1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to legislative enactments; correcting miscellaneous oversights, 
1.3 	inconsistencies, ambiguities, unintended results, and technical errors;amending 
1.4 	Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 260C.007, subdivision 18.
1.5 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.6 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 260C.007, subdivision 18, is amended to 
1.7 	read:
1.8 		Subd. 18.Foster care. "Foster care" means 24 hour substitute care for children 
1.9 	placed away from their parents or guardian and for whom a responsible social services 
1.10 	agency has placement and care responsibility. "Foster care" includes, but is not limited 
1.11 	to, placement in foster family homes, foster homes of relatives, group homes, emergency 
1.12 	shelters, residential facilities not excluded in this subdivision, child care institutions, and 
1.13 	~~proadoptive~~ preadoptive homes. A child is in foster care under this definition regardless of 
1.14 	whether the facility is licensed and payments are made for the cost of care. Nothing in 
1.15 	this definition creates any authority to place a child in a home or facility that is required 
1.16 	to be licensed which is not licensed. "Foster care" does not include placement in any of 
1.17 	the following facilities: hospitals, in-patient chemical dependency treatment facilities, 
1.18 	facilities that are primarily for delinquent children, any corrections facility or program 
1.19 	within a particular correction's facility not meeting requirements for Title IV-E facilities 
1.20 	as determined by the commissioner, facilities to which a child is committed under the 
1.21 	provision of chapter 253B, forestry camps, or jails.

1.22 	Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 2.1 	Unless otherwise provided, each section of this act takes effect at the time the 
2.2 	provision being corrected takes effect.