Driver's Licenses for foster kids

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Delaware has new laws ... allowing teens in foster care to get drivers licenses

Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 262 eliminates barriers that were preventing teens in foster care from obtaining driver's licenses, including allowing state child agency workers to sponsor foster care teens for a license in lieu of parents.

While the bill made its way through the legislature, bill sponsor Sen. Liane Sorenson and Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn negotiated with insurance company AIG Direct to create special program to provide low-cost auto insurance to foster children, another essential condition for the foster care teens to get behind the wheel.

"We felt we weren't the same as other kids, we weren't normal kids because we couldn't get a license," 19-year-old foster youth Michele Robison, who suggested the law, said at the signing ceremony in Dover. "This is a good thing."