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House adopts wide-ranging child-welfare code rewrite after long floor debate
Summary
The Utah House passed the second substitute to House Bill 202, a comprehensive rewrite of child-welfare statutes that clarifies definitions, strengthens training and parents’ procedural rights, and delays implementation to Jan. 1, 2006; the measure passed 44–26 and moves to the Senate.
The Utah House of Representatives passed a broad overhaul of the state’s child-welfare code Tuesday, approving the second substitute to House Bill 202 on a 44–26 roll-call vote. The bill, sponsored by Representative Wayne Harper, consolidates definitions across human services, criminal and judicial codes, clarifies standards for removal and treatment plans, and prescribes additional training for Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) personnel.
Harper, the bill’s sponsor, said he has worked on child-welfare issues for years and that the measure ‘‘will reinforce the parental and family rights. I believe it will protect children’’ while also reducing unnecessary…
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