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Committee lays over bill to replace 'emotional disturbance' with 'mental illness' in statutes
Summary
Senate File 2134 would standardize statutory language by replacing ‘emotional disturbance’ with 'mental illness' and change child-welfare phrasing such as 'out-of-home placement' to treatment-specific terms; committee laid the bill over after brief testimony supporting clarity for families and policy separation.
Senate File 2134 was introduced March 13, 2025, to revise statutory language across Minnesota law by replacing outdated or ambiguous terms. The bill would change occurrences of the phrase “emotional disturbance” to “mental illness” and replace certain child-welfare phrases like “out-of-home placement” with…
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