1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to human services; developing training requirements for postadoption 
1.3 	search services; directing the commissioner of human services to promulgate 
1.4 	rules relating to postadoption search services;amending Minnesota Statutes 
1.5 	2004, section 259.87; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, 
1.6 	chapter 259.
1.7 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.8 	Section 1. [259.86] POSTADOPTION SEARCH SERVICES.
1.9 	(a) The commissioner of human services shall develop a specialized curriculum 
1.10 	to train department, county agency, and social service agency staff in performing and 
1.11 	complying with the postadoption search services developed in the best practices guidelines 
1.12 	reported to the legislature in 2006. 
1.13 	(b) All department and county social service agency staff providing adoption 
1.14 	services, including postadoption search services, shall complete postadoption search 
1.15 	services training as a component of the mandatory child welfare training.
1.16 	(c) All private agency staff providing adoption services, including postadoption 
1.17 	search services, shall complete at least six hours of postadoption search services training. 

1.18 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 259.87, is amended to read:
1.19 	259.87 RULES.
1.20 	The commissioner of human services shall make rules as necessary to administer 
1.21 	sections  259.79and,259.83, and 259.86.