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Committee clears DCS bill to extend safe-haven surrender window and expand foster-youth program eligibility
Summary
Lawmakers voted to advance a Department of Child Services bill that would extend the age window for safe-haven infant surrender to 60 days and adjust eligibility for a foster-youth trust fund and related supports; committee approved the measure unanimously in the transcript excerpt.
The committee voted to advance House Bill 1099, an agency bill from the Department of Child Services (DCS) that would raise the safe-haven infant surrender window from 30 to 60 days and make related clarifications to protect parents who surrender infants under the safe-haven law.
Representative Dale DeVaughn, sponsor of the measure, said the change responds to fatality-review work showing a large share of abuse and neglect deaths occur…
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