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2006 SESSION

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SB 48 Kinship foster care; social services to seek thereof.

Introduced by: Yvonne B. Miller | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Kinship Foster Care.  Requires a local board of social services, before making a foster care placement, to first seek out kinship foster care. The Board of Social Services shall adopt regulations for determining whether the child has a relative who is eligible to become a kinship foster parent. Kinship foster care placements are subject to the requirements, and receive the benefits, of other foster care placements, including payments for the care of the child.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Kinship Foster Care.  Requires a local board of social services, before making a foster care placement, to first seek out kinship foster care. To be eligible as a kinship foster parent, a person must be related, through blood, marriage, or adoption, within the first three degrees to the parent or step-parent of the child, and be 21 years of age or older, except that if the spouse or partner of the relative is 21 years of age or older and living in the home, and the relative is between 18 and 21 years of age, the department may waive the age requirement. Kinship foster care placements are subject to the requirements, and receive the benefits, of other foster care placements, including payments for the care of the child.