Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF2505

Imposing certain duties on the department of human services relating +to rights
of foster care providers and prospective adoptive parents; requiring +the
department within a certain number of days of placing a child to +inform foster
or prospective adoptive parents of health and safety issues relating +to the
child including past allegations of abuse made by the child against +previous
foster or adoptive parents and to allow before placement the foster +or
prospective adoptive parents to review information relating to the +child and
the parents to assist in determining proper placement; requiring the +department
to provide case plans relating to placement, to solicit the input of +foster
parents in ongoing development of the plans and to provide +information to the
foster parents relating to the family background and health history +of the
child, information to remain confidential; requiring the department +to provide
foster parents with timely notice of changes in case plans, placement
termination, scheduled meetings and staffing, court orders and +proceedings,
consent for communications with professionals, foster home records, +mediation
efforts, explanations of the roles of the department and birth +families,
department contact information, financial reimbursement and training +and
support; requiring the department to treat foster parents with +dignity,
respect, trust and consideration and to consider the foster parents +in adoptive
placement decisions for continuity purposes (ra)