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
May 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced May 10, 2021
Last action May 10, 2021
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2
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Committee
1
May 10, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
upper
May 10, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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