HF 3376

FOURTH ENGROSSMENT

MFIP provisions modified, child placement and welfare provisions changed, Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children established, child in voluntary foster care for treatment established, and data practices and technical changes made.

ARTICLE 1 -- MFIP WORK PARTICIPATION

Section 1: Permanent bar to set aside a disqualification language modified.

Section 2: Specific powers language modified.

Section 3: Eligibility language modified.

Section 4: Eligibility for services language added.

Section 5: Performance base funds language modified.

ARTICLE 2-- CHILD CARE

Section 1: Allocation formula language is modified.

Section 2: Licensed and legal nonlicensed family child care providers; assistance language is modified.

Section 3: Relationship to current law language is modified.

Section 4: Child care advisory task force language provided.
Subdivision 1: Establishment
Subdivision 2: Membership
Subdivision 3: Duties
Subdivision 4: Report
Subdivision 5: Task force expenses
Subdivision 6: Expiration

ARTICLE 3 -- CHILD CARE TECHNICAL

Section 1: MFIP language is modified.

Section 2: Notice of allocation language is modified.

Section 3: General eligibility requirements for all applicants for child care assistance language is modified.

Section 4: Sliding fee scale language modified.
Subdivision 1: Fee schedule
Subdivision 2: Parent fee

Section 5: Background study required language is provided.

Section 6: Persons who cannot be authorized language is modified.

Section 7: Subsidy restrictions language is modified.

Section 8: Absent days language is modified.

Section 9: Child care services grants language is modified.

Section 10: Family child care technical assistance grants language is modified.

Section 11: Authorization language is modified.

Section 12: Program reporting language is modified.

Section 13: Revisor's instructions are provided.

ARTICLE 4 -- MFIP TECHNICAL CHANGES

Section 1: Other property limitations language is modified.

Section 2: MFIP transitional standard language is modified.

Section 3: Work activity language is modified.

Section 4: Self-employment language is modified.

Section 5: Responsibility for assessment and employment plan language is modified.

Section 6: School attendance required language is modified.

Section 7: Family violence waiver criteria language is modified.

Section 8: Eligibility for diversionary work program language is modified.

ARTICLE 5 -- MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL

Section 1: Background studies conducted by a county agency language modified.

Section 1: Definitions are modified.

Section 2: Repealer language is provided.

ARTICLE 6 -- CHILD WELFARE

Section 1: Policy and purpose language modified.

Section 2: Adult adoption language added.

Section 3: Persons who may be adopted language modified.

Section 4: Contents of petition language modified.

Section 5: Adult adoption language provided.

Section 6: Study required before placement; certain relatives excepted language modified.

Section 7: Birth parent history; commissioner¿s form language provided.

Section 8: Requirement to search registry before adoption petition can be granted; proof of search language modified.

Section 9: Reports and records language modified.

Section 10: Findings; orders language modified.

Section 11: Legal effect language modified.

Section 12: Enrollment in American Indian tribe language modified.

Section 13: Adoption assistance agreement language modified.

Section 14: Modification or termination of the adoption assistance agreement language modified.

Section 15: Recovery of overpayments language provided.

Section 16: Eligibility conditions language modified.

Section 17: Withdrawal of registration language modified.

Section 18: Request language modified.

Section 19: Search language modified.

Section 20: Release of information after notice language modified.

Section 21: Adult adoptions language added.

Section 22: Expiration language modified.

Section 23: Interstate compact for the placement of children language provided.

Section 24: Child in need of protection services language modified.

Section 25: Child abuse language modified.

Section 26: Child in need of protection or services language modified.

Section 27: Domestic child abuse language modified.

Section 28: Jurisdiction over other matters relating to children language modified.

Section 29: Review of foster care status language modified.

Section 30: General language modified.

Section 31: Public inspection of records language modified.

Section 32: Hearing and release requirements language modified.

Section 33: Dispositions; voluntary foster care for treatment language modified.

Section 34: Subjects language modified.

Section 35: General procedures language modified.

Section 36: Assessment for emergency relative placement language modified.

Section 37: Out-of-home placement; plan language modified.

Section 38: Responsible social service agency's duties for children in placement language modified.

Section 39: Monthly caseworker visits with children in foster care language provided.

Section 40: Administrative or court review of placements language modified.

Section 41: Voluntary foster care; required court review language provided.

Section 42: Transfer of custody language modified.

Section 43: Both parents deceased language modified.

Section 44: Child in voluntary foster care for treatment language provided.

Section 45: Definitions provided.

Section 46: Voluntary foster care language provided.

Section 47: Required information for a child in voluntary foster care for treatment language provided.

Section 48: Administrative review of child in voluntary foster care for treatment language provided.

Section 49: Agency report to the court and court review of child in voluntary foster care for treatment due to disability language provided.

Section 50: Required permanency review hearing language provided.

Section 51: Annual review language provided.

Section 52: Permanency review after adjudication under Chapter 260C language provided.

Section 53: Termination of voluntary placement agreement language provided.

Section 54: Meaning of child and related terms language modified.

Section 55: Report language modified.

Section 56: Law enforcement agency responsibility for investigation; welfare agency reliance on law enforcement fact-finding; welfare agency offer of services language modified.

Section 57: Targeted case management services for children language provided.

Section 58: Revisor's instruction provided.

Section 59: Repealer language provided.

ARTICLE 7 -- DATA PRIVACY

Section 1: Child care resource and referral programs language provided.

Section 2: Family, friend, and neighbor grant program language provided.

Section 3: Commissioner of human services duties; early childhood and school-age professional development training language modified.

SNA 5/21/08