Wisconsin Legislature: 2009-10-22 Senate Journal

Senate Bill 346

Relating to: required judicial findings and orders when a child is placed outside the home, termination of parental rights warnings, mandatory child abuse or neglect reporters, the confidentiality of social services records, changing from day care to child care the term used to describe care and supervision for children for less than 24 hours a day, and renumbering the definition of neglect.

Passage.

Ayes, 5 - Senators Jauch, Lassa, Vinehout, Kedzie and Hopper.

Noes, 0 - None.

Senate Bill 347

Relating to: requiring consultation with a child in determining and reviewing his or her permanency plan; requiring agencies, in making reasonable efforts to place a child in a permanent placement, to include efforts to place the child outside this state; requiring juvenile courts to take certain actions to expedite the interstate placement of children; requiring juvenile courts to give a child's out-of-home care provider the right to be heard in proceedings involving the child; requiring notice to relatives when a child is removed from the home; requiring reasonable efforts to place siblings together or to provide for visitation between siblings; requiring agencies to assist children in developing a plan for transition to independent living; requiring health care providers to report cases of infants with controlled substances in their bodily fluids to the agency responsible for investigating suspected child abuse or neglect; authorizing circuit court commissioners to conduct permanency plan reviews and hearings; specifying certain placements for purposes of calculating how long a child has been placed outside the home for purposes of filing a termination of parental rights petition; and permitting disclosure of information to a relative of a child for purposes of facilitating placement of the child with the relative or to a public or private agency in this state or any other state for purposes of investigating a proposed foster or adoptive placement.

Introduction and adoption of Senate Amendment 1.

Ayes, 5 - Senators Jauch, Lassa, Vinehout, Kedzie and Hopper.

Noes, 0 - None.

Passage as amended.

Ayes, 5 - Senators Jauch, Lassa, Vinehout, Kedzie and Hopper.

Noes, 0 - None.

Senate Bill 361

Relating to: the monthly rates that are paid for foster care; the levels of care that a foster home may provide; licensing of kinship care relatives to operate foster homes and, subject to certain exceptions, time limits on the receipt of kinship care payments; and licensing of foster homes across county lines.

Adoption of Senate Amendment 1.

Ayes, 5 - Senators Jauch, Lassa, Vinehout, Kedzie and Hopper.

Noes, 0 - None.

Passage as amended.

Ayes, 5 - Senators Jauch, Lassa, Vinehout, Kedzie and Hopper.

Noes, 0 - None.

Robert Jauch

Chairperson

The committee on Economic Development reports and recommends:

Gasperetti, Thomas, of Milwaukee, as a member of the Examining Board of Architects, Landscape Architects, Professional Engineers, Designers and Land Surveyors, to serve for the term ending July 1, 2013.

Confirmation.