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• Foster parents in about safe gun safety.
• But I can totally appreciate why that would be frustrating for foster parents.
• </c> uh frustrating for for foster parents. uh frustrating for for foster parents.
• Instead of fostering licenser.
• parent liability insurance and the same thing is for, you know, foster homes.

Bills: HF1918 , HF2305 , HF897 , HF2191 , HF2617 , HF2551 , HF2137

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

Keywords: HF1918, Department of Children Youth and Families, DCYF, child welfare, foster care, out-of-home placement, permanency planning, relative search, noncustodial parent, kinship care, family preservation, African American Child and Family Well-Being, racial disproportionality, maltreatment reporting, educational neglect, truancy, school attendance, Great Start compensation, child care provider payments, TEACH early childhood program

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• . fosters. fosters.
• Um, I would prefer that foster youth exiting out of foster care are protected in SNAP.
• Um, I would prefer that foster youth exiting out of foster care are protected in SNAP.
• Um, I would prefer that foster youth exiting out of foster care are protected in SNAP.
• Um, I would prefer that foster youth exiting out of foster care are protected in SNAP.

Bills: HF2136 , HF4195 , HF4548 , HF4432 , HF4174 , HF3024 , HF4389 , HF3773

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

Keywords: youth intervention, grants, community support, early intervention services, nonprofit, Minnesota human services, forecast adjustment, budget forecast, appropriations, Medical Assistance, MinnesotaCare, Health Care Access Fund, general fund, behavioral health, housing support, General Assistance, Minnesota Supplemental Aid, MFIP, DWP, child care assistance

Bills: HB 109 , HB136 , HB694 , HB 1201 , HB1716 , HB2071 , HB2216 , HB2358 , HB2807 , HB2886 , HCR78 , HB109 , HB136

Committee: House Human Services

Keywords: mental health, inpatient psychiatric facility, juvenile treatment, residential treatment facility, emotionally disturbed juveniles, Department of State Health Services, Health and Human Services Commission, state grant, facility construction, facility expansion, facility operations, Waco Center for Youth, education services, school district, Texas Health and Safety Code, youth residential care, behavioral health, state appropriations, Medicaid, lactation

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• Would you believe that as a former foster parent and recruiter of foster families that throughout the
• Long as we're on foster care, we Might as well go to Senate Bill 1796.
• It does say if foster parents Are going to place with these, they have to notify the department that
• Members, Senate Bill 1806 extends foster care through the age of 21.
• The state becomes the parent of these children.

Bills: SB1558 , SB1983 , SB1796 , SB1806 , SB1426 , SB633

Committee: House Children, Youth and Family Services

Keywords: child care, licensing, definitions, foster care, child welfare, SB1983, resource family partner, resource family partners, Department of Human Services, DHS, foster homes, foster children, placement data, data sharing, de-identified data, aggregated data, sibling groups, placement disruptions, foster parent recruitment, foster parent retention

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• </c> license provider requirements. license provider requirements.
• </c> um parent or guardian. um parent or guardian. &gt;&gt; Uh Ms. Daik, could you please clarify?
• center</c> enrolled in the in the licensed center enrolled in the in the licensed center Excuse<01:46
• </c><01:48:38.920><c> does</c><01:48:39.120><c> not</c> if a parent the the if a parent does not if a
• </c> majority of parents. majority of parents.

Bills: HF4277 , HF3819 , HF3489 , HF4408 , HF3901 , HF4316

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

Keywords: child care, child care center, day care, licensed child care, video security cameras, surveillance, security cameras, maltreatment, child abuse, child safety, public and shared areas, camera mandate, child care assistance program, CCAP, Great Start Compensation Support, early learning scholarships, licensed provider, Minnesota Statutes 142B.68, Harvey's Law, privacy

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• In Texas, I grew up in a foster family.
• House Bill 5539 fixes that by requiring licensed placing agencies to provide prospective adoptive parents
• I'm a licensed agency.
• adoptive parents.
• You have to discuss what parenting looks like.

Bills: HB2510 , HB3589 , HB4611 , HB4655 , HB4665 , HB4666 , HB4670 , HB4700 , HB4730 , HB4798 , HB4838 , HB5136 , HB5243 , HB5302 , HB5539

Committee: House Human Services

Keywords: assisted living, healthcare, licensing, criminal offense, personal assistance, group home, regulation, health and safety, inspections, resident care, criminal background checks, adoption, parental rights, registry, vital statistics, disclosure, counseling, foster care, independent living, financial literacy

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• Once they're licensed, how are they...?
• If they're licensed, is that the question? If they're actually licensed, yes, it would be us.
• home are licensed.
• If they're licensed, is that the question? If they're actually licensed, yes, it would be us.
• The license fee for a two-year license is $250. $200 plus $10 per bed with a maximum of $1,500.

Bills: HB2510 , HB3589 , HB4611 , HB4655 , HB4665 , HB4666 , HB4670 , HB4700 , HB4730 , HB4798 , HB4838 , HB5136 , HB5243 , HB5302 , HB5539

Committee: House Human Services

Keywords: assisted living, healthcare, licensing, criminal offense, personal assistance, group home, regulation, health and safety, inspections, resident care, criminal background checks, adoption, parental rights, registry, vital statistics, disclosure, counseling, foster care, independent living, financial literacy

Bills: SB94

Committee: Senate Children and Youth Health

Keywords: adoption, adoptive parent, adoptee, minor adoption, adult adoption, Alabama Minor Adoption Code, Alabama Adult Adoption Code, Department of Human Resources, DHR, county department of human resources, putative father registry, paternity, consent, relinquishment, implied consent, notice of adoption, contested adoption, home study, pre-placement investigation, post-placement investigation

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• During fiscal year 2022, there were 64,561 children nationwide in foster care for whom parental...
• Several sessions ago, the legislature amended the standing statute 1-802-003-1200 to require foster parents
• It says you have to have the child for six months, unless you're a foster parent, in which case it's
• Fortunately, there was a case in 2021 in Beaumont where foster parents intervened.
• So if the legislature wants foster parents to wait 12 months, then they need to put that into 102-004

Bills: HB809 , HB 1193 , HB1916 , HB2558 , HB1973 , HB2350 , HB2399 , HB2340 , HB 116 , HB330 , HB2496 , HB116

Committee: House S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

Keywords: digitized signature, waiver of citation, marriage dissolution, electronic notarization, family law, HB 1193, informal marriage, common-law marriage, declaration of informal marriage, confidentiality, privacy, county clerk, vital statistics unit, Family Code, Health and Safety Code, marriage records, public records, personally identifying information, PII, legal representative

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• foster care?
• As legislators, we don't have a doctor's license, and we put these in place.
• The Medical Board licenses and extracts supervise all licenses for several of our licensed professions
• resides that the license is terminated so they can swing by and make sure that since there's no license
• My guess is that it would apply to this license as well.

Bills: SB1983 , SB444 , SB1503 , SB1561 , SB592 , SB1501 , SB1946 , SB1567 , SB1833 , SB2026 , SB904 , SB2178 , SB1651 , SB1558 , SB1565 , SB1553 , SB1257 , SB65 , SB1749 , SB1242 , SB1642 , SB640 , SB667 , SB1436 , SB1484 , SB1562 , SB1794 , SB1644 , SB1533 , SB933 , SB1555

Committee: House Health and Human Services Oversight

Keywords: SB1983, foster care, resource family partner, resource family partners, Department of Human Services, DHS, child welfare, foster homes, foster children, placement data, data sharing, de-identified data, aggregated data, sibling groups, placement disruptions, foster parent recruitment, foster parent retention, private child-placing agency, Title 10A, Oklahoma

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• Parents, please stand. They're over here in the south gallery.
• Congratulations, ladies and parents. Welcome to the people's house. We're excited to celebrate you.
• Getting worse To my parents, those of you who have served with me on the education committee over the
• But until my parents moved to Oklahoma a few years ago, my mom was a registered Democrat.
• Together, they are the proud parents of 9 children, 5 boys and 4 girls.

Bills: HR1051 , HR1048 , SB2074 , SJR39 , SJR47 , SB1983 , SB444 , SB1503 , SB1561 , SB592 , SB1501 , SB1946 , SB1567 , SB1833 , SB2026 , SB904 , SB2178 , SB1651 , SB1558 , SB1565 , SB1553 , SB1257 , SB65 , SB1749 , SB1242 , SB1642 , SB640 , SB667 , SB1436 , SB1484 , SB1562 , SB1794 , SB1644 , SB1533 , SB933 , SB1555

Keywords: livestock, judging, Oklahoma State University, championship, agriculture, military children, recognition, community support, military families, April 15, pharmacy benefits managers, reimbursement, healthcare, prescription drugs, cost regulation, property valuation, tax limit, homestead, income threshold, elderly

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• My question has to do with how many times do we know if foster parents have been denied the capability
• of being a foster parent because of this specific issue?
• I'm very sensitive to the fact that we desperately need foster parents.
• Resources, financial support, and otherwise, so that we can get more foster parents into the system,
• ... ...the objective of trying to get as many foster parents in the system as possible, which I don't

Bills: HB3131 , HB3380 , HB3502 , HB3552 , HB3849 , HB3886 , HB3907 , HB4201 , HB4302 , HB3448 , HB3409 , HB4095 , HB3637

Committee: House Children, Youth and Family Services

Keywords: homelessness, shelter standards, safety, accountability, state funding, local governance, regulation, Oklahoma Homeless Shelter Safety and Accountability Act, foster care, child welfare, Department of Human Services, educational opportunities, employment support, technology in child welfare, faith-based organizations, self-sufficiency, financial literacy, HB3502, Oklahoma, children's code

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• As you all know, I'm a foster parent and I know lots of other foster parents, and I'm very active in
• As you all know, I'm a foster parent and I know lots of other foster parents, and I'm very active in
• As you all know, I'm a foster parent and I know lots of other foster parents, and I'm very active in
• As you all know, I'm a foster parent and I know lots of other foster parents, and I'm very active in
• My wife, Katia, and I are licensed foster parents in Kandiyohi County.

Bills: HF3665 , HF3002 , HF4217 , HF4125 , HF4174

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

Keywords: foster care, early childhood education, child care programs, placement plan, social services, extended foster care, kinship care, relative custody, permanent legal and physical custody, Northstar kinship assistance, independent living plan, transition services, youth aging out of care, medical assistance, Medicaid, child welfare, children youth and families, out-of-home placement, case plan, relative placement

Bills: HSB146 , HF277 , HSB145 , HSB153 , HF200 , HF320 , HSB86 , HSB121 , HSB122 , HF137 , SSB1081 , SSB1082 , SSB1074

Committee: Joint Health and Human Services

Keywords: child welfare, foster care, relative placement, kinship care, fictive kin, child in need of assistance, CINA, juvenile court, dispositional hearing, best interests of the child, Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, child protective services, CPS, 30 days to family, family reunification, permanency planning, relative search, notice to relatives, licensed foster parent

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• Member of Senate Bill 1983 directs the Department of Human Services to provide foster care data to resource
• Number two is demographic and geographic data of foster parents and children.
• Also, the areas where there is a high need for foster parents but a low availability of placements, experiencing

Bills: SB1323 , SB1863 , SB1932 , SB1950 , SB1956 , SB1970 , SB1599 , SB1312 , SB1776 , SB1858 , SB1985 , SB1302 , SB1809 , SB1401 , SB2053 , SB1503 , SB1553 , SB1427 , SB1642 , SB1421 , SB1837 , SB1566 , SB1567 , SB1794 , SB1484 , SB1557 , SB1564 , SB1591 , SB1395 , SB1456 , SB1562 , SB1613 , SB1983 , SB1550 , SB2065 , SB2152 , SB2159 , SB2172 , SB2110 , SB2111 , SB2114

Keywords: memorial designation, highway, Sheriff Marty Grisham, transportation, Oklahoma Statutes, memorial highway, road designation, John Skelley, motor carrier, administrative hearing, legal representation, corporate liability, aviation, aircraft, surveillance, regulations, fees, Oklahoma statutes, memorial, highway designation

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• Senate Bill 1806 extends foster care. Let's do it. The third time is the charm.
• , not have to be a licensed D.O.
• So the only way for us to enforce that is if you're licensed here.
• But if it is the law and the practitioner and the licensing with the state, I mean, what if they're licensed
• But if it is the law and the practitioner and the licensing with the state, I mean, what if they're licensed

Bills: SB206 , SB640 , SB667 , SB1344 , SB1380 , SB1423 , SB1425 , SB1436 , SB1484 , SB1500 , SB1502 , SB1503 , SB1557 , SB1562 , SB1572 , SB1644 , SB1645 , SB1794 , SB1796 , SB1806 , SB1849 , SB1984 , SB2007 , SB2074

Committee: House Health and Human Services Oversight

Keywords: SB206, emergency medical services, EMS, ambulance, 911 response, emergency response, essential services, federal funding, grant funding, public health, health care facility, municipality, county, ambulance service district, tribal entity, public entity, contract ambulance service, Oklahoma, 63 O.S. 2021 Section 1-2502, emergency clause

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• HB number 1696 by Canales. person's driver's license, or commercial's driver's license, indicating that
• that person is licensed to carry a handgun.
• licensed attorneys in the state of Texas.
• Because, like I said, a judge can find a parent or put a parent. and then two days in jail or something
• But you don't have to terminate the rights of the. that parent to the child.

Bills: HB29 , HB 125 , HB145 , HB171 , HB255 , HB50 , HB796 , HB363 , HB 116 , HB491 , HB589 , HB1495 , HB368 , HB 1285 , HB1905 , HB1360 , HB2002 , HB917 , HB2723 , HB2067 , HB 1238 , HB2337 , HB745 , HB 1188 , HB1606 , HB2003 , HB2147 , HB2391 , HB2355 , HB2546 , HB2495 , HB2818 , HB2249 , HB1749 , HB3109 , HB3228 , HB3240 , HB1507 , HB658 , HB1748 , HB1851 , HB1922 , HB2001 , HB2798 , HB 107 , HCR29 , SB5 , SB262 , HB 11 , HJR72 , HB 106 , HB18 , HB48 , HB27 , HB37 , HB1481 , HB581 , HB1696 , HB2216 , HB 1035 , HB1633 , HB742 , HB754 , HB1689 , HB1690 , HB2669 , HB391 , HB517 , HB 1024 , HB1607 , HB252 , HB1716 , HB1562 , HB4116 , HB1866 , HB1741 , HB2103 , HB2637 , HB2884 , HB503 , HB 1089 , HB2986 , HB972 , HB502 , HB29 , HB 125 , HB145 , HB171 , HB255 , HB50 , HB796 , HB363 , HB 116 , HB491 , HB589 , HB1495 , HB368 , HB 1285 , HB1905 , HB1360 , HB2002 , HB917 , HB2723 , HB2067 , HB 1238 , HB2337 , HB745 , HB 1188 , HB1606 , HB2003 , HB2147 , HB2391 , HB2355 , HB2546 , HB2495 , HB2818 , HB2249 , HB1749 , HB3109 , HB3228 , HB3240 , HB1507 , HB658 , HB1748 , HB1851 , HB1922 , HB2001 , HB2798 , HB 107 , HCR29

Keywords: water audit, water loss, water loss mitigation plan, municipally owned utility, municipal utility, water conservation, Texas Water Development Board, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, water leakage, leak detection, billing data accuracy, utility validation, water audit validation, water scarcity, water management, infrastructure, public utility, conservation plan, administrative penalty

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• don't always get spent in a way that benefits the taxpayers who foot the local property tax bill, the parents
• CAP supports all educational options in Arizona and the ability of parents to choose among them.
• What we hear from parents is they want smaller class sizes. They want better funded teachers.
• It is a common-sense measure that is in line with the majority of Arizona parents and Arizona families

Bills: HB2035 , HB2041 , HB2611 , HB2860 , HB4004 , HB4049 , SCR1032

Committees: Senate Government , Senate Senate Government Committee of Reference

Keywords: kinship care, child welfare, foster care, relative placement, child protection, child neglect, financial resources, behavioral health, Christian Science treatment, parental rights, child safety, oversight, independent committee, transparency, accountability, systemic review, child abuse, neglect, protective parent, investigation

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• For those who don't really understand this, at eight years old, we pretty well just cut These foster
• The OT compact is the same in form and function as other license compacts such as the Nurse License Compact
• and puts additional guardrails in place around temporary care of foster children.
• We have had several foster parents, not intentionally, but have left these children, their children,
• So what this bill is trying to do is strengthen our foster parents and let them, because sometimes they

Bills: SB1806 , SB1430 , SB206 , SB1547 , SB1849 , SB1428 , SB1653 , SB1984 , SB1644 , SB1561 , SB1813 , SB1570 , SB1796

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services

Keywords: foster care, adoption assistance, transitioning youth, Department of Human Services, voluntary services, mental health, substance abuse, commissioner appointment, governor's authority, legislative consent, SB206, emergency medical services, EMS, ambulance, 911 response, emergency response, essential services, federal funding, grant funding, public health

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• Representative, do you know currently how many parents are able to take advantage of this?
• I mean, if If they're a parent and they have a child, I suppose they would be eligible for it, but I
• I am asking that because I think about the fact that my generation of parents are not as well off as
• our parents or grandparents were before us.
• House Bill 4322 removes the requirement that a funeral director in charge be duly licensed as a director

Bills: HB2936 , HB2967 , HB3627 , HB3721 , HB4132 , HB4303 , HB4478 , HB4322 , HB4227

Keywords: HB2936, children, child protection, adoption, Oklahoma Adoption Code, gestational carrier, gestational agreement, surrogacy, intended parent, preplacement home study, home study, prospective adoptive parent, foster placement, child abuse, child neglect, child sexual abuse, child sexual exploitation, lewd molestation, sex offender registry, Oklahoma Sex Offenders Registration Act