2007 House Bill 4607: Authorize state grants to “positive parenting skills” programs

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Introduced by Rep. Brenda Clack (D) on April 18, 2007, to authorize state grants to community-based programs designed to foster positive parenting skills for parents of children under three years of age; improve parent and child interaction; promote access to “needed community services”; increase local capacity to serve families at risk; improve school readiness; support healthy family environments that discourage alcohol, tobacco, and drug use. The bill does not specify how these ends would be accomplished by the government-funded or government programs that receive the grants.
- Referred to the House Family and Childrens Services Committee on April 18, 2007.
  - Reported in the House on June 27, 2007, with the recommendation that the substitute (H-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
- Substitute offered in the House on October 9, 2007, to replace the previous version of the bill with one that revises details but does not change the substance of the bill as previously described. The substitute passed by voice vote in the House on October 9, 2007.
- Amendment offered by Rep. Rick Shaffer (R) on October 9, 2007, to not include the state early childhood investment corporation in the welfare agencies covered by the bill. The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on October 9, 2007.
Passed 85 to 24 in the House on October 10, 2007, to authorize state grants to community-based programs designed to foster positive parenting skills for parents of children under three years of age; improve parent and child interaction; promote access to “needed community services”; increase local capacity to serve families at risk; improve school readiness; support healthy family environments that discourage alcohol, tobacco, and drug use. The bill does not specify how these ends would be accomplished by the government-funded or government programs that receive the grants.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
Received in the Senate on October 11, 2007.
- Referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee on October 11, 2007.

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1) Clack does NOT care about children by guito13 on October 11, 2007
If she truly cared she would stop sitting on all of the joint custody by default bills out there. She sits on them as most of the members of her district are lower income levels and live off of welfare/child support/and other IVD programs. She would rather cater to people who choose not to work in order to keep her "job" rather than do the right thing.

If she would pass laws that allowed equal time with both parents and stoped bankrupting loving parents who have the wrong sex organs that would do MUCH more than taking more state dollars and giving them to people who are lazy to begin with.
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2) This state knows how to raise kids? by Anonymous Citizen on October 11, 2007
Who are we kidding.

Look at this states history.
Kids are far more likely too die while under state care than under the care of their parents, why would we want someone with such a dismal record of parental skills teaching US how to raise our children.
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3) HB4607 by wolflady on October 10, 2007
The one good thing about Brenda Clack is this is she is now going to term out thank GOD. She should have lived in Nazi Germany she would have been a great help to Hitler. She thinks the Government should be raising all of our children.

I really wonder how on earth I was able to raise all 8 of my children into productive tax paying upstanding citizens with out the state telling me how to do it. Yup kids don't come with an operators manual but who the ell taught the people who are going to are going to tell us how our children should be raised. Who wrote their manuals. Kid do not come out of a cookie cutter they are all unique and different and therefore they can be no manual.

Try plan old common sense when raising children. OH my bad I forgot common sense died some time ago.
vote this very expensive bad legislation down.
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