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Senate approves companion juvenile-code bills to ease reinstatement and narrow maltreatment registry entries
Summary
SB 325 and SB 326 passed the Senate after sponsors said the measures give parents additional avenues to request reinstatement of parental rights, shorten timelines and narrow child-maltreatment registry entries when reunification succeeds.
The Arkansas Senate on March 25 approved two companion bills, SB 325 and SB 326, aimed at reforming juvenile-code procedures and the child-maltreatment registry. Sponsors presented the package as technically focused changes meant to help children languishing in the system and to limit registry entries when reunification has been successful.
Sponsor Senator Clark told colleagues that SB 325 would allow parents whose parental rights were terminated an additional option to petition for reinstatement earlier…
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