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Committee approves multiple temporary Children and Family Services rules addressing crisis placements, contested-case appeals and adoption fees
Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved a package of temporary Children and Family Services dockets that add a crisis-placement standard, clarify contested-case appeals for the Child Protection Central Registry, eliminate adoption fees for children in state custody and add supervised-visit requirements for certain substantiated parents.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee approved a series of temporary rule dockets from the Department of Health and Welfare that the department said address immediate needs in children’s services and prepare the agency for pending litigation.
Jared Larson presented multiple temporary rule sets. The committee approved a temporary docket that adds a definition for “crisis level of need,” allowing the department discretion to adjust compensation when insufficient foster homes — particularly for large sibling groups — are available. Larson said this is intended to…
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