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Expanding legal surrender of an infant to include newborn safety devices, 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, enacting the Representative Gail Finney memorial foster care bill of rights, applying the federal Indian child welfare act to certain actions under the revised Kansas code for care of children.

It became law on Apr 25, 2023.

KS HB 2024 · House Bill · 2023-2024

Stage
Became law
Started in
House
Sponsor
Joint Committee on Child Welfare System Oversight
Latest action
Apr 25, 2023

Where it stands

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Done)

  4. Law (Done)

    Apr 25, 2023

This bill passed and is now law.

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It is law in Kansas. What happens now is up to the agency that carries it out, the courts, and the place itself.

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Expanding legal surrender of an infant to include newborn safety devices, 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, enacting the Representative Gail Finney memorial foster care bill of rights, applying the federal Indian child welfare act to certain actions under the revised Kansas code for care of children. | 52