Missouri House of Representatives
Bills Indexed by Subject
FAMILY SERVICES, DIVISION OF
HB 61
--- Sponsor:
Ward, Dan
- Allows the Division of Family Services to provide financial
assistance to not-for-profit food pantries operating throughout the
state.
HB 123
--- Sponsor:
Ward, Dan
- Allows the Division of Family Services to request an extension of
foster care beyond a child's eighteenth birthday for good cause.
HB 142
--- Sponsor:
Hosmer, Craig
- Expands the Missouri Kidney Program at the University of Missouri to
provide assistance for immunosuppressive pharmaceuticals to organ
transplant patients.
HB 187
--- Sponsor:
Troupe, Charles Quincy
- Revises the foster care reimbursement rate.
HB 339
--- Sponsor:
Barry, Joan
--- CoSponsor:
Hanaway, Catherine L
- Enacts the Safe Place for Newborns Act of 2001.
HB 345
--- Sponsor:
Ostmann, Cindy
- Increases the resource limits for public assistance eligibility for
single and married persons.
HB 365
--- Sponsor:
Champion, Norma
- Expedites the process of adopting a foster child by waiving the
six-month waiting period.
HB 847
--- Sponsor:
Fraser, Barbara
- Allows adult siblings to register with the Division of Family
Services adoption registry and allows biological parents to consent
to disclosure of identifying information at the time of registering.
HB 870
--- Sponsor:
Merideth III, Denny J.
--- CoSponsor:
Holand, Roy W.
- Amends various provisions of the Grandparents as Foster Parents
Program.
HB 978
--- Sponsor:
Merideth III, Denny J.
--- CoSponsor:
Crowell, Jason
- Adds the Southeast Missouri Network Against Sexual Violence to the
list of regional child assessment centers to be funded by the
Department of Social Services.
SB 44
--- Sponsor:
Bentley, Roseann
- Expedites the adoption of foster children by waiving or shortening
certain waiting periods.
SB 45
--- Sponsor:
Bentley, Roseann
- Allows certain foster parents to receive a dependency exemption on
their state income tax returns.
SB 60
--- Sponsor:
Steelman, Sarah G.
- Modifies the reporting of elder abuse and neglect and the provision
of in-home services for the elderly.
SB 66
--- Sponsor:
Gibbons, Michael R.
- Protects a parent from liability for relinquishing custody of a
newborn to a medical facility.
SB 174
--- Sponsor:
Bland, Mary
- Requires the Division of Family Services to provide an annual report
on the status of welfare reform in Missouri.
SB 236
--- Sponsor:
Sims, Betty
- Revises temporary assistance for needy families, Medicaid, and
grandparents as foster parents programs; revises adoption law;
provides transition-to-independence grants.
SB 276
--- Sponsor:
Sims, Betty
- Allows foster children to receive a "balance scholarship" to
state-funded colleges or universities.
SB 318
--- Sponsor:
Sims, Betty
- Expands Medicaid eligibility to one hundred percent of the federal
poverty level.
SB 348
--- Sponsor:
Sims, Betty
- Allows for the termination of guardianship of children in certain
circumstances.
SB 361
--- Sponsor:
Bentley, Roseann
- Creates a fund court-appointed special advocates for children.
SB 410
--- Sponsor:
Sims, Betty
- Revises the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.
SB 448
--- Sponsor:
Sims, Betty
- Provides for Medicaid eligibility for certain breast and cervical
cancer patients.
SB 528
--- Sponsor:
Sims, Betty
- Revises the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.
SB 551
--- Sponsor:
Sims, Betty
- Revises the Grandparents as Foster Parents Program.
Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:49 am