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The Joint Committee on Children, Families, and Persons with Disabilities held a hybrid hearing on multiple bills relating to the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. Testimony addressed foster care liability insurance and proposed study commission; a guaranteed cash stipend for youth aging out of foster care; codifying childrens advocacy centers in statute; a registry for direct care workers who administer medication; barriers to home-based childcare (landlord/HOA restrictions); maternal cash assistance during pregnancy; a bill of rights for people experiencing homelessness; laws to prevent sexual relationships between adults in positions of authority and minors; and proposals to add cameras and other accountability measures in child welfare cases. Committee chairs Robin Kennedy (Senate) and Jay Livingstone (House) presided; the hearing included government officials, non-profit providers, service workers, and multiple parents and survivors.
