Luggage for Children Placed in Out-of-home Care

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Luggage for Children Placed in Out-of-home Care; Citing this act as the “Fostering with Dignity Act”; requiring the Department of Children and Families to provide certain children with luggage for certain purposes; requiring the department to collaborate with certain entities and pursue strategic partnerships for specified purposes; authorizing the department to solicit and accept gifts, grants, and donations from any source for certain purposes, etc.

Every action

4 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

1. Oct 28, 2025SenateFiled
2. Nov 17, 2025CommitteeReferred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Rules · Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
3. Jan 13, 2026SenateIntroduced
4. Mar 13, 2026CommitteeDied in Children, Families, and Elder Affairs · Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it, joined by 1 cosponsor: 1 Republican.

• Lori BermanD Primary sponsor · District 26