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HHS/ACF RIN: 0970-AD03 Publication ID: Spring 2024 
Title: Safe and Appropriate, Affirming Foster Care Placement Requirements for Titles IV–E and IV–B(Completion of a Section 610 Review) 
Abstract:

This rule clarifies that title IV-E/IV-B agencies are required to offer safe and appropriate foster care placements, including processes to ensure children can request such placements and agencies must respond to concerns about those placements, for children in foster care who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex (LGBTQI+).  The rule will not interfere with faith-based child welfare providers that continue to partner with title IV-E/IV-B agencies in a way that does not interfere with those providers’ sincerely held religious beliefs.

 
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services(HHS)  Priority: Other Significant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Completed Actions 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
RFA Section 610 Review: Completion of a Section 610 Review 
CFR Citation: CFR 1355.22    CFR 1355.34     (To search for a specific CFR, visit the Code of Federal Regulations.)
Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 671(a)(16)    42 U.S.C. 622(b)(8)(A)(ii)    42 U.S.C. 675(1)(B)    42 U.S.C. 675(5))   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM  09/28/2023  88 FR 66752   
NPRM Comment Period End  11/27/2023 
Final Action  04/30/2024  89 FR 34818   
Final Action Effective  07/01/2024 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: Federal, Local, State, Tribal 
Federalism: Yes 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: Yes 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: Yes 
Agency Contact:
Kathleen McHugh
Director
Department of Health and Human Services
Administration for Children and Families
Room 2411, Children's Bureau, Division of Policy, 330 C Street SW,
Washington, DC 20201
Phone:202 401-5789
Fax:202 205-8221
Email: kmchugh@acf.hhs.gov