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Committee adopts a package of foster-care rule changes including temporary rules to expand placements and clarify registry appeals
Summary
The committee approved multiple temporary and pending rule dockets that loosen some licensing requirements, add limited payments for high-need placements, clarify Child Protection Central Registry appeals timing, and adopt the reasonable and prudent parent model for foster placements.
The House Health and Welfare Committee approved a series of rule dockets affecting foster care licensing, placement and administrative review, including temporary rules that the department said are already in effect.
Director Alex Adams said the department's priority is "quality over quantity" and described an effort to reduce unnecessary red tape across 1,200 pages of department rules. Adams highlighted foster-care licensure changes intended to increase foster-family supply and simplify adoption from state custody, including a temporary licensure rule that took effect July 1 and objective changes to eliminate subjective requirements.
The committee adopted multiple related dockets presented by Jared Larson, including temporary extensions and a consolidated rewrite of the children and family services chapter that incorporates the temporary items the committee considered. Key elements the department and subject-matter witnesses described:
- Crisis-level discretion and supplemental payments: A temporary rule (docket 1606012402) allows the department to use existing funds to make time-limited extra payments to Family Alternate Care Providers in rare high-need situations, such as large…
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