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Senate committee advances bill to shorten review timelines and allow caregiver bond in best-interest analysis
Summary
Senate Bill 10-90 would tighten custody-review timelines in Idaho's Child Protective Act and add the foster childcaretaker bond as a factor in best-interest determinations. Sponsors and a foster parent testified that the change would reduce trauma caused by prolonged uncertainty.
Senator Cody Galloway, R-West Boise, told the Senate Judiciary & Rules Committee he is sponsoring Senate Bill 10-90 to accelerate permanency decisions for children in foster care and to allow judges to consider the bond between a child and a long-term substitute caregiver when determining the child's best interest.
The change is meant to reduce the time children spend in legal limbo and to allow courts to consider the emotional ties formed with foster…
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