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MO HB497

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

2/7/2013

Primary Sponsor

Jeanne Kirkton

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Origin

House of Representatives

2013 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Expands the definition of "relative" eligible for foster care subsidies to include great-grandparents, great-aunts, great-uncles, adult first cousins, and fictive kin in addition to existing categories
  • Makes subsidies available to qualified relatives granted legal guardianship of a child on the same basis as adoptive parents receive subsidies under sections 453.073 and 453.074
  • Defines "fictive kin" as any individual, related or unrelated by birth or marriage, who has close personal or emotional ties with the child or child's family prior to placement
  • Repeals and replaces section 453.072, RSMo

Legislative Description

Revises the definition of "relative" for purposes of the guardianship subsidy to include fictive kin

Last Action

Referred: Judiciary(H)

5/17/2013

Committee Referrals

Judiciary5/17/2013

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