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SB 415 Foster care; local departments to provide independent living services to person between age 18 & 21.

Introduced by: Jill Holtzman Vogel | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Foster care and independent living services. Requires local departments that provide independent living services to persons between 18 and 21 years of age to provide any person who chooses to leave foster care or terminate independent living services before his twenty-first birthday written notice of his right to request restoration of independent living services. The written notice shall be included in the person's transition plan, which shall be created at least 90 days prior to the person's discharge from foster care.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Foster care and independent living services.  Requires local departments and child-placing agencies to provide independent living services to any person between 18 and 21 years of age who requests such services and is in the process of transitioning from foster care to self-sufficiency. The bill also extends the time period during which a person between the ages of 18 and 21 may request restoration of independent living services if they previously terminated such services. Local departments are required to provide a person who chooses to leave foster care or terminate independent living services written notice of their right to restore independent living services.