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State Caregiving Legislation (Enacted 2001-2003)
California
SB 723 (Enacted 2003) Provided conforming, clarifying and technical changes to a recently enacted family temporary disability insurance program, which provides up to six weeks of replacement benefits for employees who take time off from work to care for seriously ill family members or to bond with a new child.
SB 1661 (Enacted 2002) This first paid family leave law, which expands on the federal family and medical leave act by providing up to six weeks of paid leave (100 percent employee- funded) for workers caring for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
SB 739 (Enacted 2001) Required the Department of Aging to establish guidelines for the use of NFCSP funds to ensure the quality of services provided with those funds.
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Colorado
HB 1067 & HB 1420 (Enacted 2002) HB 1067 created the family caregiver support program to provide funding to area agencies on Aging for caregiver support services. HB 1420 appropriated funds to the program.
Connecticut
SB 291 (Enacted 2003) Established a kinship foster care program.
HB 6909 (Enacted 2001) Required state agencies to include provisions that support family caregivers in any program that provides assistance or support to people with long-term care needs
Florida
HB 27e (Enacted 2002) Appropriated funds for Alzheimer's caregiver support programs.
Georgia
HB 318 (Enacted 2003) Created the Adult Day Center for Aging Adults Licensure Act.
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Hawaii
HB 389 (Enacted 2003) Allowed caregivers during working hours to attend to a child, parent, spouse, or reciprocal beneficiary with a serious health condition. Employers who provide sick leave must permit employees to use up to 10 days of accrued and available sick leave for these family leave purposes.
SB 597 (Enacted 2001) Established support for family caregivers of adults with disabilities as a long-term goal of the state. A state-funded caregiver coordinator heads the Caregivers Resource Initiative project to assist caregiver support efforts in the state by partnering with other community stakeholders.
Idaho
SB 1481 (Enacted 2002) Appropriated the NFCSP federal grant to the state Commission on Aging.
Illinois
HB 3774 (Enacted 2003) Appropriated funds for Senior Caregivers of Adult Disabled Children.
Indiana
SB 493 (Enacted 2003) Established a caregiver support program.
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Iowa
HB 386 (Enacted 2003) Added “support for caregivers” to the state’s objectives for serving older individuals.
Maine
HB 1441 (Enacted 2002) Authorized the Department of Human Services to use money from the Respite Care Fund to carry out purposes of the NFCSP.
HB 1441 (Enacted 2002) & HB 655 (Enacted 2001) Allocated funding for FY 2001 and FY 2002 to implement the NFCSP within the Bureau of Elder and Adult Services.
Maryland
SB 567 & HB 513 (Enacted 2001) Established the Maryland Family Caregivers Support Coordinating Council in the Department of Human Resources to coordinate statewide planning, development and implementation of family caregiver support services.
Massachusetts
HB 4004 (Enacted 2003) Appropriated funds from the NFCSP to the Executive Office on Elder Affairs.
HB 5300 (Enacted 2002) No bill information available.
HB 4800 (Enacted 2001) No bill information available.
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Minnesota
HB6a (Enacted 2003) Increased reimbursement limits for Medigap coverage and removed the exclusion for coverage for care provided by a family member.
Montana
SJR 18 (Enacted 2003) Requested a Medicaid waiver to allow greater flexibility with family caregiving.
New Hampshire
HB 831 (Enacted 2003) Created a study to commission on end of life care. One of the goals of the commission included the education and training of caregivers.
HB 569 (Enacted 2001) Established a committee to study the information, training and support needs of family caregivers.
New Jersey
SB 2003 (Enacted 2002) Appropriated funding from the National Family Caregiver Program to the state Department of Health and Senior Services.
SB 2500 (Enacted 2001) No bill information available.
SB 3000 (Enacted 2003) Appropriated funds for the New Jersey Ease for Caregivers—Building Support Systems project.
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North Dakota
HB 1012 (Enacted 2001) Specified that the Department of Human Services determine the requirements related to the acceptance of the federal family caregiver funds, including allowable uses, maintenance of effort and future funding projections.
Pennsylvania
HB 648 (Enacted 2003) Appropriated funds to the Family Caregiver Support Program
SB 5 (Enacted 2002) No bill information available.
SB 1 (Enacted 2001) No bill information available.
Tennessee
HB 448 (Enacted 2003) Power of attorney law to facilitate extended family members who are caring for related children and allows parents to delegate temporary authority for children to receive public benefits without terminating parental rights.
Texas
SB 297 (Enacted 2001) Lowered the age at which someone could qualify as a grandparent caregiver under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) from age 50 to age 45. The Legislature also raised the income eligibility criteria from 100 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) to 200 percent of the FPL.
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Washington
SSB 6426 (Enacted 2002) Required the state to offer family and medical leave benefits beyond the federally prescribed minimum and requires employers to allow employees to use sick leave or other paid leave to care for a spouse, parent, child, parent-in-law or grandparent with a health condition.
SHB 1397 (Enacted 2002) Established a kinship caregivers working group that would prepare a briefing for the legislature.
West Virginia
SB 626 (Enacted 2003) Provided an exception that relative caregivers who are providing in-home care are exempt from certain work requirements of the medical assistance program.
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