6090744 Resolution 21-490, Supporting Normalcy and Empowering Children in Foster Care Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-490

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

June 7, 2016        

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency, due to congressional review, with respect to the need to amend the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect Act of 1977 to include in the definition of case plan an additional requirement for children 14 years of age and older, to define the reasonable and prudent parent standard, to require that foster children receive a credit report on an annual basis beginning at 14 years of age, and to require the use of the reasonable and prudent parent standard by foster parents and group homes; and to amend section 16-2323 of the District of Columbia Official Code to require additional reporting requirements for children who have been placed in another planned permanent living arrangement. 

 

             RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this

resolution may be cited as the “Supporting Normalcy and Empowering Children in Foster Care Congressional Review Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016”.

 

Sec. 2.  (a) The Supporting Normalcy and Empowering Children in Foster Care Emergency Amendment Act of 2016, effective March 16, 2016 (D.C. Act 21-333; 63 DCR 4306), will expire on June 14, 2016.

            (b) The Supporting Normalcy and Empowering Children in Foster Care Temporary Amendment Act of 2016, enacted on April 27, 2016 (D.C. Act 21-377; 63 DCR 6866), is pending congressional review with a projected law date of June 24, 2016. 

(c) The congressional review emergency is necessary to prevent a gap in the law.

 

Sec. 3.  The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Supporting Normalcy and Empowering Children in Foster Care Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2016 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.