AN ACT relating to the educational stability of children in out-of-home placements. Create a new section of KRS 199.800 to 199.805 to provide that the Department for Community Based Services shall place a foster child within the school district where the child was enrolled immediately prior to placement if practicable; require the department to make the determination on whether a foster child shall remain enrolled in the school of origin based upon a determination of the best interest of the child; provide that the cost of transportation shall not be a factor in the determination of the best interest of the child; require reasonable transportation to be offered if the department determines it is in the best interest of the child to remain enrolled in the school of origin after placement in a new school district; establish procedures for enrolling a foster child if changing the child's school of enrollment is in the best interest of the child; require the district in which the foster child is enrolled upon successful completion of high school graduation requirements to issue a diploma to the child.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2018
Committee Review
Mar 2018
House Passage
Mar 2018
Senate Passage
Mar 2018
Signed into Law
Apr 2018
Introduced Feb 26, 2018
Signed Apr 10, 2018
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Committee
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Apr 10, 2018
Signed into law
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 147)
lower
Mar 16, 2018
Committee
To Health & Welfare (S)
upper
Mar 6, 2018
Lower · Passed
Posted in committee
lower
Feb 28, 2018
Committee
To Health and Family Services (H)
lower
Feb 26, 2018
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Introduced in House
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
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