Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - MFIP WORK PARTICIPATION AND LICENSING

Expanding commissioner of human services set aside licensure variance conditions to include the corrections field; eliminating certain commissioner of human services federal fiscal allowances for the foster care program requiring employment plans or family stabilization services plan development and compliance for hardship extension categories eligibility maintenance; prohibiting a county or tribe from imposing a residency requirement on families, exception, changing the MFIP funding performance base to be based on county or tribal temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) participation rate

ARTICLE 2 - CHILD CARE

Modifying the basic sliding fee child care program formula; restricting absent day payment limits in certain situations; clarifying licensed and legal nonlicensed family child care providers employees child care assistance subsidies eligibility; requiring the commissioner of human services to establish a child care advisory task force, specifying membership and duties; requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date, providing for task force expenses, sunset provision

ARTICLE 3 - CHILD CARE TECHNICAL

Making technical changes to child care provisions; eliminating certain commissioner of human services notification provisions; modifying the sliding fee schedule; requiring a background study on the households of nonlicensed family child care providers; expanding restrictions on authorization of legal nonlicensed child care providers; modifying the implementation date of provider rate changes; modifying absent day notification provisions for provider and family; permitting legal nonlicensed or family, friend and neighbor care providers to receive child care and family child care technical assistance grants; requiring the commissioner of human services to provide financial assistance to community action agencies; removing the commissioner of education
from certain duties; specifying instructions to the revisor of statutes

ARTICLE 4 - MFIP TECHNICAL CHANGES

Making certain technical modifications to MFIP provisions; modifying the transitional standard; eliminating the self-employment investment demonstration program (SEID) from the definition of work activity; modifying certain family violence waiver criteria provisions

ARTICLE 5 - MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL

Modifying the definition of eligible educational institution; repealing provisions relating to the supportive housing and managed care pilot project

ARTICLE 6 - CHILD WELFARE

Providing for adult adoption; making conforming amendments; modifying adoption procedures; modifying birth parent history requirements; permitting records disclosure to guardians ad litem; providing for modification or termination of adoption assistance; providing for commissioner of human services adoption assistance program overpayment recovery; expanding adoption assistance program
eligibility to certain relatives and excluding legal custodians or guardians
from eligibility; modifying birth parent record information request procedures; allowing adult adoptions birth records access; extending the expiration date for the American Indian child welfare advisory council; providing for an "Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children"; expanding the purpose of child in need of protection services; clarifying child abuse, modifying certain child protection jurisdiction and foster care status provisions, child in need of protection or services and domestic child abuse definitions; permitting child protection public hearings and public inspection of records; allowing emergency removal to noncustodial parent homes under certain conditions; providing for certain court action upon determination of child needs not being met in voluntary foster care placements; allowing social services agencies to have access to household member criminal histories and child or adult maltreatment
histories and use the data for placement assessment; providing for out-of-home placement plans for voluntary foster care for treatment; requiring children leaving foster care to receive a copy of social and medical histories; requiring monthly caseworker visits with children in foster care; modifying administrative or court review requirements and transfer of custody provisions; providing for child in voluntary foster care for treatment, defining certain terms, providing for voluntary foster care placement after reaching a voluntary care foster agreement; specifying required information for a child in voluntary foster care for treatment; requiring administrative review of child in voluntary foster care for treatment; requiring a social service or child placing agency to report to
the court for judicial review in the case of a child in voluntary foster care
for treatment due to disability, providing for a permanency review hearing under certain conditions; requiring an annual review; providing for a permanency review after adjudication; providing for termination of voluntary placement agreement under certain conditions; requiring prompt maltreatment of minor report determinations; requiring the commissioner of human services to seek an amendment to the state plan to provide targeted case management services to children with developmental disabilities to coordinate and link social and other services to help children gain access to needed medical, social, educational and other services specifying instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing the
interstate compact on the placement of children, certain procedures relating to voluntary foster care placement and certain tests, examinations and special provisions relating to child protection and certain rules

ARTICLE 7 - DATA PRIVACY

Providing for child care resource and referral programs data and child care practitioner professional development system data as nonlicensing welfare data; classifying unlicensed family child care providers data and family, friend and neighbor (FFN) grant program data as data on individuals governed by welfare data provisions; providing for the classification of data for child care practitioner professional development system as nonlicensing welfare data, licensed family child care provider data is private data, allowing certain disclosures
(Ch. 361, 2008)