Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: HF3376

HF 3376

FOURTH ENGROSSMENT

MFIP provisions modified, child placement and
welfare provisions changed, Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children
established, child in voluntary foster care for treatment established, and data
practices and technical changes made.

ARTICLE 1 -- MFIP WORK
PARTICIPATION

Section 1: Permanent bar to set aside a disqualification language
modified.

Section 2: Specific powers language modified.

Section 3: Eligibility
language modified.

Section 4: Eligibility for services language added.

Section
5: Performance base funds language modified.

ARTICLE 2-- CHILD CARE

Section 1:
Allocation formula language is modified.

Section 2: Licensed and legal
nonlicensed family child care providers; assistance language is
modified.

Section 3: Relationship to current law language is modified.

Section
4: Child care advisory task force language provided.
Subdivision 1:
Establishment
Subdivision 2: Membership
Subdivision 3: Duties
Subdivision 4:
Report
Subdivision 5: Task force expenses
Subdivision 6: Expiration

ARTICLE 3
-- CHILD CARE TECHNICAL

Section 1: MFIP language is modified.

Section 2:
Notice of allocation language is modified.

Section 3: General eligibility
requirements for all applicants for child care assistance language is
modified.

Section 4: Sliding fee scale language modified.
Subdivision 1: Fee
schedule
Subdivision 2: Parent fee

Section 5: Background study required
language is provided.

Section 6: Persons who cannot be authorized language is
modified.

Section 7: Subsidy restrictions language is modified.

Section 8:
Absent days language is modified.

Section 9: Child care services grants
language is modified.

Section 10: Family child care technical assistance grants
language is modified.

Section 11: Authorization language is modified.

Section
12: Program reporting language is modified.

Section 13: Revisor's instructions
are provided.

ARTICLE 4 -- MFIP TECHNICAL CHANGES

Section 1: Other property
limitations language is modified.

Section 2: MFIP transitional standard
language is modified.

Section 3: Work activity language is modified.

Section
4: Self-employment language is modified.

Section 5: Responsibility for
assessment and employment plan language is modified.

Section 6: School
attendance required language is modified.

Section 7: Family violence waiver
criteria language is modified.

Section 8: Eligibility for diversionary work
program language is modified.

ARTICLE 5 -- MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL

Section 1:
Background studies conducted by a county agency language modified.

Section 1:
Definitions are modified.

Section 2: Repealer language is provided.

ARTICLE 6
-- CHILD WELFARE

Section 1: Policy and purpose language modified.

Section 2:
Adult adoption language added.

Section 3: Persons who may be adopted language
modified.

Section 4: Contents of petition language modified.

Section 5: Adult
adoption language provided.

Section 6: Study required before placement; certain
relatives excepted language modified.

Section 7: Birth parent history;
commissioner¿s form language provided.

Section 8: Requirement to search
registry before adoption petition can be granted; proof of search language
modified.

Section 9: Reports and records language modified.

Section 10:
Findings; orders language modified.

Section 11: Legal effect language
modified.

Section 12: Enrollment in American Indian tribe language
modified.

Section 13: Adoption assistance agreement language modified.

Section
14: Modification or termination of the adoption assistance agreement language
modified.

Section 15: Recovery of overpayments language provided.

Section 16:
Eligibility conditions language modified.

Section 17: Withdrawal of
registration language modified.

Section 18: Request language modified.

Section
19: Search language modified.

Section 20: Release of information after notice
language modified.

Section 21: Adult adoptions language added.

Section 22:
Expiration language modified.

Section 23: Interstate compact for the placement
of children language provided.

Section 24: Child in need of protection services
language modified.

Section 25: Child abuse language modified.

Section 26:
Child in need of protection or services language modified.

Section 27: Domestic
child abuse language modified.

Section 28: Jurisdiction over other matters
relating to children language modified.

Section 29: Review of foster care
status language modified.

Section 30: General language modified.

Section 31:
Public inspection of records language modified.

Section 32: Hearing and release
requirements language modified.

Section 33: Dispositions; voluntary foster care
for treatment language modified.

Section 34: Subjects language
modified.

Section 35: General procedures language modified.

Section 36:
Assessment for emergency relative placement language modified.

Section 37:
Out-of-home placement; plan language modified.

Section 38: Responsible social
service agency's duties for children in placement language modified.

Section
39: Monthly caseworker visits with children in foster care language
provided.

Section 40: Administrative or court review of placements language
modified.

Section 41: Voluntary foster care; required court review language
provided.

Section 42: Transfer of custody language modified.

Section 43: Both
parents deceased language modified.

Section 44: Child in voluntary foster care
for treatment language provided.

Section 45: Definitions provided.

Section 46:
Voluntary foster care language provided.

Section 47: Required information for a
child in voluntary foster care for treatment language provided.

Section 48:
Administrative review of child in voluntary foster care for treatment language
provided.

Section 49: Agency report to the court and court review of child in
voluntary foster care for treatment due to disability language
provided.

Section 50: Required permanency review hearing language
provided.

Section 51: Annual review language provided.

Section 52: Permanency
review after adjudication under Chapter 260C language provided.

Section 53:
Termination of voluntary placement agreement language provided.

Section 54:
Meaning of child and related terms language modified.

Section 55: Report
language modified.

Section 56: Law enforcement agency responsibility for
investigation; welfare agency reliance on law enforcement fact-finding; welfare
agency offer of services language modified.

Section 57: Targeted case
management services for children language provided.

Section 58: Revisor's
instruction provided.

Section 59: Repealer language provided.

ARTICLE 7 --
DATA PRIVACY

Section 1: Child care resource and referral programs language
provided.

Section 2: Family, friend, and neighbor grant program language
provided.

Section 3: Commissioner of human services duties; early childhood and
school-age professional development training language modified.

SNA 5/21/08