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CS/HB 7099: Child Welfare

GENERAL BILL by Health and Human Services Committee ; Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee ; Stevenson ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Byrd ; Roth

Child Welfare; Requiring the central abuse hotline to accept certain reports or calls for investigation for children who do not live in this state; requiring certain judicial orders to specify that the Department of Children and Families has placement and care responsibility for certain children; authorizing psychiatric nurses to prescribe psychotropic medications to certain children; requiring a young adult in extended foster care to provide certain documentation or execute a consent for release of certain records; revising the determinations a court must make to return a child to the custody of his or her parents; revising membership of the Children and Youth Cabinet; revising eligibility for Medicaid coverage for children eligible for the Guardianship Assistance Program, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2019
Last Action: 6/26/2019 - Chapter No. 2019-142, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2502 (Ch. 2019-116)
Bill Text: PDF



Bill History

Date Chamber Action
3/22/2019 House • Filed
3/25/2019 House • Introduced -HJ 482
• Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee -HJ 496
3/29/2019 House • On Committee agenda-- Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, 04/02/19, 1:00 pm, Sumner Hall
4/2/2019 House • Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 9 NAYS 0 -HJ 567
• Now in Health and Human Services Committee -HJ 567
4/5/2019 House • On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 04/09/19, 2:00 pm, Morris Hall
4/9/2019 House • CS by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 16 NAYS 0 -HJ 680
4/11/2019 House • Pending review of CS -under Rule 7.18(c)
4/12/2019 House • CS by Health and Human Services Committee read 1st time -HJ 679
• Placed on Calendar -HJ 681
4/18/2019 House • Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/24/19
4/24/2019 House • Read 2nd time -HJ 808
• Placed on 3rd reading
4/25/2019 House • Read 3rd time -HJ 856
• CS passed; YEAS 110 NAYS 0 -HJ 856
4/25/2019 Senate • In Messages
• Referred to Health Policy; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations -SJ 515
• Received -SJ 515
4/29/2019 Senate • Withdrawn from Health Policy; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations -SJ 597
• Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• Substituted for CS/CS/SB 1650 -SJ 598
• Read 2nd time -SJ 597
• Amendment(s) adopted (765116, 796068) -SJ 598
• Placed on 3rd reading
4/30/2019 Senate • Read 3rd time -SJ 639
• CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 -SJ 639
4/30/2019 House • In returning messages
5/1/2019 House • Concurred in 2 amendment(s) (765116, 796068) -HJ 1123, 1124
• CS passed as amended; YEAS 114 NAYS 0 -HJ 1124
• Ordered engrossed, then enrolled -HJ 1124
6/25/2019 • Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
• Approved by Governor
6/26/2019 • Chapter No. 2019-142, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2502 (Ch. 2019-116)