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Committee hears DCYF licensing bill to align foster care, CRC staffing ratios and electronic attendance requirements
Summary
Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2253 would update DCYF licensing statutes: revise crisis residential center staffing ratios (1:4 daytime; 1:6 sleeping), clarify foster‑care probationary license rules, exempt kinship caregivers from certain blood‑borne‑pathogen training, and codify electronic attendance verification for subsidy-funded childcare; committee members raised jurisdiction and duplication concerns.
Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2253, presented to the Senate Human Services Committee on Feb. 23, is an agency‑request bill that makes multiple technical and statutory fixes to Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) licensing rules for foster care, crisis residential centers (CRCs) and childcare.
A staff presenter described provisions including immediate termination of child‑specific probationary licenses when high‑potency synthetic opioids or illicit substances are found in a home, a requirement that kinship caregivers not be required to complete blood‑borne‑pathogen training, changes to how inactive foster home licenses are defined and appealed, and a switch from specifying the…
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