Allows prospective and current agency personnel receive certification through remote training methods

Added explicit authorization for courses to be completed via distance learning methods, requiring proof of attendance and interaction with instructors.

Authorized counties to adopt local laws, ordinances, or resolutions to allow local social services departments to fulfill training requirements through distance learning.

Modified the scope of remote training eligibility by explicitly excluding the annual in-service training requirement from the new distance learning provisions.

Changed the effective date of the act from ninety days after enactment to immediate effect.

Set a future start date of April 1, 2027, for the implementation of the new distance learning course completion rules.