2E Relating to child welfare

ARTICLE 1- CHILD WELFARE TECHNICAL

Making technical changes to the interstate compact for the placement of children (ICPC), child protection and general assistance (GA), specifying instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing a provision requiring the subject of a child protection background check to be provided with results of the study

ARTICLE 2 - CHILD WELFARE POLICY

Clarifying data practices; authorizing the sharing of child support data on parents and children among agencies administering certain federal programs and regulating disclosure; authorizing child welfare projects participating native American (Indian) tribes to conduct children's mental health screenings and to establish a local child mortality review panel; changing certain adoption provisions; allowing an exemption to the requirement to search registry before adoption petition is granted for social services agencies proceeding under safe place for newborns; modifying the father adoption registry limitations to include termination of parental rights; modifying the adoption assistance program provision, modifying adoption assistance and adoption assistance agreements, providing a schedule for benefits and payments, providing for an extension of adoption assistance agreement under certain conditions, specifying criteria for special needs determinations, modifying certain determination of residency and reimbursement of costs requirements, requiring commissioner or designee to promote the adoption assistance program including information to prospective adoptive parents of eligible children and specifying certain information requirements as to the adoption tax credit; modifying placement prevention and family reunification requirements to include safety plans and same foster care placement for siblings and visitation for multiple foster care placements among siblings, allowing out of home placement for medical necessities, changing the foster care definition, making clarifying changes regarding placement and delinquent child dispositions, modifying the definition of parent, providing diligent efforts to identify parents of a child, procedures for review and reasonable effort, providing notice and termination of parental rights or permanency proceeding, alternative dispute resolution, family group decision making and parallel protection process and mediation, clarifying immediate custody, modifying parental visitation, visitation, out-of-home placement plans and relative search, requiring caseworkers to affirm school attendance, requiring social agencies to provide older minors with assistance and help with a transition plan, exempting juvenile court proceedings from the alternative dispute resolution program; repealing certain rules regulating criteria and determinations for adoption subsidy and subsidy agreements
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