BILL · 2019–20 SESSION

SB 5942: Budgeting/servs for children

Concerning the budgeting process for core state services for children.

Summary

Directs the Caseload Forecast Council to forecast the number of dependency and termination petitions.
Requires expenditures for legal services for counsel for the Department of Children, Youth and Families, and legal services for counsel for parents, to prepare for and participate in all stages of foster-care related legal proceedings to be forecasted and budgeted as maintenance level costs.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to the budgeting process for core state services for children;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Jan 13, 2020By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Feb 21, 2019Referred to Ways & Means.
Feb 20, 2019Minority; without recommendation.
Feb 20, 2019Minority; do not pass.
Feb 20, 2019And refer to Ways & Means.
Feb 20, 2019HSRR - Majority; do pass.
Feb 18, 2019First reading, referred to Human Services, Reentry & Rehabilitation.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

SB 5942 (2025–26) DCYF accountability board · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 5942 (2023–24) Lead testing/Medicaid · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5942 (2021–22) Uniform college athlete act · Did not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House
SB 5942 (2017–18) School siting/GMA · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5942 (2015–16) Nat. guard youth challenge · Did not pass · died in committee
SB 5942 (2013–14) Higher ed appropriations · Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
SB 5942 (2011–12) Liquor warehousing · Enacted · Chapter 45, Laws of 2011, 1st Special Session
SB 5942 (2009–10) Taxation of newspapers · Did not pass · died in committee