A bill for an act relating to matters under the purview of the department of health and human services, including administrative services organizations, child foster care, child and dependent adult abuse, internal audit and examination information, and the region incentive fund in the mental health and disability services regional service fund, health maintenance organization’s premium tax, and making appropriations and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.

House File 1014 proposes various changes related to the Department of Health and Human Services, primarily affecting child foster care and administrative services organizations. The bill updates definitions and policies for child foster care, explicitly recognizing licensed relatives and "fictive kin" as foster care providers. It also grants licensed foster care providers decision-making authority for children in their care under the "reasonable and prudent parent standard." Additionally, the bill modifies rules concerning employees of administrative services organizations and limits their ability to serve as patient advocates for involuntarily hospitalized individuals.