To give social services agencies licensed to oversee child adoptions, foster care and other child care issues immunity from liability for personal injury or property damage caused by the agency's provision of services, except for gross negligence or willful misconduct.   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the bill pass.

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To only extend immunity from liability under very narrow circumstances specified in the amendment.

Link this bill to passage of House Bill 4520, which would classify as first degree murder the act of intentionally discharging a firearm at an occupied building when this causes death (as in a “drive-by” shooting).

To spell out which social service agencies are covered by the bill to include a "child welfare residential or home-based program, a program involving foster care coordination including adoption activities, a respite care program, or behavioral health or early education services operating under contract and as an agent for the department of human services".