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S 9771Relates to referrals for child support enforcement for foster care maintenance payments

Congress · introduced 2026-04-06

Relates to liability to support a child who is placed in foster care pursuant to an approved application for foster care maintenance; provides that such liability shall not be imposed if it will adversely affect the health, safety or welfare of the child on whose behalf such payments are to be made or other persons in the child's household or will adversely affect the length of the child's placement or impair the ability of the child to return home when discharged from foster care; limits the ability of a county or local social services district to cause a referral to be sent for the purpose of commencing collection of child support for a child placed in foster care.

Latest action: 2026-04-06 IN_SENATE_COMM

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  1. · senate REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

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Inbound (2)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2026-04-06Shelley Mayercosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2026-04-06Luis R. Sepúlvedasponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Luis R. Sepúlveda (, state_upper NY-32)sponsor05
2Shelley Mayer (, state_upper NY-37)cosponsor01

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

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  1. 2026-04-06 · sponsored by Luis R. Sepúlveda (sponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2026-04-06 · cosponsored by Shelley Mayer (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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