HOUSE AMENDMENT
                                                  Bill No. HB 1413   Barcode 060969
    Amendment No. 04 (for drafter's use only)
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11  The Committee on Child & Family Security offered the
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14         Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 6, between lines 7 and 8,
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17  and insert in lieu thereof:  Section 4.The Department of
18  Children and Family Services will contract for a study of
19  families headed by grandparents raising grandchildren and
20  other relative caregivers in Florida. This study shall be
21  submitted to the department, the President of the Senate, and
22  the Speaker of the House by February 2002. The study shall
23  include the best information available on the number and needs
24  of such families, including the numbers who have legal
25  custody; the source of the court order granting custody; and
26  the reasons for which the relatives took or accepted custody,
27  such as death, illness, protection of the children from abuse,
28  abandonment or neglect. 
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    File original & 9 copies    03/29/01                          
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HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 1413 Barcode 060969 Amendment No. 04 (for drafter's use only) 1 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 2 And the title is amended as follows: 3 On page 1, line 18 4 5 insert after the semicolon: 6 requiring the Department of Children and Family 7 Services to contract for a study of relative 8 caregivers in Florida; 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2 File original & 9 copies 03/29/01 hcf0003 11:06 am 01413-cfs -060969