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HB 986 Foster care and adoption; disclosure of information prior to placement.

Introduced by: C. Todd Gilbert | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Foster care and adoption; disclosure of information prior to placement. Requires local boards of social services, prior to placement of a child in any foster home or children's residential facility, to provide to the foster home or residential facility all reasonably ascertainable background, medical, and psychological records of the child, including whether the child has been the subject of an investigation as the perpetrator of sexual abuse. The bill also requires that the background information provided to prospective adoptive parents by a child placing agency or local department of social services include whether the child has been the subject of an investigation as the perpetrator of sexual abuse.

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Foster care and adoption; disclosure of information prior to placement. Requires local boards of social services, prior to placement, to provide to the foster home or residential facility all known information, including whether the child has been the perpetrator of sexual abuse. The bill also requires that the background information provided to the prospective adoptive parents by a child placing agency or local department of social services include all known information regarding whether the child has been the perpetrator of sexual abuse.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Foster care and adoption; disclosure of information prior to placement. Requires local boards of social services, prior to foster care placements, and directors of local departments of social services and child-placing agencies, prior to adoptions, to disclose to the foster parents, adoptive parents, or children's residential facility information regarding whether the child has been the victim or perpetrator of sexual abuse. The bill provides that any person who knowingly fails to provide such information is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.