S-5216

   Amend House File 2698, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the House, as follows:
   1.  Page 18, by striking line 23 and inserting: 
   <...................................................................... $167,301,034>
   2.  Page 21, after line 11 by inserting: 
   <___.  Of the funds appropriated in this section, $1,200,000 is allocated to the department for the costs of foster care for a child who receives federal social security survivor benefits. If the department collects a child’s federal social security survivor benefits on behalf of the child, the department shall establish a separate account for deposit of the child’s benefit funds. The department shall release the funds deposited in a child’s account to the individual when the individual reaches eighteen years of age.>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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SARAH TRONE GARRIOTT