kinship caregivers.
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Official description
- defines terms
- when a child in the custody of the Division of Child and Family Services (division) is placed with the child's relative, requires the division to make available certain payments to the relative to help support the child prior to the relative becoming a licensed or certified kinship caregiver
- requires the division to report information regarding payments provided to kinship caregivers to the Social Services Appropriations Subcommittee
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 431 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 431 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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Every vote
- 11 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Health and Human Services Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 11 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how