HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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CHAPTER 401

(House Bill 537)

AN ACT concerning

Foster Care - Liability for Personal Injury
and Property Damage

FOR the purpose of making discretionary the current
mandatory requirement that liability insurance provided
for foster parents by the Social Services
Administration or the Juvenile Services Administration
be subject to a deductible limit; and removing the
requirement that reimbursements made directly to foster
parents for losses caused by a foster child and
suffered by foster parents, themselves, be subject to a
$100 deduction.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 88A - Social Services Administration

Section 32B

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1979 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 52A - Juvenile Services

Section 19(b)(3)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1979 Replacement Volume and 1979 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 88A - Social Services Administration

32B.

(a)  The Social Services Administration shall provide
liability insurance for foster parents in boarding care for
children programs. The liability insurance shall provide
coverage for: (1) bodily injury and property damage caused
by the foster child to persons or property other than the
foster parent or his property; and (2) actions against the
foster parents by the natural parents for any accident to
the foster child. The Social Services Administration [shall]
MAY establish a reasonable deductible limit.

(b) (1) The Secretary subject to the provisions of
this subsection shall reimburse foster parents for costs of
bodily injury or property damage to the foster parents
caused by the foster child, not otherwise covered by
insurance.