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Judiciary Committee advances several child-welfare bills on visitation, orders and hotline screening; SB 287 amended and held for further review
Summary
The committee passed a bundle of child-welfare measures—changes to visitation presumptions, rules to ensure timely entry of court orders, and limits on evidence at probable-cause hearings—while adopting an amendment to SB 287 (child-maltreatment hotline and central registry reforms) and holding that bill for further negotiation with prosecutors.
Members of the Judiciary Committee spent an extended portion of the hearing on a series of child-welfare bills presented by Sen. Clark and stakeholders including the Parent Counsel Commission and Division of Youth Services.
Brian Welch, executive director of the Parent Counsel Commission, described proposals that would make unsupervised visitation the presumptive model (settling on a four-hour-per-week standard), allow judges to adjust visitation for hardship, and provide clearer mechanisms when supervised visitation is…
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