Senate File 641 - Enrolled Senate File 641 AN ACT RELATING TO MATTERS UNDER THE PURVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, INCLUDING ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES ORGANIZATIONS, CHILD FOSTER CARE, CHILD AND DEPENDENT ADULT ABUSE, INTERNAL AUDIT AND EXAMINATION INFORMATION, AND THE REGION INCENTIVE FUND IN THE MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY SERVICES REGIONAL SERVICE FUND, HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION’S PREMIUM TAX, AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS AND INCLUDING EFFECTIVE DATE AND RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY PROVISIONS. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: DIVISION I ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES ORGANIZATIONS Section 1. Section 97B.1A, subsection 8, paragraph b, Code 2025, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph: NEW SUBPARAGRAPH . (10) Employees of an administrative services organization as defined in section 225A.1.

Senate File 641, p. 2 Sec. 2. Section 229.1, Code 2025, is amended by adding the following new subsections: NEW SUBSECTION . 2A. “Behavioral health district” means the same as defined in section 225A.1. NEW SUBSECTION . 7A. “Disability access point” means an organization designated by the department for a behavioral health district to serve as the primary local access point for individuals with disabilities, and the individuals’ caregivers, to provide person-centered assistance that facilitates the coordination of the individuals’ services, simplifies service navigation, and improves overall accessibility to disability-related resources. Sec. 3. Section 229.19, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code 2025, is amended by striking the paragraph and inserting in lieu thereof the following: a. (1) The board of supervisors of each county shall appoint an individual to act as an advocate representing the interests of patients involuntarily hospitalized by the court in matters relating to a patient’s hospitalization or treatment under section 229.14 or 229.15. The individual shall have prior experience advocating for or promoting the welfare and rehabilitation of persons with mental illness. (2) A person appointed under this section shall not be any of the following: (a) An officer or employee of the department. (b) An officer or employee of an administrative services organization. (c) An officer or employee of an agency or facility providing care or treatment to persons with mental illness. (d) An officer or employee of a disability access point. DIVISION II CHILD FOSTER CARE Sec. 4. Section 232.69, subsection 1, paragraph b, subparagraph (9), Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: (9) An employee or operator of a child foster care facility licensed or approved under chapter 237 . Sec. 5. Section 232.78, subsection 8, paragraph a, subparagraph (4), Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: (4) An individual licensed to provide foster care pursuant

Senate File 641, p. 3 to licensee or an approved kinship caregiver under chapter 237. If the child is placed with a licensed foster care provider an individual licensee or an approved kinship caregiver , the department shall assign decision-making authority to the foster care provider individual licensee or the approved kinship caregiver for the purpose of applying the reasonable and prudent parent standard during the child’s placement. Sec. 6. Section 232.95, subsection 2, paragraph c, subparagraph (4), Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: (4) An individual licensed to provide foster care pursuant to licensee or an approved kinship caregiver under chapter 237. If the child is placed with a licensed foster care provider an individual licensee or an approved kinship caregiver , the department shall assign decision-making authority to the foster care provider individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver for the purpose of applying the reasonable and prudent parent standard during the child’s placement. Sec. 7. Section 232.102, subsection 1, paragraph a, subparagraph (4), Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: (4) An individual licensed to provide foster care pursuant to licensee or an approved kinship caregiver under chapter 237. If the child is placed with a licensed foster care provider an individual licensee or an approved kinship caregiver , the department shall assign decision-making authority to the foster care provider individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver for the purpose of applying the reasonable and prudent parent standard during the child’s placement. Sec. 8. Section 234.1, subsection 1, paragraph a, subparagraphs (1) and (2), Code 2025, are amended to read as follows: (1) After reaching eighteen years of age, the person has remained continuously and voluntarily under the care of an individual , as defined in section 237.1 , licensed to provide foster care pursuant to licensee or approved kinship caregiver under chapter 237 , or in a supervised apartment living arrangement, in this state. (2) The person aged out of foster care after reaching eighteen years of age and subsequently voluntarily applied for placement with an individual , as defined in section

Senate File 641, p. 4 237.1 , licensed to provide foster care pursuant to licensee or approved kinship caregiver under chapter 237 , or for placement in a supervised apartment living arrangement, in this state. Sec. 9. Section 234.7, subsection 1, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: 1. The department shall comply with the provision associated with child foster care licensees provisions under chapter 237 that requires that a child’s foster parent require an individual licensee or an approved kinship caregiver to be included in, and be provided timely notice of, planning and review activities associated with the child, including but not limited to permanency planning and placement review meetings, which shall include discussion of the child’s rehabilitative treatment needs. Sec. 10. Section 234.39, subsection 2, paragraph b, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: b. This subsection An assignment of support under paragraph “a” shall not apply when a child is placed with a relative or fictive kin as those terms are defined in section 232.2, who unless the relative or fictive kin is not licensed an individual licensee or an approved kinship caregiver under chapter 237 to provide child foster care . Sec. 11. Section 235A.15, subsection 2, paragraph c, subparagraph (2), Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: (2) To an administrator of a child foster care facility licensed under chapter 237 as defined in section 237.1 if the data concerns a person employed or being considered for employment by the facility. Sec. 12. Section 237.1, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: 237.1 Definitions. As used in this chapter : 1. “Agency” means a person which provides child foster care and which that does not meet the definition of an individual as defined under this section or a kinship caregiver . 2. “Agency licensee” means an agency issued a license under this chapter. 3. “Approval” means the authorization granted to a kinship caregiver by the department through an expedited process under

Senate File 641, p. 5 this chapter to provide child foster care, and allows the kinship caregiver to receive maximum financial support and to obtain the information and resources necessary to meet the needs of a child under a court-ordered placement with the kinship caregiver. 4. “Approved kinship caregiver” means a kinship caregiver granted approval under this chapter. 5. “Child” means child the same as defined in section 234.1 . 3. 6. “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, including a relative or fictive kin of the child if the relative or fictive kin is licensed under this chapter an individual licensee or an approved kinship caregiver , but not including a guardian of the child. “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 individual’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 those terms are 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 or fictive kin of a child or an individual person with a meaningful relationship with the child where when the child is not under the placement, care, or supervision of the department. 4. 7. “Department” means the department of health and human services.

Senate File 641, p. 6 5. 8. “Director” means the director of health and human services. 6. 9. “Facility” means the personnel, program, physical plant, and equipment of a licensee or approved kinship caregiver. “Facility” includes a foster family home . 7. 10. “Fictive kin” means the same as defined in section 232.2. 11. “Foster family home” means a single-family home environment in which child foster care is provided. 12. “Individual” means an individual a natural person or a married couple who provides child foster care in a single-family home environment and which does not meet the definition of an agency under this section . 8. 13. “Individual licensee” means an individual, including an individual who is a relative or fictive kin, issued a license under this chapter. 14. “Kinship caregiver” means a relative or fictive kin of a child. 15. “License” means the authorization issued to an individual or an agency by the department under this chapter to provide child foster care. 16. “Licensee” means an individual or an agency licensed under this chapter . 9. 17. “Reasonable and prudent parent standard” means the standard characterized by careful and sensible parenting decisions that maintain the health, safety, and best interests of a child, while at the same time encouraging the emotional and developmental growth of a child, that a caregiver caretaker shall use when determining whether to allow a child in child foster care under the placement, care, or supervision of the department to participate in extracurricular, enrichment, cultural, or social activities. For the purposes of this subsection , “caregiver” “caretaker” means an individual or an agency licensed under this chapter a licensee with which a child in child foster care has been placed , an approved kinship caregiver with whom a child in child foster care has been placed, or a juvenile shelter care home approved under chapter 232 in which a child in child foster care has been placed. 18. “Relative” means an individual related to a child within

Senate File 641, p. 7 the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity by marriage or through adoption. Sec. 13. Section 237.2, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: 237.2 Purpose. It is the policy of this state to provide appropriate protection for children who are separated from the direct personal care of their parents, relatives, fictive kin, or guardians and, as a result, are subject to difficulty in achieving appropriate physical, mental, emotional, educational, or social development. This chapter shall be construed and administered to further that policy by assuring that child foster care is adequately provided by competently staffed and well-equipped child foster care facilities, including but not limited to residential treatment centers, group homes, and foster family homes. Sec. 14. Section 237.3, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: 237.3 Rules. 1. Except as otherwise provided by subsections 3 and 4 , the department shall adopt and enforce in accordance with chapter 17A , administrative rules necessary to implement this chapter . Formulation of the rules shall include consultation with representatives of child foster care providers and other persons affected by this chapter . The rules shall encourage the provision of child foster care in a single-family, home environment, exempting the single-family, home facility foster family homes, and shall exempt foster family homes from inappropriate rules. 2. Rules applicable relating to individual licensees and agency licensees, as applicable, shall include but are not limited to all of the following : a. Types of facilities which include but are not limited to group foster care facilities and foster family foster care homes. b. The number, qualifications, character, and parenting ability of personnel necessary to assure the health, safety and welfare of children receiving child foster care. c. Programs for education and in-service training of

Senate File 641, p. 8 personnel. d. The physical environment of a facility. e. Policies for intake, assessment, admission and discharge. f. Housing, health, safety, and medical care policies for children receiving child foster care. The medical care policies shall include but are not limited to all of the following: (1) Provision by the department to the foster care provider at or before the time of a child’s placement of the a child’s health records , and any other information possessed or known about the health of the child or about a member of the child’s family that pertains to the child’s health , from the department to a licensee or an approved kinship caregiver at or before the time of a child’s placement with the licensee or approved kinship caregiver . (2) If the health records supplied to the licensee or approved kinship caregiver in accordance with the child’s case permanency plan to the foster care provider are incomplete , or the provider licensee or approved kinship caregiver requests specific health information, provision procedures for obtaining additional health information from the child’s parent , or other source , and supplying providing the additional information to the foster care provider licensee or approved kinship caregiver . (3) Provision for emergency health coverage of the child while the child is engaged in temporary , out-of-state travel with the child’s foster family individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver . g. (1) The adequacy of programs available to children receiving child foster care provided by agencies, including but not limited to: (a) Dietary services. (b) Social services. (c) Activity programs. (d) Behavior management procedures. (e) Educational programs, including , where appropriate, special education as defined in section 256B.2, subsection 1, paragraph “b” , where appropriate, which are approved by the state board of education.

Senate File 641, p. 9 (2) The department shall not promulgate adopt rules which that regulate individual licensees or approved kinship caregivers in the subject areas enumerated in this paragraph “g” . h. Policies for involvement of biological parents. i. Records a licensee or approved kinship caregiver is required to keep, and reports a licensee or approved kinship caregiver is required to make to the department. j. Prior to the licensing of an individual as a foster family home , completion of a required, written social assessment of the quality of the living situation in the home of the individual an individual’s prospective foster family home , and completion of a required compilation of personal references for the individual , other than those references given provided by the individual. k. Elements of a foster care placement agreement outlining rights and responsibilities associated with an individual or kinship caregiver providing family child foster care. The rights and responsibilities shall include but are not limited to all of the following: (1) Receiving information prior to the child’s placement regarding risk factors concerning the child that are known to the department, including but not limited to notice if the child is required to register under chapter 692A . (2) Having regularly scheduled meetings with each case manager assigned to the child. (3) Receiving access to any reports prepared by a service provider who is working with the child unless the access is prohibited by state or federal law. 3. Rules governing fire safety in facilities with a facility in which child foster care is provided by agencies an agency shall be promulgated adopted by the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing pursuant to section 10A.511 , after consultation with the director. 4. Rules governing sanitation, water, and waste disposal standards for facilities shall be promulgated adopted by the department pursuant to section 135.11 , after consultation with the director . 5. In case of a conflict between rules promulgated adopted

Senate File 641, p. 10 pursuant to subsections 3 and 4 and local rules ordinances , the more stringent requirement applies shall apply . 6. Rules of adopted by the department shall not prohibit the licensing , as foster family homes, of individuals who are a departmental employees employee not directly engaged in the administration of the child foster care program pursuant to this chapter , as an individual licensee . 7. If an agency is accredited by the joint commission on the accreditation of health care organizations under the joint commission’s consolidated standards for residential settings , or by the council on accreditation of services for families and children , the department shall modify the facility licensure standards applied to the agency in order to avoid duplicating duplication of standards applied through accreditation. 8. The department, in consultation with the judicial branch, residential treatment providers, the foster care provider association, and other parties which may be affected, shall review the licensing rules pertaining to licensing of residential treatment facilities, and examine whether determine if the rules allow the residential treatment facilities to accept and provide effective treatment to juveniles with serious problems who might not otherwise be placed in those residential treatment facilities. 9. The department shall adopt rules specifying that specify the elements of a preadoptive care agreement outlining the rights and responsibilities associated with a person providing preadoptive care, as defined in section 232.2 . 10. The department shall adopt rules to administer the exception to the definition of child care in section 237A.1, subsection 2 , paragraph “l” , allowing allow a child care facility , for purposes of providing to provide respite care to in a foster family home , to provide care, supervision, or guidance of a child for a period of twenty-four hours or more to a child who is placed with the licensed foster family home an individual licensee, as provided in section 237A.1, subsection 2, paragraph “l” . 11. The department shall adopt rules to require the department or a representative of the department to visit a child placed with an individual licensee or approved kinship

Senate File 641, p. 11 caregiver within two weeks of the child being placed with the individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver, and at least once each calendar month thereafter. 12. The department shall adopt rules that would allow each individual licensees licensee and each approved kinship caregiver to apply the reasonable and prudent parent standard to create opportunities for a child to participate in age or developmentally appropriate activities. Sec. 15. Section 237.4, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: An individual or an agency , as defined in section 237.1 , shall not provide child foster care unless the individual or agency obtains a license issued under this chapter is a licensee . However, a license under this chapter is not required of the following: Sec. 16. Section 237.4, subsection 8, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: 8. An individual providing child care as a babysitter at the request of a parent, guardian , fictive kin, or relative having lawful custody of the child. Sec. 17. Section 237.5A, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: 237.5A Foster parent training. 1. As a condition for initial licensure, each individual licensee shall complete thirty hours of foster parent training offered or approved by the department. However, if the individual licensee has completed relevant training or has a combination of completed relevant training and experience, and the department deems such training or combination to be an acceptable equivalent to all or a portion of the initial licensure training requirement, or based upon the circumstances of the child and the individual licensee the department finds there is other good cause, the department may waive all or a portion of the training requirement. Prior to renewal of licensure, each individual licensee shall also annually complete six hours of foster parent training. The training shall include but is not limited to physical care, education, learning disabilities, referral to and receipt of necessary professional services, behavioral assessment and modification,

Senate File 641, p. 12 self-assessment, self-living skills, and biological parent contact. An individual licensee may complete the training as part of an approved training program offered by a public or private agency with expertise in the provision of child foster care or in related subject areas. The department shall adopt rules to implement and enforce this training requirement. 2. A An individual licensee who is unable to complete six hours of foster parent training annually prior to licensure renewal because the individual licensee is engaged in active duty in the military service shall be considered to be in compliance with the training requirement for licensure renewal. 3. The department or the department’s agent shall notify an individual licensee within a reasonable amount of time of any training the department believes would benefit the individual licensee in the provision of child foster care. Sec. 18. NEW SECTION . 237.5B Approved kinship caregiver. 1. A kinship caregiver shall not provide child foster care unless the kinship caregiver has been granted approval under this section. 2. A kinship caregiver shall apply for approval by submitting a completed application to the department on a form furnished by the department. 3. The department, after notice and opportunity for an evidentiary hearing, may deny an application for approval or continued approval if the applicant or approved kinship caregiver violates this chapter or rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. Sec. 19. Section 237.6, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: 237.6 Restricted use of facility. 1. A licensee or approved kinship caregiver shall not furnish child foster care in a building or on premises not designated in the licensee’s license or the kinship caregiver’s approval . 2. A licensee shall not furnish child foster care to a greater number of children than is designated in the licensee’s license, unless authorized by the department. Multiple 3. The department may issue multiple licenses authorizing separate and distinct parts of a an agency licensee’s facility

Senate File 641, p. 13 to provide different categories of child foster care may be issued . Sec. 20. Section 237.8, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: 237.8 Personnel. 1. A person shall not be allowed to provide services in a an agency licensee’s facility if the person has a disease which is transmissible to other persons through required contact in the workplace, which presents a significant risk of infecting other persons, which presents a substantial possibility of harming other persons, or for which no reasonable accommodation can eliminate the risk of infecting other persons. 2. a. (1) If a person is being considered for licensure or approval under this chapter , or if a person is being considered for employment involving by an agency licensee and the employment involves direct responsibility for a child or , is in a facility where children reside, by a licensee under this chapter , or if a requires the person will to reside in a facility utilized by a an agency licensee, and if the person has been convicted of a crime or has a record of founded child abuse, the record check evaluation system of the department , and the agency licensee for an a prospective employee of the agency licensee , shall perform an evaluation to determine whether the crime or founded child abuse warrants prohibition of licensure, approval, employment, or residence in the facility. The record check evaluation system shall conduct criminal and child abuse record checks in this state and may conduct these checks in other states. The evaluation shall be performed in accordance with procedures adopted for this purpose by the department. (2) If the criminal and child abuse record checks conducted in this state under subparagraph (1) for an individual a person being considered for licensure as an agency licensee under this chapter , or for employment involving by an agency licensee and the employment involves direct responsibility for a child or , is in a facility where children reside, by a licensee under this chapter , or for an individual who will requires the person to reside in a facility utilized by a an agency licensee, have been completed and the individual person either does not have

Senate File 641, p. 14 a record of crime or founded child abuse or the record check evaluation system’s evaluation of the record has determined that prohibition of the individual’s licensure or employment is not warranted, the individual person may be provisionally approved for licensure or employment licensed or employed pending the outcome of the fingerprint-based criminal history check conducted pursuant to subparagraph (4). (3) An individual A person being considered for licensure as an agency licensee under this chapter , or a person being considered for employment involving by an agency licensee if the employment involves direct responsibility for a child or , is in a facility where children reside, by a licensee under this chapter , or for an individual who will requires the person to reside in a facility utilized by a an agency licensee, shall not be granted a license or be employed and an evaluation shall not be performed under this subsection , if the individual person has been convicted of any of the following felony offenses: (a) Within the five-year period preceding the application date, a drug-related offense. (b) Child endangerment or neglect or abandonment of a dependent person. (c) Domestic abuse. (d) A crime against a child, including but not limited to sexual exploitation of a minor. (e) A forcible felony. (4) If an individual a person is being considered for licensure or approval under this chapter , or if a person is being considered for employment involving by an agency licensee and the employment involves direct responsibility for a child or , is in a facility where children reside, by a licensee under this chapter , or if an individual will requires the person to reside in a facility utilized by a an agency licensee, or if an individual is subject to licensure under this chapter as a foster parent, in addition to the record checks conducted under subparagraph (1), the individual’s person’s fingerprints shall be provided to the department of public safety for submission through the state criminal history repository to the United States department of justice, federal bureau of

Senate File 641, p. 15 investigation for a national criminal history check. The cost of the criminal history check conducted under this subparagraph is shall be the responsibility of the department. (5) If the criminal and child abuse record checks conducted in this state under subparagraph (1) for an individual a person being considered for licensure as a foster parent an individual licensee or for approval as an approved kinship caregiver have been completed and the individual person either does not have a record of crime or founded abuse , or the record check evaluation system’s evaluation of the record has determined that prohibition of the individual’s person’s licensure or approval is not warranted, the individual person may be provisionally approved for licensure licensed or approved pending the outcome of the fingerprint-based criminal history check conducted pursuant to subparagraph (4). (6) An applicant for a license as an individual applying to be a foster parent licensee or for approval as an approved kinship caregiver shall not be granted a license or approval, and an evaluation shall not be performed under this subsection , if the individual applicant has been convicted of any of the following felony offenses: (a) Within the five-year period preceding the application date, a drug-related offense. (b) Child endangerment or neglect or abandonment of a dependent person. (c) Domestic abuse. (d) A crime against a child, including but not limited to sexual exploitation of a minor. (e) A forcible felony. b. Except as otherwise provided in paragraph “a” , if the record check evaluation system determines that a person has committed a crime or has a record of founded child abuse and is licensed, approved, employed by a an agency licensee, or resides in a licensed facility , the record check evaluation system shall notify the licensee or approved kinship caregiver that an evaluation will be conducted to determine whether prohibition of the person’s licensure, approval, employment, or residence is warranted. c. In an evaluation, the record check evaluation system , and

Senate File 641, p. 16 the agency licensee for an employee or prospective employee of the agency licensee shall consider the nature and seriousness of the crime or founded child abuse in relation to the position sought or held, the time elapsed since the commission of the crime or founded child abuse, the circumstances under which the crime or founded child abuse was committed, the degree of rehabilitation, the likelihood that the person will commit the crime or founded child abuse again, and the number of crimes or founded child abuses committed by the person involved. The record check evaluation system may permit a person who is evaluated to be licensed, approved, employed, or to reside in a facility , or to continue to be licensed, approved, employed, or to reside in a licensed facility, if the person complies with the record check evaluation system’s conditions relating to the person’s licensure, approval, employment, or residence, which may include completion of additional training. For an employee or prospective employee of a an agency licensee, these conditional requirements shall be developed with the agency licensee. The record check evaluation system has shall have final authority in determining whether prohibition of the person’s licensure, approval, employment, or residence is warranted and in developing any conditional requirements under this paragraph. d. If the record check evaluation system determines that the person has committed a crime or has a record of founded child abuse which that warrants prohibition of licensure, approval, employment, or residence, the person shall not be licensed or approved under this chapter and shall not be employed by a an agency licensee or reside in a licensed facility. 3. In addition to the record checks required under subsection 2 , the record check evaluation system may conduct dependent adult abuse record checks in this state and may conduct these checks in other states , on a random basis. The provisions of subsection 2 , relative to an evaluation following a determination that a person has been convicted of a crime or has a record of founded child abuse, shall also apply to a random check conducted under this subsection . 4. A An agency licensee shall inform all new applicants for employment of the possibility of the performance of a

Senate File 641, p. 17 record check and shall obtain, from the applicant, a signed acknowledgment of the receipt of the information. 5. A An agency licensee shall include the following inquiry in an application for employment: Do you have a record of founded child or dependent adult abuse , or have you ever been convicted of a crime, in this state or any other state? Sec. 21. Section 237.9, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: 237.9 Confidential information. A person who receives information from or through the department concerning a child who has received or is receiving child foster care, a relative or guardian of the child, a single-family, home licensee, or an individual employee of a licensee, shall not disclose that information directly or indirectly, except as authorized by section 217.30 , or as authorized or required by section 232.69 . if the information concerns any of the following: 1. A child who has received or is receiving child foster care. 2. A relative, fictive kin, or guardian of a child who has received or is receiving child foster care. 3. An individual licensee. 4. An employee of a licensee. 5. An approved kinship caregiver. Sec. 22. Section 237.10, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows: 237.10 Child foster care providers Individual licensees and approved kinship caregivers . 1. a. The department shall notify an individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver of any appropriate meetings relating to the case permanency plan of a child in the care of the individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver . b. The department shall notify an individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver of any meetings known to the department relating to the individualized education program of a child in the care of the individual licensee or approved kinship caregiver . c. The department shall notify an individual licensee or