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Bill Title: Requires DCF or court to consider placement of children with relatives or kinship guardians when making placement decision; makes changes to certain standards for initiating petitions to terminate parental rights.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-07-02 - Approved P.L.2021, c.154. [S3814 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

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Vote: Senate Floor: Third Reading - Final Passage

Vote	Tally	Democrat	Republican
Yea	36	24	12
Nay	-	-	-
Not Voting	4	1	3
Absent	-	-	-
TOTAL	40	25	15

Result: Passed

Name	Yea	Nay	NV	Absent	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Sen. Addiego, Dawn Marie [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Bateman, Christopher "Kip" S. [R]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Beach, James [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Brown, Chris A. [R]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Bucco Jr., Anthony M. [R]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Codey, Richard J. [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Connors, Christopher J. [R]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Corrado, Kristin M. [R]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Cruz-Perez, Nilsa I. [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Cryan, Joseph P. [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Cunningham, Sandra Bolden [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Diegnan Jr., Patrick J. [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Doherty, Michael J. [R]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Gill, Nia H. [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Gopal, Vin [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Greenstein, Linda R. [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Holzapfel, James W. [R]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Kean Jr., Thomas H. [R]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Lagana, Joseph A. [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Madden Jr., Fred H. [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. O'Scanlon Jr., Declan J. [R]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Oroho, Steven V. [R]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Pennacchio, Joseph [R]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Pou, Nellie [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Rice, Ronald L. [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Ruiz, M. Teresa "Teresa" [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Sacco, Nicholas J. [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Sarlo, Paul A. [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Schepisi, Holly T. [R]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Scutari, Nicholas P. [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Singer, Robert W. [R]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Singleton, Troy [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Smith, Robert "Bob" [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Stack, Brian P. [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Sweeney, Stephen M. [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Testa Jr., Michael L. [R]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Thompson, Samuel D. [R]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Turner, Shirley K. [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Vitale, Joseph F. [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Sen. Weinberg, Loretta [D]					FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart