Assembly Bill 856

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 for adoption, with a guardian, with a relative, or in some other alternative 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 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; providing that a juvenile court order is required to change the placement of a child, regardless of whether a hearing is held on the change in placement; requiring a juvenile court order placing a child in the care and placement responsibility of an agency whenever a child is placed outside the home; and eliminating permanency plan determination hearings when a consent decree maintains a child's placement outside the home. 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 for adoption, with a guardian, with a relative, or in some other alternative 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 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; providing that a juvenile court order is required to change the placement of a child, regardless of whether a hearing is held on the change in placement; requiring a juvenile court order placing a child in the care and placement responsibility of an agency whenever a child is placed outside the home; and eliminating permanency plan determination hearings when a consent decree maintains a child's placement outside the home.