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# HB149
Adoption discrimination-keep kids first act
Adoption discrimination-keep kids first act
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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.



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HB149 provides protection for adoption agencies and foster care providers and adoptive and foster parents related to their religious beliefs. Specifically this bill seeks to

- prevent government agencies from taking discriminatory action against a person providing adoption or foster care services based on or in a manner consistent with a sincerely held religious belief.

- prevent government agencies from denying custody of a foster or adoptive child based on a person's sincerely held religious belief but 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.


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