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Committee moves interstate-compact bill (HB 2557) favorably amid technical questions about assessments and kinship language
Summary
House Bill 2557, adopting the revised 2007 interstate compact for placement of children, was moved out of committee favorably by voice vote after the reviser summarized the compact and members discussed kinship placement language and the potential for commission assessments; DCF said costs could be absorbed.
The Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care moved House Bill 2557 favorably for passage by voice vote on Feb. 4. HB 2557 enacts the revised 2007 interstate compact governing how states coordinate interstate placements and adoptions of children.
Jesse of the Reviser of Statutes Office summarized the bill as the updated interstate-compact language that governs interstate placement processes. He…
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