Child Welfare and Foster Care

KS - Representative Susan Concannon (R)

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Chair

KS - Representative Timothy Johnson (R)

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Vice Chair

KS - Representative Jarrod Ousley (D)

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Ranking Minority Member

KS - Representative Ford Carr (D)

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Member

KS - Representative Allison Hougland (D)

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KS - Representative Leah Howell (R)

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KS - Representative Cyndi Howerton (R)

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KS - Representative Susan Humphries (R)

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KS - Representative Bob Lewis (R)

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KS - Representative Cindy Neighbor (D)

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KS - Representative Sandy Pickert (R)

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KS - Representative Shawn Chauncey (R)

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KS - Representative Paul Waggoner (R)

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KS - HB2024 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 child...

KS - 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.

KS - HB2076 Repealing the adoption protection act.

KS - HB2112 Enacting the Representative Gail Finney foster care bill of rights.

KS - 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.

KS - HB2168 Substitute for HB 2168 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources - Amending the commercial industrial hemp act to reduce maximum license and registration fee amounts to $500.

KS - HB2189 Granting jurisdiction to the court to extend custody of non-minor dependents to the secretary for children and families.

KS - HB2194 Enacting the Representative Gail Finney memorial foster care bill of rights.

KS - SB115 Changing the lists of persons who are required to be given notice of the hearing on a petition for an independent or stepparent, private agency or public agency adoption.

KS - HB2240 Requiring the clerk of the district court to give notice of qualified residential treatment program placement.

KS - HB2299 Directing the secretary for children and families to consider foster parents as prospective adoptive parents under certain circumstances.

KS - 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.

KS - HB2369 Enacting the Kansas indian child welfare act.

KS - HB2371 Limiting the number of children in out-of-home placement cases assigned to case managers.

KS - 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.

KS - SB232 Substitute for SB 232 by Committee on Judiciary - Establishing the office of the child advocate as an independent state agency, making orders granting custody for adoption subject to the federal Indian child welfare act, directing the secretary for children and families to consider foster parents as prospective adoptive parents in certain circumstances and authorizing appeal of any order of placement of a child.

KS - HB2407 Creating conditions for the administration of certain tests, questionnaires, surveys and examinations and eliminating the parental consent requirements.

KS - HB2443 Establishing the office of the child advocate.