CHAPTER 24

H.P. 63 - L.D. 55

An Act to Keep Foster Children Safe and Healthy

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. Smoking policy. By January 1, 2004, the Department of Human Services shall adopt rules on smoking by foster parents in family foster homes and in foster parents' private vehicles. The rules must include ways to protect foster children from secondhand smoke. Rules adopted pursuant to this section are major substantive rules as defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.