Bill Text: SC H4510 | 2015-2016 | 121st General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Foster children

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-2)

Status: (Passed) 2016-05-31 - Act No. 187 [H4510 Detail]

Download: South_Carolina-2015-H4510-Amended.html

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AMENDED

March 8, 2016

H. 4510

Introduced by Reps. Thayer, Hosey, Nanney, Hamilton, Erickson, Long, Hicks, McCoy, McEachern and Bedingfield

S. Printed 3/8/16--H.

Read the first time January 12, 2016.

            

A BILL

TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 63-7-2400 SO AS TO ESTABLISH LIMITATIONS ON THE NUMBER OF FOSTER CHILDREN WHO MAY BE PLACED IN A FOSTER HOME.

Amend Title To Conform

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Article 5, Chapter 7, Title 63 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Section 63-7-2400.    A foster home may not provide full-time care for more than five children, excluding the foster parents' own children and other children who are household members, with a maximum of eight children, except:

(1)    to keep a sibling group together;

(2)    to keep a child in the child's home community;

(3)    to return a child to a home in which the child was previously placed;

(4)    to comply with an order of the court; or

(5)    if it is in the best interest of the children as determined by the court or the department."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.