Special Committee on Adoption and Termination of Parental Law
Chair: Rep. Suzanne Jeskewitz
Legislative Council Staff: Anne Sappenfield and Laura Rose
Member List The special committee is directed to study
current law relating to adoption and termination of parental rights
(TPR) to determine whether modifications could be made to encourage
adoptions in Wisconsin and to make the adoption and TPR processes
more efficient and more cost effective. The committee shall
consider creating a state tax credit for adoption expenses. The
committee shall also study TPR and adoption in the context of the
child welfare system to ensure compliance with federal law and that
permanency is achieved for children as quickly as possible.
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WLC: 0026/3, relating to fair hearings for head
of foster, treatment foster, or group home
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WLC: 0033/2, relating to involuntary termination
of parental rights ground of continuing need of
protection and services
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WLC: 0038/4, relating to declarations of
paternal interest
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WLC: 0045/2, relating to specifying that
evidentiary privilege does not apply to statements
made by a parent during the course of an alcohol and
drug abuse assessment or a mental, physical,
psychological or developmental examination of the
parent in a termination of parental rights
proceeding
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WLC: 0087/2, relating to advertising related to
adoption
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WLC: 0088/2, relating to involuntary termination
of parental rights on the grounds of continuing need
of protection or services
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WLC: 0094/2, relating to training for
prospective adoptive parents
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WLC: 0114/1, relating to enlargement of time for
filing a notice of appeal in a termination of
parental rights proceeding
- WLC:
0128/1, relating to requiring voluntary
agreement for child placement or a guardianship
order to remain in effect during the pendency of a
termination of parental rights proceedings
- WLC:
0130/1, relating to hearing to review agency
decision of order affecting placement of a child
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WLC: 0026/2, relating to fair hearings for head
of foster, treatment foster, or group home.
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WLC: 0028/2, relating to filing of notice of
intent to appeal.
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WLC: 0030/2, relating to creating a time limit
for collateral attack on termination of parental
rights judgment.
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WLC: 0038/3, relating to declarations of
paternal interest.
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WLC: 0044/2, relating to the role of a guardian
ad litem appointed for a parent in a contested
termination of parental rights proceeding involving
a child found to be in need of protection or
services.
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WLC: 0087/1, relating to advertising related to
adoption.
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WLC: 0088/1, relating to involuntary termination
of parental rights on the grounds of continuing need
of protection or services.
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WLC: 0091/1, relating to posttermination of
parental rights contact between a child and the
child's birth parents, birth siblings, and other
birth relatives.
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WLC: 0092/1, relating to notice that a person
receiving child welfare services has changed his or
her county of residence.
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WLC: 0094/1, relating to training for
prospective adoptive parents.
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WLC: 0095/1, relating to indigency
determinations made by the state public defender in
termination of parental rights proceedings.
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WLC: 0098/1, relating to continuing
representation of a person in a termination of
parental rights proceeding.
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WLC: 0103/1, relating to requiring the court to
advise a part of time limits in termination of
parental rights proceedings.
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Draft letter to Secretary Helene Nelson,
Department of Health and Family Services.
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Draft letter to Representative Curt Gielow,
Chair, Assembly Committee on Medicaid Reform.
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Draft letter to A. John Voelker, Director,
Director of State Courts Office.
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Memorandum, from Attorney Judith Sperling-Newton.
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Email, from Marcia MacKenzie, Dane County
Corporation Counsel.
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- WLC:
0015/2, relating to involuntary termination of
parental rights based upon failure to assume
parental responsibility.
- WLC:
0033/1, relating to involuntary termination of
parental rights ground of continuing need of
protection and services.
- WLC:
0032/1, relating to involuntary termination of
parental rights on the ground that the child is in
need of protection or services and that parental
rights to another child have been terminated.
- WLC:
0034/1, relating to creating involuntary
termination of parental rights ground of continuing
incarceration.
- WLC:
0035/1, relating to notice of a termination of
parental rights proceeding to parents of a child
whose custody was relinquished.
- WLC:
0038/2, relating to declarations of paternal
interest.
- WLC:
0040/1, relating to permitting a parent who is
unable to appear in person at a hearing on the
voluntary termination of his or her parental rights
to give consent by telephone or live audiovisual
means.
- WLC:
0043/1, relating to requiring a person to file a
notice of abandonment of appeal within 30 days after
service of the transcript in a termination of
parental rights case.
- WLC:
0044/1, relating to the role of a guardian ad
litem appointed for a parent in a contested
termination of parental rights proceeding involving
a child found to be in need of protection or
services.
- WLC:
0045/1, relating to specifying that evidentiary
privilege does not apply to statements made by a
parent during the course of an alcohol and drug
abuse assessment or a mental, physical,
psychological or developmental examination of the
parent in a termination of parental rights
proceeding.
- WLC:
0070/1, relating to grounds for involuntary
termination of parental rights.
- WLC:
0071/1, relating to permitting adoptees to
obtain access to medical and genetic and identifying
information about their birth siblings.
- WLC:
0073/1, relating to specifying the Milwaukee
child welfare agency’s right to appeal
administrative hearing decisions on licensure of a
foster home or treatment foster home.
- WLC:
0074/1, relating to permitting placement of a
child in the home of a proposed adoptive parent or
parents who live out-of-state.
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Draft letter to Secretary Helene Nelson,
Department of Health and Family Services.
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Letter, from Senator Tom Reynolds, dated October
13, 2004.
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Email, from John Talis, dated November 18, 2004.
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Memorandum,
Legal Action of Wisconsin, Inc. Concerns, from Bob Anderson, League Action of
Wisconsin, Inc., dated December 3, 2004.
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Memorandum,
Statistics Regarding TPR Jury Trials and Court Trials in TPR
Cases, dated December 14, 2004 ,from Joseph Ehmann
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Memorandum,
Judicial Council Appellate Procedure Committee
Requests, from Joseph Ehmann, Judicial Council
Appellate Procedure Committee Requests, dated
December 14, 2004
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Memo No. 5,
Definition of “Relative” Following a Termination of
Parental Rights (10-4-04)
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Memo No. 6,
Adoption and Post-Adoption Financial and Other
Assistance
(10-5-04)
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Enclosure, Midwest Evaluation of the Adult
Functioning of Former Foster Youth: Conditions
of Youth Preparing to Leave State Care
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Memo No. 7, Summary
of the October 4, 2004 Meeting of the Birth Father
Registry Working Group (10-13-04)
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WLC: 0015/1,
relating to involuntary termination of parental
rights based upon failure to assume parental
responsibility
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WLC: 0016/1, relating to adoption expenses
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WLC: 0026/1, relating to fair hearings for head
of foster, treatment foster, or group home
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WLC: 0027/1, relating to prohibiting visitation
prior to termination of parental rights
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WLC:
0028/1, relating to filing of notice of intent
to appeal
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WLC: 0029/1, relating to false statements in the
course of a termination of parental rights
proceeding and providing a penalty
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WLC: 0030/1, relating to creating a time limit
for bringing a collateral attack against a judgment
terminating parental rights
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Facts and Procedural Status, submitted by Public
Member Christopher Foley (undated)
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Memorandum, Declarations of Paternal Interest;
Abandonment and Failure to Assume Parental
Responsibility, submitted by Public Member
Christopher Foley (9-22-04)
- Presentation by Representative David Ward
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Memorandum, Legislative Changes Necessary to
Allow Compliance with ASFA and The Federal Lawsuit
Consent Decree, submitted by Mary Sowinski,
Assistant District Attorney, Milwaukee County
(10-13-04)
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Testimony and enclosures,
Adoption Assistance Amendments, presented by Dale W.
Langer, Bureau of Programs and Policies, Division of
Children and Family Services, Department of Health
and Family Services
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Memo No. 1,
Declarations of Paternal Interest
(9-2-04)
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Memo No. 2, 2003-04
Legislation on Adoption Tax Credits
(9-2-04)
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Memo No. 3, Legislation Introduced by the 1996
Joint Legislative Council Special Committee on
Adoption Laws (9-7-04)
- Report
No. 4, Legislation on Adoption Laws,
Adoption Assistance and Long-Term
Kinship Care (12-3-97) (Enclosed with Memo No.
3)
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Memo No. 4, Options
for Legislation Relating to Termination of Parental
Rights
(9-8-04)
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Memorandum, Possible Discussion Points for
Chapter 48, submitted by Public Member Patrick
Kenney (8-28-04)
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List of Proposals, submitted by Public Member
Mary Jane Proft (undated).
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List of Proposals, submitted by Public Member
Stephen Hayes
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Staff Brief 04-1,
Adoption and Termination of Parental Rights Law
(8-17-04)
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Testimony, Elizabeth Schaefer, Director of
Adoption Services, Lutheran Social Services
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Outline for Panel Presentation, Department of
Health and Family Services
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Testimony, Pre
TPR Special Needs Adoption Process, Denise Revels Robinson and
Catherine Swessel
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Testimony,
Ongoing Case Management (OCM) and Adoption, Denise Revels Robinson and
Catherine Swessel
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Testimony,
Post TPR Special Needs Adoption Process, Denise Revels Robinson and
Catherine Swessel
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Testimony,
Adoption and TPR Related Items From the Children
and Family Services Review Program Enhancement
Plan, Mark D. Campbell, Director,
Bureau of Programs and Policies
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Testimony,
Special Needs Adoption Program, Mark D. Campbell, Director,
Bureau of Programs and Policies
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Testimony,
Background on the Concept of Permanence, Mark S. Mitchell, Manager, Child
Welfare Policy Development Section
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