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Committee sends RS 31946 to print to clarify foster care review periods for short-term and residential placements
Summary
Sen. Melissa Wintrow asked to print RS 31946, which clarifies review timelines for foster placements and exempts certain residential treatment programs from the short-term review timetable; the committee approved sending the request-to-print to allow bill drafting and later hearing.
Senator Melissa Wintrow asked the Senate Health and Welfare Committee to send RS 31946 to print, describing it as a technical and policy update to a statute the Legislature passed last session that unintentionally captured residential treatment programs in restrictions aimed at preventing foster children from being placed in short-term rentals.
Wintrow, a co-sponsor of the earlier bill, said the prior statute was intended to require direct…
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