Bill Text: MI SB0490 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Children; other; delegation of parent's or guardian's powers separate from foster care; clarify. Amends sec. 2 of 1994 PA 203 (MCL 722.952)
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-12-21 - Assigned Pa 0432'18 With Immediate Effect [SB0490 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB0490-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 490
June 22, 2017, Introduced by Senators MEEKHOF, MACGREGOR, GREGORY, BRANDENBURG, MARLEAU and O'BRIEN and referred to the Committee on Oversight.
A bill to amend 1994 PA 203, entitled
"Foster care and adoption services act,"
by amending section 2 (MCL 722.952), as amended by 2016 PA 190.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) "Adoptee" means a child who is to be adopted or who is
adopted.
(b) "Adoption attorney" means that term as defined in section
22 of the adoption code, MCL 710.22.
(c) "Adoption code" means the Michigan adoption code, chapter
X of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 710.21 to 710.70.
(d) "Adoption facilitator" means a child placing agency or an
adoption attorney.
(e) "Adoptive parent" means the parent or parents who adopt a
child in accordance with the adoption code.
(f) "Agency placement" means that term as defined in section
22 of the adoption code, MCL 710.22.
(g) "Child placing agency" means that term as defined in
section 1 of 1973 PA 116, MCL 722.111.
(h) "Department" means the department of health and human
services.
(i) "Direct placement" means that term as defined in section
22 of the adoption code, MCL 710.22.
(j) "Foster care" means a child's placement outside the
child's parental home by and under the supervision of a child
placing agency, the court, or the department. Foster care does not
include the delegation of a parent's or guardian's powers regarding
care, custody, or property of a child or ward under a properly
executed power of attorney under section 4a of 1973 PA 116, MCL
722.114a.
(k) "Preplacement assessment" means an assessment of a
prospective adoptive parent as described in section 23f of the
adoption code, MCL 710.23f.
(l) "Sibling" means a child who is related through birth or
adoption by at least 1 common parent. Sibling includes that term as
defined by the American Indian or Alaskan native child's tribal
code or custom.
(m) "Supervising agency" means the department if a child is
placed in the department's care for foster care, or a child placing
agency in whose care a child is placed for foster care.
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) Senate Bill No. 488.
(b) Senate Bill No. 491.
(c) Senate Bill No. 489.
