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Committee approves Department of Health and Welfare package on foster care, contested-case appeals and adoption fees
Summary
The Idaho Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved a package of temporary and pending Department of Health and Welfare rules affecting foster care placements, contested-case appeals, adoption fees and supervised visitation.
The Idaho Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved a multi-docket package of temporary and pending rules from the Department of Health and Welfare that make several changes to children and family services, including new definitions for crisis-level placements, contested-case procedures for the Child Protection Central Registry, elimination of adoption fees for children in state custody, and new supervised-visitation requirements for parents substantiated for certain levels of abuse.
Jared Larson, legislative and regulatory affairs chief for the Department, summarized the package and introduced…
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