Dale DeVon
- Republican
- Representative
- District 5
Author
Provides that the department of child services may use a child advocacy center to coordinate a multidisciplinary team for responding to reports involving child abuse or neglect. Requires the child advocacy center to: (1) coordinate a multidisciplinary team that consists of specified professionals; (2) ensure that the multidisciplinary team members have specified training; (3) provide a dedicated child-focused setting designed to provide a safe, comfortable, and neutral place for a forensic interview and other child advocacy center services; (4) use written protocols; (5) use a case tracking system to provide information on essential demographic and case information; and (6) verify that multidisciplinary team members responsible for providing medical evaluations and mental health services have specified training. Provides civil immunity for a child advocacy center's employees, volunteers, and board members under certain circumstances. Allows otherwise confidential information regarding an investigation of child abuse or neglect to be made available to a child advocacy center when the child advocacy center has before it an investigation of child abuse or neglect in which it is facilitating a forensic interview or facilitating a case discussion or case review.
Signed by the Governor
Public Law 54
Signed by the President of the Senate
Signed by the President Pro Tempore
Signed by the Speaker
Motion to concur filed
House concurred in Senate amendments; Roll Call 242: yeas 87, nays 0
Returned to the House with amendments
Senator Crider added as cosponsor
Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 192: yeas 49, nays 0
Second reading: ordered engrossed
Senator Crane added as cosponsor
Senator Walker G added as second sponsor
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
First reading: referred to Committee on Family and Children Services
Referred to the Senate
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 32: yeas 96, nays 0
Senate sponsor: Senator Messmer
Representatives Olthoff, Goss-Reaves, Jackson added as coauthors
Second reading: ordered engrossed
Committee report: do pass, adopted
First reading: referred to Committee on Family, Children and Human Affairs
Authored by Representative DeVon
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