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SF 1394 Senate Long Description

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 (mk, ja)