Committee approves Foster Placement Bill of Rights and narrows record-access language
Representative Golick presented House Bill 256 (incorporating Senate Bill 525) to update foster placement rights, create a certified volunteer advocate role and require recording of proceedings; the committee adopted an amendment replacing "an individual" with "a party," clarified access questions for prosecutors, and passed the bill.
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Representative David Golick told the Children and Families Committee that House Bill 256, which incorporates Senate Bill 525, updates the Foster Parent Bill of Rights to reflect modern placement arrangements and to extend protections and procedures to "foster placements" including relative caregivers and fictive kin.
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