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Committee approves narrowing of runaway shelter rule despite testimony that change could reduce access to crisis care
Summary
Lawmakers voted to strike a provision that had allowed a runaway child's consent to shelter from protecting a facility from a violation charge; advocates warned the change could deter youth fleeing abuse from seeking immediate help.
A Senate committee voted to advance House Bill 46 after debate about whether removing a consent clause would reduce access to emergency care for vulnerable runaway youth.
Representative Elaine Price, sponsor of HB 46, asked the committee to delete a provision in Idaho Code 18-15-10 that treated a runaway child's consent to shelter as one of three conditions that protect care facilities from violating the law against harboring runaways. "All I'm asking to do is remove that first one so they still have two provisions to help them from preventing to break this code," Price told the…
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