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IA HSB40
SB
Status
1/17/2025
Primary Sponsor
Judiciary
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AI Summary
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Amends Iowa Code Section 232.102A regarding family interactions (visitation) during ongoing Child in Need of Assistance (CINA) proceedings
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Removes authority of the Department of Health and Human Services to independently stop family interactions; only courts may now make this determination
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Raises the standard for terminating family interactions from finding the interaction would be "detrimental to the child" to requiring "substantial evidence" that interactions would cause "imminent risk to the child's life or health"
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Applies the higher evidentiary standard to both supervised and unsupervised family interactions
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Family interactions must continue regardless of a parent's failure to comply with court orders or department requirements, unless the imminent risk standard is met
Legislative Description
A bill for an act relating to family interactions during an ongoing child in need of assistance proceeding.(See HF 367.)
Last Action
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 367.
2/12/2025