Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Fiscal Summary STATE GOVERNMENTEXPENDITURESGeneral FundFY25-26 & Subsequent Years$7,637,200 Bill Summary Present law prohibits a court from directing the department of children's services ("department"), or its contractors' or agents', use or disposition of any federal funds for which any child or person in the care of the department is eligible or may receive and for which the department may be payee on behalf of such child or person including, but not limited to, Social Security survivors benefits and supplemental security income benefits, foster care or adoption assistance benefits, or veteran's benefits, railroad retirement benefits or black lung benefits or any successor entitlements that are provided by federal law. Funds received under any federal benefits programs must be processed, utilized and accounted for by the department pursuant only to federal regulations or federal court orders governing those programs. CONSERVATION OF FUNDS – AUTHORIZED USES When the department serves as the representative payee on behalf of a child for any federal funds a child in the care of the department is eligible for or may receive, this bill requires the department to conserve those federal funds for the child's reasonable, foreseeable future needs or use the funds for special needs services not otherwise provided by the department. This bill authorizes the department to exercise discretion to conserve these federal funds in the best interest of the child by holding such moneys in a trust or apply for and establish an account for the child, including a Plan for Achieving Self-Support, a 529 or 529A plan, an individual development account, a special needs trust, or a bank account. However, if it is in the best interest of the child, the department may utilize the federal funds for special needs services that are not currently being p
