Senate Bill 1018 Summary

• Requires the Department of Child Safety and Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System to submit a report to the House and Senate Health and Human Services Committee chairs by December 31, 2021.

• Report must address system improvements for adopted children from foster care who have complex trauma resulting in dangerous behaviors.

• Report must include evaluation and outcome data of programs and services offered by other states to address complex trauma.

• Report must examine mechanisms for suspending parental rights when an adoptive child poses a danger to the family with law enforcement corroboration, while maintaining permanency goals per federal law or exploring alternatives to terminating parental rights.