1.1 A bill for an act
1.2 relating to child protection; modifying the multidisciplinary child protection team
1.3 and its duties;amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 260E.02, subdivisions
1.4 1, 2, by adding a subdivision.
1.5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.6 Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 260E.02, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
1.7 Subdivision 1.Establishment of team. A county shall establish a multidisciplinary
1.8 child protection team that may include but is not limited to the director of the local welfare
1.9 agency or designees, the county attorney or designees, the county sheriff or designees,
1.10 representatives of health and education, representatives of mental health, representatives of
1.11 agencies providing specialized services or responding to youth who experience or are at
1.12 risk of experiencing sex or labor trafficking or sexual exploitation or whose family members
1.13 have been identified as missing and murdered Indigenous relatives, or other appropriate
1.14 human services, children's services, or community-based agencies, and parent groups. As
1.15 used in this section, a "community-based agency" may include, but is not limited to, schools,
1.16 social services agencies, Tribal social services agencies, family service and mental health
1.17 collaboratives, children's advocacy centers, early childhood and family education programs,
1.18 Head Start, or other agencies serving children and families. A member of the team must be
1.19 designated as the lead person of the team responsible for the planning process to develop
1.20 standards for the team's activities with battered women's and domestic abuse programs and
1.21 services.
2.1 Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 260E.02, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
2.2 Subd. 2.Duties of team. A multidisciplinary child protection team may provide public
2.3 and professional education, develop resources for prevention, intervention, and treatment,
2.4 and provide case consultation to the local welfare agency or other interested community-based
2.5 agencies. The community-based agencies may request case consultation from the
2.6 multidisciplinary child protection team regarding a child or family for whom the
2.7 community-based agency is providing services. As used in this section, "case consultation"
2.8 means a case review process in which recommendations are made concerning services to
2.9 be provided to the identified children and family. Case consultation may be performed by
2.10 a committee or subcommittee of members representing human services or children's services,
2.11 including mental health and substance use disorder providers; law enforcement, including
2.12 probation and parole; Tribal law enforcement; the county attorney; a children's advocacy
2.13 center; health care; education; community-based agencies and other necessary agencies;
2.14 and persons directly involved in an individual case as designated by other members
2.15 performing case consultation.
2.16 Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 260E.02, is amended by adding a subdivision to
2.17 read:
2.18 Subd. 3a.Missing and murdered Indigenous relatives. A multidisciplinary child
2.19 protection team may assist the local welfare agency, the local law enforcement agency, or
2.20 an appropriate private organization in developing a responsive program for youth who are
2.21 at risk of going missing or being murdered, or whose family member has been identified
2.22 as a missing and murdered Indigenous relative. At least one representative of a nonprofit
2.23 agency serving youth who are at risk of going missing or being murdered, or an agency
2.24 serving families with missing and murdered Indigenous relatives, shall be appointed to and
2.25 serve on the multidisciplinary child protection team in addition to the standing members of
2.26 the team.
