HF 1169

FIRST ENGROSSMENT

Child welfare, placement, and licensing provisions modified.

ARTICLE 1: CHILD PLACEMENT AND WELFARE

Section 1: Specific powers language added.

Section 2: Child language modified.

Section 3: Notice to commissioner; referral for postplacement assessment language added.

Section 4: Findings; orders language added.

Section 5: Reimbursements language modified.

Section 6: Reasons for deferral language modified.

Section 7: Duty to ensure placement prevention and family reunification; reasonable efforts language added.

Section 8: Indian tribe language modified.

Section 9: Tribal court language modified.

Section 10: Identification of extended family members language modified.

Section 11: Identification of extended family members language modified.

Section 12: Indian tribe jurisdiction language modified.

Section 13: Court determination of tribal affiliation of child language added.

Section 14: Placement procedures language provided.

Section 15: notice to foster parents and preadoptive parents and relatives language modified.

Section 16: General language added.

Section 17: Review of court-ordered placements; permanent placement determination language modified.

Section 18: Out-of-home placement; plan language modified.

Section 19: Responsible social service agency's duties for children in placement language added.

Section 20: Order; retention of jurisdiction language added.

Section 21: Care, examination, or treatment language added.

Section 22: Agency responsibility for assessing or investigating reports of sexual abuse language provided.

Section 23: Law enforcement agency responsibility for investigating language provided.

Section 24: Duties of local welfare agency and local law enforcement agency upon receipt of a report language added.

Section 25: Law enforcement agency responsibility for investigation; welfare agency reliance on law enforcement fact-finding; welfare agency offer of services language modified.

Section 26: Notice of determinations language added.

Section 27: Revisors's instruction language provided.

Section 28: Repealer language provided.

ARTICLE 2: LICENSING

Section 1: Unlicensed emergency relative placement language modified.

Section 2: Delegation of authority to agencies language added.

Section 3: Recommendations to the commissioner language modified.

Section 4: "Private agency" definition provided.

Section 5: Licensed programs language modified.

Section 6: individual studied language added.

Section 7: County or private agency language provided.

Section 8: Electronic transmission language modified.

Section 9: Fingerprints language modified.

Section 10: Probation officer and corrections agent language modified.

Section 11: Background studies conducted by commissioner of human services language modified.

Section 12: Background studies conducted by a county agency language modified.

Section 13: Temporary personnel agencies, educational programs, and professional services agencies language provided.

Section 14: Adult foster care; criminal conviction data language modified.

Section 15: Jointly licensed programs language added.

Section 16: Background study; tribal organizations language modified.

Section 17: Determining immediate risk of harm language added.

Section 18: Notice to county or private agency language added.

Section 19: Submission of reconsideration request to county or private agency language provided.

Section 20: Commisioner's notice of disqualification that is not set aside language added.

Section 21: Adoption background study requirements language provided.

Section 22: Adoption and child foster care background studies; tribal organizations language provided.

Section 23: Other applicable law language added.

Section 24: Best interests of the child language added.

Section 25: Adoption study language modified.

Section 26: Adoption agencies; postplacement assessment and report language modified.

Section 27: protection of child's best interests language added.

Section 28: Background checks language modified.

Section 29: Placement decisions based on best interest of the child language added.

JAJ 3/20/7