ID S1312

Amends Section 16-1619 of Idaho Code regarding adjudicatory hearings in child protective cases.

Adds "committed a battery or an injury to a child that results in serious or great bodily injury to a child" to the list of aggravated circumstances that eliminate the requirement for reasonable efforts to prevent foster care placement.

Department of Health and Welfare is not required to make reasonable efforts to prevent foster care placement when a parent has committed an injury resulting in serious or great bodily injury to the child.

Maintains existing provisions requiring courts to make detailed written findings regarding reasonable efforts, except when aggravated circumstances are present (including abandonment, torture, chronic abuse, sexual abuse, murder, voluntary manslaughter, or previous termination of parental rights to a sibling).