Bill Title: Provides that when a local social services district is in contact with a relative or non-relative kinship caregiver or a suitable person who the district has approached about being a kinship caregiver, such district shall provide written information to such caregivers or prospective suitable persons; further provides that such information shall include, but not be limited to, information relating to child only grants; information about how to become a kinship foster parent and other options for care; and information on how to contact the department of family assistance kinship programs and any resources funded through or operating in the local social services district for relative and non-relative kinship caregivers, including those that provide supportive services for all relative and non-relative kinship caregivers in the district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-23 - SIGNED CHAP.399 [A00569 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
Assembly	Assembly Children And Families Committee: Favorable	2019-03-05	15	0	0	1	16	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Senate Floor Vote - Final Passage	2019-02-28	62	0	0	1	63	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Senate Children And Families Committee Vote	2019-02-11	7	0	0	0	7	Passed	Link	View

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