Bill Text: MI HB5225 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Human services; children's services; providing foster children over age of 15 the opportunity to visit colleges or armed services recruiter before adoption or termination from foster care; require. Amends 1994 PA 203 (MCL 722.951 - 722.960) by adding sec. 4f.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-11-09 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 11/08/2017 [HB5225 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB5225-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5225

 

 

November 8, 2017, Introduced by Rep. Kosowski.

 

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 203, entitled

 

"Foster care and adoption services act,"

 

(MCL 722.951 to 722.960) by adding section 4f.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 4f. (1) Beginning not later than 1 year after the

 

effective date of the amendatory act that added this section, the

 

department shall provide to a child in foster care in this state

 

who is over 15 years of age the opportunity to visit an institution

 

of higher learning located in this state or an armed forces

 

recruiter located in this state before the child is no longer a

 

child in foster care in this state.

 

     (2) As used in this section, "institution of higher learning"

 

means a public community or junior college established under

 

section 7 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963 or part

 

25 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1601 to

 

380.1607, or a state university described in section 4, 5, or 6 of

 

article VIII of the state constitution of 1963. Institution of

 

higher learning includes a public postsecondary vocational or

 

technical school.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.