Help Grandfamilies Prevent Child Abuse Act
Summary
Help Grandfamilies Prevent Child Abuse Act This bill expands the activities and functions of child welfare programs that support kinship caregiving (i.e., grandparents or other extended family members that provide child caregiving). The bill also expands grants programs for preventing child abuse to prioritize and support the needs of such kinship families.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Apr 21, 2021
Last action Apr 21, 2021
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
2
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Committee
1
Apr 21, 2021
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
lower
Apr 21, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Mary Gay Scanlon
DDemocratic
Co
Glenn Thompson
RRepublican
Co
Karen Bass
DDemocratic
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