3E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - ADOPTION ASSISTANCE

Providing adoption assistance for children under the guardianship of the commissioner of human services; establishing program administration; specifying eligibility requirements for assistance, benefits and payments, and adoptive parent reporting responsibilities; specifying circumstances for agreement termination, assignment and extension of adoption assistance agreement, assistance overpayments, and appeals and hearings procedure; authorizing an interstate compact on adoption and medical assistance (MA); providing reimbursement of nonrecurring adoption expenses, certain agency costs, and purchase of service contracts

ARTICLE 2 - CHILD PROTECTION

Modifying the duty to ensure placement prevention and family reunification reasonable efforts statute by adding parental sexual abuse and predatory offender registration as conditions for defining a child in need of protection; changing the child protection provisions of the Juvenile Court Act to the juvenile protection provisions and defining scope of statute; specifying goals and court jurisdiction; modifying determining parentage; making paternity establishment hearings public and permitting court- ordered genetic testing; requiring juvenile treatment screenings to take place in a certain time period; allowing courts to order evaluations and assessments for parents for reunification purposes; requiring both parents to be engaged in child case planning; requiring timely court findings; requiring foster care court jurisdiction to continue to age 21; modifying findings by requiring identification of parents and relatives; requiring agency court reports regarding location of relatives; requiring personalized transition plan development as directed by the juvenile; allowing voluntary foster care for children over age 18 and requiring court hearing; establishing permanency proceedings

ARTICLE 3 - CHILD SUPPORT

Increasing the age maximum under the definition of American Indian child; requiring hospitals to aid new parents in completing the recognition of parentage form; clarifying the continuing exclusive jurisdiction for child support orders provision under the uniform interstate family support act; requiring the commissioner to enter into a reciprocal agreement with Bermuda for child support obligation enforcement pursuant to federal law

ARTICLE 4 - TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS

Making statutory technical and conforming changes; providing a disposition for children of arrested parents; specifying no determination of maltreatment for alleged perpetrators under a certain age; repealing the child maltreatment review panel, the adoption assistance program, interstate adoption compacts service payments, dispositions for children in need of protection or services or neglected and in foster care, welfare of children duties of commissioner, and foster care benefits until age 21
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