H-8021

   Amend House File 2526 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, line 12, after <2.> by inserting <a.>
   2.  Page 1, after line 16 by inserting: 
   <b.  The department and the department’s agents shall not verbally disclose the address of the foster parent who is currently providing child foster care to a foster child to a biological parent of the foster child.>
   3.  Page 1, by striking lines 17 through 22 and inserting: 
   <3.  Notwithstanding subsection 2, a document may contain a foster parent’s unredacted address, and the department and the department’s agents may verbally disclose a foster parent’s address, if the foster parent provides written consent to disclose the address to a foster child’s biological parent prior to the department or the department’s agent providing the document, making the document available, or verbally disclosing the address to the biological parent.>

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