Bill Text: MI SB0467 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Children: foster care; regulation of foster family homes or foster family group homes; modify. Amends sec. 8b of 1973 PA 116 (MCL 722.118b). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0466'19, SB 0468'19, SB 0469'19
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2020-01-28 - Assigned Pa 0007'20 With Immediate Effect [SB0467 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-SB0467-Engrossed.html
SENATE BILL NO. 467
August 29, 2019, Introduced by Senators BULLOCK
and BIZON and referred to the Committee on Families, Seniors and Veterans.
A bill to amend 1973 PA 116, entitled
"An act to provide for the protection of children through the licensing and regulation of child care organizations; to provide for the establishment of standards of care for child care organizations; to prescribe powers and duties of certain departments of this state and adoption facilitators; to provide penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"
by amending section 8b (MCL 722.118b), as amended by 2017 PA 257.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 8b. (1) Upon the recommendation of a local foster care review board under section 7a of 1984 PA 422, MCL 722.137, 722.137a, or of a child placing agency, the department may grant a variance to 1 or more licensing rules or statutes regulating foster family homes or foster family group homes to for 1 or more of the following reasons:
(a) To allow the child and 1 or more siblings to remain or be placed together.
(b) To allow a child with an established meaningful relationship with the family to remain with the family.
(c) To allow a family with special training or skills to provide care to a child who has a severe disability.
(2) If the department determines that the placement would be in the child's best interests and that the variance from the particular licensing rules or statutes would not jeopardize the health or safety of a child residing in the foster family home or foster family group home, the department may grant the variance.
(3) (2) The department's grant of a variance does not change a private home's licensure status.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 100th Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 466.
(b) Senate Bill No. 468.
(c) Senate Bill No. 469.
