2046-S2.E AMS LONG THIE 014

E2SHB 2046 - S AMD TO S COMM AMD (S2938.1) - 322

    By Senators Long and Hargrove

                                                   ADOPTED 4/17/97

    On page 4 of the amendment, beginning on line 13, after "(1)", strike all material through "days." on line 23 and insert "Within available resources, the department shall prepare a passport containing all known and available information concerning the mental, physical, health, and educational status of the child for any child who has been in a foster home for ninety consecutive days or more.  The passport shall be provided to a foster parent at any placement of a child covered by this section.  The department shall update the passport during the regularly scheduled court reviews required under chapter 13.34 RCW.

    New placements after the effective date of this act shall have first priority in the preparation of passports.  Within available resources, the department may prepare passports for any child in a foster home on the effective date of this act, provided that no time spent in a foster home before the effective date of this act shall be included in the computation of the ninety days."

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Effect: Removes the requirement that the passport contain legal information pertaining to the child.  Children placed in foster homes after the effective date of the act have first priority for the passports.