2025 Regular Session • West Virginia Legislature
SB165: Ensuring equal financial support to kinship parents and fictive kin
Legislative Summary
The purpose of this bill is to ensure that all financial support presently available to certified foster parents is provided to kinship parents and fictive kin. The barriers and burdens placed upon kinship parents and fictive kin are too onerous.
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Bill History
2/12/2025
Filed for introduction
Senate
2/12/2025
To Health and Human Resources
Senate
2/12/2025
Introduced in Senate
Senate
2/12/2025
To Health and Human Resources
Senate
Status Information
Current Status
Introduced(2/12/2025)
Chamber
Senate
Committee
Health and Human Resources(Senate)
Sponsors
Republican: 1
Primary Sponsor
Laura Wakim Chapman
Republican