Tennessee · 114th Regular Session (2025-2026) · Bill

HB 103: Foster Care - As enacted, expands the provision of voluntary extended foster care services by the department of children's services to include young adults between 20 and 23 who were in the custody of the department at the time of the young adult's eighteenth birthday and young adults who were adopted from, or approved for subsidized permanent guardianship by, the department of children's services at 16 or older. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49 and Title 55.

Enacted Last action May 8, 2025: Pub. Ch. 333

Plain-language summary

HB 103 is a bill introduced in the Tennessee House on January 13, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Foster Care - As enacted, expands the provision of voluntary extended foster care services by the department of children's services to include young adults between 20 and 23 who were in the custody of the department at the time of the young adult's eighteenth birthday and young adults who were adopted from, or approved for subsidized permanent guardianship by, the department of children's services at 16 or older. - Amends TCA Title 37; Title 49 and Title 55. Primary sponsor: William Lamberth (Republican). Most recent recorded action (May 8, 2025): Pub. Ch. 333.

Sponsors

Primary sponsor: William Lamberth (Republican).