Kentucky House Bill 68 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 8 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-01-10 - to Health and Family Services (H)
Pending: House Health and Family Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amend KRS 405.023 to establish that the KinCare Support Program shall include respite care for low-income fictive kin caregivers; amend KRS 605.120 to require the establishment and operation of the Kinship and Fictive Kin Care Program that will include monetary provisions for relative and fictive kin caregivers who have permanent custody of a child that shall be at a minimum $300 monthly per child through the age of 18; amend KRS 610.010 to conform; appropriate $17,500,000 in General Fund and $17,500,000 in Federal Funds in fiscal year 2019-2020 to the Department for Community Based Services for the Kinship and Fictive Kin Care Program.

AN ACT relating to kinship and fictive kin care and making an appropriation therefor.

Rep. Chris Fugate [R]	Rep. Kim King [R]	Rep. Ruth Palumbo [D]	Rep. Nancy Tate [R]
Rep. Susan Westrom [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-10	House	to Health and Family Services (H)
2019-01-08	House	introduced in House
2018-10-24	House	Prefiled by the sponsor(s).

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/19RS/hb68.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/19RS/hb68/orig_bill.pdf