Bill Text: MI HB5038 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Children; services; child welfare caseloads; codify. Amends 1939 PA 280 (MCL 400.1 - 400.119b) by adding sec. 18f.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-05 - Referred To Second Reading [HB5038 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB5038-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5038

 

October 1, 2013, Introduced by Rep. Kurtz and referred to the Committee on Families, Children, and Seniors.

 

     A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled

 

"The social welfare act,"

 

(MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding section 18f.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 18f. (1) The department shall maintain child welfare

 

staffing ratios so that each individual, bi-county, and tri-county

 

configuration has sufficient child welfare caseworkers and

 

supervisors to maintain, at a minimum, the following ratios:

 

     (a) Twelve cases per each child protection investigation

 

worker.

 

     (b) Seventeen cases per each child protection ongoing worker.

 

     (c) Fifteen cases per each direct foster care or direct

 

adoption worker.

 

     (d) Ninety cases per each purchase of service monitor worker.

 

     (e) Thirty licensed foster homes per each foster home

 

licensing worker.

 

     (f) Five child welfare workers per each child welfare

 

supervisor.

 

     (2) As used in this section, "worker" means an individual who

 

is employed and working full time. Worker does not include a worker

 

on extended medical leave, a trainee who has not completed

 

training, or a worker with a restricted caseload.