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Committee advances bill to ensure survivor benefits stay with foster children; DCS flags $7.6M fiscal impact
Summary
Senate Judiciary voted to send a bill to Finance that would require survivor benefits received on a foster child's behalf to be preserved for that child rather than used to offset routine foster-care costs; the Department of Children's Services said the fiscal note totals about $7.6 million and offered to work with the sponsor.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to refer legislation to Finance that would change how survivor benefits are handled for children in state custody, directing that funds intended for an individual foster child be preserved for that child rather than routinely used to offset the department’s caregiving costs.
Senator Cynthia Yarborough, the bill sponsor, told the committee there are roughly 9,000 children in state custody and that over the…
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