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House approves SB 82 to require oversight of psychotropic prescriptions for foster children
Summary
Third substitute SB 82, addressing child welfare caseworker assessments and psychotropic medication oversight for foster children, passed the House 70–0 after sponsor described an oversight team of a child psychiatrist and psychiatric nurse practitioner to review high-risk medication cases.
On the House floor the sponsor described SB 82 as a set of reforms to child-welfare decision-making and clinical oversight. The sponsor said the bill expands evidence‑based safety and risk assessments for caseworkers, amends trafficking language to include patrons or solicitors of a child, and establishes “a psychotropic medication oversight program” to monitor certain foster children…
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