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Bill would expand Child Advocacy Centers to serve children who witness violence
Summary
Representative Raquel Goodman told the Senate Human Services Committee on March 17 that House Bill 1028 would explicitly allow Children’s Advocacy Centers to serve children who witness or are exposed to violence and would authorize confidential peer review of closed forensic interview recordings.
Representative Raquel Goodman testified before the Senate Human Services Committee on March 17 about House Bill 1028, which would expand the statutory scope of Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) to explicitly include children who have witnessed or been exposed to violence. Allison Mendiola, committee staff, told the committee the bill passed the House on a vote of 94‑2 and that staff prepared a fiscal note reporting no fiscal impact.
The bill updates definitions of CACs and child forensic interviews and authorizes the use of forensic interview recordings from closed cases for confidential peer review, with the hosting…
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