SB-0490, As Passed House, December 13, 2018

SB-0490, As Passed Senate, February 22, 2018

SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 490

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 203, entitled

"Foster care and adoption services act,"

by amending section 2 (MCL 722.952), as amended by 2016 PA 190.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 2. As used in this act:

     (a) "Adoptee" means a child who is to be adopted or who is

adopted.

     (b) "Adoption attorney" means that term as defined in section

22 of the adoption code, MCL 710.22.

     (c) "Adoption code" means the Michigan adoption code, chapter

X of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 710.21 to 710.70.

     (d) "Adoption facilitator" means a child placing agency or an

adoption attorney.

     (e) "Adoptive parent" means the parent or parents who adopt a

child in accordance with the adoption code.

     (f) "Agency placement" means that term as defined in section

22 of the adoption code, MCL 710.22.

     (g) "Child placing agency" means that term as defined in

section 1 of 1973 PA 116, MCL 722.111.

     (h) "Department" means the department of health and human

services.

     (i) "Direct placement" means that term as defined in section

22 of the adoption code, MCL 710.22.

     (j) "Foster care" means a child's placement outside the

child's parental home by and under the supervision of a child

placing agency, the court, or the department. Foster care does not

include the delegation of a parent's or guardian's powers regarding

care, custody, or property of a child or ward under a properly

executed power of attorney under the safe families for children

act.

     (k) "Preplacement assessment" means an assessment of a

prospective adoptive parent as described in section 23f of the

adoption code, MCL 710.23f.

     (l) "Sibling" means a child who is related through birth or

adoption by at least 1 common parent. Sibling includes that term as

defined by the American Indian or Alaskan native child's tribal

code or custom.

     (m) "Supervising agency" means the department if a child is

placed in the department's care for foster care, or a child placing

agency in whose care a child is placed for foster care.

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

after the date it is enacted into law.

     Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect

unless all of the following bills of the 99th Legislature are

enacted into law:

     (a) Senate Bill No. 489.

     (b) Senate Bill No. 797.

     (c) Senate Bill No. 798.