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OH HB279
Bill
Status
12/20/2012
Primary Sponsor
Denise Driehaus
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AI Summary
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Requires child services agencies to notify all adult grandparents and relatives within 30 days when a child is removed from parental custody and to make reasonable efforts to place siblings together.
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Eliminates the automatic one-year expiration of powers of attorney and caretaker authorization affidavits for grandparent care arrangements and allows grandparents to seek custody within 14 days if the power of attorney or affidavit is revoked.
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Mandates public children services agencies to file missing child reports with law enforcement when a child in their custody is or may be missing and authorizes placement of children in homes of qualified nonrelatives in addition to relatives.
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Authorizes the State Board of Education to issue one-year renewable instructional assistant permits for qualified individuals providing services under the Autism Scholarship Program and expands eligible providers to include behavior analysts, psychologists, and other credentialed professionals.
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Requires the Department of Job and Family Services to develop recommendations for implementing a subsidized relative guardianship program consistent with federal law and modifies the putative father registry to allow registration at any time rather than only within 30 days of birth.
Legislative Description
To require a public children services agency or private child placing agency that obtains temporary custody of a child to attempt to notify certain relatives of the child; to require a public children services agency to attempt to keep siblings together; to modify the putative father registry; to eliminate the automatic termination upon the expiration of one year of a power of attorney or caretaker authorization affidavit that gives care of a child to a grandparent; to allow a grandparent to seek custody of a child if the child's parent, guardian, or custodian seeks to terminate a power of attorney or caretaker authorization affidavit; to require a public children services agency to file a missing child report if a child in its custody is or may be missing; to authorize a public children services agency to provide care for a child in the home of a qualified nonrelative of the child; to require the Department of Job and Family Services to develop recommendations for the implementation of a subsidized relative guardianship program; to authorize the State Board of Education to issue one-year, renewable instructional assistant permits for qualified individuals to provide services to children under the Autism Scholarship Program; to make other changes in the administration of the Autism Scholarship Program; and to declare an emergency.
Child custody-expand class eligible/kinship caregivers-enhance policies
Last Action
Effective Date
12/20/2012