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House approves child-protection measure to allow closed juvenile hearings when a parent is suspected in another parent's death
Summary
First Substitute Senate Bill 173 passed the Utah House unanimously March 5, 2014. Sponsors said the bill creates a narrowly tailored juvenile-court process allowing family members to petition for temporary removal of children when a natural parent is suspected, prosecuted or convicted for causing the other parent's death.
The Utah House unanimously approved First Substitute Senate Bill 173 on March 5, 2014. The bill expands the juvenile court’s definition of abuse to include situations where a child's natural parent intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causes the death of the other parent, or is prosecuted or convicted for that offense.
Representative Karianne Hall, the House sponsor, outlined a constituent case motivating the bill: a family in which a parent was suspected in the death of the other parent and relatives feared for the…
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