2E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - CHILD WELFARE

Modifying child welfare provisions; expanding certain duties of the commissioner of human services to include children under the guardianship of a tribe in the state recognized by the secretary of interior; modifying certain adoption requirements for older children under the guardianship of the commissioner, prohibiting refusal by a child to refuse or waive the efforts of an agent to recruit, identify and place the child in an adoptive home or sign a document relieving county social services agencies of all recruitment efforts on behalf of the child; modifying certain provisions relating to referrals for postplacement assessment; modifying certain court findings provisions; modifying certain adoption assistance eligibility criteria; eliminating certain reasons for deferral of the listing of a child with the state adoption exchange; modifying the duty of the juvenile court to ensure placement prevention and family reunification for permanent alternative homes consideration purposes; modifying child placement provisions for Indian children under the Minnesota Indian preservation act, clarifying definitions, applying federal law (Indian child welfare act) and state law in child custody proceedings, modifying Indian tribe jurisdiction and court determinations of tribal affiliation of child provisions; requiring and specifying certain placement procedures for the orderly and timely interstate placement of children, specifying certain reporting, background study and home visit requirements, defining certain terms; modifying and clarifying certain requirements for protecting or placing children in need of protection services; modifying review of court ordered placement and permanent placement determination requirements; modifying certain out of home placement plan documentation and health and educational records information requirements; requiring a responsible social services agency for children in placement to give a copy of the health and education report to the child leaving foster care by reason of having attained the age of majority; specifying certain review requirements for certain child placements; excluding income of certain age children employed as part of an independent living plan transitioning from foster care and cost of care reimbursement to counties; modifying certain orders for terminating parental rights; requiring local welfare agency responsibility for assessing or investigating reports of sexual abuse under certain conditions; requiring local law enforcement agency responsibility for investigating maltreatment; modifying certain duties of a local welfare agency and local law enforcement agency upon receipt of a report involving substantial child endangerment; modifying certain child maltreatment reporting requirements and notice of determinations requirements; specifying certain renumbering and cross reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing a certain law and rule for a certain subsidy reimbursement limit for adoption services for placing agencies

ARTICLE 2 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TECHNICAL PROVISIONS

Modifying adoption eligibility conditions relating to tribal law; making technical and clarifying changes in certain provisions

ARTICLE 3 - CONTINUING CARE

Extending the time for expansion of developmental disability pilot projects
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