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Committee backs first-step reforms to prevent youth runaways from residential treatment centers
Summary
Senate Bill 151 requires residential childcare facilities to adopt written run/absence protocols, provide those policies to parents at admission, and notify guardians within four hours when a youth is missing. The House Health & Human Services Committee voted unanimously to send the bill to the Committee of the Whole.
The House Health & Human Services Committee unanimously advanced Senate Bill 151, a package of initial reforms from the Timothy Montoya task force aimed at reducing runaways and improving response when youth leave residential treatment facilities.
The bill requires each residential childcare facility to develop a written, trauma‑informed policy that explains how the facility will respond when a young person attempts to run or goes missing. Facilities must provide a copy of that policy to parents or legal guardians at admission. The bill also requires facilities to notify a parent, custodian or legal guardian within four hours after a youth is missing from care.
Sponsors said the measure implements the task force’s immediate, non‑fiscal…
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