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Senate committee approves multiple Children and Family Services rule changes, including ending adoption fees and new contested-case procedures
Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved a package of rule changes to Idaho’s child-welfare rules, including elimination of adoption fees for children in state custody and stricter supervised-visitation rules for parents with substantiated abuse findings.
The Idaho Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved several rule dockets from the Department of Health and Welfare that change how the state handles foster care, contested cases, adoption fees and supervised visitation for children in state custody.
Jared Larson, the department’s legislative and regulatory affairs chief, presented a series of temporary rule dockets. Key approved changes included: (1) a definition of a “crisis level of need” to give the department discretion when a shortage of foster homes — especially for large sibling groups — requires…
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