Providing permanency plan and comments to out-of-home care providers in advance of a permanency plan review or hearing. (FE)

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Under current law, when a child is the subject of a child or juvenile in need of protection or services (CHIPS or JIPS) proceeding, the county social or human services department, a child welfare agency, or the Department of Children and Families in Milwaukee County is required to prepare a permanency plan for the child. The permanency plan is reviewed every six months either by a review panel or at a court hearing. Before the review or hearing, the agency is required to provide a copy of the plan, and any written comments that the agency receives about the plan, to the following people: the members of the review panel; the child's parent, guardian, or legal custodian; the person representing the interests of the public; the child's counsel, guardian ad litem, or court-appointed special advocate; and, if the child is an Indian child who is placed outside the home of his or her parent or Indian custodian, the child's Indian custodian and tribe.

This bill allows an agency to provide a copy of a child's permanency plan and comments on the plan to a child's out-of-home care provider in the context of a permanency review and a permanency hearing. An out-of-home care provider includes a foster parent, guardian, relative other than a parent, or nonrelative in whose home a child or juvenile is placed, or the operator of a group home, residential care center for children and youth, or shelter care facility in which a child or juvenile is placed.

Who's behind it

7 representatives are its authors⁠. All 7 are Republicans.

3 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.

What it would cost

State agencies filed a cost estimate. Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

• Fiscal Estimate From DCF