Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF3166

4E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - CHILD WELFARE

Providing for adult
adoption; making conforming amendments; modifying adoption procedures; modifying
birth parent history requirements; permitting records disclosure to guardians ad
litem; providing for modification or termination of adoption assistance;
providing for commissioner of human services adoption assistance program
overpayment recovery; expanding adoption assistance program eligibility to
certain relatives and excluding legal custodians or guardians from eligibility;
modifying birth parent record information request procedures; allowing adult
adoptions birth records access; extending the expiration date for the American
Indian child welfare advisory council; providing for an "Interstate Compact for
the Placement of Children"; expanding the purpose of child in need of protection
services; clarifying child abuse, modifying certain child protection
jurisdiction and foster care status provisions, child in need of protection or
services and domestic child abuse definitions; permitting child protection
public hearings and public inspection of records; allowing emergency removal to
noncustodial parent homes under certain conditions; providing for certain court
action upon determination of child needs not being met in voluntary foster care
placements; allowing social services agencies to have access to household member
criminal histories and child or adult maltreatment histories and use the data
for placement assessment; providing for out-of-home placement plans for
voluntary foster care for treatment; requiring children leaving foster care to
receive a copy of social and medical histories; requiring monthly caseworker
visits with children in foster care; modifying administrative or court review
requirements and transfer of custody provisions; providing for child in
voluntary foster care for treatment, defining certain terms, providing for
voluntary foster care placement after reaching a voluntary care foster
agreement; specifying required information for a child in voluntary foster care
for treatment; requiring administrative review of child in voluntary foster care
for treatment; requiring a social service or child placing agency to report to
the court for judicial review in the case of a child in voluntary foster care
for treatment due to disability, providing for a permanency review hearing under
certain conditions; requiring an annual review; providing for a permanency
review after adjudication; providing for termination of voluntary placement
agreement under certain conditions; requiring prompt maltreatment of minor
report determinations; requiring the commissioner of human services to seek an
amendment to the state plan to provide targeted case management services to
children with developmental disabilities to coordinate and link social and other
services to help children gain access to needed medical, social, educational and
other services specifying instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing the
interstate compact on the placement of children, certain procedures relating to
voluntary foster care placement and certain tests, examinations and special
provisions relating to child protection

ARTICLE 2 - LICENSING

Modifying the
standard of evidence in a disqualification of an individual subject to a
background check from any human services position allowing direct contact with
persons receiving services from a license holder to clear and convincing
evidence

ARTICLE 3 - DATA PRIVACY

Providing for child care resource and
referral programs data and child care practitioner professional development
system data as nonlicensing welfare data; classifying unlicensed family child
care providers data and family, friend and neighbor (FFN) grant program data as
data on individuals governed by welfare data provisions; providing for the
classification of data for child care practitioner professional development
system as nonlicensing welfare data, licensed family child care provider data is
private data, allowing certain disclosures

ARTICLE 4 - ADOPTION

Relating to
adoption records; reclassifying original birth records of adopted persons;
requiring the department of health to prepare an affidavit of disclosure and
nondisclosure forms for birth parents to agree or object to the release of
original birth records to the adopted person; providing for access to original
birth record upon request of adopted person under certain conditions; permitting
the state registrar to provide noncertified copies of original birth records to
certain adopted persons; authorizing a birth parent to rescind an affidavit of
disclosure or an affidavit of nondisclosure at any time; authorizing an adopted
person to petition the appropriate court for disclosure under certain
conditions; requiring the department of health, adoption agencies and adoption
advocates to provide information about certain changes in the law relating to
the accessibility to birth records; authorizing the health department to charge
a fee for noncertified birth records provided to adopted persons; authorizing
adoption agencies to charge a fee for counseling and support services provided
to adopted persons and birth parents; repealing certain provisions relating to
postadoption services and access to original birth record information
(Ch. 323,
2008 - VETO))