Bill Text: MI HB5123 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Children; foster care; information regarding the foster children's assurance of quality foster care policy; require the department of human services to provide to foster children. Amends 1994 PA 203 (MCL 722.951 - 722.960) by adding sec. 8d.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-31 - Assigned Pa 632'18 With Immediate Effect [HB5123 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB5123-Enrolled.html

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STATE OF MICHIGAN

99TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2018

Introduced by Reps. Hornberger, Yanez, Chirkun, Cochran, Liberati, Wittenberg, Zemke, Elder, Brinks, Durhal, Gay-Dagnogo, Moss, Geiss, Lasinski, Hoadley, Greig, Sabo, Guerra, Sowerby, Crawford, Lucido, Tedder, Vaupel, Marino, Greimel, Green, Dianda, Faris, Victory, Iden, McCready, Kelly, Bellino, Pagel, Lilly, Kesto and Kosowski

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5123

AN ACT to amend 1994 PA 203, entitled “An act to establish certain standards for foster care and adoption services for children and their families; and to prescribe powers and duties of certain state agencies and departments and adoption facilitators,” (MCL 722.951 to 722.960) by adding section 8d.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 8d. (1) The department shall prepare and distribute to each child placed in foster care, as age-appropriate, information describing the children’s assurance of quality foster care policy and the process to follow if the child in foster care has concerns regarding a violation of the children’s assurance of quality foster care policy. This information shall include information regarding the child in foster care’s caseworker, lawyer guardian ad litem, the office of the children’s ombudsman, the department’s office of family advocate, and the foster care review board.

(2) The department shall implement the provisions of this section by no later than 90 days after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.

Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 99th Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) House Bill No. 5121.

(b) House Bill No. 5122.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor