4E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - 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

ARTICLE 2 - LICENSING

Modifying the standard of evidence in a disqualification of an individual subject to a background check from any human services position allowing direct contact with persons receiving services from a license holder to clear and convincing evidence

ARTICLE 3 - 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

ARTICLE 4 - ADOPTION

Relating to adoption records; reclassifying original birth records of adopted persons; requiring the department of health to prepare an affidavit of disclosure and nondisclosure forms for birth parents to agree or object to the release of original birth records to the adopted person; providing for access to original birth record upon request of adopted person under certain conditions; permitting the state registrar to provide noncertified copies of original birth records to certain adopted persons; authorizing a birth parent to rescind an affidavit of disclosure or an affidavit of nondisclosure at any time; authorizing an adopted person to petition the appropriate court for disclosure under certain conditions; requiring the department of health, adoption agencies and adoption advocates to provide information about certain changes in the law relating to the accessibility to birth records; authorizing the health department to charge a fee for noncertified birth records provided to adopted persons; authorizing adoption agencies to charge a fee for counseling and support services provided to adopted persons and birth parents; repealing certain provisions relating to postadoption services and access to original birth record information
(Ch. 323, 2008 - VETO))