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Why does it seem that every time Michigan puts out a child welfare bill there is no fiscal impact?
Seriously.
I always thought that a fiscal analysis was the most import component of a feasibility study of policy.
I guess that does not hold true for Michigan and this is why I do what I do.
MY POLICY IMPACT ASSESSMENT
(written in the spirit of a high school homework assignment)
Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget is lumped together in a goo gob of legal scrutiny of its operations. Specifically, the State's Department of Health and Human Services is under a federal consent agreement in its child welfare services.
In addition, the State's DHHS is also under the federal and state purview of intense investigation.
The likelihood of any fiscal transparency would not be in the best interest of the administration as it would not maximize revenue of the State to shift into privatized contracted service providers of child welfare who will proceed to make charitable contributions to the child propaganda of Moving Michigan Forward.
This would generate and increase in child abuse reports, create a need to hire more child welfare workers, more contracts, more investigations, more litigation, and the list of wraparound services.
As the State is moving to a more in home, community based service model, education can also be captured into this reporting system to initiate services funded through Medicaid.
Medicaid in child welfare has no oversight, so there must be calculated a risk factor of fraudulent billing.
If the State is going to implement a system of this magnitude, it will need to review and revise its entire Child Welfare Law and policy accoutrements.
Senate OKs $2.6 million online child abuse reporting system
LANSING (AP) — A Michigan department will soon likely have to put together a new $2.6 million online reporting system for child abuse and neglect cases after the state Senate approved legislation that's headed for Gov. Rick Snyder.
The Senate passed the bill 37-1 Tuesday. The bill's Republican sponsor Sen. Judy Emmons of Sheridan says she's hopeful it will end up costing less, but says it's necessary to reduce a backlog of abuse or neglect reports.
A fiscal analysis of the bill says people who come into contact with kids like medical professionals, social workers, counselors and teachers would have to make an immediate phone call to a central state office or create an online report upon hearing of child abuse or neglect.
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Currently, an oral report is mandated that Emmons calls "archaic."
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