Senate File 323 - Introduced





                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  SODDERS


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the provision of health records of a child in
  2    foster care to the foster care provider.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2455SS 83
  5 jp/nh/8

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 237.3, subsection 2, paragraph f, Code
  1  2 2009, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    f.  Housing, health, safety, and medical care policies for
  1  4 children receiving child foster care.  The medical care
  1  5 policies shall include but are not limited to all of the
  1  6 following:
  1  7    (1)  Provision by the department to the foster care
  1  8 provider at or before the time of a child's placement of the
  1  9 child's health records and any other information possessed or
  1 10 known about the health of the child or about a member of the
  1 11 child's family that pertains to the child's health.
  1 12    (2)  If the health records supplied in accordance with the
  1 13 child's case permanency plan to the foster care provider are
  1 14 incomplete or the provider requests specific health
  1 15 information, provision for obtaining additional health
  1 16 information from the child's parent or other source and
  1 17 supplying the additional information to the foster care
  1 18 provider in a timely manner.
  1 19    (3)  Provision for emergency health coverage of the child
  1 20 while the child is engaged in temporary out=of=state travel
  1 21 with the child's foster family.
  1 22                           EXPLANATION
  1 23    This bill relates to the provision of health records of a
  1 24 child in foster care to the foster care provider.  Under
  1 25 current law in Code section 237.3, the rules adopted by the
  1 26 department of human services for foster care licensees require
  1 27 the department to provide the available health care records of
  1 28 the child to the provider at or before the time of placement.
  1 29 The bill amends the existing requirement for supplying
  1 30 additional information when the records are incomplete to also
  1 31 allow the provider to request specific information and require
  1 32 any additional information to be provided in a timely manner.
  1 33 LSB 2455SS 83
  1 34 jp/nh/8