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AZ SB1380

Bill

Status

Passed

3/24/2017

Primary Sponsor

Nancy Barto

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-third Legislature - First Regular Session (2017)

AI Summary

  • Adds biological grandparents and extended biological family members to those eligible to use confidential intermediary services for adoption records.

  • Allows confidential intermediaries to contact adoptees under 21 years of age in medical emergency situations when a physician or nurse practitioner provides documentation of serious health conditions.

  • Expands central registry background check usage to include individuals applying for child welfare agency licensing and employees of child welfare agencies providing direct services to children.

  • Changes foster home license denial/suspension/revocation procedures by making decisions based on fingerprint clearance card failures non-appealable agency actions.

  • Modifies notification procedures for proposed substantiated abuse/neglect findings by allowing personal service as an alternative to first-class mail delivery.

Legislative Description

DCS; background checks; central registry

Child Safety

Last Action

Chapter 72

3/24/2017

Full Bill Text

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