2018 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 46 - Public Welfare and Assistance
RS 46:286.24 - Foster care; high school student
§286.24. Foster care; high school student
A. In the event funds are made available for this purpose, the Department of Children and Family Services shall continue to provide to a person in foster care and to the person’s foster parents all benefits and services of the department’s foster care program after the person’s eighteenth birthday if the person is a full-time high school student or in the process of receiving an equivalent credential, until the person’s high school graduation or twenty-first birthday, whichever occurs first, upon the written consent of the person and foster parents receiving the benefits and services.
B. Acceptance of these benefits and services shall in no way deprive the person in foster care of any rights or obligations conferred by attaining the age of majority.
C. The benefits and services provided under this Section shall impose no obligation of reimbursement upon the recipients.
D. The department shall notify all foster children and their foster parents or other custodians in writing of the availability of these benefits and services at the foster child’s seventeenth birthday, and every ninety days thereafter until the child’s eighteenth birthday, unless the foster child and foster parents or other custodians have already consented in writing to participating in this program.
Acts 2018, No. 649, §1, eff. June 1, 2018.
