MI HB6376

Requires supervising agencies to provide documentation of progress relating to all aspects of the last court-ordered treatment plan, including evaluations, therapy reports, and verification of parenting time, to all parties and their attorneys not later than 5 business days before scheduled hearings under sections 19 and 19a.

Applies documentation requirement to review hearings for children remaining in their home or removed from home, and to permanency planning hearings when parental rights have not been terminated.

Agency reports filed with the court must be accessible to all parties and offered into evidence at hearings.

Court must consider written or oral information from parents, guardians, custodians, foster parents, institutions, relatives, attorneys, and guardians ad litem, in addition to other evidence including appropriateness of parenting time.