New Mexico HB 560: CHILD GUARDIAN & KINSHIP GIVER REQUIREMENTS

Status: action postponed indefinitely (as of 2019-04-10)

State: New Mexico · Session: 2019 · Bill: HB 560

Subjects: CHILDREN & FAMILIES, STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)

Sponsors: Dow, Rebecca, Fajardo, Kelly K.

Bill Text

HB0560 

HOUSE BILL 560

54th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2019

INTRODUCED BY

Kelly K. Fajardo and Rebecca Dow

AN ACT

RELATING TO FAMILIES; ENACTING A NEW SECTION OF THE CHILDREN'S 
CODE TO REQUIRE THAT THE CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES 
DEPARTMENT PROVIDE THE SAME LEVEL OF ASSISTANCE TO CHILD 
GUARDIANS AND KINSHIP CAREGIVERS AS THE DEPARTMENT PROVIDES TO 
FOSTER FAMILIES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

 SECTION 1. A new section of the Children's Code is 
enacted to read:

 "[NEW MATERIAL] GUARDIANS--KINSHIP CAREGIVERS--FOSTER 
FAMILIES--PARITY OF ASSISTANCE.--

 A. The secretary of children, youth and families 
shall adopt and promulgate rules to provide guardians of 
children placed in their care by the department and kinship 
caregivers with the same level of assistance that the 
department provides to foster parents, including child care 
assistance with no cost-sharing imposition on the kinship 
caregivers or guardians.

 B. As used in this section, "kinship caregiver" 
means a relative within five degrees of consanguinity or 
affinity of a child placed in the relative's care."

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