Nebraska Downsizes their Foster Care Review Committee

They actually don’t have the committee yet.  Appointments have to be made by July 31, 2012 and the first committee report is due in September. Good luck on that one.

“The Nebraska Foster Care Review office made a shift July 1 to a new interim director, name change and smaller advisory committee.

The 11-member Foster Care Review Board was dissolved by a new law (LB998) and replaced with a five-member advisory board that will include three members selected from the 46 local foster care review boards across the state, one member with data analysis experience and one member from the public at large.

Gov. Dave Heineman will appoint the members from a list of names forwarded to him by the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee.

The committee has not yet been appointed, because the names were not forwarded to the governor until less than two weeks ago, said committee Chairwoman Kathy Campbell of Lincoln. The Legislature will have to confirm the appointments.

The governor has 30 days from July 1 to make the initial appointments.”

New Foster Care Review office kicks in, but no advisiory committee yet

[Journal Star 7/3/12 by JoAnne Young]

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