Text: HF00559 Text: HF00561 Text: HF00500 - HF00599 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 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
Text: HF00559 Text: HF00561 Text: HF00500 - HF00599 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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