CHILD WELFARE BILL RAISES FUNDING, OTHER CONCERNS

The Federation also told the House Ways and Means Committee the amended bill on Child Welfare privatization is still an “alarming gamble.”

Federation Lobbyist Alia Griffing said even though the bill has been scaled back from the original Senate version—it now calls for two pilot projects to privatize—E2SSB 5943 still has fiscal problems.

It’s hard to fix the costs when the bill doesn’t specify the size of the demonstration projects, she said.

The bill also jeopardizes an unknown amount of federal dollars and an oversight committee also adds costs, she said.