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Sponsor: require child-welfare affidavits to show criminal-case dispositions; DPHHS warns timing, discovery issues

2802937 · March 27, 2025
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Summary

Sen. Daniel Emmerich of Great Falls introduced Senate Bill 231 to require the Department of Public Health and Human Services to include disposition information in child-welfare affidavits for any criminal cases referenced, if available.

Sen. Daniel Emmerich of Great Falls introduced Senate Bill 231 to the House Committee on Human Services, proposing that affidavits filed by the Department of Public Health and Human Services in child abuse and neglect proceedings should include disposition information, if available, for any criminal case referenced.

Purpose and sponsor—s rationale: Emmerich told the committee the bill is intended to make the facts in affidavits more accurate and current. He said…

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