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Committee backs bill to shorten review timelines in foster‑care and speed permanency decisions
Summary
Senate Bill 1090 shortens review intervals and adjusts custody timelines in the Child Protective Act to speed permanency decisions for children in foster care; the committee voted to send the bill to the floor with a 'do pass' recommendation after sponsor, a constituent and Department of Health and Welfare staff testified.
Representative Healy and Senator Galloway presented Senate Bill 1090 as a change to the Child Protective Act intended to put children into stable, permanent homes sooner by increasing court oversight and shortening procedural timelines.
Representative Healy described the changes: the bill allows judges to consider "the bond the foster child has formed with the substitute caretaker" and shortens review hearings from six months to two months. She told the committee the custody timeline changes “allow…
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