Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF1394

E Relating to human services ARTICLE 1 CHILD PLACEMENTModifying certain child
placement provisions; requiring the commissioner of health to grant the
commissioner of human services access to birth record and recognitions of
parentage data to identify children subject to threatened injury by persons
responsible for care of the child; authorizing the commissioner of human
services to contract with tribal social services agencies to provide adoption
services; providing for family group decision making meetings under the
Minnesota family preservation act to develop a child safety and stability plan,
authorizing responsible social services agencies to select facilitators for the
meetings, specifying certain facilitator training requirements, granting
facilitators complying with the training requirements immunity from criminal or
civil liability relating to the meetings; expanding exemptions from the duty to
ensure placement prevention and family reunification relating to the involuntary
transfer of custodial rights; defining or redefining certain terms under child
protection provisions; modifying petition requirements for review of the status
of children voluntarily placed in foster care, providing for a written report to
the court in lieu of a petition in certain cases, specifying certain report
content requirements, certain responsibilities of social services agencies and
the jurisdiction of the juvenile court after receipt of the report; providing
for permanency hearings for children with developmental disabilities or
emotional disturbance continuing in out of home placement for a certain period
of time and requiring periodic review of children continuing in voluntary
placement after the hearing; modifying certain requirements for taking immediate
custody of a child and for the subsequent detention hearing, requiring the
placement of children ordered into out of home placement with siblings where
possible or appropriate, requiring social services agency reports to the court
of unsuccessful attempts; changing case plans to out of home placement plans and
modifying certain requirements; eliminating certain factors to be considered in
determining the needs of the child, authorizing placement with relatives under
certain conditions; requiring continued monitoring of children placed in the
care of the parent under certain conditions; modifying certain written findings
requirements relating to transfer of legal custody; requiring court review of
reasonable efforts to permanently place children identified as the subject of
concurrent permanency planning; modifying certain requirements for court review
of out of home and court ordered placements; providing for permanency review for
children under a certain age in out of home placement, specifying certain
responsibilities of county attorneys and social services agencies and providing
certain options to the court relating to parental compliance or noncompliance
with out of home placement plans; specifying the factors to be considered in
determining the needs of the child in placement decisions and certain
responsibilities of social services agencies relating to children in placement;
modifying certain relative search requirements; specifying certain requirements
for administrative or court review of placement plans; modifying certain
requirements for review of placements due solely to a developmental disability
or emotional disturbance and for termination of parental rights for children
currently in foster care, requiring certain additional findings and periodic
permanency review hearings for children remaining in out of home placement after
parental rights termination; requiring the termination of parental rights in
cases of involuntary transfer of custodial rights to another child to a
relative; clarifying the definition of threatened injury under child
maltreatment reporting requirements relating to persons responsible for the care
of the child; requiring the commissioner of human services to appoint a
temporary task force to review the uniform parentage act adopted by the uniform
laws commission and make recommendations to the legislature by a certain date
relating to enactment, specifying certain task force membership representation
requirements; repealing a certain provision providing for the protection of
heritage or background in the appointment of guardians and certain relative care
conference requirements; specifying certain term and cross reference change and
renumbering instructions to the revisor of statutes ARTICLE 2 DATA PRACTICES AND
CHILD MALTREATMENTModifying provisions governing child maltreatment
investigations;expanding child maltreatment reporting requirements to school
boards or other entities with licensees performing work within school facilities
or zones, requiring reports to the department of children, families and
learning; granting the commissioner access to educational, personnel and welfare
data for assessment or investigation purposes; prescribing a procedure for
commissioner collection of data and assessment or investigation of reports,
regulating confidentiality and disclosure; requiring the commissioner to report
maltreatment determinations to the ombudsman for mental health and mental
retardation, the employer, the school board and the appropriate licensing entity
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