HB 6026 Summary

• Requires the Department to develop, implement, and publicize a children's assurance of quality foster care policy with input from current and former foster children.

• Adds inventory and security of personal belongings as a new right for children in foster care, and renumbers existing rights accordingly.

• Establishes a grievance procedure allowing foster children to file complaints about noncompliance with policy rights, with 30-day response requirement from supervising agencies and escalation options to the department's office of family advocate.

• Limits available remedies under the policy to injunctive relief only.

• Changes implementation deadline from 90 days after the amendatory act to June 25, 2019.