FloridaDependent Children
What it does
Dependent Children; Requiring the Department of Children and Families and each community-based care lead agency to coordinate with certain organizations and meet at least quarterly for a specified purpose; requiring the department and each community-based care lead agency to make certain information available on their respective websites; requiring a caregiver to provide a weekly cash allowance to each child in his or her care beginning when the child attains a certain age; prohibiting a caregiver from withholding a child’s allowance as punishment, etc.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Died
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Mar 13Died in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human ServicesDied
- Feb 3Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
- Vote recorded Favorable. Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 3Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 4 NAYS 0Minor
- Jan 29On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 02/03/26, 1:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- Jan 13IntroducedMinor
- Jan 7Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal PolicyMinor
- 2025
- Dec 22FiledIntroduced