AB587: Bill Text

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1999 - 2000 LEGISLATURE

1999 Assembly BILL 587

November 10, 1999 - Introduced by Joint Legislative Council. Referred to Committee on Children and Families.

AB587,1,3 An Act to amend 48.57 (3m) (a) and 48.57 (3n) (a) of the statutes; relating to: eligibility of second cousins for payments under the kinship care and long-term kinship care programs.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill is explained in the Prefatory note provided by the joint legislative council in the bill.

For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Prefatory note: This bill was prepared for the American Indian study committee (AISC).

Under current law, if certain conditions are met, a county department of social services, a county department of human services or, in Milwaukee county, the department of health and family services, must make payments to certain relatives, other than a child's parents, who provide care and maintenance for the child (kinship care program and long-term kinship care program). For a description of the kinship care program and the long-term kinship care program, see memo no. 98-14 to the AISC, Definition of "Relative" Under the Kinship Care Program and Long-Term Kinship Care Program; and Funding for Assessments Under the Kinship Care Program (September 17, 1999).

Currently, for purposes of eligibility for payments under the kinship care and long-term kinship care programs, "kinship care relative" and "long-term kinship care relative" are defined to mean a stepparent, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, first cousin, nephew, niece, aunt, uncle or any person of a preceding generation as denoted by the prefix of grand, great or great-great, whether by consanguinity, direct affinity or legal adoption, or the spouse of any of these persons, even if the marriage is terminated by death or divorce.

This bill adds second cousins to the list of persons who are defined as a kinship care relative or a long-term kinship care relative and, thus, permits a second cousin of a child to receive payments for providing care and maintenance for the child under the kinship care and long-term kinship care programs.

AB587, s. 1 Section 1. 48.57 (3m) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB587,2,7 48.57 (3m) (a) In this subsection, "kinship care relative" means a stepparent, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, first cousin, 2nd cousin, nephew, niece, aunt, uncle or any person of a preceding generation as denoted by the prefix of grand, great or great-great, whether by consanguinity, direct affinity or legal adoption, or the spouse of any person named in this paragraph, even if the marriage is terminated by death or divorce.

AB587, s. 2 Section 2. 48.57 (3n) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB587,2,14 48.57 (3n) (a) In this subsection, "long-term kinship care relative" means a stepparent, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, first cousin, 2nd cousin, nephew, niece, aunt, uncle or any person of a preceding generation as denoted by the prefix of grand, great or great-great, whether by consanguinity, direct affinity or legal adoption, or the spouse of any person named in this paragraph, even if the marriage is terminated by death or divorce.

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