This bill addresses child and family services, such as child placement, custody, and records. This bill: - defines terms; - addresses bedroom sharing by foster children; - prohibits the Division of Child and Family Services (division) from:withholding certain information from a child's parent, guardian, or custodian;creating or changing division records in certain ways without written consent from the child's parent, guardian, or custodian;initiating certain medical treatment or care on behalf of a child in the division's custody; andplacing a child with a foster parent or taking adverse action against a foster parent if the foster parent expresses discomfort with caring for a child; - allows the division to share certain records concerning a child with an adoptive parent of the child or an individual who has been awarded permanent custody and guardianship of the child; - provides that a parent's approval or disapproval of a child's sexual orientation, in itself, may not be the basis for:removal of the child from the parent's custody; ordiscrimination when a court is determining child custody as part of a divorce or other family law proceeding; - provides that a juvenile court may not determine that reunification services should not be provided based solely on a parent's agreement or disagreement with the child's sexual orientation or gender identity; and - makes technical and conforming changes.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 26B-2-128, 53G-8-211, 80-1-102, 80-2-102, 80-2-402, 80-2-1005, 80-3-111, 80-3-204, 80-3-301, 80-3-302, 80-3-303, 80-3-405, 80-3-406, 80-3-407, 80-3-409, 81-9-101, 81-9-204