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TN Code § 37-2-208 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 2 - County Department of Children's Services Act of 1979|§ 37-2-208. Authority to Appropriate Funds

 The county legislative body is hereby authorized to appropriate funds for the operation of the county department of children's services.
TN Code § 37-2-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-301. Authority to Provide

 Counties, through their county legislative bodies, are authorized and empowered to set up subsidized receiving homes for the care of dependent, neglected or abandoned children, or children without proper parental care or guardianship, whenever an order is made by proper resolution duly adopted by a majority of the members constituting the legislative body and placed on the minutes of the legislative body.
TN Code § 37-2-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-302. Appropriations and Tax Levy for Subsidizing Homes

 County legislative bodies are authorized and empowered to appropriate from funds on hand not otherwise appropriated, such sums as the legislative body may deem necessary to subsidize such homes and to furnish board and care for children committed to such homes as provided in § 37-2-314; or the legislative bodies may levy a tax on property to meet such appropriations. These sums shall be paid by warrant drawn on the county treasury when proper invoice or bill has been audited and approved by the county mayor or the county mayor's designated agent.
TN Code § 37-2-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-303. State's Contribution to Cost of Subsidizing Homes

 The state of Tennessee, through the department of human services, shall set up a grant in aid fund in the support of every licensed receiving home in the amount of fifty percent (50%) of the cost of subsidizing the home and fifty percent (50%) of the boarding care and special needs of any child placed in the home as provided in § 37-2-314.
TN Code § 37-2-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-304. Rules and Regulations of Department of Human Services

 The department of human services is empowered and directed to promulgate and enforce such rules and regulations for the conduct of all such receiving homes as shall be necessary to effect the purpose of this part and other laws of the state relating to children and safeguard the well being of all children kept therein.
TN Code § 37-2-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-305. Inspection and License by Department of Human Services Required

 No home in any county shall be approved as a county receiving home until it has been inspected and licensed by the department of human services, and such license shall not be issued for a period longer than one (1) year.
TN Code § 37-2-306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-306. Licensed Home Requirements — Approval by Health and Fire Prevention Departments

 No such license shall be issued unless the premises are in a fit sanitary condition, and the home is equipped and staffed to provide properly for the physical, social, moral, mental, educational and religious needs of all children kept therein. The application for such license shall have been approved by the department of health and the fire prevention division of the department of commerce and insurance.
TN Code § 37-2-307 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-307. Contents of License — Limitation on Number of Children

 The license shall state the name of the licensee, the particular premises in which the business may be carried on, and the number of children, not to exceed eight (8), that may be properly boarded or cared for therein at any one time.
TN Code § 37-2-308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-308. Record of License Kept by Department of Human Services and County Mayor

 A record of the license so issued shall be kept by the department of human services and by the county mayor of the county in which the home is located.
TN Code § 37-2-309 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-309. License Must Be Maintained on Premises

 Such license shall be kept and maintained upon the premises at all times and exhibited upon request of any member of the general public or representative of the state, county or municipal government.
TN Code § 37-2-310 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-310. Revocation of License

 Any license issued under this part may be revoked by the department of human services acting through the commissioner. The department shall notify the licensee thirty (30) days prior to revoking any license stating the reasons for revocation. A copy of the notice shall be sent to the county mayor of the county in which the home is located. Thirty (30) days after the issuance of the notice the department, by its agent, shall visit the home and, if the reasons set out in the notice for revoking the license have been corrected, the license shall not be revoked; but if the reasons set out in the notice have not been corrected, the license may be revoked by the department acting through the commissioner after an opportunity for a fair hearing before the commissioner or the commissioner's duly designated representative, the juvenile judge and the county attorney.
TN Code § 37-2-311 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-311. License Necessary to Receive Child or Subsidy Therefor

 No person shall receive a child for care in any such home or receive any payment for subsidy or for board or special needs of any child unless it has an unrevoked license issued by the department of human services within twelve (12) months preceding the payment of such subsidy or the placement of such child.
TN Code § 37-2-312 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-312. Contract With Licensed Receiving Homes — Terms

 The county mayor and the department of human services, through its designated agent, shall enter into a written contract with each licensed receiving home, the contract to state the amount of subsidy to be paid for each bed, the number of beds to be available at all times, and the monthly, weekly and daily amount to be paid for the board of each child placed in the home, and such special needs and the amounts of each that may be provided for each child placed in the home.
TN Code § 37-2-313 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-313. Quarterly Reports Made by County to Department of Human Services

 Each county maintaining a subsidized receiving home shall submit to the department of human services by the tenth of each month or the first of each quarter, that is, January, April, July, and October, respectively, an itemized statement of the cost of subsidizing each licensed receiving home, and an itemized statement of the boarding care and special needs provided each child placed in the home during the preceding month or quarter. Within thirty (30) days after receipt of the statement, the department shall reimburse the county in the amount of fifty percent (50%) of the statement, so long as the cost of the subsidy, boarding care and special needs of any one (1) child does not exceed the amount specified in the contract entered into by the county, the department and the receiving home.
TN Code § 37-2-314 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-314. Commitment of Children to Homes

 Any dependent, neglected or abandoned child or any child without proper parental care or guardianship shall be received in the home by commitment of the juvenile judge wherever the juvenile judge's jurisdiction permits, upon a judgment or decree entered in the court showing that the child is dependent, neglected or abandoned or without proper parental care or guardianship, or is likely to become a public charge.
TN Code § 37-2-315 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-315. Period of Commitment

 The period of commitment to the home shall be for such time as may be fixed by the juvenile judge, in the order of commitment, pending social study and planning for the best interest of each child committed, but of not longer than the majority of the child.
TN Code § 37-2-316 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-316. Case Record Kept on Each Child

 The county office of the department of human services shall prepare a case record on each child committed under the provisions of this part and shall furnish the juvenile judge with a summary of the record, who shall preserve the record in a well-bound book.
TN Code § 37-2-317 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-317. Investigation by Department of Human Services

 The department of human services, by its agents, has the power to enter, visit and investigate any licensed receiving home at any and all reasonable times without prior notice of its intentions so to do.
TN Code § 37-2-318 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-318. Exceeding Number of Children Authorized Prohibited — Keeping Children in Place Not Designated in License Prohibited

 No greater number of children shall be kept at any one time on the licensed premises than is authorized by the license, and no child shall be kept in a building or place not designated in the license.
TN Code § 37-2-319 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 3 - Subsidized Receiving Homes|§ 37-2-319. Violation of Part — False Statements or Reports — Penalty

 Any person who violates this part or the regulations promulgated by the department of human services by direction of this part or who willfully makes any false statements or reports to the department or the county mayor, or both, of any county with reference to any matter embraced by this part commits a Class A misdemeanor.
TN Code § 37-2-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 4 - Foster Care|§ 37-2-401. Legislative Intent — Construction of Part

  The primary purpose of this part is to protect children from unnecessary separation from parents who will give them good homes and loving care, to protect them from needless prolonged placement in foster care and the uncertainty it provides, and to provide them a reasonable assurance that, if an early return to the care of their parents is not possible, they will be placed in a permanent home at an early date.   The secondary purpose of this part is to provide a mechanism to monitor the care of children in foster care to ensure that everything reasonably possible is being done to achieve a permanent plan for the child.   When a parent by such parent's actions or failure to act fails to fulfill such parent's responsibilities as a parent, the court shall consider such conduct in determining whether to terminate parental rights, regardless of whether the parent intended such parent's conduct to constitute a relinquishment or forfeiture of such parent's parental rights. When the interests of a child and those of an adult are in conflict, such conflict is to be resolved in favor of a child, and to these ends this part shall be liberally construed.
TN Code § 37-2-404 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 4 - Foster Care|§ 37-2-404. Progress Report to Court or Review Board — Review of Permanency Plan

  In addition to the plan required in § 37-2-403, the department or agency shall submit to the appropriate court or foster care review board a report for each child in its foster care on progress made in achieving the goals set out in the plan. Such reports shall be prepared by the department or agency having custody of the child within ninety (90) days of the date of foster care placement and no less frequently than every six (6) months thereafter for so long as the child remains in foster care. At the time the progress report is provided to the court or foster care review board, the department or agency shall also provide a copy of the report to the child's parent(s) whose rights have not been terminated or surrendered, the parent's attorney, the guardian ad litem and/or attorney for the child, and the child who is a party to the proceeding.   Within ninety (90) days of the date of foster care placement and no less often than every six (6) months thereafter for so long as the child remains in foster care, the court or foster care review board shall review the plan for each child in foster care. Notice of this review and the right to attend and participate in the review shall be provided to the child's parent(s) whose rights have not been terminated or surrendered, the parent's attorney, the guardian ad litem and/or attorney for the child, foster parents, prospective adoptive parent, relative providing care for the child and the child who is a party to the proceeding. The department and the court shall develop adequate procedures to provide notice of the review to the aforementioned persons. The court or board shall review the safety, permanency and wellbeing of the child by assessing the necessity and appropriateness of continued foster care placement, the appropriateness of services for the child, the compliance of all parties to the statement of responsibilities, the extent of progress in alleviating or mitigating the causes necessitating placement in foster care and in achieving the goals contained in the permanency plan, and project a likely date on which the goal of the plan will be achieved.
TN Code § 37-2-405 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 4 - Foster Care|§ 37-2-405. Adoption of Guidelines

 The department of children's services may, by regulation, adopt and prepare additional guidelines for the plans required of agencies; however, no such guidelines shall apply to a licensed child care agency if not applicable to the department. All plans established for the child shall contain at least the following:   The purpose for which the child has been placed in foster care;   The estimated length of time in which the purpose of foster care will be accomplished;   The description of services that are to be provided in order for the purpose of foster care to be accomplished, including those services to be provided to the family; and   The person within the department or agency who is directly responsible for assuring that the plan is implemented.
TN Code § 37-2-407 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 4 - Foster Care|§ 37-2-407. Department of Children's Services — Duties

 The department of children's services shall prepare suggestions for review procedures that may be used by each advisory review board. Such suggested procedures may provide a basis for uniform review procedure throughout this state.
TN Code § 37-2-408 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 4 - Foster Care|§ 37-2-408. Confidentiality of Plans and Records

  All records, reports, permanency plans, reviews and reports of the foster care review boards or any material prepared in connection with the planning, placement or care of a child in the care or custody of the department of children's services or in foster care with any agency or person pursuant to this part, shall be confidential and shall not be a public record and shall be disclosed only for the purposes directly related to the administration of this part, or as permitted pursuant to the provisions of § 37-1-409 or § 37-1-612, or as otherwise determined by the department of children's services to be reasonably necessary or reasonably required and as directly related to the provision of any services needed by the child.   A violation of this section is a Class B misdemeanor.
TN Code § 37-2-410 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 4 - Foster Care|§ 37-2-410. Rehearing — Modification of Order

 Any interested person, at any time while the child is under the jurisdiction of the court, may file a petition, in writing and under oath, for a rehearing upon all matters coming within this part, and upon rehearing, the court may, consistent with §§  37-1-129(c) and 37-2-403(d), modify or set aside any order so reviewed.
TN Code § 37-2-411 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 4 - Foster Care|§ 37-2-411. Annual Report on Foster Care — Confidentiality of Report — Injunction and Action for Damages

  Each year the department of children's services shall prepare and issue a report on foster care in Tennessee. The report shall include an analysis, evaluation or estimate, as appropriate, of the following, on a statewide basis:  The number of children in foster care;   The amount of funds expended by federal, state and local governments for maintenance payments to foster parents, group homes and institutes;   The amount of funds expended by federal, state and local governments on services to foster children and their natural parents or guardians;   The types of services being offered to parents and their children in order to keep the family together;   The number of foster children eligible for adoption, the number of such children adopted, and the number of foster children determined not to be adoptable and the reasons therefor;   The number of foster children placed in a planned permanent living arrangement or guardianship;   The size of caseloads of probation officers and social workers, the effect such caseloads have on the services offered to parents or their children, and the effectiveness of such services;   The movement of foster children within the program from placement to placement;   The foster care-related qualifications, education, and in-service training of social workers and probation officers who handle such cases; and   Any other matters relating to foster children that the department deems appropriate to be included in the report. The report shall be published as part of the department's annual report required by § 37-5-105(4).     All personal information and records obtained by the department pursuant to this section shall be confidential and may not be disclosed in this report in a way that could identify any individual, adult or child, in foster care or receiving assistance from the department or other child care agency.   Any person may bring an action against an individual who has willingly and knowingly released confidential information or records concerning such person in violation of this section, for the greater of the following amounts:  Five hundred dollars ($500); or   Three (3) times the amount of actual damages, if any, sustained by the plaintiff.     Any person may bring an action to enjoin the release of confidential information or records in violation of this part, and may in the same action seek damages as provided in this section. It is not a prerequisite to an action under this section that the plaintiff suffer or be threatened with actual damages.
TN Code § 37-2-412 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 4 - Foster Care|§ 37-2-412. Smoke Detectors Required in Foster Care Dwellings

  As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, “approved smoke detector” means a device that senses visible or invisible particles of combustion and has been investigated and listed in accordance with standards prescribed by:  A nationally recognized and approved independent testing agency laboratory, such as Underwriters' Laboratories' Standard for Single and Multiple Station Smoke Detectors (UL 217); or   An agency authorized to make independent inspections by the state fire marshal.     No person, agency, institution or home, whether public or private, shall:  Provide foster care services within any dwelling unless an approved smoke detector is installed and maintained within such dwelling by the person, agency, institution or home. When activated, the detector shall initiate an alarm that is audible in the sleeping rooms of the dwelling; or   Tamper with or remove any smoke detector required by this section, or a component thereof.     All smoke detectors required by this section:  Shall be installed in accordance with the manufacturer's directions, unless they conflict with applicable law; and   May be wired directly (hardwired) to the building's power supply, powered by a self-monitored battery, or operated with a plug-in outlet fitted with a plug restrainer device, provided the outlet is not controlled by any switch other than the main power supply.     Compliance with this section shall not relieve any person, agency, institution or home from the requirements of any other applicable law, ordinance, rule or regulation. Nothing in this section shall be construed to be in derogation of § 68-120-111.    The department of children's services shall enforce this section only for its own foster homes or for agencies that it licenses pursuant to chapter 5, part 5 of this title, and it shall periodically undertake appropriate activities to encourage and ensure compliance.   Any violations noted by the department as a result of its inspections of child care agencies pursuant to § 37-5-513 shall be processed in the manner prescribed in that section.   The provisions of this section as it applies to persons, agencies, institutions or homes licensed by any other departments of this state to provide foster care for children shall be enforced by those departments. Those departments shall periodically undertake appropriate activities to encourage and ensure compliance.
TN Code § 37-2-413 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 37 - Juveniles|Chapter 2 - Placement of Juveniles|Part 4 - Foster Care|§ 37-2-413. Department Rulemaking to Comply With Federal Regulations

  The department of children's services is authorized to adopt mandatory rules binding on the courts and agencies subject to this part to implement the provisions of any changes in federal law relative to compliance with any foster care review processes set forth in federal law.   Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the department shall have authority to implement any rules that may be required pursuant to subsection (a) by emergency rules to be effective immediately upon approval by the attorney general and reporter and filing with the office of the secretary of state; provided, that any permanent rules must follow the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, part 2.