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Committee advances bill to license and regulate companies that transport youth to out-of-state treatment
Summary
SB 1190, the Safe Passage for Youth Act, would create a state licensing framework for companies that transport minors to residential treatment, restrict use of restraints and require background checks after survivors and advocates described traumatic transports; committee passed the bill to Public Safety.
Senator (author) presented SB 1190, describing an unregulated "transport industry" that takes children from their homes, sometimes in the middle of the night, and moves them across state lines to out-of-state facilities. The author said the bill would create a mandatory licensing and regulatory framework within…
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