WA HB2505

Former foster care providers with at least 3 years of active foster family home licensure may be exempt from adult family home licensing requirements when continuing to care for former foster youth who have exited the foster care system

Exempt providers must have provided personal care services to the former foster youth for at least 3 years before the youth exited foster care, and may only provide care to those specific former foster youth in their home

Providers with child-specific licenses under RCW 74.15.125 may also qualify for the exemption when caring for the former foster youth for whom they received that specific license

Exemption requirements include no founded or substantiated findings by child protective services or adult protective services, and no pending adverse licensing actions at the time the youth exits foster care

The Department of Social and Health Services is authorized to establish rules implementing these exemptions