Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: HF1169

HF 1169

FIRST ENGROSSMENT

Child welfare, placement, and licensing provisions
modified.

ARTICLE 1: CHILD PLACEMENT AND WELFARE

Section 1: Specific powers
language added.

Section 2: Child language modified.

Section 3: Notice to
commissioner; referral for postplacement assessment language added.

Section 4:
Findings; orders language added.

Section 5: Reimbursements language
modified.

Section 6: Reasons for deferral language modified.

Section 7: Duty
to ensure placement prevention and family reunification; reasonable efforts
language added.

Section 8: Indian tribe language modified.

Section 9: Tribal
court language modified.

Section 10: Identification of extended family members
language modified.

Section 11: Identification of extended family members
language modified.

Section 12: Indian tribe jurisdiction language
modified.

Section 13: Court determination of tribal affiliation of child
language added.

Section 14: Placement procedures language provided.

Section
15: notice to foster parents and preadoptive parents and relatives language
modified.

Section 16: General language added.

Section 17: Review of
court-ordered placements; permanent placement determination language
modified.

Section 18: Out-of-home placement; plan language modified.

Section
19: Responsible social service agency's duties for children in placement
language added.

Section 20: Order; retention of jurisdiction language
added.

Section 21: Care, examination, or treatment language added.

Section 22:
Agency responsibility for assessing or investigating reports of sexual abuse
language provided.

Section 23: Law enforcement agency responsibility for
investigating language provided.

Section 24: Duties of local welfare agency and
local law enforcement agency upon receipt of a report language added.

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

Section 26: Notice of determinations language
added.

Section 27: Revisors's instruction language provided.

Section 28:
Repealer language provided.

ARTICLE 2: LICENSING

Section 1: Unlicensed
emergency relative placement language modified.

Section 2: Delegation of
authority to agencies language added.

Section 3: Recommendations to the
commissioner language modified.

Section 4: "Private agency" definition
provided.

Section 5: Licensed programs language modified.

Section 6:
individual studied language added.

Section 7: County or private agency language
provided.

Section 8: Electronic transmission language modified.

Section 9:
Fingerprints language modified.

Section 10: Probation officer and corrections
agent language modified.

Section 11: Background studies conducted by
commissioner of human services language modified.

Section 12: Background
studies conducted by a county agency language modified.

Section 13: Temporary
personnel agencies, educational programs, and professional services agencies
language provided.

Section 14: Adult foster care; criminal conviction data
language modified.

Section 15: Jointly licensed programs language
added.

Section 16: Background study; tribal organizations language
modified.

Section 17: Determining immediate risk of harm language
added.

Section 18: Notice to county or private agency language added.

Section
19: Submission of reconsideration request to county or private agency language
provided.

Section 20: Commisioner's notice of disqualification that is not set
aside language added.

Section 21: Adoption background study requirements
language provided.

Section 22: Adoption and child foster care background
studies; tribal organizations language provided.

Section 23: Other applicable
law language added.

Section 24: Best interests of the child language
added.

Section 25: Adoption study language modified.

Section 26: Adoption
agencies; postplacement assessment and report language modified.

Section 27:
protection of child's best interests language added.

Section 28: Background
checks language modified.

Section 29: Placement decisions based on best
interest of the child language added.

JAJ 3/20/7