South Carolina House Bill 3162 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-01-12 - Referred to Committee on Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amend Section 63-7-1680, Code Of Laws Of South Carolina, 1976, Relating To Placement Plans For Children In Foster Care, So As To Require A Placement Plan To Include Notice That Caseworkers Who Fail To Make The Prescribed Number Of Personal Contacts With Foster Children Must Be Terminated From Employment, With Exceptions; And To Amend Section 63-7-2310, Relating, In Part, To The Responsibility Of Caseworkers To Make A Prescribed Number Of Personal Contacts With Foster Children, So As To Terminate A Caseworker Who Fails To Comply, With Exceptions, To Require Foster Parents To Make Foster Children Reasonably Available To Facilitate Caseworker Contact With A Foster Child, To Require County Directors To Perform Audits To Determine Caseworker Compliance, And To Terminate County Directors Who Fail To Perform The Prescribed Audits.

Foster care, caseworkers

Rep. John King [D]

Rep. Leola Robinson-Simpson [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-12	House	Referred to Committee on Judiciary
2021-01-12	House	Introduced and read first time
2020-12-09	House	Referred to Committee on Judiciary
2020-12-09	House	Prefiled

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
63	7	1680	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	7	2310	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=3162&session=124&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess124_2021-2022/prever/3162_20201209.htm