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Panel recommends bill to align psychological evaluations for delinquency and CHINS cases with child-protection standards
Summary
In executive session the Senate Children and Family Law Committee recommended that SB 77 ought to pass; the bill extends the same qualified‑psychologist evaluation standards used in child‑protection cases to children in delinquency and CHINS proceedings.
The Senate Children and Family Law Committee, in executive session, voted to recommend that Senate Bill 77 "ought to pass," a measure designed to ensure children in delinquency and children-in-need-of-services (CHINS) cases receive the same type of psychological evaluations that statutory changes last year provided for children in abuse-and-neglect proceedings.
Senator David Altschauer, sponsor of SB 77, told the committee the bill corrects an oversight from 2024’s SB 417 by extending uniform standards for psychological evaluations to children in delinquency and CHINS cases, which are often…
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