Arkansas |
2015 Ark. Acts, Senate Bill 760, Act 1123 |
Amends the child maltreatment act, requires investigative interviews with a health care provider involved with a child maltreatment report includes current or past healthcare providers when the allegation of child maltreatment was reported by a healthcare provider. |
California
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2014 Senate Bill 508 Act No. 831
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Codifies the MediCal income eligibility thresholds established by the State Department of Health Services. Requires the department to implement provisions regarding providing MediCal benefits to an individual in foster care homes or private institutions for a specified time period under specified conditions. Removes the requirement that a child's parent or caretaker relative meet the deprivation requirements in order for the child to be eligible for MediCal.
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California
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2009 Cal. Stats., SB
597, Chap. 339
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Requires the department, in consultation with pediatricians, health care experts and experts in and recipients of child welfare services, to develop a plan for the ongoing oversight and coordination of health care services for a child in a foster care placement.
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Connecticut
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2013 Conn. Acts, SB
833 P.A. 228
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Extends to the Department of Children and Families (DCF) or any agency or person to whom DCF has granted temporary care and custody of a child or youth on the basis of a court order of temporary custody (OTC), the following rights regarding that child or youth: 1. the obligation of care and control; 2. the authority to make decisions regarding emergency medical, psychological, psychiatric, or surgical treatment; and, 3. other rights and duties that the court orders.
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Hawaii
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2008 HI Sess. Laws,
HB 523, Act 183
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Establishes guiding principles for the Department of Human Services concerning foster children, including ensuring safety from abuse; adequate food, shelter, clothing, medical, dental and mental health care.
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Iowa
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2009 Iowa Acts, HB
152, Chap. 120
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Adds health care coverage planning to transitional planning for older youth.
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Kansas
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2012 Kan. Sess. Laws, HB 2631, Chap.
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Relates to dental care availability and access. Provides that the practice of dental hygiene may be performed with the consent of the parent or legal guardian, on children participating in residential and nonresidential centers for therapeutic services or receiving family preservation services, on all children in foster care homes, runaway youth programs, and homeless shelters as well as on children in schools. Relates to Health.
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Kansas
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2008 Kan. Sess.
Laws, HB 2214,
Chap. 134
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Amends the Dental Practices Act to expand the practice of dental hygiene to include service to (1) children receiving services in residential or nonresidential centers for therapeutic services, (2) children in families receiving family preservation services, (3) children in the custody of the Secretary of Social and Rehabilitation Services or the Commissioner of the Juvenile Justice Authority and in out-of-home placement in foster care homes and (4) children being served by runaway youth programs and homeless shelters.
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Maryland
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Senate Bill 685 2014, Act No. 190
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Requires the Department of Human Resources or a local department of social services to provide specified information, on request, to a health care practitioners or another entity who is providing treatment or care to a child who is the subject of a report of child abuse or neglect. Establishes a reporting requirement for the Department of Human Resources.
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Maryland
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2009 Md. Laws, HB
580, Chap. 681
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Requires comprehensive medical care for independent foster care adolescents, who are individuals younger than age 21 who, on their 18th birthday, were in state foster care.
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Minnesota
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House Bill 2401 2014 Act No. 291
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Makes changes to health and human services policy provisions and the medical assistance program, modifies provisions relating to children and family services, the provision of health services, chemical and mental health services, health-related licensing boards, Department of Health, public health, continuing care, and health care, establishes reporting requirements and grounds for disciplinary action for health professionals, modifies newborn screening program. Addresses conditions of foster family homes and prenatal exposure to controlled substances.
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New York
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2014 Assembly Bill 9732 Act No. 279
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Amends the Social Services Law. Provides that the local commissioner of social services or local commissioner of health may give consent for medical, dental, health and hospital services for any child found by the family court to be an abused, neglected or destitute child.
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New York
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2014 N.Y. Laws, SB 6914, Chap. 60
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S 398-b. Transition to managed care. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law to the contrary and subject to the availability of federal financial participation, the commissioner is authorized to make grants from a gross amount of $5 million dollars to facilitate the transition of foster care children placed with voluntary foster care agencies to managed care. The use of such funds may include providing training and consulting services to voluntary agencies to access readiness and make necessary infrastructure and organizational modifications, collecting service utilization and other data from voluntary agencies and other entities, and making investments in health information technology, including the infrastructure necessary to establish and maintain electronic health records. Such funds shall be distributed pursuant to a formula to be developed by the commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioner of the office of family and child services. In developing such formula the commissioners may take into account size and scope of provider operations as a factor relevant to eligibility for such funds. Each recipient of such funds shall be required to document and demonstrate the effective use of funds distributed herein.
2. Data provided by voluntary foster care agencies shall be compliant with the health insurance portability and accountability act, and shall be transmitted securely using emeds or other mechanism to be determined by the department of health. Such data may be used by the department of health to establish rates of payment for managed care organizations or services provided to children in foster care. In establishing such rates the commissioner of health shall also take into account care coordination services that will continue to be provided by the voluntary foster care agencies.
3. The commissioner of health shall issue a report to be made public on the department of health's website. Such report shall conform to the requirements of subdivision five of section ninety-two of part h of chapter fifty-nine of the laws of two thousand eleven.
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Oklahoma
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2014 House Bill 3469 Act No. 355
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Directs the Department of Human Services to consider risks of children unable to communicate effectively about abuse or neglect in investigations and assessments. Provides for children with complex medical needs. Provides for removal if a reasonable suspicion exists that a child is unable to communicate effectively about abuse or neglect. Includes children with a disability or a developmental disability. Permits department inspection of psychological and medical records and nondirectory education records.
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Oklahoma
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2009 Okla. Sess.
Laws, HB 1734, Chap. 338
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Creates a Passport Program in the Department of Human Services to compile education, medical and behavioral health records for children in protective custody, kinship care and foster care. The Passport shall accompany each child to wherever the child resides so long as the child is in the custody of the department.
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Oregon
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2013 Or. Laws, SB
123, Chap. 515
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Requires the Department of Human Services to adopt rules to establish the Oregon Foster Children's Bill of Rights. Provides for rights including to obtain health care and mental health care, including services and treatments available without parental consent.
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Oregon
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2013 Or. Laws, SB
601, Chap. 231
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Authorizes a relative caregiver with whom a minor child lives to consent to medical treatment and educational services for a minor child if consent of legal parent or guardian cannot be obtained after reasonable efforts. Specifies required information in relative caregiver affidavits. Relieves health care provider and school of criminal and civil liability for medical treatment or educational services provided in good faith.
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Pennsylvania
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2010 Pa. Laws, HB
2338, Act. 119
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Creates the Children in Foster Care Act. The law stipulates that all foster children have rights, including have access to necessary health services and consent to medical and mental health treatment consistent with current law.
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South Carolina |
2015 S.C. Acts, Senate Bill 250, Act 75 |
Provides for the right of certain medical professionals to perform medical examinations on and release medical records about a child who is the subject of an abuse or neglect report without parental consent, identifies entities to whom primary care physicians, consulting physicians, and hospital facilities may or must release the medical records, relates to confidentiality of child abuse and neglect records maintained by the Department of Social Services. |
South Carolina
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2014 House Bill 4347 Act No. 153
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Enacts the State Children's Advocacy Medical Response System Act. Creates the State Children's Advocacy Medical Response System, a program to provide coordination and medical service resources statewide to agencies and entities that respond to victims of child abuse and neglect. Provides for the duties and responsibilities of the program. Relates to responsibilities of children's advocacy centers. Requires these centers to comply.
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South Dakota |
2015 S.D. Session Laws, House Bill 1059, Act 182 |
Requires a provider to verbally notify a patient, or if the patient is a minor, the patient's parent or guardian, of the patient's ability to refuse to permit immunization information to be shared. |
Tennessee |
2015 Tenn. Pub. Acts, Senate Bill 75, Chap. 199 |
Relates to the rights of adoptive and foster care families, requires the Department of Children's Services to disclose certain information about children adopted from the department's guardianship to the adoptive family, relates to health, educational, mental and behavioral health information, as well as nationality, ethnic background, race, and religious preference, requires rules to govern the operation of a foster parent advocacy program, provides for investigation of child abuse. |
Tennessee
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2010 Tenn. Pub. Acts,
SB 2797, Chap. 881
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Requires a child-placing agency to collect the medical and social history of a foster child and the child’s biological family within
30 days of foster care placement,
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Texas
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2013 Tex. Gen.
Laws, SB 58
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Requires the Health and Human Services Commission to integrate behavioral health services and physical health services into the Medicaid managed care program, including children with serious mental disturbance to have access to a comprehensive array of services.
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Texas
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2009 Tex. Gen.
Laws, HB 1629, Chap. 108
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Requires that provision of and consent for medical, dental or psychological treatment for a foster child committed to the Texas Youth Commission be governed by the provisions related to the medical care of a foster child in the Family Code.
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Virginia
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2014 House Bill 586 Act No. 9
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Relates to the Family Access to Medical Insurance Security Plan, relates to eligibility, eliminates the requirement that an individual under the age of 19 must have been without health insurance for at least four months or must meet the requirements set forth in the Children's Health Insurance Program to be eligible for assistance under the Family Access to Medical Insurance Security Plan.
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Washington |
2015 Wash. Laws, House Bill 1879, Act 283 |
Directs the Health Care Authority to seek proposals to establish an integrated managed health and behavioral health plan for foster children enrolled in Medicaid, requires a second opinion review from a psychiatric expert before approving a prescription for a specified supply of an antipsychotic medication for a person under a specified age who is in foster care. |
Washington |
2015 Wash. Laws, Senate Bill 5897, Act 100 |
Provides funding for medical evaluations of suspected victims of child abuse. |
Wisconsin
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2014 Assembly Bill 435 Act No. 161
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Revises the provisions of existing law that relate to the admission of minors for the treatment of mental illness to include the need to file a petition for a minor who is voluntarily participating in inpatient treatment, protecting the minor's rights of said minor withdraws the consent for treatment, the elimination of the petition requirement due to voluntary admission, and eliminating the provision regarding short-terms voluntary admission stays.
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