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Committee approves foster-care licensing reforms, lowers age requirement and adopts Reasonable Prudent Parent standard; firearms storage rule prompts follow-up
Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved foster-care licensing reforms that adopt the Reasonable Prudent Parent standard, lower certain age limits for foster parents to 18, create a fast-track reapplication process for former foster parents, and include weapon-storage requirements that prompted follow-up work with a senator.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved several rule dockets that rewrite foster-care licensing chapters, adopt the federal Reasonable Prudent Parent standard, reduce some application timelines and add a fast-track reapplication for former foster parents.
Jared Larson explained the package as a chapter repeal and replace: one docket repealed the prior chapter and a following docket re-established licensing under the Reasonable Prudent Parent standard rather than an age-only limit. Larson said the state is adopting a national model (a Trump-era model referenced in the transcript) for foster-family…
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