Adoption discrimination-keep kids first act.
AN ACT relating to children; providing legislative findings; specifying protections for specified adoption and foster care providers and parents; prohibiting discriminatory actions associated with adoption and foster care; specifying remedies and causes of action; making conforming amendments; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.
2025 General Session
No governmental entity shall take any discriminatory action against a person: (i) That advertises, provides or facilitates adoption or foster care, wholly or partially on the basis that the person has provided or declined to provide any adoption or foster care service or related service based on or in a manner consistent with a sincerely held religious belief; (ii) To whom the governmental entity grants custody of a foster or adoptive child, or who seeks the custody of a foster or adoptive child, wholly or partially on the basis that the person guides, instructs or raises a child, or intends to guide, instruct or raise a child, based on or in a manner consistent with a sincerely held religious belief. For purposes of this paragraph, a governmental entity may consider whether a person shares the same religion or faith tradition as a foster or adoptive child when considering placement of the child in order to prioritize placement with a person of the same religion or faith tradition.
History
Date | Action |
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2025-02-07 | H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4 |
2025-02-07 | No report prior to CoW Cutoff |
2025-01-30 | Introduced and Referred to H10 - Labor |
2025-01-13 | Received for Introduction |
2025-01-10 | Bill Number Assigned |