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)

What it does

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

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.

Who's behind it

2 senators are its authors⁠. All 2 are Republicans.

14 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.

What it would cost

State agencies filed a cost estimate. Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

• Fiscal Estimate From DCF