House File 2010 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 2010 BY VAN ENGELENHOVEN A BILL FOR An Act prohibiting a licensed foster parent from providing 1 child care when a foster child is present who has been found 2 to have committed abuse of another child. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5520YH (2) 84 jp/nh

H.F. 2010 Section 1. Section 237.3, Code 2011, is amended by adding 1 the following new subsection: 2 NEW SUBSECTION . 11. The department shall adopt rules 3 prohibiting an individual foster parent licensee from 4 providing child care to children as a child care home or child 5 development home provider registered under chapter 237A at 6 times when a child is present who is receiving foster care from 7 the licensee and who has been found by the department to have 8 committed abuse of another child. 9 EXPLANATION 10 This bill prohibits a licensed foster parent from providing 11 child care at times when a foster child is present who has been 12 found by the department of human services to have committed 13 abuse of another child. 14 Code section 237.3, providing for the department to adopt 15 rules pertaining to licensed child foster care, is amended 16 by requiring adoption of rules applying the prohibition 17 to licensed foster parents who provide child care as an 18 unregistered child care home provider or a child development 19 home provider registered under Code chapter 237A. 20 -1- LSB 5520YH (2) 84 jp/nh 1/ 1