Bill Text: IA HF396 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the definition of child foster care for purposes of child care provided by a relative of a child. (Formerly HSB 81.) Effective 7-1-17.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-04-21 - Signed by Governor. H.J. 1142. [HF396 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF396-Enrolled.html

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House File 396 - Enrolled




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                                         House File 396

                             AN ACT
 RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF CHILD FOSTER CARE FOR
    PURPOSES OF CHILD CARE PROVIDED BY A RELATIVE OF A CHILD.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  Section 237.1, subsection 4, Code 2017, is
 amended to read as follows:
    4.  "Child foster care" means the provision of parental
 nurturing, including but not limited to the furnishing of food,
 lodging, training, education, supervision, treatment, or other
 care, to a child on a full=time basis by a person other than
  including a relative of the child if the relative is licensed
 under this chapter, but not including a relative or guardian
 of the child, but. "Child foster care" does not include any of
 the following care situations:
    a.  Care furnished by an individual person who receives the
 child of a personal friend as an occasional and personal guest
 in the individual person's home, free of charge and not as a
 business.
    b.  Care furnished by an individual person with whom a child
 has been placed for lawful adoption, unless that adoption is
 not completed within two years after placement.
    c.  Care furnished by a private boarding school subject to
 approval by the state board of education pursuant to section
 256.11.
    d.  Child care furnished by a child care center, a child
 development home, or a child care home as defined in section
 237A.1.
    e.  Care furnished in a hospital licensed under chapter 135B
 or care furnished in a nursing facility licensed under chapter
 135C.
    f.  Care furnished by a relative of a child for more than
 twenty days in one calendar year, where the child is not under
 the placement, care, or supervision of the department.


                                                                                            LINDA UPMEYER


                                                                                            JACK WHITVER


                                                                                            CARMINE BOAL


                                                                                            TERRY E. BRANSTA

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