Amendment H-8021 to HF 2526
Relating to the confidentiality of the residential addresses of foster parents
Adopted · February 26, 2026
Filed February 23, 2026 in the House by
What it changes
AI summary This amendment adds a rule that the department and its agents cannot verbally tell a biological parent the address of a foster parent. It also clarifies that the department can share an unredacted address or speak the address aloud only if the foster parent gives written permission beforehand.1
Read the amendment’s wording
- Page 1, line 12, after “
- ” by inserting “a.”
- Page 1, after line 16 by inserting: “b. The department and the department’s agents shall not verbally disclose the address of the foster parent who is currently providing child foster care to a foster child to a biological parent of the foster child.”
- Page 1, by striking lines 17 through 22 and inserting: “
- Notwithstanding subsection 2, a document may contain a foster parent’s unredacted address, and the department and the department’s agents may verbally disclose a foster parent’s address, if the foster parent provides written consent to disclose the address to a foster child’s biological parent prior to the department or the department’s agent providing the document, making the document available, or verbally disclosing the address to the biological parent.”