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House Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care

  • Committee Assistant: Judy Pierson 785-296-7644
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    • Meeting Day: Mon/Wed Time: 1:30 pm Location: 152-S

    Bills, Resolutions and Appointments

    Sponsored Bills
    HB2034 - Requiring a referral of an alleged victim of child abuse or neglect for an examination as part of an investigation, creating a program in the department of health and environment to provide training and payment for such examinations.
    HB2153 - Authorizing the attorney general to coordinate training regarding a multidisciplinary team approach to intervention in reports involving alleged human trafficking for law enforcement agencies and requiring training on human trafficking awareness and identification for certain child welfare agencies, juvenile justice agencies, mental health professionals and school personnel.
    HB2189 - Substitute for HB 2189 by Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care - Granting jurisdiction to the court to extend custody of non-minor dependents and allow the secretary for children and families to provide reentry services to an eligible young adult.
    HB2194 - Enacting the Representative Gail Finney memorial foster care bill of rights.
    HB2240 - Requiring the clerk of the district court to give notice of qualified residential treatment program placement.
    HB2247 - Authorizing any person to become a bank depositor or safe deposit box leaseholder, providing methods in which bank deposits may be withdrawn and prohibiting banks from requiring a cosigner for an account of certain minors in the custody of the secretary for children and families, secretary of corrections or a federally recognized Indian tribe.
    HB2299 - Directing the secretary for children and families to consider foster parents as prospective adoptive parents under certain circumstances.
    HB2361 - Limiting when the court is required to give preference to a relative for the custody for adoption of a child in need of care.
    HB2371 - Limiting the number of children in out-of-home placement cases assigned to case managers.
    HB2377 - Directing the office of vital statistics to provide birth or death certificates to the Kansas department for children and families and exempt the department from fees for such certificates.
    HB2407 - Creating conditions for the administration of certain tests, questionnaires, surveys and examinations and eliminating the parental consent requirements.
    HB2536 - Establishing the SOUL family legal permanency option for children 16 years of age or older.
    HB2552 - Prohibiting the secretary for children and families from using federal benefits of a child in need of care for the care and custody of the child and requiring the secretary to create and maintain an account of such benefits received for such child.
    HB2553 - Establishing procedures for law enforcement agencies and the secretary for children and families to follow and use when a child in custody of the secretary is reported missing and requiring the secretary to obtain a nondrivers' identification card for such reports.
    HB2554 - Directing the secretary for children and families to identify relatives and persons with whom a child in custody of the secretary has close emotional ties for placement and send notice of custody to the persons when identified.
    HB2555 - Authorizing schools to maintain emergency albuterol kits and administer such medication in emergency situations.
    HB2580 - Including mental, emotional and behavioral health treatment to medical services that may be provided to a child alleged or adjudicated to be a child in need of care.
    HB2581 - Eliminating the court's requirement to order child support be paid to the secretary when custody of a child is awarded to the secretary.
    HB2628 - Requiring the secretary for children and families to release certain information related to a child fatality when criminal charges are filed alleging that a person caused such fatality.
    HB2629 - Requiring the secretary for health and environment to provide a death certificate of a child to the state child death review board, increasing the number of board members, allowing for compensation and providing for the disclosure of certain records to certain persons for securing grants.
    HB2664 - Providing appropriations for and establishing a grant program for home-based child care.
    HB2721 - Allowing victims of childhood sexual abuse to bring a civil action for recovery of damages suffered as a result of such abuse at any time and reviving claims against any party for such damages that occurred on or after July 1, 1984.
    HB2742 - Requiring the secretary for children and families to reimburse hospitals when a child in custody of the secretary remains at such hospital and is no longer receiving medical services.
    HB2769 - Requiring public schools and school districts to participate in federal meal programs and providing for reimbursement for free meals at all public schools and school districts.
    HB2770 - Creating the Kansas food and financial literacy grant program for local food security service providers to develop food and financial literacy materials and training for food assistance applicants and recipients.
    HB2771 - Creating the healthy food site grant program to award grants for food retail or food system enterprises within one mile of a school in a designated food desert in an urban area.
    HB2772 - Establishing the Kansas Indian child welfare act and providing additional requirements for child custody proceedings involving an Indian child.
    HB2785 - Transferring certain child care programs to the Kansas office of early childhood and separating licensing duties between the secretary for health and environment and the executive director of early childhood.
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