HF 396 (LSB 1329HV (4) 87)

RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF CHILD FOSTER CARE FOR  PURPOSES OF CHILD CARE PROVIDED BY A RELATIVE OF A CHILD. 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 237.1, subsection 4, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   4.  “Child foster care” means the provision of parental nurturing, including but not limited to the furnishing of food, lodging, training, education, supervision, treatment, or other care, to a child on a full-time basis by a person other than including a relative of the child if the relative is licensed under this chapter, but not including a relative or guardian of the child, but. “Child foster care” does not include any of the following care situations:
   a.  Care furnished by an individual person who receives the child of a personal friend as an occasional and personal guest in the individual person’s home, free of charge and not as a business.
   b.  Care furnished by an individual person with whom a child has been placed for lawful adoption, unless that adoption is not completed within two years after placement.
   c.  Care furnished by a private boarding school subject to approval by the state board of education pursuant to section 256.11.

   d.  Child care furnished by a child care center, a child development home, or a child care home as defined in section 237A.1.
   e.  Care furnished in a hospital licensed under chapter 135B or care furnished in a nursing facility licensed under chapter 135C.
   f.  Care furnished by a relative of a child for more than twenty days in one calendar year, where the child is not under the placement, care, or supervision of the department.

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LINDA UPMEYER
Speaker of the House

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JACK WHITVER
President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 396, Eighty-seventh General Assembly.

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CARMINE BOAL
Chief Clerk of the House

Approved _______________, 2017

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TERRY E. BRANSTAD
Governor