LINCOLN — Nebraska's Foster Care Review Board would remain an independent state agency but would have a new governing board under a bill advanced Wednesday.
The Health and Human Services Committee sent a revised version of Legislative Bill 998 to the full Legislature.
The bill, as introduced by State Sen. Bob Krist of Omaha, would have eliminated the governing board and made the agency an arm of the Legislature.
His amendment would replace the current 11-member board with a five-member one.
Anyone with financial ties to foster care system or anyone employed by the Department of Health and Human Services, the courts or a child welfare organization would be barred from serving on the board.
The bill also would beef up requirements for the agency, which would be renamed the Foster Care Review Office, to provide information to lawmakers.
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