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Committee adopts amendment and advances bill to bar child protection screening when lack of services prevents safe return home
Summary
House File 16 14 would codify a 2023 policy that lack of available children's mental health services is not parental neglect and should not, by itself, trigger a child protection screen‑in; the committee adopted a DE1 amendment and re‑referred the bill.
Representative Kraft presented House File 16 14, a bill that would put into statute an existing 2023 policy and clarify that counties should not screen families into child protection when parents are actively seeking services but lack timely access to appropriate children's mental health care or placement options. The sponsor and several testifiers said the change is intended to prevent parents from being blamed or threatened with child protection reports when service capacity is not available.
Testimony included personal…
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