Bill Text: MI HB4550 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Children; guardians; national and state fingerprint checks; include in criminal record check for guardians. Amends sec. 4 of 2008 PA 260 (MCL 722.874).

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-24 - Assigned Pa 95 With Immediate Effect [HB4550 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2019-HB4550-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 95

Public Acts of 2019

Approved by the Governor

October 23, 2019

Filed with the Secretary of State

October 24, 2019

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 22, 2020

state of michigan

100th Legislature

Regular session of 2019

Introduced by Reps. B. Carter and Crawford

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4550

AN ACT to amend 2008 PA 260, entitled “An act to provide for assistance payments to certain guardians of minors; and to provide for duties and responsibilities of certain state departments and agencies,” by amending section 4 (MCL 722.874), as amended by 2015 PA 227.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 4. (1) Subject to subsection (2), a guardian who meets all of the following criteria may receive guardianship assistance on behalf of an eligible child:

(a) The guardian is the eligible child’s relative or legal custodian.

(b) The guardian is a licensed foster parent and approved for guardianship assistance by the department. The approval process shall include criminal record checks and child abuse and child neglect central registry checks on the guardian, all successor guardians, and all adults living in the guardian’s or successor guardian’s home as well as submission of the guardian’s or successor guardian’s fingerprints to the department of state police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a criminal history check.

(c) The eligible child has resided with the prospective guardian in the prospective guardian’s residence for a minimum of 6 months before the application for guardianship assistance is received by the department.

(2) Only a relative who is a licensed foster parent caring for a child who is eligible to receive title IV-E-funded foster care payments for 6 consecutive months is eligible for federal funding under title IV-E for guardianship assistance. A child who is not eligible for title IV-E funding who is placed with a licensed foster parent, related or unrelated, and who meets the requirements of section 3(a) to (e) may be eligible for state-funded guardianship assistance.

(3) If a child is eligible for title IV-E-funded guardianship assistance under section 3 but has a sibling who is not eligible under section 3, both of the following apply:

(a) The child and any of the child’s siblings may be placed in the same relative guardianship arrangement in accordance with chapter XIIA of the probate code, MCL 712A.1 to 712A.32, if the department and the relative agree on the appropriateness of the arrangement for the sibling.

(b) Title IV-E-funded relative guardianship assistance payments may be paid on behalf of each sibling placed in accordance with this subsection.

(4) A successor guardian may receive guardianship assistance payments if the eligibility criteria set forth in section 3 are met.

 

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

 

Clerk of the House of Representatives

 

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor