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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 339

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Relating to: eligibility for monthly subsidized guardianship payments of a person who develops a familial relationship with a child or the child's family during the child's placement in out-of-home care, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

Children Children — Abuse and neglect Children — Protection and services Children and families, department of Guardian and ward

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a guardian of a child in need of protection or services is

eligible to receive monthly subsidized guardianship payments if certain conditions

have been met. One of those conditions is that the guardian must be a relative of the

child or a person who has a significant emotional relationship with the child and who,

prior to the child's placement in out-of-home care, had an existing relationship with

the child that is similar to a familial relationship.

This bill provides that a person who has a significant emotional relationship

with a child or the child's family and who, during to the child's placement in

out-of-home care, developed a relationship with the child or the child's family that

is similar to a familial relationship is eligible for monthly subsidized guardianship

payments. Eligibility of such a person for those payments, however, is subject to

rules that the bill requires the Department of Children and Families to promulgate

establishing conditions that must be met in order for that person to be eligible for

those payments.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: A. Ott (R) , Allen (R) , Ballweg (R) , Gannon (R) , Hutton (R) , Jagler (R) , Kooyenga (R) , Kremer (R) , Novak (R) , Petersen (R) , Rodriguez (R) , Thiesfeldt (R)

3 cosponsors

LeMahieu (R) , Loudenbeck (R) , Moulton (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 11, Noes 0

Passed 11–0 Dec 14, 2015 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Sep 14, 2015 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Kooyenga, Rodriguez, Jagler, Gannon, Thiesfeldt, Petersen, Hutton, Allen, A. Ott, Kremer, Novak and Ballweg; cosponsored by Senators LeMahieu and Moulton

  2. Sep 14, 2015 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Children and Families

  3. Sep 24, 2015 · Assembly

    Representative Loudenbeck added as a coauthor

  4. Sep 28, 2015 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Oct 28, 2015 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  6. Dec 9, 2015 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  7. Dec 14, 2015 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Children and Families, Ayes 11, Noes 0

  8. Dec 14, 2015 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  9. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1