H-0511.1
HOUSE BILL 1760
State of Washington | 66th Legislature | 2019 Regular Session |
ByRepresentatives Young, Shea, Kraft, Van Werven, and Graham
Read first time 01/30/19.Referred to Committee on Human Services & Early Learning.
AN ACT Relating to homeschooling foster youth; adding a new section to chapter
74.15 RCW; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. In August 2016, the department of social and health services proposed changes to foster parent licensing forbidding the provision of home-based instruction to all children in the care and custody of the department. This rule was made effective September 19, 2016, as WAC 388-148-1525. It was then recodified as WAC 110-148-1525 with the department of children, youth, and families, effective July 1, 2018.
As home-based instruction can be an appropriate and effective educational model for foster youth, the legislature intends to reverse WAC 110-148-1525(1)(b) and allow foster parents to provide home-based instruction to foster youth.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter
74.15 RCW to read as follows:
The department shall not deny a foster-family home license on the sole basis that a foster youth in his or her care received home-based instruction as described in RCW
28A.225.010(4).
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