Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-31 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4671 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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