BILL · 2017–18 SESSION

HB 2054: Foster license/homeschooling

Providing that home-based instruction of a foster child may not be the sole basis for denying a foster-family home license.

Summary

  • Reverses the changes to foster parent licensing rules, by the department of social and health services, forbidding home-based instruction to children in the care and custody of the department and allows foster parents to provide home-based instruction to foster youth.

From the Bill Digest (HB 2054), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedFeb 9, 2017
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Representative (R-26)
Introduced
February 9, 2017 in the House
Last action
January 8, 2018

AN ACT Relating to homeschooling foster youth;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Representative (R-26)

4 co-sponsors (0 Democrats, 4 Republicans)

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  4. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  5. First reading, referred to Early Learning & Human Services (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 2054 in other sessions

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