HF 4166

as introduced - 85th Legislature (2007 - 2008) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to legislative enactments; correcting miscellaneous oversights,
inconsistencies, ambiguities, unintended results, and technical errors; amending
Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 260C.007, subdivision 18.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 260C.007, subdivision 18, is amended to
read:

Subd. 18.

Foster care.

"Foster care" means 24 hour substitute care for children
placed away from their parents or guardian and for whom a responsible social services
agency has placement and care responsibility. "Foster care" includes, but is not limited
to, placement in foster family homes, foster homes of relatives, group homes, emergency
shelters, residential facilities not excluded in this subdivision, child care institutions, and
deleted text begin proadoptive deleted text end new text begin preadoptive new text end homes. A child is in foster care under this definition regardless of
whether the facility is licensed and payments are made for the cost of care. Nothing in
this definition creates any authority to place a child in a home or facility that is required
to be licensed which is not licensed. "Foster care" does not include placement in any of
the following facilities: hospitals, in-patient chemical dependency treatment facilities,
facilities that are primarily for delinquent children, any corrections facility or program
within a particular correction's facility not meeting requirements for Title IV-E facilities
as determined by the commissioner, facilities to which a child is committed under the
provision of chapter 253B, forestry camps, or jails.

Sec. 2. new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE.
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new text begin Unless otherwise provided, each section of this act takes effect at the time the
provision being corrected takes effect.
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