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Senate amends child-welfare bill to shorten time to permanency and add notice requirement
Summary
Lawmakers reduced the time to a permanency hearing from 12 to 9 months and approved an amendment requiring notice that reasonable efforts to reunify were made; sponsors said the change aims to shorten time children spend in state custody and could reduce costs.
The Kansas Senate, acting in the committee of the whole on March 17, advanced House Bill 20 75, changing the period before a permanency hearing from 12 months to 9 months and adopting a floor amendment that requires courts to ensure that interested parties have been notified that reasonable efforts were made to reunify or locate family members prior to the hearing.
Senator Gossage, who explained the bill on the floor, said the legislation was sponsored by the Kansas Child Advocate and the Kansas Department for Children and Families and…
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