KRS 620.180: Administrative regulations.

(1) The cabinet may promulgate administrative regulations to implement the

provisions of this chapter. The cabinet may also promulgate administrative

regulations pursuant to the requirements of Public Law 96-272 as to the

maximum number of children who at any time during a fiscal year, will remain

in foster care after having been in such care for a period in excess of

twenty-four (24) months, together with the steps to be taken to achieve such

goal.

(2) The cabinet shall promulgate administrative regulations to provide the

following:

(a) The method used to periodically review the status of children placed in

foster family homes which shall include, but not be limited to, the

following:

1. Within ten (10) calendar days of the temporary removal hearing

provided for in this chapter, a case conference shall be held on all

children placed with the cabinet for the purpose of establishing a

specific treatment plan which may include preventive and

reunification services for the child and his parent or other person

exercising custodial control or supervision. Additional case

conferences and reviews shall be held as appropriate, but shall be

held at least every six (6) months. The parent or other person

exercising custodial control or supervision and his counsel, if any,

shall have the right to be present at and participate in such

conferences. The child; the child's attorney, if any; the parent or

other person exercising custodial control or supervision and his

attorney of record, if any; and the county attorney shall be notified

of, and may be present at and participate in such conferences;

2. On-going case work and supportive services shall be provided as

indicated to best meet the needs of the child as established by the

review and planning process; and

3. There may be procedures for providing for appropriate visitation

between the parents and the child based on the needs of the child;

(b) The procedures for reporting to a committing court the status and plans

for children committed to the cabinet as dependent, neglected or abused

and placed in foster family homes;

(c) By January 1, 2019, the establishment and implementation of the

processes, procedures, and requirements to ensure that children

committed to the cabinet as dependent, neglected, or abused and placed

in foster family homes are timely reunified with their biological family or

identified for and placed in a new permanent home. These processes,

procedures, and requirements shall include but not be limited to the

following:

1. A case review and recommendation submitted to the committing

court related to whether the best interest of the child is reunification

or termination of parental rights after the child has been committed

to the cabinet a total of six (6) cumulative months;

2. An additional case review and recommendation submitted to the

committing court every three (3) cumulative months after the initial

six (6) months if a child is still in the custody of the cabinet;

3. A petition to the court of appropriate jurisdiction seeking the

termination of parental rights and authority to place the child for

adoption in accordance with this chapter and KRS Chapter 625 no

later than after a child has been committed to the cabinet for a total

of fifteen (15) cumulative months out of forty-eight (48) months; and

4. A plan to ensure, no longer than thirty (30) working days after a

court enters a judgment of termination of parental rights to a child

that is committed to the cabinet, that the cabinet shall complete and

submit to the court all necessary paperwork to facilitate the child's

permanency plan, including but not limited to the presentation

summary and identification of an adoptive home if determined; and

(d) By October 1, 2019, the establishment and implementation of the

processes, procedures, and requirements to ensure that children

committed to the cabinet as dependent, neglected, or abused and placed

in qualified residential treatment facilities are subject to case reviews

within sixty (60) days of the start of each placement in accordance with 42

U.S.C. sec. 675a(c)(2).