Act No. 202

Public Acts of 2022

Approved by the Governor

October 7, 2022

Filed with the Secretary of State

October 7, 2022

EFFECTIVE DATE:  October 7, 2022

state of michigan

101st Legislature

Regular session of 2022

Introduced by Reps. Tyrone Carter, Whiteford, Green, Wakeman, Brann, Kahle, Brenda Carter, Young, Pohutsky, O’Malley and Anthony

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5976

AN ACT to amend 1994 PA 203, entitled “An act to establish certain standards for foster care and adoption services for children and their families; and to prescribe powers and duties of certain state agencies and departments and adoption facilitators,” (MCL 722.951 to 722.960) by adding section 3a.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 3a. (1) Beginning January 1, 2023, and annually each January 1 after that, the department must submit an annual report to the legislature and the house of representatives and senate appropriation committees on the department budget, that identifies the cost savings that occur due to reductions in foster youth in the foster care program and compares that number with the cost when the highest number of foster youth have been in the foster care system for the immediately preceding 10 years. The report must also include details of the department’s efforts to reinvest the cost savings identified in the report.

(2) The details of the department’s efforts required under subsection (1) must include, but are not limited to, information on all of the following reinvestment efforts:

(a) Prevention services.

(b) Permanency services.

(c) Adoption assistance.

(d) Safety assessments.

(e) Adoptive and foster family recruitment.

(f) Training.

(g) Caseworker bonuses.

(h) Wage increases.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor