Illinois House Bill 4671

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on February 1 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-04-05 - Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Extended-Rule May 24, 2024
Pending: House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that beginning on and after January 1, 2025, a foster family home that includes a pregnant or parenting youth in care and any child of the parenting youth shall be eligible to receive additional foster care payments from the Department of Children and Family Services to cover all reasonable costs incurred by the foster family in caring for the pregnant or parenting youth and any child of the parenting youth. Provides that the parenting youth must be the full-time custodial parent of the child for whom the foster family is requesting additional payment. Permits the Department to prescribe by rule which costs and expenses qualify as "reasonable costs" eligible for payment. Grants the Department rulemaking authority. Effective January 1, 2025.

DCFS-FOSTER-PARENTING YOUTH

Rep. Amy Elik [R]

Rep. Tony McCombie [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-04-05	House	Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Extended-Rule May 24, 2024
2024-03-05	House	Assigned to Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
2024-02-23	House	Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Tony M. McCombie
2024-02-06	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2024-02-06	House	First Reading
2024-02-01	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Amy Elik

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
20	505	5	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=4671&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=112&GA=103
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/103/HB/10300HB4671.htm