MI HB5521

Requires supervising agencies to identify, locate, notify, and consult with relatives within 30 days of a child's removal to determine placement with a fit and appropriate relative.

Mandates supervising agencies make placement decisions within 90 days of removal and provide written notice with reasons to the child, parents, attorneys, interested relatives, and prosecutor.

Requires reasonable efforts to place siblings together in foster care, kinship guardianship, or adoptive placement unless documented as contrary to safety or well-being.

Requires at least monthly visitation or contact between separated siblings unless supervising agency documents it would be contrary to safety or well-being.

Allows persons who receive placement decisions to request documentation within 5 days and petition for court review within 14 days if they believe the decision is not in the child's best interest.