TO: | Honorable Harold V. Dutton, Jr., Chair, House Committee on Juvenile Justice & Family Issues |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Deputy Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB384 by Dutton (Relating to placement of a child with a noncustodial parent or relative to further the best interest of the child.), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
Fiscal Year | Probable Net Positive/(Negative) Impact to General Revenue Related Funds |
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2006 | ($1,071,009) |
2007 | ($1,112,961) |
2008 | ($1,202,268) |
2009 | ($1,298,939) |
2010 | ($1,403,191) |
Fiscal Year | Probable Savings/(Cost) from GENERAL REVENUE FUND 1 |
Probable Savings/(Cost) from GR MATCH FOR MEDICAID 758 |
Probable Savings/(Cost) from FEDERAL FUNDS 555 |
Change in Number of State Employees from FY 2005 |
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2006 | ($1,069,893) | ($1,116) | ($243,052) | 22.1 |
2007 | ($1,111,827) | ($1,134) | ($246,975) | 23.9 |
2008 | ($1,201,043) | ($1,225) | ($266,780) | 25.8 |
2009 | ($1,297,616) | ($1,323) | ($288,244) | 27.9 |
2010 | ($1,401,762) | ($1,429) | ($311,365) | 30.2 |
This bill would require DFPS to perform home assessments on multiple relatives prior to the fourteen day adversary hearing. This would result in the need for additional staff to perform these assessments, assuming DFPS performs all assessments. DFPS estimates there will be an increase of 7,357 new children into kinship care as a result of this bill in FY2006. The Legislative Budget Board estimates this would be an increase of 4,686 caregiver families with an estimated 1.08 percent increase per year. There is an average of two people per caregiver family who require background criminal history checks. Each check costs $41 for a FY2006 total of $384,251.
In addition to background checks, DPFS would perform home assessments on each family. DFPS reports that each home assessment averages 5.5 hours to complete. Based on the given completion time, a home assessment on 4,686 families which takes 5.5 hours to complete would result in an increase of 25,773 annual hours needed to fulfill the workload. Each caseworker works 1,560 annual hours and would require additional support staff. As a result, an additional 22.1 new FTEs would need to be added to complete these assessments.
Source Agencies: | 530 Department of Family and Protective Services
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LBB Staff: | JOB, LB, PP, WP
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