2.17.26 Committee on Children Public Hearing

Committee on Children · February 18, 2026

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Call to order and opening

Presentation

1:50 → 2:20(30s)

Chair opens the Committee on Children public hearing and introduces the first witness (interim commissioner at the Department of Children and Families).

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Committee on Children public hearing covering DCF recommendations (SB155), municipal camp safety (SB157), a task force on voluntary infant surrender (SB156), nonprofit reporting and childcare affordability. Witnesses included DCF Interim Commissioner Susan Hamilton, Acting Child Advocate Christina Guillot, experts on safe-haven law, and multiple public witnesses and providers.

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