Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF1221

2E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - CHILD WELFARE

Modifying child
welfare provisions; expanding certain duties of the commissioner of human
services to include children under the guardianship of a tribe in the state
recognized by the secretary of interior; modifying certain adoption requirements
for older children under the guardianship of the commissioner, prohibiting
refusal by a child to refuse or waive the efforts of an agent to recruit,
identify and place the child in an adoptive home or sign a document relieving
county social services agencies of all recruitment efforts on behalf of the
child; modifying certain provisions relating to referrals for postplacement
assessment; modifying certain court findings provisions; modifying certain
adoption assistance eligibility criteria; eliminating certain reasons for
deferral of the listing of a child with the state adoption exchange; modifying
the duty of the juvenile court to ensure placement prevention and family
reunification for permanent alternative homes consideration purposes; modifying
child placement provisions for Indian children under the Minnesota Indian
preservation act, clarifying definitions, applying federal law (Indian child
welfare act) and state law in child custody proceedings, modifying Indian tribe
jurisdiction and court determinations of tribal affiliation of child provisions;
requiring and specifying certain placement procedures for the orderly and timely
interstate placement of children, specifying certain reporting, background study
and home visit requirements, defining certain terms; modifying and clarifying
certain requirements for protecting or placing children in need of protection
services; modifying review of court ordered placement and permanent placement
determination requirements; modifying certain out of home placement plan
documentation and health and educational records information requirements;
requiring a responsible social services agency for children in placement to give
a copy of the health and education report to the child leaving foster care by
reason of having attained the age of majority; specifying certain review
requirements for certain child placements; excluding income of certain age
children employed as part of an independent living plan transitioning from
foster care and cost of care reimbursement to counties; modifying certain orders
for terminating parental rights; requiring local welfare agency responsibility
for assessing or investigating reports of sexual abuse under certain conditions;
requiring local law enforcement agency responsibility for investigating
maltreatment; modifying certain duties of a local welfare agency and local law
enforcement agency upon receipt of a report involving substantial child
endangerment; modifying certain child maltreatment reporting requirements and
notice of determinations requirements; specifying certain renumbering and cross
reference change instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing a certain
law and rule for a certain subsidy reimbursement limit for adoption services
for placing agencies

ARTICLE 2 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TECHNICAL
PROVISIONS

Modifying adoption eligibility conditions relating to tribal law;
making technical and clarifying changes in certain provisions

ARTICLE 3 -
CONTINUING CARE

Extending the time for expansion of developmental disability
pilot projects
(je)