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Committee hears bill to create court process for reinstating terminated parental rights
Summary
The committee heard House Bill 1034, which would create a court process to allow parents whose parental rights were terminated to petition for reinstatement if narrow statutory criteria are met.
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on House Bill 1034, which would add a statutory process in Title 27 of the North Dakota Century Code permitting a court to reestablish parental rights that were previously terminated.
Julie Hoffman, adoptions administrator for Children and Family Services at the Department of Health and Human Services, testified in support and described the bill as the product of an interim study ordered in 2023 (House Bill 1091, sec. 20) and a workgroup that reviewed other states’ laws. "The group reviewed information from the National Conference of State Legislatures on reinstatement of parental rights," Hoffman said. She said the work group compared statutes in five states and concluded a narrowly focused reinstatement process could help a small number of children for whom permanency had not been achieved.
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