H630 - Rylan's Law/Family/Child Protect. & Acc. Act. (SL 2017-41)

Overview: S.L. 2017-41 does the following:

• Establishes social services regional supervision and collaboration.
• Reforms the State child welfare system.
• Improves accountability and state oversight of the child welfare system.
• Requires written agreements, corrective action, and state intervention with social services departments.
• Creates regional social services departments.
• Establishes a child well-being transformation council to improve coordination, collaboration, and communication among child-serving agencies.
• Establishes a pilot program to help youth in substitute care obtain drivers licenses.
• Establishes a pilot program to authorize a waiver of the employment requirement for foster parents with children receiving intensive alternative family treatment.
• Reduces the time a parent has to appeal from a termination of parental rights order.
• Reduces the time for foster care licensure approval.
• Requires child protective service observation before physical custody of a child may be returned to a parent, guardian, custodian or caretaker from whom the child was removed.

This act has various effective dates. Please see the full summary for more detail.