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SB261: relative to grandparents' access to preventive and protective child care services.
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Sponsors
- Hennessey Senate · Dist 5
- Sharon M. Carson Senate · Dist 14
- D'Allesandro Senate · Dist 20
- Erin Hennessey House · Graf 1
- Polly Campion House · Graf 12
- Skip Berrien House · Rock 18
- Mary Jane Mulligan House · Graf 12
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CHAPTER 158
SB 261 - FINAL VERSION
2019 SESSION
19-1108
05/03
SENATE BILL 261
AN ACT relative to grandparents' access to preventive and protective child care services.
ANALYSIS
This bill provides that child care offered as a preventive and protective service through the department of health and human shall be available to grandparents who are the legal guardians or primary caretakers of their grandchild. The bill also requires preventive and protective child care providers to be trained in trauma-informed care.
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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
19-1108
05/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen
AN ACT relative to grandparents' access to preventive and protective child care services.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
158:1 Human Service; Duties of the Department of Health and Human Services; Preventive and Protective Child Care Services. Amend RSA 161:2, XII to read as follows:
XII. Social Service Programs. Develop a broad range of social and related services aimed at preventing dependency and family breakdown, promoting child development and child care, protecting vulnerable children and enabling them to live in their own homes or foster homes rather than in institutions, assisting individuals to attain and maintain self-support and strengthen family life, develop and operate social service programs within the department of health and human services, receive and distribute such federal funds which are allocated specifically to the state for day care for children and adults, and purchase or contract with other agencies or individuals to provide direct grants from sums appropriated for such purpose to other agencies upon submission of approvable plans within the objectives of this paragraph. Child care provided as a preventive or protective service shall be available to grandparents who are the legal guardians or primary caretakers of their grandchildren. Beginning July 1, 2021, child care providers who contract with the department to provide preventive and protective child care services shall be trained in trauma-informed care.
158:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: July 01, 2019
Effective Date: August 30, 2019