MI SB1303

Allows courts to find that reasonable efforts to reunify a child with a parent are not required if the parent is or will be imprisoned for 2 or more years or is required to register under the sex offenders registration act.

Permits the Department of Human Services to decline providing reunification services when a parent meets the imprisonment or sex offender registration criteria, though courts may still order such services.

Requires courts to conduct permanency planning hearings within 12 months of a child's removal from home and annually thereafter, with authority to order termination of parental rights if the child has been in foster care for 15 of the last 22 months.

Establishes procedures for case service plans that must address child placement in family-like settings, parenting time schedules (minimum once weekly unless harmful), and services needed for reunification or permanent placement.

Defines key terms including "attorney" (representing child in traditional attorney-client relationship with duties of loyalty and confidentiality), "nonparent adult," "permanent foster family agreement," and "abuse" for purposes of child protective proceedings.