STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND WELFARE ANNUAL REPORT.

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16-1646. STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND WELFARE ANNUAL REPORT. The state department of health and welfare shall submit an annual report regarding the foster care program to the germane standing committees of the legislature no later than ten (10) days following the start of each regular session. On or before February 15 of each year, the state department of health and welfare shall appear before the germane standing committees to present the report. Such report shall include, but need not be limited to, the number of children that are in the department’s legal custody pursuant to this chapter, the number of such children who have been placed in foster care, how many times such children have been moved to different foster care homes and the reasons for such moves, best practices in foster care, goals to improve the foster care system in Idaho to ensure best practices are adhered to, a description of progress made with regard to the previous year’s goals to improve the foster care system and any other information relating to foster care that the legislature requests. If a member of the legislature requests additional information between the time the report is received by the legislature and the time the department appears to present the report, then the department shall supplement its report to include such additional information.

History:

[(16-1646) 16-1644, added 2016, ch. 284, sec. 1, p. 784; am. and redesig. 2017, ch. 58, sec. 7, p. 104.]


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