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Committee hears bill to shorten foster-care permanency hearings to nine months
Summary
The Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare heard testimony on House Bill 2,075, which would amend K.S.A. 38-2264 to require an initial permanency hearing within nine months of a child's removal and subsequent hearings every six months, committee staff and the Department for Children and Families said.
The Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare heard testimony on House Bill 2,075, which would amend K.S.A. 38-2264 to require an initial permanency hearing within nine months of a child's removal from the home and subsequent hearings every six months, committee staff and the Department for Children and Families said.
Committee staff summarized the bill's changes, saying it would move the initial permanency hearing from 12 to nine months and require subsequent hearings every six months rather than every nine months. "House Bill 2,075 . . . would amend these requirements that such permanency…
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