NC lawmakers file bipartisan bill to reform state’s foster care system
WRAL Apr 1, 2025
The proposal aims to tighten procedures and deadlines for investigating reports of abuse and neglect. It would also create rules for identifying and handling conflicts of interest involving social services, employees or their relatives.
North Carolina lawmakers have introduced a bill that seeks to make reforms to the state’s foster care system — the latest effort to improve a system that sponsors say is broken.
House Bill 612, which sponsors call the “Fostering Care in NC Act,”
“It’s important to remember children are 25% of our population and 100% of our future,”
Reps. Allen Chesser, R-Nash
Primary sponsors Reps. Allen Chesser, R-Nash; Donnie Loftis, R-Gaston; and Vernetta Alston, D-Durham
