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House approves substituted bill to limit access to unsubstantiated child-abuse registry records, sends it to Senate
Summary
The House adopted a third substitute of Senate Bill 17 to restrict access to unsubstantiated entries in the child abuse and neglect management information system and to create a judicial review and appeals process; sponsors said a problematic section that produced a large fiscal note was removed before the vote. The bill passed the House 64–7 and will return to the Senate.
Representative Jennifer Harper moved the House to replace the second substitute with a third substitute for Senate Bill 17, Child Abuse and Neglect Registry, Management and Licensing Information Systems Amendments, saying the earlier version "had some unintended consequences and it also resulted in a very large fiscal note." She told the chamber the third substitute removes the problematic section and "thus the fiscal note was eliminated by removing that 1 section of the code from this bill from the third substitute."
In floor explanation, Harper said the bill "creates a new definition in the Government Records Access Management Act…
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