Act No. 18
Public Acts of 2004
Approved by the Governor
March 4, 2004
Filed with the Secretary of State
March 4, 2004
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 4, 2004
STATE OF MICHIGAN
92ND LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2004
Introduced by Reps. Stahl, Tabor, Hager, Caswell, Wenke, Mortimer, Shulman, Ehardt, Hune, DeRoche, Newell, Brown, Rivet, Hoogendyk, Farrah, Nofs, Gaffney, Ward, Taub, Stakoe, Sheen, Casperson, DeRossett, Farhat, Walker, Pastor, Robertson, Bradstreet, Ruth Johnson, Palsrok, Garfield, Milosch, Emmons, Voorhees, Hummel, Shaffer, Richardville, Howell, Shackleton, Kooiman, Pumford, Rocca and Palmer
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5183
AN ACT to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled "An act to protect the welfare of the people of this state; to provide general assistance, hospitalization, infirmary and medical care to poor or unfortunate persons; to provide for compliance by this state with the social security act; to provide protection, welfare and services to aged persons, dependent children, the blind, and the permanently and totally disabled; to administer programs and services for the prevention and treatment of delinquency, dependency and neglect of children; to create a state department of social services; to prescribe the powers and duties of the department; to provide for the interstate and intercounty transfer of dependents; to create county and district departments of social services; to create within certain county departments, bureaus of social aid and certain divisions and offices thereunder; to prescribe the powers and duties of the departments, bureaus and officers; to provide for appeals in certain cases; to prescribe the powers and duties of the state department with respect to county and district departments; to prescribe certain duties of certain other state departments, officers, and agencies; to make an appropriation; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates," (MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding section 18e.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 18e. (1) The family independence agency shall establish and administer a state plan for foster care according to the provisions of part E of title IV of the social security act, 42 USC 670 to 679b. The state plan shall include programs and services that promote, implement, and support foster care focus groups. When developing and annually reviewing the state plans to carry out foster care policy and services, the family independence agency shall utilize input from locally-based foster care focus groups.
(2) Foster care focus groups shall be composed of youth in foster care or independent living programs, youth previously in foster care, foster parents or relatives caring for youth in foster care, and adults previously in foster care or independent living programs. The majority of the focus group consists of youth in foster care or independent living programs.
(3) In order to inform the legislature, the executive office, the judiciary, and the public of the needs and interests of youth in foster care, foster parents, and relatives caring for youth in foster care, the foster care focus groups are encouraged to be established in both of the following:
(a) Licensed child placing agencies with which the family independence agency contracts for youth foster care services that have an annual average daily foster care caseload of 150 or more cases or that derives more than 50% of its operating budget from contracts with the family independence agency for youth foster care services.
(b) Counties in which the family independence agency has an annual average daily foster care caseload of 150 or more cases.
(4) State and federal funds appropriated to implement state plans in compliance with part E of title IV of the social security act, 42 USC 670 to 679b and state laws may be used to meet the provisions of this section.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor