Allows nonprofit limited liability companies to apply for child-placing agency licenses, modifies child care background study timing, and updates.

The bill allows nonprofit limited liability companies to apply for a license to be a child-placing agency. It modifies the timing for conducting child care background studies, exempting certain programs from these requirements. The bill also updates provisions related to foster care, child placement, and child maltreatment, including preferences for relative placement for African American or disproportionately represented children and requirements for monthly caseworker visits for children in foster care.

Allows nonprofit limited liability companies to apply for child-placing agency licenses, modifies child care background study timing, and updates.

The bill allows nonprofit limited liability companies to apply for a license to be a child-placing agency. It modifies the timing for conducting child care background studies, exempting certain programs from these requirements. The bill also updates provisions related to foster care, child placement, and child maltreatment, including preferences for relative placement for African American or disproportionately represented children and requirements for monthly caseworker visits for children in foster care.