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Bill would bar child-protection screening when families seek care but no child's mental-health services are available
Summary
House File 1614 would put into statute a 2023 screening policy that directs counties not to screen families into child protection when parents are actively seeking care but children cannot be discharged home safely because services are unavailable; the committee adopted an amendment and re‑referred the bill to Judiciary Finance and Civil Law.
House File 1614, carried by Representative Kraft with a DE1 amendment adopted in committee, would place into statute the department screening policy adopted in 2023 that directs counties not to screen families into child protection when a child cannot be safely discharged home due to lack of available children's mental-health services and the parents are actively engaged in seeking care. The committee adopted the DE1 amendment (which relocates language into Minnesota Statutes chapter 260E) and re-referred the bill to the Committee on Judiciary Finance and Civil Law.
Representative Kraft said the policy is intended to stop hospitals and counties from treating parents who are actively trying to secure services for children with severe behavioral or psychiatric needs as…
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