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Senate committee backs bill to bar child-protection screening when discharge lacks services
Summary
On March 13, 2025, the Minnesota Senate Health and Human Services Committee voted to recommend passage of Senate File 1682, which would put into statute a Department of Human Services policy adopted in 2023 that directs counties not to screen families into child protection solely because medically necessary children’s behavioral-health services are unavailable.
On March 13, 2025, the Minnesota Senate Health and Human Services Committee voted to recommend passage of Senate File 1682, which would put into statute a Department of Human Services policy adopted in 2023 that directs counties not to screen families into child protection solely because medically necessary children’s behavioral-health services are unavailable.
The measure’s sponsor, Senator May Quaid, introduced the bill and the committee adopted an A-1 author’s amendment before the final voice vote to refer the bill to the Judiciary Committee. The committee took extensive testimony from family members, advocates and county and hospital representatives about children boarding in emergency departments and the scarcity of residential and intensive treatment options.
Sue Abderholden, executive director of NAMI Minnesota, told the committee that parents who…
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