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Minnesota Session Laws - 1996, Regular Session
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CHAPTER 416-S.F.No. 1885
An act relating to human services; clarifying foster
care payment and placement; clarifying adoption
assistance; defining egregious harm in the juvenile
code; amending the parental rights termination
statute; amending Minnesota Statutes 1994, sections
256E.08, by adding a subdivision; 257.071, subdivision
1a, and by adding subdivisions; 257.072, subdivisions
1, 5, and 8; 257.0725; 259.29; 259.67, subdivisions 4
and 6; 259.77; 260.015, by adding a subdivision; and
260.181, subdivision 3; Minnesota Statutes 1995
Supplement, sections 256.045, subdivision 3; and
260.221, subdivision 1; Laws 1995, chapter 207,
article 1, section 2, subdivision 4.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 1995 Supplement, section
256.045, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
Subd. 3. [STATE AGENCY HEARINGS.] (a) State agency
hearings are available for the following: (1) any person
applying for, receiving or having received public assistance or
a program of social services granted by the state agency or a
county agency under sections 252.32, 256.031 to 256.036, and
256.72 to 256.879, chapters 256B, 256D, 256E, 261, or the
federal Food Stamp Act whose application for assistance is
denied, not acted upon with reasonable promptness, or whose
assistance is suspended, reduced, terminated, or claimed to have
been incorrectly paid; (2) any patient or relative aggrieved by
an order of the commissioner under section 252.27; (3) a party
aggrieved by a ruling of a prepaid health plan; or (4) any
individual or facility determined by a lead agency to have
maltreated a vulnerable adult under section 626.557 after they
have exercised their right to administrative reconsideration
under section 626.557; (5) any person whose claim for foster
care payment pursuant to a placement of the child resulting from
a child protection assessment under section 626.556 is denied or
not acted upon with reasonable promptness, regardless of funding
source; or (6) any person to whom a right of appeal pursuant to
this section is given by other provision of law. Individuals
and organizations specified in this section may contest the
specified action, decision, or final disposition before the
state agency by submitting a written request for a hearing to
the state agency within 30 days after receiving written notice
of the action, decision, or final disposition, or within 90 days
of such written notice if the applicant, recipient, patient, or
relative shows good cause why the request was not submitted
within the 30-day time limit.
The hearing for an individual or facility under clause (4)
is the only administrative appeal to the final lead agency
disposition specifically, including a challenge to the accuracy
and completeness of data under section 13.04.
For purposes of this section, bargaining unit grievance
procedures are not an administrative appeal.
The scope of hearings involving claims to foster care
payments under clause (5) shall be limited to the issue of
whether the county is legally responsible for a child's
placement under court order or voluntary placement agreement
and, if so, the correct amount of foster care payment to be made
on the child's behalf and shall not include review of the
propriety of the county's child protection determination or
child placement decision.
(b) Except for a prepaid health plan, a vendor of medical
care as defined in section 256B.02, subdivision 7, or a vendor
under contract with a county agency to provide social services
under section 256E.08, subdivision 4, is not a party and may not
request a hearing under this section, except if assisting a
recipient as provided in subdivision 4.
(c) An applicant or recipient is not entitled to receive
social services beyond the services included in the amended
community social services plan developed under section 256E.081,
subdivision 3, if the county agency has met the requirements in
section 256E.081.
Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 256E.08, is
amended by adding a subdivision to read:
Subd. 11. [USE OF COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES FUNDS FOR
FOSTER CARE.] If foster care services are described in a
county's community social services plan, the county may use
funds from its community social services fund to provide foster
care benefits on behalf of children for whom the county has
legal placement responsibility pursuant to court order or
voluntary placement agreement.
Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 257.071,
subdivision 1a, is amended to read:
Subd. 1a. [PROTECTION OF HERITAGE OR BACKGROUND.] The
authorized child-placing agency shall ensure that the child's
best interests are met by giving due, not sole, consideration of
the child's race or ethnic heritage in making a family foster
care placement. The authorized child-placing agency shall place
a child, released by court order or by voluntary release by the
parent or parents, in a family foster home selected by following
the preferences described in section 260.181, subdivision 3.
In instances where a child from a family of color is placed
in a family foster home of a different racial or ethnic
background, the local social service agency shall review the
placement after 30 days and each 30 days thereafter for the
first six months to determine if there is another available
placement that would better satisfy the requirements of this
subdivision. When there is not a family foster home of the same
race or ethnic heritage available that can meet the needs of the
child, the agency must place the child in a home of a foster
family that is of different racial or ethnic heritage that can
meet the needs of the child. Placement of a child cannot be
delayed or denied based solely on race.
Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 257.071, is
amended by adding a subdivision to read:
Subd. 9. [FAIR HEARING REVIEW.] Any person whose claim for
foster care payment pursuant to the placement of a child
resulting from a child protection assessment under section
626.556 is denied or not acted upon with reasonable promptness
may appeal the decision under section 256.045, subdivision 3.
The application and fair hearing procedures set forth in the
administration of community social services rule, Minnesota
Rules, parts 9550.0070 to 9550.0092, do not apply to foster care
payment issues appealable under this subdivision.
Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 257.071, is
amended by adding a subdivision to read:
Subd. 10. [RULES; FOSTER CARE FAIR HEARINGS.] The
commissioner shall review and, where necessary, revise foster
care rules to ensure that the rules provide adequate guidance
for implementation of foster care fair hearings, pursuant to
section 256.045, subdivision 3, clause (5), that comply with all
applicable federal requirements and the requirements of section
256.045.
Sec. 6. Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 257.072,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1. [RECRUITMENT OF FOSTER FAMILIES.] Each
authorized child-placing agency shall make special efforts to
recruit a foster family from among the child's relatives, except
as authorized in section 260.181, subdivision 3, and among
families of the same racial or ethnic heritage. Each agency
shall provide for diligent recruitment of potential foster
families that reflect the ethnic and racial diversity of the
children in the state for whom foster homes are needed. Special
efforts include contacting and working with community
organizations and religious organizations and may include
contracting with these organizations, utilizing local media and
other local resources, conducting outreach activities, and
increasing the number of minority recruitment staff employed by
the agency. The requirement of special efforts to locate
relatives in this section is satisfied if the responsible
child-placing agency has made appropriate efforts for six months
following the child's placement in a residential facility and
the court approves the agency's efforts pursuant to section
260.191, subdivision 3a. The agency may accept any gifts,
grants, offers of services, and other contributions to use in
making special recruitment efforts.
Sec. 7. Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 257.072,
subdivision 5, is amended to read:
Subd. 5. [MINORITY PLACEMENTS.] Beginning December 1, 1989
1996, the commissioner shall provide to the Indian affairs
council, the council on affairs of Spanish-speaking people, the
council on Black Minnesotans, and the council on Asian-Pacific
Minnesotans the semiannual reports annual report required under
section 257.0725.
Sec. 8. Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 257.072,
subdivision 8, is amended to read:
Subd. 8. [REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.] Each authorized
child-placing agency shall provide to the commissioner of human
services all data needed by the commissioner for the report
required by section 257.0725. The agency shall provide the data
within 60 15 days of the end of the six-month period for which
the data is applicable.
Sec. 9. Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 257.0725, is
amended to read:
257.0725 [SEMIANNUAL ANNUAL REPORT.]
The commissioner of human services shall publish a
semiannual an annual report on children in out-of-home placement.
The report shall include, by county and statewide, information
on legal status, living arrangement, age, sex, race, accumulated
length of time in placement, reason for most recent placement,
race of family with whom placed, number of families from the
child's own culture in the placement pool during the period for
which data is provided, and other demographic information deemed
appropriate on all children in out-of-home placement. The
commissioner shall provide the required data for children who
entered placement during the previous quarter and for children
who are in placement at the end of the quarter. Out-of-home
placement includes placement in any facility by an authorized
child-placing agency. By December 1, 1989, and by December 1 of
each successive year, the commissioner shall publish a report
covering the first six months of the calendar year. By June 1,
1990, and by June 1 of each successive year, the commissioner
shall publish a report covering the last six months of the
calendar year.
Sec. 10. Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 259.29, is
amended to read:
259.29 [PROTECTION OF HERITAGE OR BACKGROUND.]
The policy of the state of Minnesota is to ensure that the
best interests of the child are met by requiring due, not sole,
consideration of the child's race or ethnic heritage in adoption
placements. For purposes of intercountry adoptions, due
consideration is deemed to have occurred if the appropriate
authority in the child's country of birth has approved the
placement of the child.
The authorized child-placing agency shall give preference,
in the absence of good cause to the contrary, to placing the
child with (a) a relative or relatives of the child, or, if that
would be detrimental to the child or a relative is not
available, (b) an important friend with whom the child has
resided or had significant contact, or if that is not possible,
(c) a family with the same racial or ethnic heritage as the
child, or, if that is not feasible, (c) (d) a family of
different racial or ethnic heritage from the child which is
knowledgeable and appreciative of the child's racial or ethnic
heritage. In implementing the order of preference, an
authorized child-placing agency may disclose private or
confidential data, as defined in section 13.02, to relatives of
the child for the purpose of locating a suitable adoptive home.
The agency shall disclose only data that is necessary to
facilitate implementing the preference.
If the child's birth parent or parents explicitly request
that the preference described in clause (a) or clauses (a)
and, (b), or (c) not be followed, the authorized child-placing
agency shall honor that request consistent with the best
interests of the child.
If the child's birth parent or parents express a preference
for placing the child in an adoptive home of the same or a
similar religious background to that of the birth parent or
parents, in following the preferences in clause (a) or, (b), or
(c), the agency shall place the child with a family that also
meets the birth parent's religious preference. Only if no
family is available that is described in clause (a) or, (b), or
(c) may the agency give preference to a family described in
clause (c) (d) that meets the parent's religious preference.
Sec. 11. Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 259.67,
subdivision 4, is amended to read:
Subd. 4. [ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS.] (a) The placing agency
shall determine the child's eligibility for adoption assistance
under title IV-E of the Social Security Act. If the child does
not qualify, the placing agency shall certify a child as
eligible for state funded adoption assistance only if the
following criteria are met:
(a) (1) Due to the child's characteristics or circumstances
it would be difficult to provide the child and an adoptive home
without adoption assistance.
(b)(1) (2)(i) A placement agency has made reasonable
efforts to place the child for adoption without subsidy adoption
assistance, but has been unsuccessful; or
(2) (ii) the child's licensed foster parents desire to
adopt the child and it is determined by the placing agency that
the adoption is in the best interest of the child.
(c) (3) The child has been a ward of the commissioner or a
Minnesota-licensed child-placing agency.
(b) For purposes of this subdivision, the characteristics
or circumstances that may be considered in determining whether a
child is a child with special needs under United States Code,
title 42, chapter 7, subchapter IV, part E, or meets the
requirements of paragraph (a), clause (1), are the following:
(1) The child is a member of a sibling group to be placed
as one unit in which at least one sibling is older than 15
months of age or is described in clause (2) or (3).
(2) The child has documented physical, mental, emotional,
or behavioral disabilities.
(3) The child has a high risk of developing physical,
mental, emotional, or behavioral disabilities.
(c) When a child's eligibility for adoption assistance is
based upon the high risk of developing physical, mental,
emotional, or behavioral disabilities, payments shall not be
made under the adoption assistance agreement unless and until
the potential disability manifests itself as documented by an
appropriate health care professional.
Sec. 12. Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 259.67,
subdivision 6, is amended to read:
Subd. 6. [RIGHT OF APPEAL.] (a) The adoptive parents have
the right to appeal to the commissioner pursuant to section
256.045, when the commissioner denies, discontinues, or modifies
the agreement.
(b) Adoptive parents who believe that their adopted child
was incorrectly denied adoption assistance, or who did not seek
adoption assistance on the child's behalf because of being
provided with inaccurate or insufficient information about the
child or the adoption assistance program, may request a hearing
under section 256.045. Notwithstanding subdivision 2, the
purpose of the hearing shall be to determine whether, under
standards established by the federal Department of Health and
Human Services, the circumstances surrounding the child's
adoption warrant making an adoption assistance agreement on
behalf of the child after the final decree of adoption has been
issued. The commissioner shall enter into an adoption
assistance agreement on the child's behalf if it is determined
that the child was eligible for adoption assistance under United
States Code, title 42, chapter 7, subchapter IV, part E,
sections 670 to 679a, at the time of the adoption and at the
time the request for a hearing was submitted but, because of
extenuating circumstances, did not receive adoption assistance.
An adoption assistance agreement made under this paragraph shall
be effective the date the request for a hearing was received by
the commissioner or the local agency.
Sec. 13. Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 259.77, is
amended to read:
259.77 [FAMILY RECRUITMENT.]
Each authorized child-placing agency shall make special
efforts to recruit an adoptive family from among the child's
relatives, except as authorized in section 259.57, subdivision
2, and among families of the same racial or ethnic
heritage. Each agency shall provide for the diligent
recruitment of potential adoptive families that reflect the
ethnic and racial diversity of children in the state for whom
adoptive homes are needed. Special efforts include contacting
and working with community organizations and religious
organizations and may include contracting with these
organizations, utilizing local media and other local resources,
and conducting outreach activities. The requirement of special
efforts to locate relatives in this section is satisfied if the
efforts have continued for six months after the child becomes
available for adoption or if special efforts have been satisfied
and approved by the court pursuant to section 260.191,
subdivision 3a. The agency may accept any gifts, grants, offers
of services, and other contributions to use in making special
recruitment efforts.
Sec. 14. Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 260.015, is
amended by adding a subdivision to read:
Subd. 29. [EGREGIOUS HARM.] "Egregious harm" means the
infliction of bodily harm to a child or neglect of a child which
demonstrates a grossly inadequate ability to provide minimally
adequate parental care. The egregious harm need not have
occurred in the state or in the county where a termination of
parental rights action is otherwise properly venued. Egregious
harm includes, but is not limited to:
(1) conduct towards a child that constitutes a violation of
section 609.185 to 609.21, or any other similar law of the
United States or any other state;
(2) the infliction of "substantial bodily harm" to a child,
as defined in section 609.02, subdivision 8;
(3) conduct towards a child that constitutes felony
malicious punishment of a child under section 609.377;
(4) conduct towards a child that constitutes felony
unreasonable restraint of a child under section 609.255,
subdivision 3;
(5) conduct towards a child that constitutes felony neglect
or endangerment of a child under section 609.378;
(6) conduct towards a child that constitutes assault under
sections 609.221, 609.222, or 609.223;
(7) conduct towards a child that constitutes solicitation,
inducement or promotion of prostitution under section 609.322;
or
(8) conduct towards a child that constitutes receiving
profit derived from prostitution under section 609.323.
Sec. 15. Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 260.181,
subdivision 3, is amended to read:
Subd. 3. [PROTECTION OF HERITAGE OR BACKGROUND.] The
policy of the state is to ensure that the best interests of
children are met by requiring due, not sole, consideration of
the child's race or ethnic heritage in foster care placements.
The court, in transferring legal custody of any child or
appointing a guardian for the child under the laws relating to
juvenile courts, shall place the child, in the following order
of preference, in the absence of good cause to the contrary, in
the legal custody or guardianship of an individual who (a) is
the child's relative related to the child by blood, marriage, or
adoption, or if that would be detrimental to the child or a
relative is not available, who (b) is an important friend with
whom the child has resided or had significant contact, or if
that is not possible, who (c) is of the same racial or ethnic
heritage as the child, or if that is not possible, who (c) (d)
is knowledgeable and appreciative of the child's racial or
ethnic heritage. The court may require the county welfare
agency to continue efforts to find a guardian of the child's
racial or ethnic heritage when such a guardian is not
immediately available. For purposes of this subdivision,
"relative" includes members of a child's extended family and
important friends with whom the child has resided or had
significant contact.
If the child's birth parent or parents explicitly request
that the preference described in clause (a) or in clauses (a)
and, (b), or (c) not be followed, the court shall honor that
request if it is consistent with the best interests of the child.
If the child's birth parent or parents express a preference
for placing the child in a foster or adoptive home of the same
or a similar religious background to that of the birth parent or
parents, in following the preferences in clause (a) or, (b), or
(c), the court shall order placement of the child with an
individual who meets the birth parent's religious preference.
Only if no individual is available who is described in clause
(a) or, (b), or (c) may the court give preference to an
individual described in clause (c) (d) who meets the parent's
religious preference.
Sec. 16. Minnesota Statutes 1995 Supplement, section
260.221, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
Subdivision 1. [VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY.] The juvenile
court may upon petition, terminate all rights of a parent to a
child in the following cases:
(a) With the written consent of a parent who for good cause
desires to terminate parental rights; or
(b) If it finds that one or more of the following
conditions exist:
(1) That the parent has abandoned the child. Abandonment
is presumed when:
(i) the parent has had no contact with the child on a
regular basis and no demonstrated, consistent interest in the
child's well-being for six months; and
(ii) the social service agency has made reasonable efforts
to facilitate contact, unless the parent establishes that an
extreme financial or physical hardship or treatment for mental
disability or chemical dependency or other good cause prevented
the parent from making contact with the child. This presumption
does not apply to children whose custody has been determined
under chapter 257 or 518. The court is not prohibited from
finding abandonment in the absence of this presumption; or
(2) That the parent has substantially, continuously, or
repeatedly refused or neglected to comply with the duties
imposed upon that parent by the parent and child relationship,
including but not limited to providing the child with necessary
food, clothing, shelter, education, and other care and control
necessary for the child's physical, mental, or emotional health
and development, if the parent is physically and financially
able, and reasonable efforts by the social service agency have
failed to correct the conditions that formed the basis of the
petition; or
(3) That a parent has been ordered to contribute to the
support of the child or financially aid in the child's birth and
has continuously failed to do so without good cause. This
clause shall not be construed to state a grounds for termination
of parental rights of a noncustodial parent if that parent has
not been ordered to or cannot financially contribute to the
support of the child or aid in the child's birth; or
(4) That a parent is palpably unfit to be a party to the
parent and child relationship because of a consistent pattern of
specific conduct before the child or of specific conditions
directly relating to the parent and child relationship either of
which are determined by the court to be of a duration or nature
that renders the parent unable, for the reasonably foreseeable
future, to care appropriately for the ongoing physical, mental,
or emotional needs of the child. It is presumed that a parent
is palpably unfit to be a party to the parent and child
relationship upon a showing that:
(i) the child was adjudicated in need of protection or
services due to circumstances described in section 260.015,
subdivision 2a, clause (1), (2), (3), (5), or (8); and
(ii) within the three-year period immediately prior to that
adjudication, the parent's parental rights to one or more other
children were involuntarily terminated under clause (1), (2),
(4), or (7), or under clause (5) if the child was initially
determined to be in need of protection or services due to
circumstances described in section 260.015, subdivision 2a,
clause (1), (2), (3), (5), or (8); or
(5) That following upon a determination of neglect or
dependency, or of a child's need for protection or services,
reasonable efforts, under the direction of the court, have
failed to correct the conditions leading to the determination.
It is presumed that reasonable efforts under this clause have
failed upon a showing that:
(i) a child has resided out of the parental home under
court order for more than one year following an adjudication of
dependency, neglect, need for protection or services under
section 260.015, subdivision 2a, clause (1), (2), (3), (6), (8),
or (9), or neglected and in foster care, and an order for
disposition under section 260.191, including adoption of the
case plan required by section 257.071;
(ii) conditions leading to the determination will not be
corrected within the reasonably foreseeable future. It is
presumed that conditions leading to a child's out-of-home
placement will not be corrected in the reasonably foreseeable
future upon a showing that the parent or parents have not
substantially complied with the court's orders and a reasonable
case plan, and the conditions which led to the out-of-home
placement have not been corrected; and
(iii) reasonable efforts have been made by the social
service agency to rehabilitate the parent and reunite the family.
This clause does not prohibit the termination of parental
rights prior to one year after a child has been placed out of
the home.
It is also presumed that reasonable efforts have failed
under this clause upon a showing that:
(i) the parent has been diagnosed as chemically dependent
by a professional certified to make the diagnosis;
(ii) the parent has been required by a case plan to
participate in a chemical dependency treatment program;
(iii) the treatment programs offered to the parent were
culturally, linguistically, and clinically appropriate;
(iv) the parent has either failed two or more times to
successfully complete a treatment program or has refused at two
or more separate meetings with a caseworker to participate in a
treatment program; and
(v) the parent continues to abuse chemicals.
Provided, that this presumption applies only to parents required
by a case plan to participate in a chemical dependency treatment
program on or after July 1, 1990; or
(6) That the parent has been convicted of causing the death
of another of the parent's children a child has experienced
egregious harm in the parent's care which is of a nature,
duration, or chronicity that indicates a lack of regard for the
child's well-being, such that a reasonable person would believe
it contrary to the best interest of the child or of any child to
be in the parent's care; or
(7) That in the case of a child born to a mother who was
not married to the child's father when the child was conceived
nor when the child was born the person is not entitled to notice
of an adoption hearing under section 259.49 and either the
person has not filed a notice of intent to retain parental
rights under section 259.51 or that the notice has been
successfully challenged; or
(8) That the child is neglected and in foster care.
In an action involving an American Indian child, sections 257.35
to 257.3579 and the Indian Child Welfare Act, United States
Code, title 25, sections 1901 to 1923, control to the extent
that the provisions of this section are inconsistent with those
laws.
Sec. 17. Laws 1995, chapter 207, article 1, section 2,
subdivision 4, is amended to read:
Subd. 4. Children's Program 19,860,000 21,453,000
The amounts that may be spent from this
appropriation for each purpose are as
follows:
(a) Children's Trust Fund Grants
247,000 247,000
(b) Families With Children
Services Grants and Administration
1,718,000 1,710,000
(c) Family Service Collaborative Grants
1,000,000 1,500,000
(d) Family Preservation, Family Support,
and Child Protection Grants
8,573,000 8,573,000
(e) Subsidized Adoption Grants
5,587,000 6,688,000
(f) Other Families with Children
Services Grants
2,735,000 2,735,000
[FAMILY SERVICES COLLABORATIVE.] Plans
for the expenditure of funds for family
services collaboratives must be
approved by the children's cabinet
according to criteria in Minnesota
Statutes, section 121.8355. Money
appropriated for these purposes may be
expended in either year of the
biennium. Money appropriated for
family services collaboratives is also
available for start-up funds under
Minnesota Statutes, section 245.492,
subdivision 19, for children's mental
health collaboratives.
[HOME CHOICE PROGRAM.] Of this
appropriation, $75,000 each year must
be used as a grant to the metropolitan
council to support the housing and
related counseling component of the
home choice program.
[FOSTER CARE.] Foster care, as defined
in Minnesota Statutes, section 260.015,
subdivision 7, is not a community
social service as defined in Minnesota
Statutes, section 256E.03, subdivision
2, paragraph (a). This paragraph is
effective the day following final
enactment.
[NEW CHANCE.] Of this appropriation,
$100,000 each year is for a grant to
the New Chance demonstration project
that provides comprehensive services to
young AFDC recipients who became
pregnant as teenagers and dropped out
of high school. The commissioner shall
provide an annual report on the
progress of the demonstration project,
including specific data on participant
outcomes in comparison to a control
group that received no services. The
commissioner shall also include
recommendations on whether strategies
or methods that have proven successful
in the demonstration project should be
incorporated into the STRIDE employment
program for AFDC recipients.
[HIPPY CARRY FORWARD.] $50,000 in
unexpended money appropriated in fiscal
year 1995 for the Home Instruction
Program for Preschool Youngsters
(HIPPY) in Laws 1994, chapter 636,
article 1, section 11, does not cancel
but is available for the same purposes
for fiscal year 1996.
[COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE MATCHING
GRANT.] Of the funds appropriated for
family services collaboratives, $75,000
in fiscal year 1996 shall be used for
the commissioner of human services to
provide a matching grant for community
collaborative projects for children and
youth developed by a regional
organization established under
Minnesota Statutes, section 116N.08, to
receive rural development challenge
grants. The regional organization must
include a broad cross-section of public
and private sector community
representatives to develop programs,
services or facilities to address
specific community needs of children
and youth. The regional organization
must also provide a two-to-one match of
nonstate dollars for this grant.
[INDIAN CHILD WELFARE GRANTS.] $100,000
is appropriated from the general fund
to the commissioner of human services
for the purposes of providing
compliance grants to an Indian child
welfare defense corporation, pursuant
to Minnesota Statutes, section
257.3571, subdivision 2a, to be
available until June 30, 1997.
Sec. 18. [EFFECTIVE DATE.]
Sections 1 to 17 are effective the day following final
enactment.
Presented to the governor March 30, 1996
Signed by the governor April 2, 1996, 12:44 p.m.
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