Requires the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) to provide relative caregivers and other suitable persons with whom a child has been placed and resided for 90 or more days with the same five-day prior notice as required for foster parents when a child's placement is being changed.
Requires the DSHS and the court to consider written information about the child submitted by persons who have a significant relationship with the child and persons who have provided care to the child within the 12 months preceding a hearing on changing the child’s placement.
Requires written notice to caregivers of dependent children regarding placement changes after 12 or more months.
Requires annual reporting to the Legislature regarding changes in placements for dependent children who have resided with a caregiver for 12 or more months.
Clarifies the investigative duties of a guardian ad litem in dependency and termination cases.
From the Substitute House Bill Report (SSB 6730), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Did not passDid not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House
AN ACT Relating to implementing recommendations made by the office of the family and children's ombudsman in its 2009 Colville investigation by requiring the department of social and health services to notify parents the relatives that have been considered as a placement resource;