0:01 → 1:03(1m 2s)
Chair calls the meeting to order, thanks staff helpers Blake and Sheila, and Representative Feit invites members to the Capitol "Christmas at the Capitol" toy drive for children in foster care and DYS services at 10:00 after the meeting.
Committee reviewed multiple DHS/DCFS and DYS rule packets and reports: an overturned investigations spreadsheet, the quarterly performance report (exhibit K) with foster care and caseload metrics, licensing updates to comply with Act 530 (child care licensing), DYS operational manual updates including dyslexia screening and termination-of-pregnancy language, rule changes on prenatal drug exposure referrals (CAPTA), trial home placement rules, expansion of subsidized guardianship to include fictive kin, and procedural requirements for central registry reviews. Members requested future dyslexia reporting and raised questions about caseloads, sibling placement and guardianship funding/eligibility.
