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Committee approves foster-care oversight subcommittee to maintain attention on foster-parent concerns
Summary
Lawmakers advanced HB 478 to create a foster-care oversight subcommittee within the Oversight Commission on Children's Services; the measure passed the Children and Family Law Committee by voice and roll call and will be referred to oversight for continued work.
Representative Katrina (prime sponsor) told the committee HB 478 would establish a permanent foster-care oversight subcommittee within the existing Oversight Commission on Children's Services after a summer study that collected foster-parent and provider testimony. "After a lot of work...it was recommended that we put forth this bill so that we can continue to hear the needs of foster parents and also to…
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