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Senate advances bill to increase 14-day reviews of unlicensed congregate foster placements
Summary
Sen. Cherie Wintrow presented Senate Bill 1035 to require the director of Health and Welfare to review unlicensed group-care placements every 14 days and assess safety, treatment needs and discharge plans; committee voted to send the bill to the floor with a due-pass recommendation.
Senator Cherie Wintrow presented Senate Bill 1035 to the Senate Health and Welfare Committee as a follow-up to reforms enacted in 2024 aimed at restricting foster placements in unregulated congregate-care settings such as short-term rentals and hotels.
Wintrow said the 2024 reforms reduced the number of children placed in short-term rentals; she said the current bill builds on those reforms by clarifying the director of the Department of Health and Welfare's authority to review and approve congregate-care placements. "For a child placed in an unlicensed group care…
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