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Relating to child placements, and making an appropriation
Sponsored by the House Health and Human Services Committee
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 11, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 11, 2025
- Done: House committeeFebruary 25, 2025
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 1003
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became HF 1003 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 1003 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary If a child has lived with a licensed foster parent for at least nine months, a court cannot move them to a new person unless it proves that changing placements is in the child's best interest. The bill also provides money to hire five new employees for the Department of Health and Human Services to help find and notify relatives when a child's custody changes. These new workers will be assigned to different areas of the state to help improve how the department connects children with their families.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to child placements.102(1)(a) (transfer of legal custody of child and placement). If a child was placed with a licensed foster parent for at least nine months immediately preceding the dispositional hearing, the bill prohibits the court from placing the child with a different individual unless the court makes a specific finding that placement with the different individual is in the child’s best interests, and the court provides reasons for the finding.84 (transfer of custody —— notice to adult relatives) requires HHS, juvenile court services, or a private agency to exercise due diligence to identify and provide notice to certain adult relatives of a child if the child’s custody is transferred from the child’s parents. The bill appropriates $275,000 to HHS for FY 2025-2026 for the purpose of adding five HHS employees to perform CPS duties. HHS must assign each employee employed through the appropriation to a separate CPS service area.84.
Changed since by amendments H-8459, S-5004; see Amendments.
House subcommittee
Named March 24, 2025. On March 25, 2025 it recommended passage.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
2 written public comments to its subcommittee: February 17, 2025 (2) · on the Legislature’s site
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