Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.2751 Ratification Number:356 Act Number:337 Introducing Body:House Subject:To allow a state agency to compensate a foster family for the uninsured loss not to exceed five hundred dollars
(A337, R356, H2751)
AN ACT TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 20-7-1645, SO AS TO ALLOW A STATE AGENCY TO COMPENSATE A FOSTER FAMILY FOR THE UNINSURED LOSS NOT TO EXCEED FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS THAT THEY INCUR WHEN THEIR PROPERTY IS DAMAGED OR DESTROYED BY THE FOSTER CHILD PLACED IN THEIR HOME.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Agency may compensate foster family
SECTION 1. Subarticle 5, of Article 11, of Chapter 7, of Title 20 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 20-7-1645. A state agency which places a child in a foster home may compensate a foster family, who has made its private residence available as a foster home, for the uninsured loss it incurs when its personal or real property is damaged, destroyed, or stolen by a child placed in its home, if the loss is found by the Commissioner of the placing state agency, or his designee, to have occurred, to have been caused solely or primarily by the acts of the child placed with the foster family, and if the acts of the foster family have not in any way caused or contributed to the loss. Compensation may not be in excess of the actual cost of repair or replacement of the damaged or destroyed property but in no case may compensation exceed five hundred dollars for each occurrence."
Time effective
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon approval by the Governor.