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1 1 HOUSE FILE 560
1 2
1 3 AN ACT
1 4 RELATING TO CHILD FOSTER CARE REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS AND
1 5 PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
1 6
1 7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 8
1 9 Section 1. Section 237.3, subsection 2, paragraph f, Code
1 10 2001, is amended to read as follows:
1 11 f. Housing, health, safety, and medical-care policies for
1 12 children receiving child foster care. The medical care
1 13 policies shall include but are not limited to both of the
1 14 following:
1 15 (1) If the health records supplied in accordance with the
1 16 child's case permanency plan to the foster care provider are
1 17 incomplete, provision for obtaining additional health
1 18 information from the child's parent or other source and
1 19 supplying the additional information to the foster care
1 20 provider.
1 21 (2) Provision for emergency health coverage of the child
1 22 while the child is engaged in temporary out-of-state travel
1 23 with the child's foster family.
1 24 Sec. 2. Section 237.3, Code 2001, is amended by adding the
1 25 following new subsection:
1 26 NEW SUBSECTION. 10. The department shall adopt rules to
1 27 administer the exception to the definition of child care in
1 28 section 237A.1, subsection 3, paragraph "m", allowing a child
1 29 care facility, for purposes of providing respite care to a
1 30 foster family home, to provide care, supervision, or guidance
1 31 of a child for a period of twenty-four hours or more who is
1 32 placed with the licensed foster family home.
1 33 Sec. 3. Section 237A.1, subsection 3, Code 2001, is
1 34 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
1 35 NEW PARAGRAPH. m. A child care facility providing respite
2 1 care to a licensed foster family home for a period of twenty-
2 2 four hours or more to a child who is placed with that licensed
2 3 foster family home.
2 4 Sec. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of
2 5 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
2 6
2 7
2 8
2 9 BRENT SIEGRIST
2 10 Speaker of the House
2 11
2 12
2 13
2 14 MARY E. KRAMER
2 15 President of the Senate
2 16
2 17 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
2 18 is known as House File 560, Seventy-ninth General Assembly.
2 19
2 20
2 21
2 22 MARGARET THOMSON
2 23 Chief Clerk of the House
2 24 Approved , 2001
2 25
2 26
2 27
2 28 THOMAS J. VILSACK
2 29 Governor
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