Interagency committee to evaluate child welfare system in this State: Authority of Director of Department of Human Services to create; appointment of members; duties; biennial report

1. The Director of the Department of Human Services may create an interagency committee to evaluate the child welfare system in this State. Any such evaluation must include, without limitation, a review of state laws to ensure that the state laws comply with federal law and to ensure that the state laws reflect the current practices of each agency which provides child welfare services and others involved in the child welfare system. 2. The Director may appoint as many members to the interagency committee as the Director deems appropriate except that the members of such a committee must include, without limitation, at least one person to represent: (a) Each agency which provides child welfare services; (b) The Department of Education; (c) The juvenile justice system; (d) Law enforcement; and (e) Providers of treatment or services for persons in the child welfare system. 3. The interagency committee created pursuant to subsection 1 shall, on or before January 1 of each odd-numbered year after it is created, submit to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau a written report for transmittal to the Chairs of the Assembly and Senate Standing Committees on the Judiciary and the Chairs of the Assembly and Senate Standing Committees on Health and Human Services.