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Committee advances ‘‘Baby Maya’’ bill to allow rebuttable presumption and emergency custody authority
Summary
The House Standing Committee on Families and Children advanced House Bill 574, legislation sponsors described as the “Baby Maya” law that would create new reporting requirements, a rebuttable presumption allowing an initial protective response, and an ex parte emergency custody order.
The House Standing Committee on Families and Children advanced House Bill 574, legislation sponsors described as the “Baby Maya” law that would create new reporting requirements, a rebuttable presumption allowing an initial protective response, and an ex parte emergency custody order in situations where a newborn’s parents have earlier children removed for abuse or neglect.
Representative Myron Dossett, who led discussion of the bill in committee, said the bill grew from work with judges, the state police, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and community organizations. “This is my nineteenth year of serving in the general assembly, and I truly believe this is the most important piece of legislation that I’ve had a part in working on,” Dossett said.
As described to the committee, Section 1 would amend Kentucky Revised Statutes (KRS) to require that any person with reasonable knowledge that a child has been born to…
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