Iowa Code
Chapter 237 - CHILD FOSTER CARE FACILITIES
Section 237.13 - Foster home insurance fund.

237.13 Foster home insurance fund.
1. For the purposes of this section, “foster home” means an individual, as defined in section 237.1, subsection 7, who is licensed to provide child foster care and shall also be known as a “licensed foster home”.
2. The foster home insurance fund shall be administered by the department of human services. The fund shall consist of all moneys appropriated by the general assembly for deposit in the fund. The department shall use moneys in the fund to provide home and property coverage for foster parents to cover damages to property resulting from the actions of a foster child residing in a foster home or to reimburse foster parents for the cost of purchasing foster care liability insurance and to perform the administrative functions necessary to carry out this section. The department may establish limitations of liability for individual claims as deemed reasonable by the department.
3. The department of human services shall adopt rules, pursuant to chapter 17A, to carry out the provisions of this section.
88 Acts, ch 1223, §1; 89 Acts, ch 178, §4; 93 Acts, ch 172, §41; 99 Acts, ch 55, §1 – 5; 2001 Acts, ch 135, §1, 2; 2011 Acts, ch 98, §2, 3; 2020 Acts, ch 1121, §56; 2021 Acts, ch 182, §54
Subsection 2 amended

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