housing, furnishings, income, clothing and medical care
if found to be beyond the control of the parent[.]; or
(ii) parental incarceration.
(3) With respect to any petition filed pursuant to
subsection (a)(1), (6) or (8), the court shall not consider
any efforts by the parent to remedy the conditions described
therein which are first initiated subsequent to the giving of
notice of the filing of the petition.
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Section 2. Section 6351(f)(9) of Title 42 is amended to
read:
§ 6351. Disposition of dependent child.
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(f) Matters to be determined at permanency hearing.--At each
permanency hearing, a court shall determine all of the
following:
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(9) If the child has been in placement for at least 15
of the last 22 months or the court has determined that
aggravated circumstances exist and that reasonable efforts to
prevent or eliminate the need to remove the child from the
child's parent, guardian or custodian or to preserve and
reunify the family need not be made or continue to be made,
whether the county agency has filed or sought to join a
petition to terminate parental rights and to identify,
recruit, process and approve a qualified family to adopt the
child unless any of the following provisions apply:
(i) [the] The child is being cared for by a relative
best suited to the physical, mental and moral welfare of
the child[;].
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