Senate Bill No. 532 Summary

• Establishes a "relative caregiver" definition as a competent adult related by blood, marriage, or adoption who represents in an affidavit that the child lives with them and they are responsible for the child's care.

• Allows relative caregivers to consent to medical treatment and educational services if the parent has delegated authority in writing or if reasonable efforts to obtain parental consent have failed.

• Requires relative caregivers to execute a signed affidavit containing the child's information, caregiver's identity, relationship to child, parent contact information, and documentation of attempts to notify the parent.

• Affidavits expire one year after being provided to a health care provider or school, and must be immediately invalidated if the child stops living with the relative caregiver.

• Parents remain liable for payment of medical and educational services provided under a relative caregiver's valid consent, and parental decisions override caregiver consent unless they threaten the child's life, health, or safety.