Last Action | 03/26/19: signed by Governor (KY Acts ch. 132) |
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Title | AN ACT relating to child welfare. |
Bill Documents |
Acts Chapter 132
Current/Final Introduced |
Bill Request Number | 1556 |
Sponsors | D. Meade , J. Jenkins, M. Prunty |
Summary of Original Version | Amend KRS 620.140 to require a list to be provided to the cabinet by a biological or legal parent of potential persons to be considered as a relative or fictive kin placement; amend KRS 620.290 to add new requirements for local citizen foster care review boards to consider when making recommendations and remove requirements related to case reviews of when a foster child is moved more than three times; amend KRS 620.320 to change the duties of the State Citizen Foster Care Review Board; amend KRS 620.360 to establish that foster parent certification shall be effective for a minimum of three years; amend KRS 625.060 to establish that a foster parent shall be a party in an action for involuntary termination of parental rights; amend 625.090 to establish a new consideration by a court in cases of involuntary termination of parental rights that if a child is found to have been diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome at the time of birth and the child's birth mother has had a child previously diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome at the time of birth; establish a new consideration by a court in termination of parental rights cases that if a child has been removed from the biological or legal parents more than 2 times by the cabinet or a court. |
Index Headings of Original Version |
Courts - Foster care review boards, reporting requirement changes, allowing for Courts - Foster parent, rights to a foster child's case. allowing for Health and Medical Services - Neonatal abstinence syndrome, reason for termination of parental rights, allowing for Parental Rights - Foster parent, rights to a foster child's case. allowing for Parental Rights - Neonatal abstinence syndrome, reason for termination of parental rights, allowing for State Agencies - Cabinet for Health and Family Services, list of relative or fictive kin, requiring Children and Minors - Foster parent, rights to a foster child's case. allowing for Children and Minors - Neonatal abstinence syndrome, reason for termination of parental rights, allowing for |
Jump to Proposed Amendments | House Committee Substitute 1 |
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03/26/19 |
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Amendment | House Committee Substitute 1 |
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Summary | Retain original provisions; add clarifying language to KRS 620.360 to make a technical change to this section to clarify that foster parents are “approved” and “reevaluated” and not certified and recertified; add clarifying language to KRS 625.060 to make it clear that if a judge determines that a foster parent gaining standing is inappropriate, then it will not happen; delete language in KRS 625.090 related to the diagnosis of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome being found in a child whose mother has previously had a child diagnosed NAS as a grounds for termination of parental rights; add new language to KRS 625.090 to specify that the new consideration by a court in termination of parental rights cases will look at if a child has been removed from the biological or legal parents more than two times in a 24-month period by the cabinet or a court. |
Index Headings |
Courts - Foster care review boards, reporting requirement changes, allowing for Courts - Foster parent, rights to a foster child's case, allowing for Health and Medical Services - Neonatal abstinence syndrome, reason for termination of parental rights, allowing for Parental Rights - Foster parent, rights to a foster child's case, allowing for Parental Rights - Neonatal abstinence syndrome, reason for termination of parental rights, allowing for State Agencies - Cabinet for Health and Family Services, list of relative or fictive kin, requiring Children and Minors - Foster parent, rights to a foster child's case, allowing for Children and Minors - Neonatal abstinence syndrome, reason for termination of parental rights, allowing for |
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